How to spot a fake "restoration" video

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I’ll just leave this here.

Guga's favorite cast iron pan rusted out by his nephew

Probably because it’s fake. Increasingly these “restoration” videos involve tarting up the “before” item to make it look worse than it is. Dunking it in bleach, for example, with create a lot of flash rust that looks really dramatically bad on the car/heirloom/frying pan but is trivially removed with any mild acid or rust converters like Evaporust. Always be suspicious when the before item has very thin even orange rust on it, and no deep scaling, pitting, or dark brown/red rust. I’m not sayi…