Hi all, hopefully you enjoy today's restoration! Due to (somewhat) popular demand, I went with a bit of a different finish compared to my recent projects - What do you think, should I leave it as is, or give it a nice golden lacquering in the future? As always, thanks for watching!
Amazing difference in the end product!! I very much approve your choices, this way it isn’t too gaudy but rather it speaks of higher class!!! I enjoyed the transformation, simple as it was!
I just bought an old door with this exact hardware intact!!! At first I thought the cover that says "Letter" was missing , only to find it slightly rusted in the "up" position (there was insulation stuffed in the slot). I was able to easily pry it loose. Can't believe the spring still works. I was so stoked to find this video! Mine currently looks exactly like this one started out. Looking forward to restoring the door and it's hardware.
Sorry for the late reply, Emily, but thanks a lot for the comment! Sweet, I’m surprised the spring is still intact after all these years, but it’s great to hear since finding a new spring or making a new one is half the battle with an item like this haha. Good luck on the restoration - Hopefully you can get that gorgeous little letter slot looking good as new! Thanks a lot for watching!
Hey man, it's been a while! Well hey I remembered you were a bit sad to see I cut the cleaning portion out a while back, so I decided it had to make a return in more recent videos haha. As always, thanks for watching!
Absolutely beautiful! Loving the black and 'silver' finish, so glad you didn't use the tinted lacquer. Anyway happy New Year from me, on the Somerset coast, England 🇬🇧
@@randomrestoration6858 You replied! Yay! You say 'thanks a lot for watching'. I say thanks a lot for your channel! I find it so amazing to watch talented people, like your good self, bringing seemingly rusty pieces of scrap metal beautifully back to life and purpose 👏 Wonderful 😊
This could also be used on large letter box built on to a house or into a wall. I once saw a letterbox built into a house wall beside the front door. It had a nice little door to access it inside the house. My neighborhood (US, Texas) is old enough to still get mail deliveries up to the front porch, instead of a box on the street as the new neighborhoods have to do.
I'll likely leave it just as is, though I do have to disassemble it and give it the clear variant of the lacquer I use so it doesn't rust. I wanted to wait and see what others thought of it before I decided whether to change it or not haha. Thanks for watching, Craig!
Thanks a lot, Eric! I've watched a number of videos of people exploring 100+ year old houses, and trust me when I say I always spend half the time looking for the door hardware haha. Thanks a lot for watching!
Oh dear.........now I am ashamed of how my letter slot looks.............but now I know how to restore it, so.........................thanks for the great video!
Nice work! I love seeing antique items like this being restored for new use. A thought on the broken closure spring, adding a second spring and spacing them out to the ends of the rod may have been a good upgrade. Help keep the flap shut and more weather tight for increased efficiency modern homes are known for. Mail slots are great escape routes for hot air on cold winter days. A great looking restoration nonetheless!
Fantastic as always. Natural for sure. On your cooking spray, I've found some of the green to be tough even for Pam w/butter. A quick go over with wax paper and a really hot iron seems to lift it pretty well though. Beautiful work once again and your lacquer makes the best carving highlights.
Thanks for the feedback, Mark! I've found PAM with butter will actually remove most green paints after it's been expired for 5+ years haha. As always, thank a lot for watching!
Haha yeah I suppose that's true. With that said, this letter slot was originally a semi-polished bronze plated finish. I would guess that someone simply painted their whole door green and painted right over the letter slot (and probably all the other door hardware) rather than removing it haha. Thanks for watching!
It looks beautiful. My problem with the tinted lacquers is that they are too yellow toned most of the time. I feel like you achieved an antique look that will incorporate well with a more modern space.
Thanks a lot, Courtney! I definitely want to try out different colors and shades of the lacquer I use in the future, but I have to find the right project before I dare try anything special hahaha. Thanks a lot for watching!
Hey RR Looks great. Tinted or not, in the end it is yours and it needs to match the set you are assembling🙂 That has to be the strongest rubber glove on utube...haha😉 Take care
Thank you, Tim! Yeah that's the main issue - I have the bronze variants of this set that I'll be restoring in the future, but I suppose I could always get this bronze plated to match when the time comes. Right, I had to buy a different brand of gloves and the things loved to disintegrate hahaha. As always, thank you for watching!
Thanks a lot! Yeah I should have done something with it so it blended in a bit better - Though I did use stainless steel, so it shouldn't get rusty like the original one did haha. Thanks for watching!
As I've listened and watched this educational video; I was thinking of when we even restored, such as our old flying machines. Including like the ones, back in the 50s, 60s and 70s. Which means, this includes the Vietnam War era. I was thinking that, we restore the space shuttle challenger. 🇻🇳 🤔
Loved this restoration! I was watching and thinking, “I hope he leaves the metal natural and floods the background. “. And then you did it! I love the black (it classic) but I also couldn’t help but wonder what a brighter color might look like.
Thanks a lot! Haha well pretty good timing. I think that white paint would look really nice with certain designs at least, and I'd like to test it out in the semi near future. Thanks a lot for watching!
R.R. Very nice work as always.. I don't know where u find these items.. But it's nice to see them brought back better than new.. Keep up the great work and looking forward to your next project...
Great job! I like it better without the tinted laquer. I can't help but wonder how it would look with flat or satin finish black paint. Have you ever tried it? Love your restorations! 😊
Thanks a lot! I have recently tried a satin, matte and flat paint in recessed areas and found that it really doesn't pair as well as I would have though with the more reflective raised areas. I found the satin to be the worst of the three for this type of hardware - While the raised areas look quite fresh, the satin recessed areas looked more like a gloss paint that had lost most of its gloss or in other words it didn't look like new paint, and as a result didn't pair well with the newly restored raised areas. I'll probably still do a video in the future where I will use a flat paint just to show how it looks, and maybe with the right design it'd be an okay combo! Thanks a lot for watching, and happy new year!
Haha it's not too bad surprisingly - Any excess paint that runs onto the raised areas can be removed with ease with a cloth/towel and a bit of paint thinner, even if the paint has been curing for a couple hours. Thanks a lot for watching!
Hi again! Another beautiful restoration. Looking at how crusty it waa, I didn't think it was possible to bring it back to better than new. I was wondering, doesn't the wire brush you use scratch the surface of the metal at all? I would think it was a bit rough.
Hey thanks a lot! Haha yeah it was a bit worse for wear, it's always a gamble when these items are painted since it could be way too rusty to salvage the design - Luckily this hasn't happened to me yet though! Good question. The wire brushes I use can slightly scratch bronze items I work on, but not these cast iron items. When they do leave scratches, they're very shallow and can be removed with just a few passes of 800 grit sandpaper. As per usual, thanks a lot for watching!
Hey thanks a lot! The paint I used was a simple Rust Oleum gloss black spray paint. I'm going to disassemble this and give it several coats of clear lacquer, so I wasn't too worried about the strength of the black paint since the lacquer will protect it. I painted this piece with (I know this'll sound weird haha) a needle and syringe which I bought at a farm store, but I can't remember what the brand was, or what the size of the needle was, sorry! I have to throw them out after one use because they become too unreliable. Luckily they're like a dollar though haha. I should add that I sprayed the paint into a container and sucked it up with the syringe. Any excess paint that ended up on the raised areas was wiped off with a cloth dampened with a bit of paint thinner. Thanks a lot for watching!
@@randomrestoration6858 I didn't realize it was a needle and syringe. I thought it was a paint pen, guess I need to pay better attention! Thanks for the info. I'll have to try that sometime. Excellent work!!
I'm not a fan of the Lacquer to be honest. I prefer plating to spraying. If you want a darker finish though there is a way to use a secondary plating to change the metal at least on the surface by baking it. Cody demonstrated doing this on chain mail when he plated one side of a copper chain mail in Zinc the other in Tin and baked them giving one side a surface coating of brass and the other bronze. Maybe you can try it some time.
Oh yeah I definitely prefer plating too - I will have some plated projects in the future, but with how little time I have to get each project done the lacquer is somewhat of a substitute. Many companies did offer a "bronzed" finish which was simply a tinted lacquer finish as a cheaper alternative to chemical plating. Thanks for the info, I'll have to check it out! Thanks for watching!
I know the black paint that you put in between the designs and letters is the original color scheme. But did they ever branch out to any other colors? Looking at this I can't help but feel a nice Royal Blue paint would go well with the brass, sort of a blue and gold contrast. Or Fire Engine Red. Or even the hated Green lol
Good question - None of the catalogs I've ever looked in (ranging from the mid 1880s-early 1900s) offered anything other than either an unpainted, black painted or brown painted recessed areas. I'd like to test out some different colors in the future though, as I'm sure there would be some great looking combinations! Thanks a lot for watching!
I love the restorations, but for a channel called "Random Restoration", the restorations are becoming a bit predictable. 4 seconds in and I'm thinking de-rusted, sanded to a satin finish, painted with a syringe, ambered lacquer, and a display of the sales catalogue. The only bit I got wrong was the lacquer. Will you be branching out from antique, household ornamentation?
Thanks a lot - I’ll likely be continuing my hardware restoration spree, but with the occasional non hardware related restoration done from time to time. I’d really like to branch out and do different things, but releasing a video every three weeks makes it tough to test out new things. For example, I have a huge interesting project I’ve been working on whenever I get a chance, and it’ll feature a bunch of new stuff and even some new tools, but the whole thing is going to take hundreds of hours to get completed, and having to release videos every three weeks really slows progress down. I’ve been tempted to start releasing a video every four weeks to give myself a bit more time to focus on quality and uniqueness, but we’ll see if I make the change anytime soon haha. Thanks a lot for watching!
@@randomrestoration6858 Thanks for replying. Whatever you choose to do in the future, don't rush your releases. Your restorations are fantastic, and I would hate to see a drop in quality because you were rushed. I'll look forward to your next one.
Haha I’ve been very happy with Evapo-Rust - I’ve had the same five gallon bucket for probably a year and a half now and it’s still surprising efficient at removing rust haha. Thanks a lot for watching, Diego!
I do appreciate the offer, Teresa, but for now at least I have to focus on the outrageous number of projects I already have. Sorry! I may start taking on projects from viewers in the future, but it'll probably be a while before I do. Thanks a lot for watching!
Hi all, hopefully you enjoy today's restoration! Due to (somewhat) popular demand, I went with a bit of a different finish compared to my recent projects - What do you think, should I leave it as is, or give it a nice golden lacquering in the future? As always, thanks for watching!
its beautiful , for me i prefer with the golden :p
@@bobbythebob3074 Thank you, Bobby - The golden lacquer really does pair nicely with these pieces!
Personally I don't like the golden
I think with certain pieces the golden lacquer looks good and others the black finish looks good.
@@sheilahperry-rosales8748 Haha fair enough!
No problem with the green painted hardware, because you are a master at restoring such hardware to its original detail. 😉
Haha I suppose I have the right tools for the job, thanks a lot!
Absolutely Beautifull Ornate... very nice video 👍👍
Hey man, thank you very much!
Beautiful work. I like this one without the lacquer. The detail, especially the lettering, seems to pop out more without it.
Thanks for the feedback, Gary! It really has a great looking (hard to describe) glow to it in natural lighting. Thank you for watching!
Love black and silver!❤️
Thanks for the feedback, I think it’s a pretty good combo too! Thank you for watching!
Beautiful wonderful attention to detail. Great work!!!!!!
I appreciate it William! Thanks a lot for watching!
Excellent restoration 👍👍👍Thanks for sharing
I appreciate it, thanks a lot for watching!
Thank you for not using the tinted lacquer. This is spot on. 👍👍
Hey thanks a lot, Vickie! I really think silver and black are a great match. Thanks for watching!
Amazing difference in the end product!! I very much approve your choices, this way it isn’t too gaudy but rather it speaks of higher class!!! I enjoyed the transformation, simple as it was!
Thanks a lot, Charles! I reckon this light silver and black mix is a pretty good combo! Thanks a lot for watching!
Great restoration, from the days when mail was delivered through the front door.
Haha yeah you wouldn’t get much use out of it these days! Thanks a lot for watching!
Great restoration 😀
Hey thanks a lot!
Lovely as always. I really like this without the lacquer.
Thanks a lot, Chanda! This one turned out pretty nice with the silver/black finish combo, and I think it fits the design nicely. Thanks for watching!
Beautiful job
I appreciate it, Linda!
Hello random! Black and no tinted lacquer is smart, it depends on the color of the door, so no matching colors mistakes imo. All good !!
Good point, Rose! I know the golden lacquer wouldn't match well with quite a few colors haha. As per usual, thanks for watching!
I love you & I love your sense of humor ❤️
Thank you for the kind words!
Nice restore, sometimes you get a spring, sometimes it's a sproing!
Hahaha let’s face it, springs are way better than springs. Thanks for watching, Ray!
Looks fabulous without a tint.
Thank you, Leonardo! I really think the silver/black compliment each other pretty well. Thanks for watching!
I LOVE that you left it silver and didn’t tint it. It looks beautiful!!!
Thanks a lot for the feedback! I reckon this silver and black finish is a pretty nice pairing. Thanks for watching!
I just bought an old door with this exact hardware intact!!! At first I thought the cover that says "Letter" was missing , only to find it slightly rusted in the "up" position (there was insulation stuffed in the slot). I was able to easily pry it loose. Can't believe the spring still works. I was so stoked to find this video! Mine currently looks exactly like this one started out. Looking forward to restoring the door and it's hardware.
Sorry for the late reply, Emily, but thanks a lot for the comment! Sweet, I’m surprised the spring is still intact after all these years, but it’s great to hear since finding a new spring or making a new one is half the battle with an item like this haha. Good luck on the restoration - Hopefully you can get that gorgeous little letter slot looking good as new! Thanks a lot for watching!
you make smile especially on bad days. 🤟🏽🐌🖤
Well hey I really do appreciate the kind words, Sarah! Thank you for watching, and take care!
Looks fantastic
Hey thank you very much, Brian!
I love the tint you would normally do but this still looks brilliant 👍 love your work man
Hey thanks a lot for the input! I was very tempted to lacquer this one too haha. Thanks for watching!
@@randomrestoration6858 No problems, I love watching your stuff.
As always….WOW!
Thank you very much!
If you chuck the rod in your drill it will wind the spring much more consistently. Cool restoration.
Haha I have seen that done before, but wasn’t feeling adventurous enough to try it out myself this time. Thank you for watching, Ross!
Now I want a mail slot in my front door. That’s beautiful.
Hahaha it may not get much use once installed, but it'd sure class up the door a bit! Thanks for watching!
WOW I love it without lacquer! Great work And thank you for keeping my mind on a slower rat race lol
Thank you, Patty! The silver and black do pair pretty well! Haha hey any time - Thanks for watching!
Beautiful restoration good job my friend
Hey Vince, thank you very much!
Nice,you never disappoint,good video,keep doing what your doing.👍👍👍😎😎😎
Hey I greatly appreciate it, Tom! As per usual, thanks a lot for watching!
yay more videos! i like when you use the toothbrush to clean stuff. little bit asmr and restoration in one video 😁
Hey man, it's been a while! Well hey I remembered you were a bit sad to see I cut the cleaning portion out a while back, so I decided it had to make a return in more recent videos haha. As always, thanks for watching!
@@randomrestoration6858 awww yay! yea it has been a lil while. glad to see ya brought it back! 😁
So beautiful. I prefer the untinted lacquer
Thank you for the feedback, Maria! The silver and black is definitely a nice combo. Thanks for watching!
Amazing work as always.
Thank you, I appreciate it!
Nice one my friend! 5*****!!!!
Hey I appreciate the five stars, thanks for watching!
Nice job. I prefer things like this without tinted lacquer.
Thanks for the feedback, I think the silver and black is a great look! Thanks for watching!
I love it the way it is. I like how the letters pop without the lacquer.
Thanks for the feedback, and thanks a lot for watching!
When you follow your plan to the letter the post restoration pictures are worth writing home about , Cheers🍻
Hahaha hey thank you for watching, Dunc!
Absolutely beautiful! Loving the black and 'silver' finish, so glad you didn't use the tinted lacquer.
Anyway happy New Year from me, on the Somerset coast, England 🇬🇧
Thank you very much! The black/silver mix really works well with this design I think. Hey happy new year to you too, and thanks a lot for watching!
@@randomrestoration6858 You replied! Yay! You say 'thanks a lot for watching'. I say thanks a lot for your channel! I find it so amazing to watch talented people, like your good self, bringing seemingly rusty pieces of scrap metal beautifully back to life and purpose 👏 Wonderful 😊
I wonder how many people even have a door that they could use this in anymore? Excellent job!
Right, I know that I don’t currently have a dot that I could put this on, but hope to in the future haha. Thanks a lot for watching!
This could also be used on large letter box built on to a house or into a wall. I once saw a letterbox built into a house wall beside the front door. It had a nice little door to access it inside the house. My neighborhood (US, Texas) is old enough to still get mail deliveries up to the front porch, instead of a box on the street as the new neighborhoods have to do.
Brilliant work I would leave it the way it is looks very good to me. 👍👍
I'll likely leave it just as is, though I do have to disassemble it and give it the clear variant of the lacquer I use so it doesn't rust. I wanted to wait and see what others thought of it before I decided whether to change it or not haha. Thanks for watching, Craig!
@@randomrestoration6858 I like the gold finish as well. Liked all your videos. Keep em coming thanks.
Very nice. I wish I could send you pictures from our courthouse doors built in 1876 with the fixtures.
Thanks a lot, Eric! I've watched a number of videos of people exploring 100+ year old houses, and trust me when I say I always spend half the time looking for the door hardware haha. Thanks a lot for watching!
Oh dear.........now I am ashamed of how my letter slot looks.............but now I know how to restore it, so.........................thanks for the great video!
Hahaha yeah I’ve seen a fair number of crusty old letter slots just waiting to be restored. Thanks a lot for watching, George!
Nice work! I love seeing antique items like this being restored for new use. A thought on the broken closure spring, adding a second spring and spacing them out to the ends of the rod may have been a good upgrade. Help keep the flap shut and more weather tight for increased efficiency modern homes are known for. Mail slots are great escape routes for hot air on cold winter days. A great looking restoration nonetheless!
Thanks a lot! That's definitely not a bad idea - It'd also be beneficial incase one of the springs were to break. Thank you very much for watching!
No one knows the work that goes into getting those perfect camera angles! 😂
Hahaha I should start claiming they're just extra cinematic camera angles 😆
Thanks a lot for watching!
That’s unbelievable
Hey thanks a lot, Roshem!
It looks great!! I like it better without the lacquer myself
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Hey thanks a lot as per usual! I reckon the silver and black combo fit this design quite well. Thanks for watching!
Fantastic as always. Natural for sure. On your cooking spray, I've found some of the green to be tough even for Pam w/butter. A quick go over with wax paper and a really hot iron seems to lift it pretty well though. Beautiful work once again and your lacquer makes the best carving highlights.
Thanks for the feedback, Mark! I've found PAM with butter will actually remove most green paints after it's been expired for 5+ years haha. As always, thank a lot for watching!
you know green was the original color for post office Mail boxes before they were painted the blue color. awesome restoration as usual!
Haha yeah I suppose that's true. With that said, this letter slot was originally a semi-polished bronze plated finish. I would guess that someone simply painted their whole door green and painted right over the letter slot (and probably all the other door hardware) rather than removing it haha. Thanks for watching!
Lovely job and much nicer without the tainted lacquer
Hey thanks a lot, Michelle!
Very nice job well done.
Hey thank you very much!
Love it!
Thanks a lot!
👍👍👍💣 ещё три и будет колекция😁
Хахаха, верно! Спасибо за просмотр!
Beautiful x
I appreciate it, Tina!
Outstanding restore!
Thank you very much!
It looks beautiful. My problem with the tinted lacquers is that they are too yellow toned most of the time. I feel like you achieved an antique look that will incorporate well with a more modern space.
Thanks a lot, Courtney! I definitely want to try out different colors and shades of the lacquer I use in the future, but I have to find the right project before I dare try anything special hahaha. Thanks a lot for watching!
Spectacular restoration and videography.
Sadly, the video ended and I have to go back to work.
I appreciate it! Hahaha now that’s a bummer. Thanks for watching!
I loved how this turned out!
I appreciate it, Phailyn! Thanks for watching!
Très bon travail.
Hey RR
Looks great.
Tinted or not, in the end it is yours and it needs to match the set you are assembling🙂
That has to be the strongest rubber glove on utube...haha😉
Take care
Thank you, Tim! Yeah that's the main issue - I have the bronze variants of this set that I'll be restoring in the future, but I suppose I could always get this bronze plated to match when the time comes. Right, I had to buy a different brand of gloves and the things loved to disintegrate hahaha. As always, thank you for watching!
@@randomrestoration6858
Very welcome😁
Especially the left hand glove you use for paint striping🙂
Beautiful job! As for the pin, I would have cold blued it. But that's just my two cents.
Thanks a lot! Yeah I should have done something with it so it blended in a bit better - Though I did use stainless steel, so it shouldn't get rusty like the original one did haha. Thanks for watching!
As I've listened and watched this educational video; I was thinking of when we even restored, such as our old flying machines. Including like the ones, back in the 50s, 60s and 70s. Which means, this includes the Vietnam War era. I was thinking that, we restore the space shuttle challenger. 🇻🇳 🤔
Haha yeah it sure takes a lot to restore old aircraft, though I suspect Challenger may be beyond salvaging. As per usual, thanks for watching!
I think it looks beautiful silver
Thanks for the feedback!
What’s not to admire. Looks lovely and ready to receive bills.
Thanks a lot! Hahaha yeah ready for bills and junk mail!
I would put that in my door because those are my colors, but I do like the colorful varnish in the videos.
The silver and black finish are definitely a nice match! Thank you very much for watching, Brandy!
Loved this restoration! I was watching and thinking, “I hope he leaves the metal natural and floods the background. “. And then you did it! I love the black (it classic) but I also couldn’t help but wonder what a brighter color might look like.
Thanks a lot! Haha well pretty good timing. I think that white paint would look really nice with certain designs at least, and I'd like to test it out in the semi near future. Thanks a lot for watching!
After your restoration the Letter Slot looks as if it just rolled off the line at Sargent & Co.
Hey I appreciate the compliment! Thank you for watching!
R.R. Very nice work as always.. I don't know where u find these items.. But it's nice to see them brought back better than new.. Keep up the great work and looking forward to your next project...
Thank you, Gary! I find these on various websites and just can't resist buying the crustiest items I come across haha. As always, thanks for watching!
Great job! I like it better without the tinted laquer. I can't help but wonder how it would look with flat or satin finish black paint. Have you ever tried it? Love your restorations! 😊
Thanks a lot! I have recently tried a satin, matte and flat paint in recessed areas and found that it really doesn't pair as well as I would have though with the more reflective raised areas. I found the satin to be the worst of the three for this type of hardware - While the raised areas look quite fresh, the satin recessed areas looked more like a gloss paint that had lost most of its gloss or in other words it didn't look like new paint, and as a result didn't pair well with the newly restored raised areas. I'll probably still do a video in the future where I will use a flat paint just to show how it looks, and maybe with the right design it'd be an okay combo! Thanks a lot for watching, and happy new year!
I love all of your work!!! Though I sometimes feel like your whole house is going to be accessorized with these wonderful items! 😂
haha! bling-bling with class!
Thanks a lot, Samantha! Yeah pretty much 😆
Thank you. Painting the black areas must be nervewracking!
Haha it's not too bad surprisingly - Any excess paint that runs onto the raised areas can be removed with ease with a cloth/towel and a bit of paint thinner, even if the paint has been curing for a couple hours. Thanks a lot for watching!
Hi again!
Another beautiful restoration. Looking at how crusty it waa, I didn't think it was possible to bring it back to better than new.
I was wondering, doesn't the wire brush you use scratch the surface of the metal at all? I would think it was a bit rough.
Hey thanks a lot! Haha yeah it was a bit worse for wear, it's always a gamble when these items are painted since it could be way too rusty to salvage the design - Luckily this hasn't happened to me yet though! Good question. The wire brushes I use can slightly scratch bronze items I work on, but not these cast iron items. When they do leave scratches, they're very shallow and can be removed with just a few passes of 800 grit sandpaper. As per usual, thanks a lot for watching!
I had just been thinking, "not everything needs gold lacquer."
Haha yeah I think this silver and black finish looks quite nice too! Thanks a lot for watching!
Great job. What type of paint did you apply? I like how the pen allows for painting in small spaces. What brand is it? Thanks and cheers!
Hey thanks a lot! The paint I used was a simple Rust Oleum gloss black spray paint. I'm going to disassemble this and give it several coats of clear lacquer, so I wasn't too worried about the strength of the black paint since the lacquer will protect it. I painted this piece with (I know this'll sound weird haha) a needle and syringe which I bought at a farm store, but I can't remember what the brand was, or what the size of the needle was, sorry! I have to throw them out after one use because they become too unreliable. Luckily they're like a dollar though haha. I should add that I sprayed the paint into a container and sucked it up with the syringe. Any excess paint that ended up on the raised areas was wiped off with a cloth dampened with a bit of paint thinner. Thanks a lot for watching!
@@randomrestoration6858 I didn't realize it was a needle and syringe. I thought it was a paint pen, guess I need to pay better attention! Thanks for the info. I'll have to try that sometime. Excellent work!!
I'm not a fan of the Lacquer to be honest. I prefer plating to spraying. If you want a darker finish though there is a way to use a secondary plating to change the metal at least on the surface by baking it. Cody demonstrated doing this on chain mail when he plated one side of a copper chain mail in Zinc the other in Tin and baked them giving one side a surface coating of brass and the other bronze. Maybe you can try it some time.
Oh yeah I definitely prefer plating too - I will have some plated projects in the future, but with how little time I have to get each project done the lacquer is somewhat of a substitute. Many companies did offer a "bronzed" finish which was simply a tinted lacquer finish as a cheaper alternative to chemical plating. Thanks for the info, I'll have to check it out! Thanks for watching!
I like as is.
Thanks a lot for the feedback!
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I know the black paint that you put in between the designs and letters is the original color scheme. But did they ever branch out to any other colors? Looking at this I can't help but feel a nice Royal Blue paint would go well with the brass, sort of a blue and gold contrast. Or Fire Engine Red. Or even the hated Green lol
Good question - None of the catalogs I've ever looked in (ranging from the mid 1880s-early 1900s) offered anything other than either an unpainted, black painted or brown painted recessed areas. I'd like to test out some different colors in the future though, as I'm sure there would be some great looking combinations! Thanks a lot for watching!
Sure does look like spray on butter.
Right, though I don’t think you’d want to be spraying this stuff on your pans hahaha
I love the restorations, but for a channel called "Random Restoration", the restorations are becoming a bit predictable. 4 seconds in and I'm thinking de-rusted, sanded to a satin finish, painted with a syringe, ambered lacquer, and a display of the sales catalogue.
The only bit I got wrong was the lacquer.
Will you be branching out from antique, household ornamentation?
Thanks a lot - I’ll likely be continuing my hardware restoration spree, but with the occasional non hardware related restoration done from time to time. I’d really like to branch out and do different things, but releasing a video every three weeks makes it tough to test out new things. For example, I have a huge interesting project I’ve been working on whenever I get a chance, and it’ll feature a bunch of new stuff and even some new tools, but the whole thing is going to take hundreds of hours to get completed, and having to release videos every three weeks really slows progress down. I’ve been tempted to start releasing a video every four weeks to give myself a bit more time to focus on quality and uniqueness, but we’ll see if I make the change anytime soon haha. Thanks a lot for watching!
@@randomrestoration6858 Thanks for replying. Whatever you choose to do in the future, don't rush your releases. Your restorations are fantastic, and I would hate to see a drop in quality because you were rushed.
I'll look forward to your next one.
@@The_Shiny_Red_Dingus_of_Mingus Thanks again, David!
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Thanks for the like, Chris!
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Thank you very much!
I don't know how to tell you this, but I think your cooking spray might be highly corrosive. You might want to check the expiration date on that.
Hahaha yeah the trick is that it has to be very expired. I don’t think it’d be the best to use in pans. Thanks a lot for watching!
Liked the rusty version more. Just kidding. Nice job
Haha hey thanks a lot, Jan!
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Большое спасибо!
Use MC51 rush remover
Haha I’ve been very happy with Evapo-Rust - I’ve had the same five gallon bucket for probably a year and a half now and it’s still surprising efficient at removing rust haha. Thanks a lot for watching, Diego!
@@randomrestoration6858 ok i love your all videos
@@diegodikdika6778 Hey I appreciate it!
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Thanks a lot!
0:31 weird beginning.
Hahaha just the way I like it. Thanks a lot for watching!
Would you restore an old weigh scale for me?
I do appreciate the offer, Teresa, but for now at least I have to focus on the outrageous number of projects I already have. Sorry! I may start taking on projects from viewers in the future, but it'll probably be a while before I do. Thanks a lot for watching!
Much better without the lacquer
Hey thanks a lot, Katrina!