"Restoration" Youtuber Exposed: Destructive Methods, FAKE Antiques

Random Hands claims to perform "restorations" on "antiques". In reality, what he does is grind, polish and rehilt replicas and reproductions, which he artificially ages and dishonestly claims are antique.

Fake, artificially aged antiques and ill-advised, destructive restorations could lead to other people copying his methods with real antiques, irrecoverably damaging those items.

This is particularly clear in his recent video titles "antique egyptian dagger, impressive restoration". Not only is this not an antique, it is also not egyptian. It is actually an indian made reproduction of a "Brass Hilted Rondel Dagger", made by Windlass, Marshal Historical and other companies, it is a medieval european design.

https://www.marto.es/index.php/es/novedades/brass-hilted-rondel-dagger-detail

http://www.kultofathena.com/product.asp?item=401908

http://www.kultofathena.com/product.asp?item=MHW0601&name=Brass+Hilted+Rondel+Dagger

https://www.hoppersgiftware.co.uk/rondel-dagger-7621-p.asp

Random Hands is providing bad advice for anyone who might actually own an antique, and want to restore it. His methods fundamentally destroy the items he "restores", removing their historical and monetary value.

Random Hands, you need to be clear. What you do isn't "antique restoration". It's "customising an artificially aged reproduction".

His channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrI3dm4qgAEV67Jc6797WIA

#BadRestoration #FakeAntique #RandomHands

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