The fact that he doesn't do shady things like make a piece of equipment dirtier before working on it (looking at you, rug cleaning videos) or pull any other shenanigans is very underappreciated around here. He has legit skill and talent, he is legit creative. No clickbait titles or thumbnails. This guy is solid in my book.

@Happy357mag

5 ай бұрын

He really is the best on KZread. I tried watching others but they fake so much. The way I see it, it's not a restoration if they did the damage themselves just to make a crappy resto video.

@FuccoTheClown

5 ай бұрын

i would die if he did a skit with him pretending to rustify something and got busted by the forbidden nutella

@jp18449

5 ай бұрын

Agreed! No shitty music, no "hahaha look how hard I can hit this with my hammer". Just a man doing something he does well and sharing it with the internet.

@BarafuAlbino

5 ай бұрын

Somehow it is not easy to find items that fit, that are neither trivial to repair (and basically require a power wash), nor so far gone that you will essentially be making a new item while looking at the remains of old one.

@bayadere8308

5 ай бұрын

...or wandering aimlessly along the jungle path, only to come across an extremely rusted chainsaw which has somehow pitched up in a tree. (Also of course, being followed by an equally aimless, yet propitious, cameraman.)

Years on and you still do the best and most unusual restorations on utube.

@bambambundy6

5 ай бұрын

That is no kidding. He must have large network to get ahold of some of this stuff.

@powertoolsrepair

5 ай бұрын

I agree

Let's all appreciate the fact that there is no uncessary music, just a man renovating a tool. That's all you really need.

@DownhillAllTheWay

Ай бұрын

*YES!!* The "no music" on a KZread channel is worth a lot!

I have been following HTR for years (before I discovered Jimmy Diresta or Pask Makes). HTR never fails to deliver and is one of my top 3 channels on KZread. I also appreciate the humor you bring to your work. It's a lot of fun to watch and I love your work!

@HandToolRescue

5 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@CaptainTwitchy

5 ай бұрын

I was his first subscriber, almost 15 years ago. He’s still using the same jar of Nutella

@juanaq

5 ай бұрын

he got me with the head banging sandblasting. instant subscription.

I would have never guessed it was for making pockets in doors for knob/locks. That is amazing

@kindablue1959

5 ай бұрын

Giz-mortiser. I guess you need to know what a mortise is though.

@smartman123

Ай бұрын

not every body no that​@@kindablue1959

Wow! All new equipment! Sand blaster, solvent washer, painting booth/area, Evaporust, new shop facilities... You deserve it!

@perazeru9421

5 ай бұрын

that blowtorch welder was insane too

As a master locksmith, this is one of the coolest tools I have seen you restore. I have hand mortised my fair share of doors and when it comes to antique locking hardware, this would have been a game changer for some of my jobs. Great video! Love it!

@diditbreak

5 ай бұрын

Hmmm.. As a master locksmith myself, I'd like to say that this would be better used as a reference tool which shows how much harder things were in the past. LOL!

@shopshop144

5 ай бұрын

There are 'modern' versions of this type of mortiser made that come with either a router or an electric motor.

@fkutube933

5 ай бұрын

​@@shopshop144if its not a hammer a drill and a chisel youre as fumb as they were back in the victorian age when this monstrosity was invented.

@chrismayer3919

5 ай бұрын

I didn’t realize this mecha carved slots into doors for handle/lock systems. Gizmotiser; What an odd name for such a specialized device! 🤔

I appreciate the naturalness of the work scene no ridiculous music drowning out the sound of the tools or dramatic innovations, just the man his tools and his project.

@floridag8rfan

5 ай бұрын

When I first started watching his videos, the lack of narration was jarring. Now it's preferable. I wouldn't mind it, but since I'm mechanically minded and generally don't need things explained to me, talking over the whole thing isn't necessary. His hand gestures and occasional captions (and the very occasional howl of frustration) are plenty. Oh, and the thump as his forehead hits the window on the blast cabinet.

@normanbuchanan9710

5 ай бұрын

@@floridag8rfan OH yes the forehead on the window is epic 😂.

@sageDieuvids

5 ай бұрын

The man, the tools, his project, and one very horny cricket.

Aside from the amazing results of what you do, it's amazing that someone sat down and began thinking "if I put this here and if it turns this here, then this will....." All without a computer, other than maybe a slide rule.

@TheLegendsmith

5 ай бұрын

Yeah. Slide rules got us to the moon, they're so powerful.

@zephal

5 ай бұрын

@@TheLegendsmithalmost too powerful….

@rc-daily

5 ай бұрын

Necessity is the mother to every invention

@davidhelmuth6654

5 ай бұрын

I think this piece is pre slide rule! We got to the moon and built the SR-71 with a slide rule! 🤯😱

@mile13

5 ай бұрын

​@@davidhelmuth6654slide rules have been around since the mid 1600s! 🤯

As a former carpenter, I appreciate this tool.

@1BigBen

5 ай бұрын

looks like the mordent days equivalent for a drills is smaller, but with more manual input when it comes to depth and side to side movements. but I bet you could DIY portable cnc with inside of the formfactor of this tool. but cost justification analysis, would be on personal basis but this were cool tool for its time

@Julian_Hopf

5 ай бұрын

Ok jesus.

@HealingBlight

5 ай бұрын

Yes, he makes great videos.

@jp18449

5 ай бұрын

As a current nobody, I also appreciate this tool.

@erickleinwolterink3524

5 ай бұрын

You're never a former carpenter! 😊 Once and always.

It amazes me to think what the old timers came up with without the benefit of modern design technology. Machines like this that are both relatively simple and mechanical complex - somebody envisioned this machine in their head, sat down at a drafting table and drew it out, then developed casting patterns, machined it on far simpler machine tools, etc. Absolutely amazing.

@peacenow42

5 ай бұрын

The ancient tech that predated this was pretty amazing.

@Closechannel231

3 ай бұрын

And those tools were made to last a lifetime.

@peacenow42

3 ай бұрын

but that was when the average lifespan was much shorter@@Closechannel231

@DownhillAllTheWay

Ай бұрын

@@peacenow42... but here we are - a bit of TLC, and this machine is still working!

@peacenow42

Ай бұрын

and all one needs is our advanced knowledge and tools to make it so! Love these restorations.@@DownhillAllTheWay

Well Shucks! When I added on to my 1920s home I mortised all the doors by hand with spade bits and chisels. Took an extraordinarily long time. While it was "fun" and fulfilling, this machine would have been the tool my grand-carpenters would have reached for! I'm happy you restored and demonstrated this beauty!

The today price of a unit with all those castings would be outrageous! Great find and condition. Nice to find something like this that wasn't stored outside.

@LittleGreyWolfForge

5 ай бұрын

for real. I just restored my bench vice, and someone had taken an angle grinder and a chisel to the screw cover.🤦

@aaronshapiro2542

5 ай бұрын

Not only was this an amazing restoration of an incredible tool, It is making me feel a lot better about the price of the domino tennon tool I was looking at.

@chrthiel

5 ай бұрын

I doubt it would have been cheap back then either

@peacenow42

5 ай бұрын

and knowing how it was stored and how it was found would add so much to our delight.

I just smile every time I see the HTR opening 🎉

This is Fractal Vise level stuff You get the coolest, and the gizmoziest tools I ever seen on KZread. I can watch this this thing mortise doors for hours and hours. The thinking it had to take to make a tool like this in 1912 is mind boggling. Fun stuff. Thanks HTR

I love these old mechanisms. They have all the stuff you learn about in engineering, cams, cam followers, acme screws, rack and pinion, all types of bearings including babbit metal, etc.

The engineers that made this marvellous contraption would be very proud of you

Whenever I watch you restore an old piece of equipment, I’m amazed with the fact that someone thought and built this long before computers, and high tech machines to make the parts 🤔

@vadimbellous8313

5 ай бұрын

Yeah, and somehow how those tools were cheaper to produce then some of the garbage they come up with today

Very cool. You are unquestionably the world's greatest expert in Gizmology!

@d00dEEE

5 ай бұрын

A veritable Gizmaster.

@SteveJaeger

5 ай бұрын

Is it pronounced giz-mology or jiz-mology?

@KR-hg8be

5 ай бұрын

​@@d00dEEEthe gizmeister

@iteerrex8166

5 ай бұрын

Which makes him a Gizmologist lol

@ColdArbor

5 ай бұрын

the foremost expert in gismotology! @@iteerrex8166

So pleasant to see someone repairing cracks in cast iron correctly. Thank you.

Love your trade, my friend!! Your videos are one of the few I click "like" before I watch it. It was great to see another project from Ohio. Much love and respect for your channel!!

I appreciate that when you dismantle something, you just take it apart normally . You don't treat every screw, pin, gear and whatnot like its a priceless artifact made out of glass. To me, that just makes it slow and boring. Keep up the good work!

@TheCoffeehound

5 ай бұрын

I know exactly the thing you're talking about! Those channels drive me up the wall.

@nortyfiner

5 ай бұрын

I remember some of my Navy shipmates doing that "everything is so fragile" crap on our gear. Me: "It's made of steel, not glass!"

This mechanism seemed to need far less restoration than the ones I've watched in the past, but watching you disassemble and reassemble it allowed me to see into the mind of the person that created it. It's truly amazing what is possible in the analog world with the right combination of gears and levers.

what a gem! a true historical piece. Love what you do and how you do it. cheers!

I always look forward to your videos and the humor you inject into them! Interesting watching all the movements and gears on this. I guess routers took its place.

This restoration is so lovely. A purely mechanic device. I love those old machines. They where build to last and do their job. Not to have tons of senseless features and die within two years, to sell another one.

@peacenow42

5 ай бұрын

Right? How long did we have the abacus?

I love these old hand driven wood working machines they’re absolute genius. Great job as always.

That is what I like about your show: none of the endless, want to be cute or showing off chitter chatter. You just get down to business and fix whatever you are working on. Nor do you try to see how many videos you can put out you choose quality over quantity. Keep up the good work.

I often wonder how this and other contraptions (gizmo's ) you restore were received back in the day. I keep imagining some salesman demonstrating and touting these gizmo's as the latest time and labour saving device while perspective buyers looked on in amazement and wonder and possibly fear. Oh the stories. Cheers from Sussex, NB.

@peacenow42

5 ай бұрын

I like the story of how the original engine the Wright Brothers had built was built from scratch by a friend. Out of necessity.

Just goes to show that even way back then, there's a tool for that. Nice work Eric

no bullshit, no making things dirtier just to clean them, just Legit restorations of absolute goddamn Contraptions. unequivocal best restoration channel out there.

I didn't know CRC made a ONE THOUSAND LITRE jug of Evapo-Rust. I have never known such biting, acerbic envy as this. HTR is living the greaseball's dream, folks. You can't even BUY this stuff in the big bin in Canada yet, so the CRC people must really like our man here. Congrats on one million subs, duder. Women want him; men want to be him; *rust fears him.*

About damned time. I've been trying to figure out how to restore my mortiser for YEARS. At last, I have something to go on.

That's such a beautiful machine, one of your best ones!

What a cool ass tool!!! I was so confused as to what it did, but after the demonstration, which is what I love about this channel, I knew exactly what it was for! So freaking cool! Best Restoration Channel on KZread.

Beautiful work as always. Love these old complex mechanisms.

What a clever machine. You tackle the most complex restorations, on you tube. The production quality of this video is so much better than previous ones.

it seems the strangest gizmos always come to you. great like ever.

A wonder to behold - the design of this marvelous tool; your determination and craftsmanship

Fantastic! I had no idea what it would be used for. Thank you! Great restoration! Well done!

I’m amazed at how intricate this thing is.way ahead of its time. Great restoration of course.you put some work into it.great video as always.just continue doing what your doing and on to the next project.👍👍👍😎😎😎

A hand cranked milling machine. This took one smart cookie to think of this and design it. Simply brilliant mechanical artwork. ❤ On a side not I love the shop upgrades especially the sandblasting apartment you've acquired. 😎👍

@randogame4438

3 ай бұрын

"sandblasting apartment" I LOL'd at that. It is the biggest cabinet I've ever seen :)

Hands down the best restoration channel out there 🎉

That is so freaking cool. It's amazing how you make something that looks so badly rusted and trashed to making it look like it's brand new! Thanks for sharing. Absolutely Love watching your videos

Nice work!!! it amazes me how incredibly detailed that was.

What an incredible invention for the time!! This mortiser could be used not only for installing lock assemblies but would be great for just about any mortise joint especially for furniture.Great job on restoring it!! Thanks!!

Man this mechanism is pure beauty for this era amazing!

just love the work they put into the old tools. 👍👍👍👍

I was worried that the "Smart Washer" would wash away some of the gizmosity. Glad to see it is Gizmo safe. 😊 Great video thanks!

Incroyable, toujours aussi patient et talentueux. Et puis, cette petite dose d'humour qui ne gâte rien.

I love seeing you bring these old pieces of equipment back to life. Some of these are just so smart. Like this, what a great solution. This would have sped up work tremendously over other ways of doing the same thing. Incredible.

Absolutely enjoy watching you restore stuff technique and why along with humor.

Another awesome project 💪👍 Thank you!!👏

Best sound editing to date. Fantastic.

I honestly love the personality and quirkiness you bring to your videos, it's great to see you have fun with this too. Always makes me smile seeing you upload 😊

I ain't too gonna lie, I had to fast forward to the end to see what this contraption does. It's awesome. Growing up, we lived in a couple of houses with that style of door locks. Ok, it's time to go back to the beginning to watch the whole video. 😁

Glad there was a demo at the end, the sorcery of such woodworking things is beyond me. But it does look like it would be immensely satisfying to use, maybe not so much after being an underpaid and impoverished carpenter having to do it 100 times a day. Beats using something like a chisel or however they did it in the pre-Gizz days

Amazing job, absolutely beautiful

Amazing! Whoever designed that was a genius

I'm always impressed with your brazing

I always enjoy your projects, you produce brilliantly edited videos of each rebuild/resto., but I’m often amazed at how overly complicated or unnecessarily engineered objects find their way to your workbench. Regardless: thank you, as always, for sharing.

Awesome piece of yesteryear equipment , congratulations on cleaning this piece of History ! Thank you .

The greatest tool ever! Awsome restoration .

I was literally just about to go to bed and you have to drop a new vid? I guess I'll go to bed later, it's only 7am here

@vthokie4lyfe

5 ай бұрын

Same!! LOL

@Youspoonybard1

5 ай бұрын

7 AM no sleep gang!

@ScanianDude

5 ай бұрын

Been working night and just needed to pee after sleeping 5 hours, must see this before sleeping again

@talbertuhlir9370

5 ай бұрын

Florida? 7am here

@caodesignworks2407

5 ай бұрын

@@talbertuhlir9370 Nah, Michigan

This is a very interesting and practical machine. Nicely done.

Among the top KZread channels in history.

I have restored many beautiful old doors retrieved from the side of the road on “big garbage day” to re-use in our house, and I’ve always wondered why the mortises for the locksets have rounded ends. Mystery solved! Thank you HTR 🎉 and bravo once again on a beautiful job 🙌🏼✨

I find it incredible how many parts went into making a tool such as this. I wonder how many were actually sold. Great to see you restoring this one.

Thank god you thudded your head against the sandblaster plexiglas (was worried for a minute when it wasn't you normal blaster). That has always brought a smile to my face in the older videos where you went all out ^^

@suzil7687

5 ай бұрын

I remember the first time I saw him do that. I had to rewind 5x to be sure that’s what I saw. I look for it every time! Cracks me up!

@microstorm

5 ай бұрын

@suzil7687 haha, yeah. Also the time he worked on the "flame thrower", him testing it out always leaves me in stitches!

Beautiful sounds, speed, and work!

Every other repair or restoration channel I have to play at 2x speed to watch, but never on this one. He has perfect pacing.

Outstanding!

That thing was way more complicated than I would have thought. I’d have gotten it apart and probably would have stayed that way 😁

@jandrewmore

5 ай бұрын

Pretty sure that's half the reason he makes these videos.

@L3monSqueezy

5 ай бұрын

​@@jandrewmoreI asked him that a really long time ago. He said that is why he started recording, it was so he could go back to remember how to put it all back together again.

@mikegentry9082

5 ай бұрын

Even with the video to help........

The new shop is pretty sweet sir you deserve it, proof that hard work pays off

These old devices are fantastic! What amazing inventiveness humans have, and what a boundless capacity for overengineering! So nice to see them doing their thing again.

All the engineering and time that went into this is amazing, to think, this is how they sharpened pencils 100 years ago, incredible.

That intro kills me every time 😆

Workshop is looking good. Thanks for all you do!

Amazing resto as always! Glad to see CRC on board as a sponsor, hope they hang around a while. They make so much good stuff, Weld Aid, Sta Lube and of course EvapoRust. Not to mention all the great products made under the CRC brand like everyone's favorite open wound detector, Brakleen!

That is a seriously cool machine...I would have loved to see the previous iterations to see how they worked out the final product!

Fascinated that you did the Evapo-Rust before the parts cleaner - I would have thought you would want to get the dried grease and grot off first so the Evapo-Rust can get to the metal.

@haydenf1353

5 ай бұрын

Maybe he can’t get the solvents from the parts washer into the evapor-rust? Idk actually just a guess.

@HandToolRescue

5 ай бұрын

I always Evapo-Rust first since any washing might remove some delicate features like pin-striping.

@CatNolara

5 ай бұрын

@@HandToolRescue interesting. Then again, does it make sense to use the evaporust on parts that get sand blasted anyway?

@si1entdave

5 ай бұрын

@@HandToolRescue Thank you! That makes perfect sense.

You never cease to amaze me

That is an insane piece of machinery and a great restauration.

Lovely restoration of a very interesting old tool. I also noticed you have a few workshop upgrades.

@panaphobic1

5 ай бұрын

it looks like a completely new shop to me.

@haphazard1342

5 ай бұрын

@@panaphobic1 Yes, he moved. This is a new shop.

Honestly I was surprised at how functional it was before you started working on it. Normally the stuff you get is either completely seized up or broken in some manner that prevents it from moving, but this was pretty gizmunctional right at the start.

What an amazing machine. Great job, as always.

This is probably the coolest tool I've seen from your videos.

This is an amazing tool. I knew Festool had to get their idea for the Domino from somewhere. Lol. Amazing job as always. Question have you ever been asked to restore a piece for a museum. If not they should

@hamaljay

4 ай бұрын

You beat me to it. As soon as I saw what this thing I thought of a festool domino. I've seen somebody make one out of an angle grinder.

And there goes Festool's patent on the Domino.

What a cool piece! Thanks for sharing your excellent work!

Always excited for your vids because you find the weirdest tools I've never heard of. That and when you educate us how the tool is used is awesome. As always, can't wait for the next one.

The turntable scratch got me.

Just noticed you went over the 1 million mark. Fully deserved. Congrats.

Otro equipo más, con una restauración PRÍSTINA, BELLA, detalladamente ejecutada. Siempre imitado, jamás igualado. Felicitaciones joven HTR 😊.

I love your touches of humor scattered through the videos. I always enjoy them, the ones in this video just particularly got me laughing out loud.

Remember to put nipple clamps on Christmas list. 1:52

You've got a new rust bucket! and fancy gloves. Also, how do you keep track of where all the bits go? Or is that your brilliant mechanical memory

@nortyfiner

5 ай бұрын

"Keeping track of where all the bits go" is why he first started making videos of his work. Then later on came KZread, and the rest is history.

Great job restoring that brilliant machine.

All through this I was going: "Yeah, aha. okay I got it ", I thought I was on top of this. Then you actually used it and my bottom jaw dropped and an audible "wow" escaped my lips. The fact someone designed such a elegantly simple beautiful machine that does what it's supposed to amazes me. Thank you for an enlightening restoration.

Nice job. I suspect the cutting tool is sub-optimal and may be a replacement . The original would surely have been sharpened to cut on the sides - something that typical twist-drills do not.

@ionstorm66

5 ай бұрын

I wonder if a simple HSS center cutting end mill meant for aluminum would work.