As a gunsmith on the path of restoration work myself, firing condition shouldn't be regarded as a failed mission if it was already un-safe for firing. You did a fantastic job restoring it; and the fact you rebuilt a mainspring to make the mechanism work once more, is amazing. Props to you, sir.
@@ShadeSlayer1911if the barrel has no pitting or deep holes the only thin that would need to be replaced is the cylinder. then again i could be incorrect.
As a firearms enthusiast, as well as an antique collecter, I agree with your assessment. In my opinion its better to stay with the original non functional parts than replace with new production.
Absolutely NOT a failure! A failure is when it disintegrates in the rust removal process. You could sell that online for 50 or perhaps a hundred dollars to a collector.
Hey Andre. Great restoration considering. I have an old U.S. break top revolver serial #23238. It needs a firing pin and grip. Can you tell me anything about it?
I expected much worse, like that it fell apart or something! This isn't a failure in my mind. You restored it to the level it was capable of reaching. It looks great.
I am not a big gun enthusiast but i sure enjoy watching these videos. The work you do restoring these old guns is amazing. Its great to see the before and after. Thanks for posting; Im glad I stumbled across your channel.
I say amen amen amen to ll the other good coments. You got integrety I wish I had. I have no idea how to do the work you did. You have inspired me to try and do better. You did a terrific job Andre so dont tear your self down for that. Even if you could never shoot this little gun, you have a masterpeice on your hands; your creation. Thank you for the inspiration.
Andre, a project gun is never a failure, even when it IS a failure. The time and effort you spend on any project gun is good practice in the long run. I've run across a LOT of totally rotten firearms in my day and still enjoyed working on them even though I knew in my heart they wouldn't be used as firearms again. Many project guns turn into "display" guns and there is nothing wrong with that at all. Keep up the good work and never look on something as "mission failed" because every time you work on a project it is a lesson learned.
I have restored several Belgian bulldogs of this type (320 caliber). The restoration you have done is very good, just like the weapon was. The recoil spring of the trigger (V-shaped spring) is missing, and some small retouching of the real spring you have manufactured, and the weapon will be functional 100 x100.
Nice job,certainly not a fail. I have seen some of these little guns superbly made. They were the preferred personal protection a gentleman would carry back in the day,due to their compact size.
Absolute cracking attempt. Aesthetically it's wonderful. Saving that so it could be restored to working condition would've been like raising the dead. Great job.
Bonjour Monsieur. Votre travail est vraiment bien fait et précis. Je peux juste vous dire que je possède exactement le même petit revolver. A l'époque, je l'ai trouvé dans mon grenier. Il était tout pourri et rouillé. A près démontage et réfection, il ressemble maintenant a quelque chose de valable et pourrait fonctionner pour peu que les munitions soient encore disponibles. Ceci dit, je ne tenterais pas l'expérience, de peur qu'il m'explose au nez ! Néanmoins, j'ai remarqué qu'il vous manquait au moins une pièce. C'est un petit ressort de tension (en forme de V) qui se place dans le revolver juste au dessus de la gâchette. Ce ressort est très difficile a placer, mais avec un peu de patience...ça marche. Voilà, encore félicitation pour cette chouette vidéo.
Not a failure at all. Wouldn't want to shoot too many of those old, cheap revolvers and such anyway. It's one that I'd certainly be proud to have in my collection were it mine. Compared with how it started I think it's absolutely beautiful! Great job!
Honestly I don’t view it as a failed mission. You did everything you could to restore that pistol. I commend you for trying to save it. Thank you for sharing!
I subscribed to your channel not just because you do fantastic restoration of old things but also loving restoration of live ones. Great job on the horse and kitty.
Before you put your hands on it looked like an old trashy piece of rusted metal. Now it looks like an old full of history gun. You did an amazing job!!
I thought that was a beautiful restoration and I don't think you should call it a fail, you preserved an interesting piece of history and prevented any further damage to it.
Man, you did a great job. I'm no gun expert, but I think its a 32 S&W, which was a black powder cartridge. That is probably the reason it was so pitted, black powder is really corrosive. I would not fire it unless I was using hand loaded cartridges, and they were light loads. But over all, mission accomplished in restoring it.
Even if it can’t be used you turned it into a beautiful show piece so I would call that a win. Great work with what you had, and excellent work on the spring replacement!
Grip looks great and the metal work make it look 20+ years younger. Well done! I think you are right though, the weapon was not made very well so even getting this far was amazing to say the least!
Hi Andre, Just thought i would pass on a tip I was given years ago when trying to make a good main spring for a percussion pistol. The temperature of molten lead is a good guide for tempering spring steel. So if you melt a pot of lead then heat your spring steel, then put the steel into the lead and give the temperature time to equalise, once done drop it into your coolant of choice, and Maurice is your fathes brother! Cheers Dave
This is so cool. I got this same revolver at a gun show a couple years ago for $40. It has beautiful engravings on it and still kind of functions. Makes me want to try and restore it, but for now it’s just hanging on the wall in my man cave.
Good work Andre, you did all that could be done considering it's condition. I really like your old gun videos. I like old guns myself, especially old double barrels!
I was still impressed at how well you brought that checkering back! I thought most of it was worn right out! It still looks decent for a personal museum piece!
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Best Noir detective revolver, and looks so great at final!
Great job, a pity that the part can not be fully recovered, but the end result was pretty good, at least serves as a decoration on some shelf. Greetings from Brazil.
@@MastersOfCraftOfficial That Colt Lightning has my full attention!!!!! 😃 I think I just remembered, Charles Giteau used a Bulldog revolver to assassinate President Garfield in 1881 I think.....
Those Bulldogs are always nice peices. Doubt this will turn out bad by any means considering your abilities. Even if it can't shoot it will be a nice decoration.
If he sleeves the barrel with a pre-rifled sleeve to up to .22 LR and the chambers in the cylinder the same and reinforce the cylinder window with green loctite, should be plenty strong for low-powered rounds blunt the firing pin to rimfire, that might work.
Even though it's not shootable, it's a Great job you did on it. It would make a great wall hanger. Frame it up nice, it would be good for a home office, garage, or man cave! 👍
That weapon was trash when it was new lol. If it was possible to restore it. You’d be the one to do it. You do great work and I love your videos. Even this one 😎.
Hi, honestly you did an amazing job on that old bulldog pistol, your right, it was a piece of junk when you first got it, fit for the bin I'd say ...but you managed to transform it back into something and it won't lay and rot anymore, ...one for your collection. .top job...
Anyone else on here see, and then totally get sucked into watching and digging that commercial for the Titan XP airless paint sprayer gun, that played right before this video began. Man, I just couldn't skip it... Satisfying! Now I want the ever lovin' shit out of one of those too!!
Well, it seems it still can fire the famous .455 Webley Mk III "Manstopper" rounds to great effect. It's guaranteed to stop the man firing it dead on his tracks ;-D EDIT: That ten-seconds trigger pull also counts as manstopper. You have to stop the target and ask him to kindly not to move, so you can fire at him
You may see a fail, I see a gorgeous museum piece! Just think of all the stories you could tell about that piece mounted in a shadow box on the wall. You do excellent work!
Hey, man, don't be so hard on yourself. I think you did a pretty damn good job given the condition that little pistol was in! Even if it's not functional, it's still a nice little conversation piece. I'm sure given enough time, you could get it into working order again. For now, it's a wall-hanger; no harm, no foul. Guaranteed someone would give you some cash for it if it came down to that. There's no such thing as failure, only experiences we didn't know we needed. :)
Please consider posting how many hours your restorations take. I’m a big fan of all of them. The one thing I wonder on each one of them is how long it takes to bring this virtually destroyed objects back to near pristine condition. This one is in the same category - whether it shoots or not, the restoration is great. The revolver was probably a cheap off special and never intended to last anyway.
We all knew there were grease monkeys, but who knew there were so many rust monkeys? All kidding aside-these restoration videos are great to watch! It's wonderful to see worn artifacts being restored so beautifully.I wish I found these restoration videos sooner. It's a great way to avoid the wife-lol I was going to send out a rifle for restoration, but these videos motivate me to do it myself.
You may consider this a mission failed but the video says a lot about you. First, your meticulousness as a craftsman. Second, your willingness to salvage and restore neglected objects (and animals). Third, your willingness to be your own critic and being honest enough to share when something is not up to your standards. Yes, the revolver was not the best. However, this video was one of your best for the above reasons. P.S. it’s been rough in the U.S. I have to keep going back and watching your farm videos to keep my blood pressure down. Please post more soon. . 🙏
I would think it should be ok if you seriously down loaded the original cartridge charge. Defiantly don't use anything but black powder but if you lowered the original loading and just made up some short cases you could fire it without worry I would bet, didn't look that bad on the cylinder from what I saw.
Hello, what is the product at 4:45 ? and it's really working ? i got a 320 bulldog like your's and i want know what is this product, it's look like "metalset a4" ? thanks
You did your best to clean it. I don't think you failed with the restoration but I think you feel you got stung by that seller. You did a good job I thought.
I have one very similar, though in a smaller caliber I believe, and they are all I'm pretty bad condition. Thankfully my grips were in good condition and had matching serial number with the rest of the gun. Good work, it looks much better than when you received it.
OK, if this is a mission failed... . I'm so thankful you are willing to publish the things that didn't work the way you wanted; it is brave and helpful to the rest of us. As I consider doing my own projects, it is worth seeing that some things don't come out the way we want, no matter how hard we try. I agree with many of the commenters below that your work on this was really good and the handle work surprised me. What did you use? Great job over all!
The only one who failed was the person who was untruthful about how bad the condition really was. You did an excellent job of restoration, especially considering what you had to work with.
I was expecting some kind of catastrophic failure given the title. You did an amazing job with that old boy! Sure it can’t be used, but it’s still beautiful and I’d proudly display it on my shelf.
After watching this a couple times, I really think this would be safe to fire for a few reasons, as long as the barrel to cylinder gap was still pretty tight. First, the pressures produces by the blackpowder cartridges it is intended to fire are pretty low. Second, since it is meant to fire brass cartridges, much of the pressure of the initial powder burn is contained by the brass of the cartridge itself. So the only stress is the transition of the bullet itself from the cylinder to the forcing cone to begin its travel down the barrel. Since the barrel to cylinder gap seems to be a bit wide after the sanding, maybe you could do a little bit of weld metal buildup and sanding to marry the two parts back to a good fit to keep any gases from escaping during firing.
As someone who knows almost nothing about guns i can tell you most bulldog revolvers are throw away saturday night specials. Your talents deserve something better, Andre. I'm sorry you put so much time into this buddy.
As a gunsmith on the path of restoration work myself, firing condition shouldn't be regarded as a failed mission if it was already un-safe for firing. You did a fantastic job restoring it; and the fact you rebuilt a mainspring to make the mechanism work once more, is amazing. Props to you, sir.
Kollin Horn and it can be repaired with proper substitution of the firing parts, can’t be?
@@cristianzeni1854 Looks like the barrel and chambers have considerable damage to them. Those might be able to be replaced, but I have no idea really.
Could sleeve the cylinder and barrel for a smaller cartridge like 25acp.
@@ShadeSlayer1911if the barrel has no pitting or deep holes the only thin that would need to be replaced is the cylinder. then again i could be incorrect.
As a firearms enthusiast, as well as an antique collecter, I agree with your assessment. In my opinion its better to stay with the original non functional parts than replace with new production.
You brought it back as far as it would let you.🙂
How you restored the handle grip was
great.
I think he did a great job .
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Absolutely NOT a failure! A failure is when it disintegrates in the rust removal process. You could sell that online for 50 or perhaps a hundred dollars to a collector.
No one can say that you didn't try! 10/10 for effort and i think the end result was pretty incredible, considering what you started with :)
Hey Andre. Great restoration considering. I have an old U.S. break top revolver serial #23238. It needs a firing pin and grip. Can you tell me anything about it?
Totally agree. Job fantastically well done.
I expected much worse, like that it fell apart or something! This isn't a failure in my mind. You restored it to the level it was capable of reaching. It looks great.
I also thought he was going to break it or something
I was looking for cracks in the drum and barrel. I think it was as successful restoration as it possibly could be.
I could fix this.
Is not a failure, actually is a win, you make it look good again and functional, you are a master
Nice job all the same Andre, don’t beat yourself up man.
Not a mission failure at all, you restored it to a fine looking rare and unusual weapon and something that you can keep on display. Wonderful job!
I am not a big gun enthusiast but i sure enjoy watching these videos. The work you do restoring these old guns is amazing. Its great to see the before and after. Thanks for posting; Im glad I stumbled across your channel.
I as a lot of people thought that you did a fantastic job on it and you should display it. Not a failure as far as I'm concerned. Another great job.
I say amen amen amen to ll the other good coments. You got integrety I wish I had. I have no idea how to do the work you did. You have inspired me to try and do better. You did a terrific job Andre so dont tear your self down for that. Even if you could never shoot this little gun, you have a masterpeice on your hands; your creation. Thank you for the inspiration.
Andre, a project gun is never a failure, even when it IS a failure. The time and effort you spend on any project gun is good practice in the long run. I've run across a LOT of totally rotten firearms in my day and still enjoyed working on them even though I knew in my heart they wouldn't be used as firearms again. Many project guns turn into "display" guns and there is nothing wrong with that at all. Keep up the good work and never look on something as "mission failed" because every time you work on a project it is a lesson learned.
A definite win sir! Thumbs way up for your good work on this little Bulldog! The "before" and "after" is astounding! Thanks so much for showing!
I wish all of my failures looked this good! I think it is a great display/ conversation piece!!!
I have restored several Belgian bulldogs of this type (320 caliber). The restoration you have done is very good, just like the weapon was. The recoil spring of the trigger (V-shaped spring) is missing, and some small retouching of the real spring you have manufactured, and the weapon will be functional 100 x100.
As a non functional firearm, it is still quite nice. (I'd display it on my wall in a shadow box.)
Nice job,certainly not a fail. I have seen some of these little guns superbly made. They were the preferred personal protection a gentleman would carry back in the day,due to their compact size.
It's a beautiful restoration!!! I personally despise the liars who stole your hard earned money, but your an artist!
Absolute cracking attempt. Aesthetically it's wonderful. Saving that so it could be restored to working condition would've been like raising the dead. Great job.
Bonjour Monsieur. Votre travail est vraiment bien fait et précis. Je peux juste vous dire que je possède exactement le même petit revolver. A l'époque, je l'ai trouvé dans mon grenier. Il était tout pourri et rouillé. A près démontage et réfection, il ressemble maintenant a quelque chose de valable et pourrait fonctionner pour peu que les munitions soient encore disponibles. Ceci dit, je ne tenterais pas l'expérience, de peur qu'il m'explose au nez ! Néanmoins, j'ai remarqué qu'il vous manquait au moins une pièce. C'est un petit ressort de tension (en forme de V) qui se place dans le revolver juste au dessus de la gâchette. Ce ressort est très difficile a placer, mais avec un peu de patience...ça marche. Voilà, encore félicitation pour cette chouette vidéo.
Not a failure at all. Wouldn't want to shoot too many of those old, cheap revolvers and such anyway. It's one that I'd certainly be proud to have in my collection were it mine. Compared with how it started I think it's absolutely beautiful! Great job!
As an ex retired precision engineer i love watching your skills in your restorations well done sir please keep uploading many more videos.
Honestly I don’t view it as a failed mission. You did everything you could to restore that pistol. I commend you for trying to save it.
Thank you for sharing!
I subscribed to your channel not just because you do fantastic restoration of old things but also loving restoration of live ones. Great job on the horse and kitty.
Hey! I see You from Hungary! I think You are NOT failed! You restored one old Revolver. It's not working but looks Amazing! Great video!
Not a fail but a success from what you started with. What was a fail was the auction listing.
Great job
Mais uma excelente restauração, parabéns, ficou muito bom.
Continue se possível com a restauração de armas, esta cada vídeo melhor que o outro.
That, my friend, is what we call a success! Great restoration.
Enjoy your videos to share your experience. Any job completed is not a failure it is simply one more step in life, well done thanks
Before you put your hands on it looked like an old trashy piece of rusted metal. Now it looks like an old full of history gun. You did an amazing job!!
I thought that was a beautiful restoration and I don't think you should call it a fail, you preserved an interesting piece of history and prevented any further damage to it.
Mission failed; we'll get 'em next time.
Enemy AC130 ABOVE !!!!!
Hunter 2-1 Overlord, advice switching to thermal optics. Over.
Damnit Ramirez!!!
Outstanding work I have always loved these little revolvers.
At least it looks good. Like the coach said, "You win some, you lose some and some are rained out."
You did all you could man, you made the old boy shine again.
If the rest of the world looked at mission failure the way you do we would all be much better off. Also, hats off. Well done sir.
Excellent work on the spring..and you should consider it a mark in the win column!
Brilliant solution! Respect to the author).
Гениальное решение! Автору респект).
Эх, ещё бы знать, чем ты его намазал....
Man, you did a great job. I'm no gun expert, but I think its a 32 S&W, which was a black powder cartridge. That is probably the reason it was so pitted, black powder is really corrosive.
I would not fire it unless I was using hand loaded cartridges, and they were light loads.
But over all, mission accomplished in restoring it.
I think you did a great job bringing that old revolver back to life!
This is NOT a failure!!
THIS is a sucess! You restored it! Anything you restore is a sucess!
Even if it can’t be used you turned it into a beautiful show piece so I would call that a win. Great work with what you had, and excellent work on the spring replacement!
why cant it be shot ? I missed that part .
Grip looks great and the metal work make it look 20+ years younger. Well done! I think you are right though, the weapon was not made very well so even getting this far was amazing to say the least!
Hi Andre, Just thought i would pass on a tip I was given years ago when trying to make a good main spring for a percussion pistol. The temperature of molten lead is a good guide for tempering spring steel. So if you melt a pot of lead then heat your spring steel, then put the steel into the lead and give the temperature time to equalise, once done drop it into your coolant of choice, and Maurice is your fathes brother! Cheers Dave
This is so cool. I got this same revolver at a gun show a couple years ago for $40. It has beautiful engravings on it and still kind of functions. Makes me want to try and restore it, but for now it’s just hanging on the wall in my man cave.
Good work Andre, you did all that could be done considering it's condition. I really like your old gun videos. I like old guns myself, especially old double barrels!
I was still impressed at how well you brought that checkering back! I thought most of it was worn right out! It still looks decent for a personal museum piece!
Best Noir detective revolver, and looks so great at final!
nah, this is pre-noir, like something a Holmesian Victorian era Scotland Yard detective would carry.
Great job, a pity that the part can not be fully recovered, but the end result was pretty good, at least serves as a decoration on some shelf. Greetings from Brazil.
Dude you did the best with what you had, brilliant work, it looks a 100 times better 👍
Ah....it looked nice at the end....at least you can display it. I hope you find some more guns to do soon.
@@MastersOfCraftOfficial That Colt Lightning has my full attention!!!!! 😃
I think I just remembered, Charles Giteau used a Bulldog revolver to assassinate President Garfield in 1881 I think.....
Those Bulldogs are always nice peices. Doubt this will turn out bad by any means considering your abilities. Even if it can't shoot it will be a nice decoration.
If he sleeves the barrel with a pre-rifled sleeve to up to .22 LR and the chambers in the cylinder the same and reinforce the cylinder window with green loctite, should be plenty strong for low-powered rounds blunt the firing pin to rimfire, that might work.
Even though it's not shootable, it's a Great job you did on it. It would make a great wall hanger. Frame it up nice, it would be good for a home office, garage, or man cave! 👍
The only fail I see is what sounds like a misrepresentation at auction...out of your control! GREAT work with the restoration. I admire your skills.
You did a great job on the cylinder! In my opinion this is the most aesthetic part of the whole revolver :)
Perfect restoration nd great patience. Awesome results. 🙏👍
Don't be too hard on yourself. It is much more functional than it was. Thanks for the videos!!
That weapon was trash when it was new lol. If it was possible to restore it. You’d be the one to do it. You do great work and I love your videos. Even this one 😎.
Sam Baggins Belgian Bog Iron.
Hi, honestly you did an amazing job on that old bulldog pistol, your right, it was a piece of junk when you first got it, fit for the bin I'd say ...but you managed to transform it back into something and it won't lay and rot anymore, ...one for your collection. .top job...
Anyone else on here see, and then totally get sucked into watching and digging that commercial for the Titan XP airless paint sprayer gun, that played right before this video began. Man, I just couldn't skip it... Satisfying! Now I want the ever lovin' shit out of one of those too!!
Well, it seems it still can fire the famous .455 Webley Mk III "Manstopper" rounds to great effect.
It's guaranteed to stop the man firing it dead on his tracks ;-D
EDIT: That ten-seconds trigger pull also counts as manstopper. You have to stop the target and ask him to kindly not to move, so you can fire at him
You may see a fail, I see a gorgeous museum piece! Just think of all the stories you could tell about that piece mounted in a shadow box on the wall. You do excellent work!
It not a failure on your part it's just beyond full repair can't be helped
Hey, man, don't be so hard on yourself. I think you did a pretty damn good job given the condition that little pistol was in! Even if it's not functional, it's still a nice little conversation piece. I'm sure given enough time, you could get it into working order again. For now, it's a wall-hanger; no harm, no foul.
Guaranteed someone would give you some cash for it if it came down to that.
There's no such thing as failure, only experiences we didn't know we needed. :)
Great job, you have a passion for bringing old guns back to life. Keep up the good work you are an inspiration....
I think you did a great job considering what you had to work with. It's still a keeper ❤️
Please consider posting how many hours your restorations take. I’m a big fan of all of them. The one thing I wonder on each one of them is how long it takes to bring this virtually destroyed objects back to near pristine condition. This one is in the same category - whether it shoots or not, the restoration is great. The revolver was probably a cheap off special and never intended to last anyway.
Love your work. Keep it coming. & it should make an excellent blank starter pistol.
Proverbs 14:23 says: “In all labor there is profit, But idle chatter leads only to poverty.” C'est magnifique!
We all knew there were grease monkeys, but who knew there were so many rust monkeys?
All kidding aside-these restoration videos are great to watch! It's wonderful to see worn artifacts being restored so beautifully.I wish I found these restoration videos sooner. It's a great way to avoid the wife-lol I was going to send out a rifle for restoration, but these videos motivate me to do it myself.
You may consider this a mission failed but the video says a lot about you. First, your meticulousness as a craftsman. Second, your willingness to salvage and restore neglected objects (and animals). Third, your willingness to be your own critic and being honest enough to share when something is not up to your standards. Yes, the revolver was not the best. However, this video was one of your best for the above reasons.
P.S. it’s been rough in the U.S. I have to keep going back and watching your farm videos to keep my blood pressure down. Please post more soon. . 🙏
Andre Will Do It Well, if anyone can build an ark and stock it, you can. 😂
With what you stared with - that wasn't a fail! It was amazing!
Wow!! great content!!! you are the best, Hello from Russia
I from Poland
Great video!! What makes you think the gun is unusable? (it shoots very low energy bullets with less than 100j)
I would think it should be ok if you seriously down loaded the original cartridge charge. Defiantly don't use anything but black powder but if you lowered the original loading and just made up some short cases you could fire it without worry I would bet, didn't look that bad on the cylinder from what I saw.
Thumbs up is right ! Great job , fun project !
Nice restoration! I have the same revolver, found it at a flea market in Florida 30 years ago. Sam issues with pitting and broken spring.
Hello, what is the product at 4:45 ? and it's really working ? i got a 320 bulldog like your's and i want know what is this product, it's look like "metalset a4" ?
thanks
Looks great man ..I had my experimenting to with an old charter arms undercover
Old Wrecked Revolver, very accurate restoration 👍
No one could have done better. As other comment, 10/10 effort.
Your too hard on yourself man. Looks awesome and you saved it from a landfill somewhere!
Agreed, it looks fantastic even if it doesn't work. Great job!
You did your best to clean it. I don't think you failed with the restoration but I think you feel you got stung by that seller. You did a good job I thought.
I have one very similar, though in a smaller caliber I believe, and they are all I'm pretty bad condition. Thankfully my grips were in good condition and had matching serial number with the rest of the gun. Good work, it looks much better than when you received it.
I would never dare to fire it, but your work is far from failure.
Still a nice piece for display and a very good job you did
You tried your best, that's the main thing. Cheers!
what a nice little keep sake,you did an awesome job,looks really good,man your good with your hands lol ,hugs till next time.
I’m subscribed for the journey, not the end product. Great videos.
OK, if this is a mission failed... . I'm so thankful you are willing to publish the things that didn't work the way you wanted; it is brave and helpful to the rest of us. As I consider doing my own projects, it is worth seeing that some things don't come out the way we want, no matter how hard we try. I agree with many of the commenters below that your work on this was really good and the handle work surprised me. What did you use? Great job over all!
Not a failure at all, you did a great job considering what you had to work with
The only one who failed was the person who was untruthful about how bad the condition really was. You did an excellent job of restoration, especially considering what you had to work with.
I was expecting some kind of catastrophic failure given the title. You did an amazing job with that old boy! Sure it can’t be used, but it’s still beautiful and I’d proudly display it on my shelf.
Looks 100 times better, great job
After watching this a couple times, I really think this would be safe to fire for a few reasons, as long as the barrel to cylinder gap was still pretty tight. First, the pressures produces by the blackpowder cartridges it is intended to fire are pretty low. Second, since it is meant to fire brass cartridges, much of the pressure of the initial powder burn is contained by the brass of the cartridge itself. So the only stress is the transition of the bullet itself from the cylinder to the forcing cone to begin its travel down the barrel. Since the barrel to cylinder gap seems to be a bit wide after the sanding, maybe you could do a little bit of weld metal buildup and sanding to marry the two parts back to a good fit to keep any gases from escaping during firing.
Great work !
You should test it remotely with a string !
Great video! Thank you. To bad it was in such bad shape when you bought it! Yet an excellent job in making it look good though.
it always sucks being scammed. for what it's worth i think you did a pretty good job considering it's former condition
Looks better than when you got it. I'd show it off in my display if I had it.
As someone who knows almost nothing about guns i can tell you most bulldog revolvers are throw away saturday night specials. Your talents deserve something better, Andre. I'm sorry you put so much time into this buddy.