Most restoration videos are fake AF! 🫢

[dodsonboys]

Shout out to the cameraman for sitting there for 99 years

[nikodimus]

This is fine. It's the animal rescue videos that always creep me out.

[fervent]

We can’t have anything nice on the internet anymore, someone always has to jump on a trend and fake it. Appreciate this post man

[AshburnArmorerDan]

If the plastic is as rusty as the metal, it's a fake.

[dand]

You can always tell if the rust causes pitting. Where the rust has eaten small holes in the item.

[thelaughinghyenas]

Backyard Ballistics did a great video on telling fake restores from real ones. I'm so glad a fake gun was used for the fake video.

[maccliff]

I’ve always wondered why every restoration looks the same.

[starlamytruelove]

The only restoration channel i trust is called "odd tinkering" and all of his videos are 100% real (he mostly restores electronics) i rlly recommend watching some of his videos.

[ricomontoya]

I realized that some of these "restoration" videos were fake when they restored a glazed donut.

[putinisgod]

Ah yes the rusted plastic… a classic indicator

[dustingardy]

Another giveaway is when the screws come out of something and the threading is still in perfect condition. Usually the interior mechanisms of actually old items degrade somewhat too, or at least dry rot, depending on the materials and how it's been stored.

[manguydude]

Thank you for this, so many bull$#!+ channels claiming to restore "old" knives

[xtgamermo]

Respect to the camera man going back 100 years to record this in 4k

[LittleRestorers]

So many people out there have little understanding of what rust is and what a real rusty piece of metal should look like. Luckily a lot of us dont fall for the fakes ... Great video 👍

[generalrubbish]

Backyard Ballistics made a very detailed and comprehensive video about this, you should check it out. As a general rule of thumb, if the gun being "restored" is modern and expensive (and ESPECIALLY if it's something with "video game appeal" like, say, a Desert Eagle), the restoration is very likely fake. The older the gun is (eg. Cold War era, WW2, WW1, etc.), the higher the likelihood that the restoration is actually genuine. I'd personally think it's common sense that the older the gun, the more likely it is to actually be in a bad condition, but judging by the popularity of these fake restorations, you never know.

[bunyan]

Wow! Did you find that SIG air pistol in the trenches in France or in the jungles of the Philippines?

[ibrahimkamara]

Reminds me of how prank videos started off as real and then everybody started faking them by 2015

[Chaos_incarnate]

Remember kids, if the metal doesn't have pitting, it's fake👍

[andyc]

have to agree, a large percentage are fake and ruin perfectly good objects but worse are the ones who "restore" genuine artefacts and destroy all the provenance they have, recently watched a genuine early middle ages axe that should have been in a museum being totally destroyed in an attempt to make it like new, heart-breaking

[koryyyRae]

Am i the only one who loved watching them even if theyre fake? Just seeing them get cleaned is satisfying