Nice. I wonder how well a classic SIG would have handled that. With the aluminum frame, I'll bet a W. German 226 frame would have been ok, but the slide and breech block would have likely not done so well. I'd be curious about the other parts as well.

Since many of these gun restoration videos are supposedly faked, do we think this one is real? The internals definitely look rusted, especially the barrel.

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Originally posted by aparoche:
Since many of these gun restoration videos are supposedly faked, do we think this one is real?

Yes, we do. I am aware of the fake restorations, and I loathe those who publish that stuff. This fellow, though, is not one of them:



Interesting story this fellow has:

"I'm David and welcome to Deathproof Productions. I'm a certified Harley Davidson mechanic, certified welder, certified millwright, a gunsmith, and a fine connoisseur of good-ass beer. With this channel I plan to pass on my 27+ years of experience wrenching on bikes, fabricating, reloading, shooting, and riding.
In 2014 I wrecked on my Heritage Softail without a helmet that left me with a severe TBI that affects my ability to consistently form new memories. Back in 2021, it occurred to me that after I have worked on a project I should keep a log of what was done. So I would have something to reference. After mentioning this to one of my sons he said "Well Dad, I know how to edit so we could just film it and put it on youtube and you could reference that. Plus it might be a way to help others."
So if you like bikes, guns, cinematic tutorials, and restoring old Harley's then consider Subscribing."

Cool video.

It's interesting that he detail stripped the FCU yet didn't fully disassemble the slide. There are more metal parts within, and further crevices to hold rust and silt. Stuff like the striker assembly and its channel, and the striker safety and spring and their hole. The optic plate cover is likely also hiding more corrosion underneath as well.

And he also seemed to skip the magazine release. The mag release itself is polymer and it sits inside a polymer grip, but there's a steel spring inside which likely is rusted as well. Plus the channel could be packed with silt.

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He prolly did it right and just didn’t show the plate removal and the mag button and spring

Very cool, thanks for sharing. It definitely is a lot cooler knowing it isn’t a faked video like many of them.

In an effort to truly understand all the parts of a pistol, I have completely detail stripped many models from a 1911 to the P365 FCU. It sure is amazing how much easier Sig made it with their little FCU!

All coolness to the restoration videos aside...polymer guns now means we have about 400 years before plastic parts break down. way easier restoration videos for the next 16 generations.

I tend to have the "kinzler bros" in my feeds, are their restoration videos fake?

Most restoration channels that feature firearms are fake or at least heavily padded. They have to have a constant stream of rusty guns in order to keep publishing content. It seems unlikely that they would have new "rusted" guns all the time, doesn't it?

When we say 'fake' we are talking about subjecting guns to accelerated corrosion. As the guy says in the video above, if you don't care about that, and simply find it relaxing to see corrosion being removed, and the sounds of rust remover being poured in a pan, etc. (the 'ASMR aspect of these videos), there's nothing wrong with that but for me, I find it silly to artificially rust any object and then remove that rust. It's all for youtube traffic.

Now, that P365- take a look at that barrel. That's not artificially accelerated rusting. That gun lay submerged for a long time to get like that. That's real.

While he does not present in the ASMR format, Mark Novak offers excellent conservation, repair & restoration videos on his YouTube channel. Attached is one example featuring an 1898 Mauser.

Heck, a lot of those "gun" derusting videos, the gun itself is a fake, Airsoft or total dummy.

I recently saw a picture of a badly rusted Luger that had been cleaned up and repaired.