Dazzling restoration of an antique Revolver 170 years old

Hello everyone, I'm excited to present to you my latest restoration video! In this episode, I take you on a journey through time as we breathe new life into a Lefaucheux revolver, a true gem of history dating back to the 1850s. Immerse yourself in a relaxing and immersive atmosphere as we tackle the rust and imperfections of this emblematic piece. Between precise movements and captivating details about the history of this firearm, you'll be transported to a world where each brushstroke is laden with history.
This revolver, using percussion bullets, also evokes tragic stories, such as that of the famous painter Vincent Van Gogh, who is said to have used a similar model to end his life. Explore with me the secrets and mysteries of this artifact as we seek to restore it to its former glory. Don't miss this opportunity to discover the magic of restoration, where the past comes to life before your amazed eyes. Are you ready for this captivating adventure? Let's go!
I practice the restoration of objects in poor condition. This is a passion, so it is not my profession. Just enjoy the video.
GOOD VIEWING !! :)
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[@Master...deBater]

Hello. I had a similar restoration project. I found an old civil war Remington New Model Army revolver frame, hammer and barrel along with some internal parts at an antique store for $45. Someone had already removed all the rust when I got it. I fit a Uberti NMA cylinder, bolt, and spring kit as well as a Pietta NMA hammer, hand, base pin and loading lever...and timed the action! I then antiqued the bare steel with a combination of Plum Brown and Super Blue solutions. I finished it up last fall and took it out shooting! Everything works perfectly...and it shoots pretty well despite its heavily pitted barrel. It was originally built in 1863 according to its serial number. I bet it hadn't been fired in more than a hundred years...until last fall that is! It felt great to get the old war horse up and running again.

[@darrenfox5883]

Using vinegar and steel wool to create a blackening solution for wood is very interesting! Learned something new! Thanks!

[@JSNRestoration]

Thanks to you :)

[@Rizzmaster373]

Work great on veg tan leather as well it will instantly turn a rich deep black

[@JSNRestoration]

@@Rizzmaster373 Thanks for the tip!!

[@georgebrown8312]

That is marvelous how you restored that old pistol to working order. It looks much better than before but I didn't think it would fire again. Now it works like a charm. Excellent work.

[@JSNRestoration]

Thank you so much for your comment😃

[@jaytalbot1146]

After all the work the Pakistanis went through to make it look old?

[@JSNRestoration]

@@jaytalbot1146 whaaat🤣

[@user-ku2oe4mg8b]

130 років, пістолет наче вчора впав.. Оце контент! Оце подача!

[@LookingGlass69]

Thumbnail be like We fire the whole bullet, that 60% more bullet per bullet.

[@davespears2241]

Love anything restored great job

[@JSNRestoration]

Thank you :))

[@robertmanley7556]

Very nice work I love it !! It has its age but still looks AMAZING !! 👍👍

[@JSNRestoration]

Thank you very much! :)

[@Nobody_896]

There weren't many cartridge loading pistols around in 1850, was it later converted into a cartridge gun, I know they did a lot of that in the 1860's and 70"s,

[@john-boywalton2954]

Ich finde,das hochglanzpolierte Rostnarben-Finisch sehr schön 🙂

[@CoyoteBytes]

It’s always nice to see these guns get some attention. I have a 9mm that I got into firing condition. HLE books has cartridge loading kits to save you from having to make your own cases.

[@JSNRestoration]

Thanks for the information🙂

[@montymc450]

Wow! I also found a junk gun in a pile of garden shop compost

[@JSNRestoration]

THANKS! what is a model?

[@rogercreighton3950]

Now it looks like a lump of silver "tat" !

[@JSNRestoration]

Thanks ;)

[@Westlandsurvivalbuscraftknives]

Wow the revolver I got from my grandpa looks a lot like that one the trigger is different on mine also mine has a triggergaurd and on the grip it hat a ring on mine

[@Thor555555]

seems they were made in different ways in small series. I know one without the triggerguard like this one but also with a ring on the grip.

[@MPi-KM]

Good job! 👍

[@JSNRestoration]

Thanks 😃

[@gastroman4025]

Verry good, its amazing !! ❤❤❤

[@JSNRestoration]

Thanks bro!❤️

[@anthonyg8101]

Magnifique vidéo

[@JSNRestoration]

Merci mon ami❤️

[@Kev-N420]

Good video, was fun to watch, making 7mm pinfire cartridge is really finicky compared to 12mm ones , but I’ve done it on both calibers, you should make some blank cartridge for that bad boy, the hardware on the grips is not my cup of tea, restore the old grips and put them back on lol

[@JSNRestoration]

Thanks :)

[@martinkavanagh196]

Perhaps you might have made the new grips out of pink or red plastic?

[@krisaaron5771]

With glitter... can't forget the sparkly glitter!

[@JSNRestoration]

🤷🏻‍♂️🤣

[@courtneymullen3259]

The gun is worthless now.

[@JSNRestoration]

Thanks !

[@dirkbollmanm2421]

Why Don t you leave the original worden Grips, as far i See there was no big failure.

[@geraldstamour1312]

Dope AF results, @JSNRestoration!

[@ThePatron1130]

Sorry to say it looked better before. All I would have done was to clean it up a little.

[@Desperado69]

For all that labor n hard work I can see on the internal parts but the exterior still looks like hell with all the pitting ???

[@krisaaron5771]

Is pitting on metal like wrinkles and lines on aging faces? Should pitting be removed or celebrated as a life well-lived? Human history is written in guns and swords; are we making a mistake when we attempt to remove the "scars and arrows of outrageous fortune"?

[@shanewalls721]

I think the fine glass bead in the sand blast box method is better than this approach.

[@markosterman419]

Would rather it be conserved than restored.

[@krisaaron5771]

Could you explain the difference to a newbie? I'm fascinated by the way old weapons tell the story of human history -- I'd think conserving a gun that was unique to its time and place is more important than making it "like new" again. How do gun historians trace the provenance of a gun? Can its past be preserved while putting it back in peak (or at least better) condition? My father came home from WWII with a chrome luger he said he'd bought off a German "soldier". I later learned that chrome lugers were only issued to Nazi officers, but by that time Dad was deep into dementia and that gun's particular story was lost.

[@arianlaser]

Io le guancette le avrei prima tagliate col il seghetto per poi sgrossarle con la carteggiatrice. Meglio ancora, lasciare le sue originali. Comunque, ben fatto, ottimo lavoro. Complimenti.

[@JSNRestoration]

Grazie :)

[@RestorationVideo]

very nice restoration one day you will become best youtuber may allah give you more success in this world and in the hereafter (AMEEN)❤❤🤲😊

[@JSNRestoration]

Your comment makes me very happy!! Your work is quality too! Thank you so much

[@pauliedi6573]

Was that van Gogh it was his painting

[@geoffcollier8736]

Pinfire? Did you make your own cartridges?

[@Carlos-uq8if]

Parece que el arma original estaba pavonada.Ese pulido brillante,a espejo....no parece buena idea.Pero buena y cincienzuda limpieza,eso si.😊

[@JSNRestoration]

good idea :)

[@user-ut9gr9mn2i]

Pin fire guns are very hard to find ammo for so in my case after restoring it it will go on display till I find proper ammo

[@JSNRestoration]

That's right 😃

[@user-qz3jo7xi7c]

MAS DE QUANDO E ESSE VIDEO ?

[@n1ble338]

Muy mal. Le has quitado todo el valor a esa pistola. Ahora no vale nada. Qué pena

[@Christian-ov9hm]

Wow. Now it's more beautiful to put in the trash

[@troyfowler5177]

You plan to actually fire it?

[@giovannirazza9938]

Piacere di conoscerti!ma devo dirti una cosa che...io ti ammiro x il lavoro fatto però adesso il valore che aveva prima.non l'ha più,scusi eh...😢😢😢

[@JSNRestoration]

😰😰

[@josefornell2215]

LA FAFUCIER.

[@ayrtonjosevita8707]

Mano, vc deixa muito a desejar sem informações. Vlw. Fica na paz

[@nunya3352]

Well done my friend. But you need to invest in some wood working tools, save time and material.

[@JSNRestoration]

Thanks, it's in progress :)

[@ayrtonjosevita8707]

Você passa a pasta e não dis qual é antes de montar a peça

[@longyx321]

Pinfire ?

[@bl2945]

Sorry but Ilike it before restoring.

[@mikemcintosh295]

He absolutely destroyed it

[@krisaaron5771]

Did I miss the restorer cleaning up the barrel's interior? If the little gun is going to be fired I'd think the barrel's "insides" would have received serious attention...

[@Thor555555]

would be very difficult to get ammunition for this revolver

[@krisaaron5771]

@@Thor555555 Agreed! You'd need to make your own loads. Another concern is how well the cylinder lines up with the barrel when the trigger is pulled. That poor gun has had a rough life -- I'd want a serious gunsmith to go over it with an engineer's eye before pulling the trigger and trusting I'll still have a working hand after it fires.

[@dwightmcintosh8511]

That gun might have had historical value before you touched it but not anymore.

[@Thor555555]

how is it save tho claim, the gunt in the museum was van goghs? they don´t have a serialnumber and the gun doesn´t look stored well or seriously after his suezide. So how can it be proved that it was his?

[@JSNRestoration]

It’s a prank

[@JSNRestoration]

it's the same model, not the real weapon

[@barry5165]

Not sure what that grey paste did but you definitely did not leave it on there for a day 😂 if you wanted to fool your viewers, you should have changed your gloves

[@badgerrrlattin35]

To think; a 7mm Lefaucheux pinfire revolver ended Van Gogh.

[@user-zf2lq2hy5f]

Pryvit, JSN, ya Dmytro, ukrayinetsʹ bez istoriyi. U mene pytannya shchodo pistoleta, chy bude vin teper vykorystanyy dlya vbyvstva Putina? Meni duzhe spodobayetʹsya!!! a v inshomu duzhe harne video!! pravylʹnyy shlyakh

[@scorpio9578]

Should of just cleaned it, and kept the original handles.

[@steverice7546]

I think you better call this a “restoration” (def using the quotation marks).

[@Landrew0]

When I was about five, I used to think the gun fired the whole cartridge out of the barrel, like in the thumbnail. Everything in the intro is also a lie.

[@JSNRestoration]

🥶🥶

[@regbaron]

There's a theory that two boys accidentally shot him.

[@SuperLegionnaire]

Really?NO,not with this brutality,and the wire wheel,ye Gods,what were you thinking?

[@vitaliychumak4158]

Я тоже восстанавливаю револьвер Лефоше . Только у меня центральный бой . Твоя работа меня огорчила . Ты не показал ,что барабанчик не может вращаться . На собачке отгнившая полоска пружинки . Поэтому собачка не входит в зацепление с храповиком и не проворачивает барабан . Возле спускового крючка нет крышечки . Деревянные накладки изготовленные тобой ---- полное говно . Они испахабили вид револьвера .

[@JSNRestoration]

Thanks!

[@michaelfitzpatrick1803]

He died while painting sunflowers and that is certainly not his gun. That gun would be a rusted seized up relic if it was dug up from the ground.

[@darrellwill7970]

I hope that wasn't Van Gogh's actual suicide gun.

[@JSNRestoration]

Why not ?😏

[@jas20per]

A lot of effort put in to this guns slow destruction. Sadly what was wrong with the original Ebony grips? And if you wanted to replace them Walnut is more in keeping with the crap you spent so much time making, The original finish on these guns was Nickle no bluing was used at all. There is a saying here in Britain "Warts and All! meaning the gun should have just been cleaned up by neutralising the rust and left as is because what you have done is robed the gun of its life's history and turned it into a worthless piece of shining metal sadly.

[@mikemcintosh295]

Check out Mark Novak on here. I've been binge watching his stuff. He does a good job.

[@ElliottCoker]

Were you planning on buying the gun before the restoration? If not, why does it matter so much? Once you purchase something, it becomes yours and its value is determined by the person who owns it. For the person in the video, it’s their possession to do what they please with it. Your anger about this and your very negative view of the creators actions reflect your jealousy of their possessions and your obvious attachment issues with objects and their relationship to events in history or your own life. I struggle with a similar mindset, but I have been learning to let go of those types of thoughts. Recently I was on the hunt for a nice spoon and the only ones available at local stores were cheaply made and plastic, I wanted metal with a wooden handle. I decided to hit the local antique emporium and I sought out such a spoon, I found and purchased one that seemed cool and special and fit my wants and needs. When I got home I promptly disassembled and refinished the original parts. I didn’t like the handle itself but I respected the “business end” of the spoon (I.e. the scooping part). I discarded the original handle and carved my own to fit my hand, it was nothing like the original. I did a fine job and was proud of the final product, which I displayed to loved ones and was met with congratulations and praise at the handiwork, but then I was also met with the similar statements you’ve made here. My point is, what I did to the spoon and what this person did here is similar in that “It’s my f*ck!n spoon, I’ll do what I please”.

[@jas20per]

@@ElliottCoker Well you do have a very small mind set regarding the worlds Antiques because they can only be original once. Being guided by you it would be perfectly correct in your view to give the Sistine Chapel paintings of Michelangelo a couple of coats of white emulsion paint because it's owner would prefer a more colourful appetence. I do not have to purchase one of these Belgian made revolvers because I already own one with all it's life given blemishes and it looks as it should for its age. Finally one can not be jealous of a Moron, or the obvious incorrect opinions of the small minded who just want to add their moronic opinions for effect.

[@ElliottCoker]

@@jas20per I’m small minded because I don’t belittle people for their creations and restorations. You are a class act. I bet you’re fun at parties.

[@jas20per]

@@ElliottCoker That is the point this person did not create the revolver he vandalised it by removing every trace of its age past life history making it worthless in every way for future generations. Remember we are only custodians of historic objects, it is not a God given right to destroy them at a whim whether we own them or not.. "Class Act" that is a may be! But In Britain we give all our children a very wide World history Education that I am a product of, mot history that just rotates around the White House. Fact the first White house was painted white because the British set it on fire and the name has stuck like the paint.

[@robertlast3052]

Finding this in the ground....., fake!! The wood grips wiuld be gone and it would be a lot more rusty! How do i know? Because ive hunted relics for 45 years now, thats how!

[@JSNRestoration]

Good! It’s for the show🤣

[@oculusangelicus8978]

Well, if this was the very gun that Van Gogh used to end himself, you would have ruined it by removing the patina and treating it the way you did, but thankfully I read your comments in the lower section and this is NOT the gun Van Gogh used to commit su***de. it just happens to be the same make of revolver he used. Please be clear on what you say, because your subtitles made it sound like this was the very gun he used, and I doubt that you guys would be able to afford the real gun he used, if it is even available to own. there would be no way a person who would have paid literally millions of dollars for Van Gogh's pistol would treat the gun the way you did to this example. the gun is far more valuable to people when it shows the age of the steel anf the wear of the grips and the pitting of the metal. making a gun shiny is not restoring it but ruining it. and then you ruined the original wood grips of the gun by spray painting over it to make a reproduction, tell me, wouldn't a pencil been just fine to trace around the original grips? You Guys are HACKS!

[@JSNRestoration]

Thanks ! :)

[@tommycoffey3322]

horse hockey

[@ilikequiet6474]

Jay Leno has ruined many classic cars by restoring cars that did not need it. Just like this gun. Patina is what everyone is looking for now.

[@dickb6277]

What a shame to destroy an antique firearm by filing, sandpapering, grinding, etc. etc. He could have ccomplished the same end product with an acetylene cutting torch or a twelve pound sledge hammer.

[@ElliottCoker]

Were you planning on buying the gun before the restoration? If not, why does it matter so much? Once you purchase something, it becomes yours and its value is determined by the person who owns it. For the person in the video, it’s their possession to do what they please with it. Your anger about this and your very negative view of the creators actions reflect your jealousy of their possessions and your obvious attachment issues with objects and their relationship to events in history or your own life. I struggle with a similar mindset, but I have been learning to let go of those types of thoughts. Recently I was on the hunt for a nice spoon and the only ones available at local stores were cheaply made and plastic, I wanted metal with a wooden handle. I decided to hit the local antique emporium and I sought out such a spoon, I found and purchased one that seemed cool and special and fit my wants and needs. When I got home I promptly disassembled and refinished the original parts. I didn’t like the handle itself but I respected the “business end” of the spoon (I.e. the scooping part). I discarded the original handle and carved my own to fit my hand, it was nothing like the original. I did a fine job and was proud of the final product, which I displayed to loved ones and was met with congratulations and praise at the handiwork, but then I was also met with the similar statements you’ve made here. My point is, what I did to the spoon and what this person did here is similar in that “It’s my f*ck!n spoon, I’ll do what I please”.