I was a telephone repairman during the 70s , 80s and 90s. This was quite interesting!

@frederichrecinski4616

2 жыл бұрын

punchion, Déjà dans ces années là, c'était des téléphones en plastique avec quelques pièces encore en bakélite. PAS EN BOIS !!

@MrCedarapffel

2 жыл бұрын

So this phone can never actually be used?

@CleveIndians

2 жыл бұрын

Ha!! No you werent Punchion . Trying to one up the guy who restored the phone? You sicken me pal!!

@punchion

2 жыл бұрын

@@CleveIndians I was a repairman in Canada you dolt! Who the hell do you think you are! All I said was that I found the video interesting. And I'm not your pal!

@CleveIndians

2 жыл бұрын

@@punchionI dont know you so I assumed you knew it was a joke...relax

Amazing to believe that this was once the absolute height of technology - thank you so much for extending the life of this fantastic device!

Oh all the conversations that have been spoken through this marvel. I wonder the same about my own antique telephone sometimes, but that one is not nearly that old, only about 50

Nice, nice! With patina! No paint, no shiny metal!

a friend of mine still remembers his ringtone from these phones when he grew up in a small town that still had these phones .

I have a book from 1913 about telephony. After looking at that you could build a telephone company from spare bits and chewing gum!

what, no sand blasting, no vinegar, no filing? This is the best channel i have found yet.

You HAVE to call Mr Carlson's Lab with it!

I like imagining he actually uses this from time to time to call his friends.

I'm 72, from Ohio USA. My dad was the only lineman during WWII in a large, rural area. He bright all kinds of old and interesting items home to play with. We had 2 old crank phones, and a couple Frankenstein. Thanks for the memories!!

@patrickfrawley6656

2 ай бұрын

Look, everybody it's Mayberry r.f.d Of communications

The days before plastic. Well, maybe bake light, but every piece is made of such quality. No wonder it’s still fixable after 100 years.

I remember as a kid when my uncle found a magneto similar to this one in a scrapyard and brought it home. We attached two wires and some brass tubing to it and used it to drive earthworms up for fishing bait. LOL Good memories and a great restoration job.

My grandma and grandpa had one of these wooden box phones. I remember it. I think I was four or five years old at the time.

I remember using one of these until I was a teenage. Mind you, it was only connected to the neighbors farm that was located 1/4 mile away. It was a great aunt. She alwayed picked up, and it was fascinating to us as kids. I'm 63 yrs. old.

I'd love to see it working, & the process of giving it new power.

I’ve always been great at taking things apart, I can just never get them back together lol.

So THATS where the term ‘bars’ came from! I never thought about that before! That’s so neat!

I just discovered your video on this restoration and then watched the video of the typewriter. I don't know which is more amazing. Great job and heartwarming to see old technology brought back to life. God Bless what you do!

Stromberg Carlson old American 4/5 radios are still going strong today with channels restoring them. Good strong stuff.

Used one of these many times on Grandma's farm, dang party line lol.

Had a system of these set up among family members and outbuildings when I was a kid. Used electric fence wire and trees I cut for poles. Used it until the telephone company finally did away with the party lines.

Maybe now you and LADB Restoration can have a phone call... Lovely restoration!

Interesting. Sitting here listening to this with a pair of Stromberg Carlson "Stereo 60" tube amps from around 1961.

I remember my Grandma having a phone similar to this model when I was as young as 4 years old. Im 59 now. So that would have been around 1967. Hudson Kansas kept using them into the 1960's and early 1970's when I was still a child. I had to stand on a kitchen chair in the livingroom to reach near the mouth piece. LOL Hudson only had a population of a few hundred people. The town is still active today with the flour mill and one cafe being the only businesses left. I remember talking to my Mother on this type of phone when I'd stay at my Grandmother's home in Hudson. They worked just fine to a child back then. I really enjoyed watching your video upload. It brought back lots of great memories. Thank you very much! 🤗

I like projects like these, it really puts how far technology has advanced into perspective. Beautiful restoration. I must admit that I'm impressed you found one of these phones with nearly all the original parts.

@BGRestore

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much! We enjoy working on these types of older technologies, more unique projects coming soon!

@grandmasmagic3858

2 жыл бұрын

did you restore it to working order or just to be a decoration on the wall @@BGRestore, though I suppose with our modern ech it wouldn't be compatible anymore..

@stevejohnson1685

2 жыл бұрын

While the manufacturing processes have been hugely refined over the decades, it's pretty amazing to me that the fundamental technology, and its interfaces, remain compatible for 120 years. Also, can you envision the survival, and functioning, of your iPhone until 2140?

@PrometheusV

2 жыл бұрын

@@stevejohnson1685 Well, my Nokia will be found by Aliens when we are long extinct :) And it will have 2 bars of battery left

@warthogA10

2 жыл бұрын

@@PrometheusV and no signal bars... Good as new 👍 🤣

I remember seeing a similar style phone that was modified. The area under the shelf was actually boxed in and part of the shelf was hinged allowing the shelf to lift up exposing a DTMF pad and where below was hidden the telephone network allowing the phone to work on modern lines. The magneto had been removed replaced by a false handle that could turn. The area where the magneto and the batteries once were housed was modified by removing the shelf allowing one to store a small personal telephone book. Can you imagine sitting in an old kitchen during a thunder storm and looking up at the phone to catch sparks flying between the lightning arrestor contacts caused by a nearby strike or static buildup. This was an interesting video showing how man used what technology and materials he had available to him to provide a useful tool.

I've never seen the inner workings of a telephone from so long ago. Quite impressive and humbling to boot. Thank you for sharing!

I am on a POTS repair NOC Team for my work and I find stuff like this fascinating. Thanks for putting this up.

Nice honest resto. Glad you didn't go crazy on the wood.

Beautiful work. My grandparents had one until it was smashed to bits by a lightning storm one afternoon. Exploded it all over the room (1948). 30 years later I build a replica, after finding a pair of the bells. I still have it as a door bell in my front hallway. Thank you for the video.

I love old telephones like that

We're all watching this on devices that will never be as beautiful and durable as this.

After all this time, we still associate phone signal strength with the number of bars we have as a holdover from when this phone was introduced. Thank y'all for such an amazing video and especially the restoration of a piece of history. What is funny to me is that my grandmother still used her phone when I was a kid (70s). Operators and designations (instead of area codes) were disappearing in our area when I was a kid. Wow... Times have changed more than I thought, looking back.

Beautiful. Amazing and beautiful

I started working For Western electric in 1966 we fixed up quarterfew of these, It took me many years to find a Western electric Wall phone in an old barn , And a candlestick with a subset in a falling down shed, Love your work waiting for more, Take care!!!

I subscribed as soon as I saw you superimpose the missing shelf as a wireframe into the video. Well done

@BGRestore

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed, reading your comment made it worth the effort 😂 Thanks for subscribing!

Love the way you showed what was supposed to be there for the shelf, even tho the vid is 10 months old

Excellent metal work restoration. I have a 1908 Ericsson "Commonwealth" walnut phone with an ear/mic. handpiece. It was used on our sheep & cattle station until about 1960. Your illustrated data shows the "earth return" system which can be used instead of two wires; as the name implies, the ground makes up half the circuit - in our situation this was for one mile distance to the other homestead on the property. Many find this hard to believe since the two batteries only provide 3 volts but the transformer boosts the 'alternating voice current' enough to overcome the resistance of the earth! Regards.

I'm most impressed by the fact that it still had that small spanner with it.

That was so incredibly cool.

Somewhere in my shop, I have just the reciever... Would have been good to donate it to the project. Well done!

Back when almost everything came in a wood, or metal box! Nowadays, everything is plastic! I remember seeing this type of telephone on Lassie back in the day, although I've never used one. Great restoration!

Am I the only one getting anxiety watching him take this apart!? Lol. The amount of knowledge and skill you have is absolutely amazing, these phones are very rare and to restore one to new is amazing

I remember using one of these b4 at a family members house 🤣😅

That telephone takes me back a few decades. My Great-grandfather, in the mid-1960's, still had one of those in his little country store (very rural NC). How rural? Wood stove for heating, oil lamps for lighting. Thanks for the fond memories of days gone by. Nicely done restoration. I just found your channel as this was a recommended video for YT. 🙂

@georgeshelton6281

Жыл бұрын

I already realized it so of, just how different; our telephones were built/constructed. ☎️ 📲 📴 📞 📵 📳 ☎️

@brianbaratheon

Жыл бұрын

Was it one of those stores where people would come in and tell the clerk what they wanted, and the clerk would go in the back and get everything for the customer?

@mskayla7747

Жыл бұрын

@@brianbaratheon no, not unless they were getting meats/cheeses to be sliced, or flour/sugar to be weighed.

@DangerousMoonwalkerOfficial

Жыл бұрын

Might I ask what part of North Carolina because my family originated from the Newton Grove/Clinton area

@georgeshelton6281

Жыл бұрын

@Dangerous Moonwalker Of what I first didn't know about David Graue is that: he was a Flat Rock North Carolina resident. Regarding what was first unknown to me. It's just that I've already looked at and read, most of his early black and white comic strip series. Most of his early works were created during the entire 1970s. It's this era in particular. ⚫️ 🐈‍⬛️ ◼️ ⬛️ ♟️ ▪️ ⚫️ 😳

I’m interested in learning more about that century

Wow!!! Fantastic. 👍

Now That's Amazing! This phone was created in 1900s, And used during British Colony of Borneo Battle Squad.

The wax to seal wires was amazing. The project was so amazing. Thank you

Incredible amount of parts.

When I was a kid in the 50s and 60s, we had friends on a farm who still used a phone much like this. I loved it. Still do.

Lol my kid just said to me "Marie Poppins phone!" Great job!

It's a good thing you restored this phone, I've been trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty!

Surely its audio is better than a modern smartphone... and beautiful

The restoration craftsmanship sometimes rivals the original work! Well done!

@BGRestore

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much, we appreciate it!

Covering the bare wires with wax was something I didn't anticipate!

@BGRestore

2 жыл бұрын

It's interesting to see how they insulated wires to use before rubber :)

What talent! And what a BEAUTIFUL piece of Americana!! 🇺🇸☮️♥️

My dad bought a brand new Stromberg Carlson stereo sound sistem back in the 1980's. Just by readint the brand of the phone many memories have came back to my mind 😞😞. My dad passed away nine years ago, thanks for making me remember him. Oh, btw, excelent restoration 😊.

I love old phones. I don't have a wall phone yet

Part of the original "5G" network. Nothing could spread information faster that five grandmothers on a party line.

I love looking at antique machinery. So advanced for the times back then. But so primitive for modern times. It fascinates me.

Don’t forget the “ole phone book 📕 too!” 🤣💖

@BGRestore

2 жыл бұрын

😂

"gold gilding" made me laugh, sorry 🤣🤣

0:08 That's one surprised looking telephone 😮

My great grandparents had a phone like this in their home up until their passing in their 90’s. As far as I know it was still there when the house was sold. Seeing this brought me happy memories of them ❤️

I loved that this type of phone is still around, even if they are not currently connected. I have only seen these in black and white movies, never seen one in my life. Who knows someday, we may be needing these again, and it's great to know there are people out there that knows how they work, like B&G Restore. Great Video.

@ronalddaub9740

2 ай бұрын

There's a group of people I watched last night talk on phones just like that with the correct switch boards and everything. Including operators

Back from the days of when the phone company actually came by to oil your phone.

I like how you guys give us history lessons along the project, so us the audience can learn while enjoying the restoration.

Ooo man got tears in my eyes my great Granny used to had this model really thankyou for restoring this

Whenever I see these kinds of phones, I think of the phone in Splatoon 2 DLC, aka the Octo expansion and I go like “that phone, that damn phone.”

So cool to see that a phone from two fellow swedish guys gets to live on. I wish i had that one. Really beautiful work

I can tell you as a vampire this was the best time to be kind of alive. You had the ability to call someone halfway across the world, and you weren’t always being watched or listened to. I ate wonderfully back then.

B&G Restore my darlings, it’s incredible to see a telephone from the past. When I was a small child occasionally I saw one of these telephones. The memories that are connected with the phone are stored in my head forever. Thank you for allowing me to remember those days from the past. Take care and stay safe 🌹😇🌈🌞👍🎈🕊🇺🇸❤️🙏

I love my old phones. As long as the elements are working you can hook it to the system and it will work. Well answering anyways. My boys loved answering the phone with mine. I need to get it out and hook it back up. I have a nice little collection and still enjoy using them. Especially my old rotary units. Great video and awesome work.

@hecateblackwater7589

Жыл бұрын

That sounds SO cool! Maybe you should set up an old phone museum kind of thing!

Europeans are truly an amazing people. The mind it takes to create something like this is incredible.

Wooow. Very nice Restoraiton Job.👌👍👍 Wonderful Antik 130 years old Telephone. My Favorite the Antic/Old Objects.❤💓💓

I love the constant look of distress on its eyes.

Totally enjoyable! I just wish you had one or two others so they could be connected and function. Nice videography, great detail and pacing. Thanks so much for posting this!

@BGRestore

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much, that means a lot! We're planning to have a future videos with more telephones, so stay tuned :)

Beautifully done

Lovely. I like how you cleaned all the original parts and no expensive machinery to get it done.

Wonderful Job!

Truly fascinating... in just 120 years we made a giant jump in telephone development! To imagine that this device was the latest state of technology at that time -- mind- blowing, simply mindblowing...

@nickr1184

Жыл бұрын

Imagine it took half that time from first flight to a trip to the moon.

@Reinhard_G.1965

Жыл бұрын

@@nickr1184 > Even more incredible, indeed; and also the technical development in general -- in the last century we've made more progress than the whole millenium before!

Brilliant stuff. The iPhone of its time. Thanks for sharing the rebuild and restoration.

And there were real operators back then, too. But you would not nickel plate them, today, OSHA and all that working conditions. Thanks for the nostalgic look back. Respectfully, NHG

Very nice restoration. The thing that really stands out is how tight the grain is on the original wood compared to the new wood used for the shelf. It probably would have taken old-growth lumber to even come close.

Very nice restoration, only the old wiring i would like to see replaced.

I have a 1890's Western Electric Double box with the original dry batteries from 1905. This video is going to get me starting to restore mine!

Well done!

I'm so blown away by this restoration. I have been so curious about how these worked. Thank you for this video and thank you for sharing such an amazing piece of history with us. I look forward to many more amazing projects you all come up with.

It would be fun if you had a couple of neighbors with these phones and you had a private telephone system or had a couple in the house upstars and down stairs or one in a garage and use it to call as a novelty piece.

Very impressive restoration. I have done several, neither as in depth as yours. I removed all components and polished then clear coated everything plated and repainted what was black. Then refinished the wood and reassembled. While my restorations looked beautiful, sadly I lost the ring. On one phone I was very pleased to see the internal part of the ear piece date stamped 1909. Very labor intensive job restoring one of these phones, definitely a labor of love, but worth it if you love them!

I just love these antiques restoration videos. Time very well invested. Thank you for your videos. 🙏🏼

@BGRestore

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you like them, our pleasure! :)

I enjoyed this very much

I just know about an unique device from Stromberg Carlson brand, but that telephone is amazing....

Excellent Job ¡¡¡ I enjoyed it a lot ¡¡¡ Thank you ¡¡¡

good for antique shops only !

Very nice job, thanks for sharing

what a great phone

Opening such history boxes shouldn't be without a ceremony

Great job, though I would have used quarter sawn oak on the shelf in order to match the rest of the wood. It is nice to see these old phones restored.