NOTICE: This was an April fools joke, to those who watch regularly it makes sense. If you don't normally watch this channel, welcome aboard. You might learn something.....Just Sayin
@Robert Taylor I'm personal friends with Mark. He's got family photos from way back that show him with one white eyebrow. Thus, the joke about chemicals that would turn your other eyebrow white.
"But that fake ass guy with the cool music and rubber gloves could fix it with a toothbrush, and cold blue etc..." we've all seen the bullshit videos. Countless thanks to Mark and the team for all your actual hard work and sharing such priceless knowledge for the next generation of gunsmiths. And happy April fool's
I love how Mark subtlety increased the ridiculous. I mean, at first I was very skeptical. But about half way through I was like, this has to be a joke, right? And then came the checkering thing and I was finally sure.
Mr Novak : repeatedly hits fore-end with a hammer. ... Also Mr Novak : "There seems to have been a pre-existing flaw in the wood that caused it to crack." Hmmm...
I was becoming very, very confused. The part about the customer wanting you preserve the patina on the choke tubes was a big "WTF?" moment. Like, what patina? And why are the choke tubes so important to preserve anyway? My biggest "WTF?" moment was seeing the wire wheel used on the action. I was appalled! Shelton stalls out the wire wheel trying to clear the screw head, and you look on with approval. "You think maybe we need a more powerful grinding wheel?" No! Oh god, no! Surely not! The WTFery in this video really had me going. "So here we have an amazingly recreated shotgun. It's completely done and filmed in broad daylight so you can see all of its hues and colors." Ha ha, now I get it, and I know there are countless hints I missed because I'm not well-versed in all this stuff.
beautiful patina on that one, it's almost a shame to disturb it. Maybe you should have just hung it on the wall under a sign saying "NO!" just so you can point at it when a real basket-case comes through the shop.
1) Spray rusting agent on new gun. 2) Start filming "restoration video". 3) Attempt to cycle action to demonstrate damage. 4) Hammer pins and components apart (usually sped up with mice vocals). 5) Grind or soak components in evaporust. 6) Reassemble. 7) Shoot with gloves on. 8) Much TH-cam profit and gunsmith learning.
I'm watching this well after April Fool's and I have to say Mark, my opinion of you is so high that I thought it was legit until the very end. 😂 You're a magician, so can you blame me? Lol.
Damn you Mark novak you made me piss myself laughing you my man have caught all the hack "Restorers" of firearms on youtube and made fun of everyone of them. Your the best LOL
Kroil is the best!!! Any product where the warnings on the can take up more space than any branding or product info and comes with an MSDS is good for me. I swear by the stuff.
Haha! Good parody of all the rusted relic rehabs on TH-cam! All that gun needed was the wood replaced and a new receiver. Of course, a new set of barrels also goes without saying. In other words, there was nothing worth saving.
To the haters: Mark is a master. Watched all his videos, starting when I was still in the Army, and it really helped me out as a gunsmith just 3 years in now. Also, you're mad at a dude who simply doesn't care that you're mad haha. Considering his body of work on TH-cam, and all the knowledge he has, and all the work he's put into passing along that knowledge and experience -if you don't like it, go take your shitshow somewhere else. Or not, nobody really cares what you guys do.
Nice video brother thanks, I enjoy your sense of humour and have respect for taking on an apprentice 😂 without people like you willing to teach the younger generation the skills and knowledge you’ve taken a lifetime to Aquire would be lost forever
@@marknovak8255 i applaud you that’s very honourable Mark, I’ve watched the school kids videos with the model planes and running a turbo jet, I absolutely loved that they were so intrigued and have to ask were you ever a teacher or educator? I know you said you worked on subs in one video and just wanted to know a little history
Laughing my ass off! Original owner will have it listed for sale online asking $12K "Original rust blued! Don't try to low ball me, I know what I got!" 🤑🤣😂🤣
Mark, I have found a very rare German 88mm grenade. Unfortunately it exploded at some time, but I managed to find all the shrapnels! Can I send it over to you to get it back in pristine condition?
Oof, i used to work for a Beretta importer, luckily the 686 doesnt use the fanciest wood. also you should have used an angle grinder or pneumatic needle gun on the receiver, thats what all the professional youtube "restorers" use.
Thought from the start it would be an April fools joke lol. Still want to get you to refresh my Sweet 16. She has been in the family since new and thats been easily over 60 years.
LMFAO!!! The sad thing is I have had customers bring me a job like that AND think it should be around a hundred bucks to do. Nope, not gonna touch it, sorry not sorry!!
NOTICE: This was an April fools joke, to those who watch regularly it makes sense. If you don't normally watch this channel, welcome aboard. You might learn something.....Just Sayin
A fantastic dig at the “restoration” clickbait videos
I honestly thought that you had gone too far down the rabbit hole.
"Back when they made chemicals that'd turn your other eyebrow white." 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@Robert Taylor I'm personal friends with Mark. He's got family photos from way back that show him with one white eyebrow.
Thus, the joke about chemicals that would turn your other eyebrow white.
@Robert Taylor bleach perhaps
@@TatsukiHashida Closer every day to an Albino genesis than you* or most ever will be 🎉
Eyebrows are optional.
Yeah that gag had me spewing my lifer juice acrossed the kitchen gotta love Mark and his 1/8 of a ton of pure gold antics.
Just about died laughing when he said, "recover the choke tubes without messing up the patina."
The moment you looked inside and said, light surface rust, I hoped I'd found someone to buy my Alfa Romeo.
"But that fake ass guy with the cool music and rubber gloves could fix it with a toothbrush, and cold blue etc..." we've all seen the bullshit videos.
Countless thanks to Mark and the team for all your actual hard work and sharing such priceless knowledge for the next generation of gunsmiths.
And happy April fool's
... when the April 1st video posts early ...
Aren't you worried that finger oils might damage the finish? It probably could've been salvaged if you were wearing gloves.
Definitely gloves, but only cellulose ones. None of that cotton garbage.
I love how Mark subtlety increased the ridiculous. I mean, at first I was very skeptical. But about half way through I was like, this has to be a joke, right? And then came the checkering thing and I was finally sure.
Should've posted this on April 1st 🤪
Truly a gun that was lost in a tragic boating accident.
Too early, April Fools is two days away. You just cannot fool all the people all the time.
Two months early with your April Fool's day video?😀
Mark texted me pics a couple weeks ago. No April Fools joke. 🤣🤣
Shoulda waited till Sat. (April 1) to release this.😀 You had me
I wondered what the Hell you were doing until I remembered tomorrow's date....well done!
This was actually pretty hilarious
And it took me longer to realize it was satire than I would care to admit
Yep me too watched it in its entirety to get the punchline.
Hell the way Mark works he can take a turd and polish it into Damascus
Repairing a firearm in this condition is surprisingly easy. Simply throw it away and buy a new one.
Laughed the whole way through!
The real joke is that Mark actually fixes the gun. That video will come out on April 1st
I'm beginning to think that the Grand Carbon Based Lifeform is getting a bit irritated by the youtubers that are "restoring" globs of rust.
I have a feeling this was supposed to be scheduled for Saturday
Ha, a weapon that ACTUALLY got lost boating. Nice Mark, real nice.
Mr Novak : repeatedly hits fore-end with a hammer.
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Also Mr Novak : "There seems to have been a pre-existing flaw in the wood that caused it to crack."
Hmmm...
Mark's so darn good that he turned a rusted out Beretta into a beautiful blued Browning!!! AMAZING!!!!!!!!!
I was becoming very, very confused.
The part about the customer wanting you preserve the patina on the choke tubes was a big "WTF?" moment. Like, what patina? And why are the choke tubes so important to preserve anyway?
My biggest "WTF?" moment was seeing the wire wheel used on the action. I was appalled! Shelton stalls out the wire wheel trying to clear the screw head, and you look on with approval. "You think maybe we need a more powerful grinding wheel?" No! Oh god, no! Surely not!
The WTFery in this video really had me going.
"So here we have an amazingly recreated shotgun. It's completely done and filmed in broad daylight so you can see all of its hues and colors."
Ha ha, now I get it, and I know there are countless hints I missed because I'm not well-versed in all this stuff.
Gunbroker listing - "RARE. Only used 1 season. Blueing shows 98.7%." *Has Reserve*
You know April 1st is tomorrow, not today.
beautiful patina on that one, it's almost a shame to disturb it.
Maybe you should have just hung it on the wall under a sign saying "NO!" just so you can point at it when a real basket-case comes through the shop.
Are you now doing the hopelessly rusty restoration videos? I'll bet if you boil it about 10 minutes 95% of the blued finish will come back!
No, no we are not. Just sayin........................
1) Spray rusting agent on new gun.
2) Start filming "restoration video".
3) Attempt to cycle action to demonstrate damage.
4) Hammer pins and components apart (usually sped up with mice vocals).
5) Grind or soak components in evaporust.
6) Reassemble.
7) Shoot with gloves on.
8) Much TH-cam profit and gunsmith learning.
This was posted two days too early it seams.
The first few seconds of looking at that weapon I thought, Mark isn't Jesus and that shotgun isn't Lazarus...
That took longer to realise than id like to admit. My excuse is this Video was uploaded on March 31. in MY timezone.
Further proof that guns are frequently lost in boating accidents
😂🤣😂
You’re two days early with this video!!!
From now on I am ending all my remote meetings with the phrase: "CARBON BASED LIFEFORM SIGNING OFF!"
OUTSTANDING
You know you're pushing hard enough when you stall the wire wheel.
I'm watching this well after April Fool's and I have to say Mark, my opinion of you is so high that I thought it was legit until the very end. 😂 You're a magician, so can you blame me? Lol.
I was thinking the same thing, Mark is a master wizard in his trade.
Gundalf the Greased.
Mark trolling a 12 min video is legit what I stay for😂
Damn you Mark novak you made me piss myself laughing you my man have caught all the hack "Restorers" of firearms on youtube and made fun of everyone of them. Your the best LOL
APRIL FOOL!!!
Happy April Fools to you too Mark.
aren't we a couple days early for this?
I would not have guessed it was only in the water 6 months. Looked more like a couple of years.
looked like the underside of a 15 year old automobile from the rust belt
"There seems to have been a preexisting flaw" will be my new excuse.
But I thought you were going to get the choke tubes out.
Somebody must have pissed you off when they asked you to restore that rusty relic, or did April come early.
but they restore on youtube all the time
Ha ha! I get it! This is a send up of all the fake “restoration videos” on TH-cam. Nice done.
April 1st came a bit early this year 😁
I was hoping he would carry it through till the end, like some of the other "restoration" channels
I'm still crying from laughter! That's not rusted through the barrel, that' a Maryland Magnaport!
Bit early for April fools don't cha think?
Absolute best April Fool’s video I’ve seen. Thanks for the laugh.
This dropped two days early 😂
Kroil is the best!!! Any product where the warnings on the can take up more space than any branding or product info and comes with an MSDS is good for me. I swear by the stuff.
+1 on that. I use it all the time in industrial maintenance and repair. Great stuff.
When I saw the apprentice working on it I knew it was a joke.
Thought this was an April fools joke a few days early.
Once you took it to the wire wheel, I knew something was up. But shouldn’t this have been released tomorrow.
Haha! Good parody of all the rusted relic rehabs on TH-cam! All that gun needed was the wood replaced and a new receiver. Of course, a new set of barrels also goes without saying.
In other words, there was nothing worth saving.
Now the ATF will know guns can be recovered from boating acidents. Noooo!
To the haters: Mark is a master. Watched all his videos, starting when I was still in the Army, and it really helped me out as a gunsmith just 3 years in now. Also, you're mad at a dude who simply doesn't care that you're mad haha. Considering his body of work on TH-cam, and all the knowledge he has, and all the work he's put into passing along that knowledge and experience -if you don't like it, go take your shitshow somewhere else. Or not, nobody really cares what you guys do.
JFC Marks dry humor is top notch.
"Storing your firearms in salt water remember to store them muzzle down". 😂😂
That’s what the cops in New Orleans did with confiscated firearms during Hurricane Katrina. Well, the salt water part, anyway.
Nice video brother thanks, I enjoy your sense of humour and have respect for taking on an apprentice 😂 without people like you willing to teach the younger generation the skills and knowledge you’ve taken a lifetime to Aquire would be lost forever
Sheldon is apprentice number 17 in 30 years
@@marknovak8255 i applaud you that’s very honourable Mark, I’ve watched the school kids videos with the model planes and running a turbo jet, I absolutely loved that they were so intrigued and have to ask were you ever a teacher or educator? I know you said you worked on subs in one video and just wanted to know a little history
@@BESHYSBEES Taught Mechatronics at the High School for 4 years.
"...light surface rust..." 🤪
Meanwhile I'm the background making a matchlock through all those shenanigans 😂
You need a sponsor get that Cigar Company to sponsor you
A few days early for an April fools post...
Mark, with that level of deceit you really would be an asset to the current regime.
Expect phone calls. 🤣
Would've made a good April 1st episode.😁
April Fools a tad early 😄😄😄
April 1st - Comes Early, Stay Safe...
“We’ll just solder that later….”
Laughing my ass off! Original owner will have it listed for sale online asking $12K "Original rust blued! Don't try to low ball me, I know what I got!" 🤑🤣😂🤣
i love the acting, you guys were really selling it for a while there. I was laughing. Great vid!
Mark, I have found a very rare German 88mm grenade. Unfortunately it exploded at some time, but I managed to find all the shrapnels! Can I send it over to you to get it back in pristine condition?
The skill of using a big ball pien gently isn't taught anymore
I spent this whole video saying there's no way😂😂😂 Mark your bloody carbon based legend 🍻
Water based oils seem to be out of stock nowadays
Oof, i used to work for a Beretta importer, luckily the 686 doesnt use the fanciest wood. also you should have used an angle grinder or pneumatic needle gun on the receiver, thats what all the professional youtube "restorers" use.
Nice little shot across the bows, on some the Utube gun restoration videos! 😂
Looked like a Stoeger... if so, it wasn't "dropped" overboard, it was thrown! Should make an excellent tomato stake! 😂
Shouldn't this episode have been released on April 1st?
You had us in the first...um....16 seconds, and then we knew it was a ruse.
Thought from the start it would be an April fools joke lol. Still want to get you to refresh my Sweet 16. She has been in the family since new and thats been easily over 60 years.
Saltwater Gunmites are voracious eaters. If left undisturbed, a colony can consume up to three pounds of gun in just one year.
"Do you honestly believe"
..Wat
Oh right, I'm catching up a few days after
Hilarious. Loved every minute of it.
Nothing beats the magical repairing hammer. Polished urethane hammer faces!
You know it is from Maryland by how similar the rust is in color to Old Bay
LMFAO!!! The sad thing is I have had customers bring me a job like that AND think it should be around a hundred bucks to do. Nope, not gonna touch it, sorry not sorry!!
I got to7 minutes before I figured it out 😂😂😂
Shouldn’t the video have been released tomorrow morning? lol
I like this honest style of restoration video...but could you save the chokes?
Any repair that starts with Percussive Maintenance has my attention.
Only a hammer with an extra fine polish job will fix that thing. 😂
Thanks for the content, guys. 🤙🏽
And I was SURE this was serious.
He's so good he had me fooled until he splintered the fore end. . .
...and you did that whole 12 minutes with a straight face, until the end...you're tha best...
I'm surprised you don't have like a 50 gallon fish tank filled with kroil just to soak those types of jobs in for a while.
If you have a few thousand dollars to drop on buying him a 55-gallon drum, I am sure he would appreciate the donation!
A bit of detritus... Solder on a new barrel. Awesome stuff. Thanks for the video Mark.
Yo it's not April 1st yet
Doing it on the day of is too obvious. 😉
"Looks like we turned this into an acryglas video" ! 🤣