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00:00Up next on American Restoration.
00:03Oh!
00:05David Copperfield wants me to restore something for him.
00:07This is just weird.
00:08I've got a bunch of items that may not be so nice.
00:13I scared s***less.
00:14Lawsuit.
00:15You know, I restore stuff.
00:16I don't usually preserve stuff.
00:17And you meet the challenge.
00:19It'd be an honor.
00:19Well, don't f*** up.
00:20This is a Russian machine gun.
00:22Fire and hole!
00:26Do you have anybody you want to try this on?
00:27Yes, I do.
00:33I'm Rick Dale.
00:35And at my shop, we share a passion.
00:39To give new life to pieces from the past.
00:45Every project has its challenges.
00:48But there's no job we can't handle.
00:51This is American Restoration.
01:01I got a call from legendary illusionist David Copperfield.
01:05And he has a museum full of magical artifacts.
01:08He asked me to come by because there might be a project for me.
01:11And I can't imagine what it is.
01:13David Copperfield got something to get restored?
01:16Yes, he does.
01:17He is getting some stuff ready right now.
01:19Okay.
01:19If you've got a minute, I can run you through the tour.
01:22I can't wait.
01:23Let's go see.
01:23I'm the executive producer for David Copperfield.
01:25The whole purpose of David's museum is to basically preserve magic from all around the world.
01:29And it's just great that people would come to see it all in one place.
01:32Look at this stuff.
01:34Basically seeing everything that made Harry Houdini famous.
01:37Wow.
01:37When people think of Harry Houdini, they think of the water torture cell.
01:40Right.
01:40And this is it right here.
01:41Wow.
01:42This is filled with water.
01:44Right.
01:44They lower him in.
01:45He would be hung upside down so his feet are sticking out the top.
01:49Then he'd close the curtain.
01:51Right.
01:51And he would escape from it.
01:52And for dramatic purposes, you know, he could wait longer.
01:55And the longer you wait, the more it seems impossible.
01:58Yeah.
01:59This was an amazing piece of theater.
02:01I'm dying to know how the heck you got out of there.
02:03It's a mystery.
02:04It's a mystery.
02:05Yeah.
02:06I can't imagine how these tricks worked.
02:08Amazing.
02:08Maybe if I give him a restoration secret, he'll tell me how it's done.
02:12Not a chance.
02:13Not a chance.
02:14Nah, probably not.
02:15So, this is not a magic trick, but it's very magical.
02:18David loves coin-operated machines, and this is a beautiful one.
02:20It's called a Violano Virtuoso.
02:22It's got a violin right here.
02:24Yeah.
02:24A little keyboard back there.
02:28Oh, wow.
02:31That's beautiful.
02:32It's crazy, huh?
02:35Never seen anything like that.
02:37And mechanically, it's pretty amazing.
02:38Yeah.
02:40And it operates with a clapper.
02:44You know, I bet David is ready.
02:46Okay.
02:46You know what?
02:47He's in the puppet room.
02:48You can just head down the hall.
02:49I'll get the door for you.
02:50Okay.
02:50I'm excited, but I'm a little worried at what he's going to actually show me to get restored.
02:55I really am.
02:56Hey, David.
02:57Rick, how you doing?
02:58Great to meet you.
02:59Welcome.
02:59You having fun?
02:59Oh, my God.
03:00This place is incredible.
03:02I'm David Copperfield, and I've been doing magic for a long time.
03:05I make stuff disappear.
03:07I levitate stuff, and I'm happy to be alive.
03:11You know, I started not as a magician.
03:13I started as a ventriloquist.
03:14Really?
03:15By watching Paul Winchell.
03:16Do you remember Paul Winchell?
03:17Yeah.
03:17Yeah.
03:18He had his own TV show, and I needed to have a little friend just like that.
03:22And this was mine.
03:23It was the exact one.
03:23That's my mom and me and my little dummy there.
03:25And later on, after that, I decided to honor Paul Winchell with this little room that you
03:31can share right now.
03:32Yeah?
03:32Let's see.
03:34Wow.
03:35Oh, my God.
03:37All my childhood memories, and even before that.
03:39Yeah.
03:39Howdy Doody.
03:40Yeah.
03:41Yeah, yeah, yeah.
03:42I remember him, too.
03:43I wish I could do ventriloquism.
03:45I really suck at it.
03:46So, I love having this stuff.
03:49But how'd you get into magic after that?
03:51You know, I went to a magic store looking for a better dummy there, and I kind of fell
03:56in love with it, and I started taking out books on magic.
03:58But I wouldn't read the secret.
03:59I would read what the audience would see and try to figure out my own version of the secret.
04:03Oh, man.
04:04And I started inventing magic.
04:06Right.
04:06I was 12 years old.
04:07I was publishing magic books and, you know.
04:09Wow, that early?
04:09I was crappy at everything else, but magic I had somehow, you know.
04:12Kind of like you.
04:13Yeah.
04:13Fix things, right?
04:15But I love things that surprise people that they haven't seen before.
04:18I also love this whole other collection that I have of amazing things.
04:22And that's what I'd love you to help me restore.
04:25I can't even imagine what you're going to show me.
04:27You'll be surprised.
04:27I can't wait to see this.
04:29I can't wait to see this.
04:31I've got my talents, and I've got a bunch of items that are kind of unusual.
04:34Have a seat right here.
04:36I'm going to show you some stuff.
04:37Items that are, um, well, meant for a purpose that may not be so nice.
04:42Okay.
04:42Have a seat.
04:43Relax.
04:43Make yourself comfortable.
04:44Okay.
04:44Look up there at that tree.
04:46Oh!
04:49You almost said a curse word, I think.
04:52You're a good man.
04:53You're a good man.
04:56And the reason I dumped you is to show you the kind of things I want you to restore.
05:00All right?
05:01Okay.
05:01It's all of these machines.
05:02Are you okay?
05:03Yeah.
05:03I'm good.
05:03I'm sorry.
05:04Your heart's good?
05:04Yeah.
05:05The pacemaker's pacing.
05:06It's like a little roller coaster.
05:07Lawsuit!
05:07All this stuff is the coolest stuff ever.
05:09It's all hazing, practical joke devices that were built in the turn of the century to initiate
05:16people into lodges.
05:17It's made by the de Molin company, and these are things that I collect.
05:21It's awesome.
05:22I've heard of the de Molin company before, but I've never seen any of these devices in person.
05:28They made pranks, but big ones.
05:30Everything from exploding coffins to fake guillotines.
05:34And they were meant to scare the crap out of some poor sucker and give everybody else
05:39a laugh.
05:40This is a knife throwing board.
05:41Huh?
05:42And it's not really working great, but let's just demonstrate.
05:44Now, put your head here, and you'd be strapped.
05:46Okay.
05:47And you have your arms here and here.
05:48Do not move.
05:50And, uh, I'll explain the whole thing to you.
05:51Let me just make sure it's working temporarily here.
05:54Nice.
06:03Do not move.
06:06Nice.
06:10You weren't kidding about not moving.
06:12Master magician David Copperfield has some extremely unusual items he'd like me to restore.
06:18Oh!
06:19This stuff is really cool.
06:21The idea of this was not to fool an audience.
06:23The idea of this was to take one person and scare the bejesus out of them.
06:28Yeah, exactly.
06:29Why'd you say that?
06:29So, this is your, this is your Bible.
06:32Okay.
06:32So, what would happen was, these knives would be hidden inside the board.
06:36Okay.
06:37And there'd be a person there with duplicates of these knives.
06:40Okay.
06:40Throwing these knives with light shining at them.
06:42So, he couldn't see that he was throwing the knives behind him.
06:46Gotcha.
06:46You know what I'm saying?
06:46This release happens.
06:48This guy is not gonna be happy.
06:51That's right.
06:51Which is good.
06:53This is old, and you gotta still make it old.
06:54Right here.
06:55See this piece?
06:56Yeah.
06:56Right there?
06:57Get the wood back to that.
06:58Not totally beautiful new.
07:00Right.
07:01Patina's real important.
07:01So, it looks like it's, you know, 100 years old.
07:04That's right.
07:05These holes would be hidden.
07:07So, I think we need to redo this, uh, this canvas.
07:10Right.
07:10And hide these slits.
07:12Right.
07:13Replace the leather things with old leather.
07:15Okay.
07:16You're gonna duplicate these for me, right?
07:18Yeah.
07:18Do you have anybody you wanna try this on?
07:20Yeah.
07:20Okay.
07:21Yes, I do.
07:22You wanna see the next thing?
07:24Absolutely.
07:24This is crazy stuff.
07:26This is a, a Ferris wheel goat.
07:28Here, I have the catalog picture, which is really, really great.
07:31That they put...
07:33They put the guy on there, and they'd strap him in.
07:35Okay.
07:36And he'd be blindfolded, and they'd wheel him around like this, a little bit, and kind
07:40of make fun of him.
07:41And then, when he wasn't suspecting it, they would have him go upside down all the way,
07:47like that, while an exploding device goes off in your butt.
07:51What?
07:52What kind of crazy lodges did they have back in the day?
07:55I mean, the catalog even says that it made goat sounds.
07:58I mean, that's totally nuts.
08:01What it looks like to me is somebody's put it back together so that it didn't fall apart
08:05and it was laying around, you know what?
08:06With, with some new bolts.
08:07Right.
08:07So we'll go ahead and replace those and make those...
08:10Like this?
08:10Yeah.
08:11The patina, I think, is great, so you don't have to touch that.
08:13Okay.
08:13On the explosion portion of it, you want it to explode again?
08:16I think so.
08:17The blank goes there, I think, and it fires out this way, I think.
08:20Right.
08:21I think the hardest thing is, is parts that are missing.
08:23You know what I mean?
08:24It's whatever holds his body on here.
08:26We think these are for what would strap him on there.
08:30But to actually see it work is the real...
08:31Yeah.
08:32That'll be the fun part.
08:33This stuff's just bizarre.
08:35It's just bizarre.
08:36Can you do it, though?
08:37Can you meet the challenge?
08:38I've never seen this stuff.
08:40I've never touched this kind of stuff.
08:42I've got to be honest, I'm kind of nervous about this.
08:45But David Copperfield is a living legend,
08:47and I can't pass up the opportunity to work with him.
08:51I would love to do it.
08:52It'd be an honor.
08:53Well, don't f*** up.
08:54Yeah.
08:57Holy f***.
08:58As I'm walking off, he said,
08:59well, you better do a good job or else.
09:01I mean, where are you going to research this stuff?
09:03What was on what?
09:04I mean, how am I supposed to know?
09:06Talk about a pressure.
09:13Do not touch the horns.
09:15This is just weird.
09:22The Ferris Wheel Gauche is supposed to fire a blank shell
09:26to scare the victim.
09:27The problem is we can't figure out how it works.
09:30Hey, Doc.
09:31So I called in Doc, my gun expert,
09:33to hopefully shed some light on it.
09:35What do you got there?
09:36It's this crazy old-time stunt.
09:38On the bottom of it,
09:40it had this mounted underneath the seat.
09:41This is evidently the exploding device.
09:43I mean, have you ever seen any kind of a...
09:45No, not like this.
09:47I don't know.
09:47I thought that's where the shell would go in.
09:49You know, I don't know.
09:51No, I don't think it fires.
09:54No way!
09:55Right.
09:55That's amazing!
09:56That's the bah!
09:57Yeah.
09:58Oh, my God. Who knew?
09:59I mean, the catalog does show
10:00that it makes a bah sound
10:03to sort of fool the victim.
10:05So how's that work?
10:06Let's see what we got in it.
10:09The goat sound is gonna come from this reed.
10:12Ah.
10:13And it's got a groove down the center of it,
10:15so when the air flows through the tip...
10:17Yeah!
10:18It'll vibrate this and cause the goat sound.
10:22That's great to know
10:23that that is the bah sound of the goat,
10:25but I still have a huge problem
10:27because it did go bang.
10:29I have no clue now at all how it works,
10:31but I have to have something that pops the shell.
10:33Let me see what I got in my bag of tricks.
10:36Okay.
10:37See what we can use on that.
10:38Okay.
10:39I sure hope you figure out this bad boy.
10:42I want to shoot some real guns now.
10:45Brentley?
10:45Plus guns?
10:46There's no way this is gonna end well.
10:51Leonard's the perfect guy for the job.
10:53That's sharp.
10:54I've never done this before.
10:56Oh!
11:03Hey, I gotta thank you for coming
11:04because there's some stuff I don't understand, Anna.
11:06We're restoring these turn-of-the-century pranks
11:09for illusionist David Copperfield.
11:11So I called up his design specialist, Homer,
11:14so we can go over details for the knife-throwing unit.
11:16You know, I restore stuff.
11:18I don't usually preserve stuff.
11:19What you're preserving is not just about aesthetics.
11:22it has to function as a trick.
11:24They can't know these knives are coming from behind,
11:26so you're basically working on a magic trick.
11:28Right.
11:29It's great.
11:30This is the patent drawings from 1916.
11:33Wow.
11:35So this material on here, I mean, what do you know?
11:38It says the front surface of the board is preferably
11:41covered with cloth which may be painted to represent
11:43the bark of a tree.
11:44That's what this needs to look like.
11:45Yeah.
11:46Where you can't see the knife.
11:47Exactly.
11:47You'll create a pattern or texture so that it disguises that.
11:51Yeah.
11:52You're looking at this line over here,
11:54so you don't see this line over here.
11:55Gotcha.
11:56That's cool.
11:57Thanks, bud.
11:58Thank you very much.
11:59I can't wait to see that thing work.
12:00It's been sitting in our warehouse for 10 years.
12:09For the knife-throwing illusion to work,
12:11the prankster needs a set of decoy knives,
12:14so Tyler's got the job to make with our new Omax water jet
12:17machine.
12:20Oh, my God.
12:22But for David Copperfield, it's got to be perfect.
12:24Otherwise, the magic is ruined.
12:29Seriously, .
12:35Doc, my gun expert, says he has something that he thinks
12:38might work as a firing mechanism for the goat ferris wheel.
12:41He wants to show it to us at a firing range.
12:46Hey, Doc.
12:47Hey, Rick.
12:47How you doing, bud?
12:48All right.
12:49So what'd you end up coming up with?
12:51Well, I went home, and I come up with something
12:54that should work for you pretty well.
12:55This is a mine detonator.
12:57That's pretty wild.
12:59It would put a lanyard through it both ways, like a trip wire,
13:01and as somebody walked by, it would take off and go forward,
13:05setting off a charge to set the mines off.
13:08It should work on the bottom of your goat.
13:10Mind you, this is where your baby maker is.
13:13You know what I mean?
13:15The firing mechanism fiasco.
13:17The blank goes there, and it fires out this way.
13:20It really threw me for a loop on this project.
13:23But if Doc figured that out, it'll totally be worth it.
13:27I think we're good and tight.
13:28We'll put a lanyard on it.
13:30That will be your pull string.
13:33Pull your charge back.
13:35Put the blank into the chamber.
13:38Baby makers are covered.
13:44Fire and hole.
13:46Oh!
13:46That's pretty loud.
13:48That would scare the bejesus out of the guy.
13:53You should be just fine.
13:54Awesome.
13:55Thank you very much, Doc.
13:56I appreciate it.
13:57You are a lot.
13:57We shot this little goat gun.
13:59But really, I want to shoot some real guns now.
14:02If we're going to shoot guns, we're going to shoot machine guns.
14:05Here's your Thompson.
14:06It's a machine gun known as the Chicago Typewriter.
14:08It's got the 1928 brand on it.
14:11That's cool.
14:12And we've become Al Capone.
14:13Let it rip.
14:17Yeah!
14:18You feel like a gangster?
14:19That was awesome.
14:21It is a Russian belt-fed machine gun.
14:24Wow.
14:25This thing is huge.
14:26Do you think you're ready for it?
14:28I will destroy the puny targets.
14:32Time for the big boy.
14:34Here we go, baby!
14:38Woo-hoo!
14:39That was fucking nuts.
14:43Yeah!
14:47David Copperfield is going to be here very soon.
14:49The twins are going to have to pull apart the knife board and stain each piece to make
14:53sure it keeps its 100-year-old look.
14:56Meanwhile, we found a taxidermist.
14:58Vicky will have to carefully replace our goat's pelt with a more durable one.
15:03He's such a perfectionist.
15:05If David doesn't like what he sees, he might make me disappear.
15:09Hey, Rick.
15:10Who?
15:11David Copperfield is here for the goat.
15:12Hey, how are you?
15:13Thanks, Kelly.
15:14You bet.
15:15How are you doing?
15:16I'm doing great.
15:16Welcome to Rick's.
15:17I love it.
15:18I love it.
15:18I've been taking up invisible tours, sneaking around your stuff.
15:22You went through my stuff, so I figured it out.
15:24I'm here at Rick's to see my two items that I really love.
15:28The ferris wheel goat and the de Molin knife throwing board.
15:32And both of them are very, very rare, very collectible, and part of my secret museum
15:37of amazing things.
15:39You know, preservation kind of stuff is not usually what we do.
15:42It makes stuff look really pretty.
15:43I'm a little stressed, so I'm hoping that you love this.
15:45And this can't look brand new, so I hope you didn't screw it up.
15:48Right.
15:49Thanks.
15:49Me neither.
15:50Alright, so let's get to it.
15:51You ready?
15:52I'm ready.
15:52One.
15:53Two.
15:54Three.
16:03Alright, so let's get to it.
16:05You ready?
16:05I'm ready.
16:06One.
16:07Two.
16:08Three.
16:10It's awesome.
16:12Awesome.
16:12Awesome.
16:13I can't tell what's old and new, so you won.
16:17You did good.
16:18We had a taxidermist come in.
16:19Yep.
16:20All of the fur that was on it was actually real fur, we found out.
16:24But what was happening, it was coming off.
16:25So she ended up taking a goat skin and putting it on.
16:28So this is the same kind of skin.
16:29It's colored the same way.
16:30It's the same length.
16:31It's the same nappiness looking to it.
16:33Looks good.
16:34On the bottom of the goat, it had a cylinder device, and we were all under the assumption
16:38that that was the gun.
16:39So I had my gun expert in here trying to tell me how this thing works.
16:44Noisemaker.
16:44That's the...
16:45Wow.
16:46Would there be a tube hooked to it?
16:47Yeah.
16:47To a pole.
16:48Watch.
16:49Listen to this.
16:50And then the firing device, we ended up finding this exploding device.
16:54Made it look old.
16:55And now when you push the lever, it immediately fires that .22 shell, which makes a pretty loud
17:00bass.
17:00I think this is a really excellent job, you know?
17:02Yeah.
17:02You know, I'm scared to try it.
17:04But it's awesome.
17:06You know, I got a guy that would love to get on that.
17:10Yeah.
17:10Leonard!
17:11Everybody else in the shop has been initiated, so why not Leonard?
17:14He's going to be perfect on his goat wheel.
17:16There you go.
17:17All right.
17:17There you go.
17:18All right.
17:19We're going to strap you on there.
17:20Starting to get kinky.
17:21Don't start rumors.
17:23They blindfolded me.
17:24They put a helmet on me.
17:26They strapped me down.
17:27These look secure.
17:28I hope this doesn't wind up on the internet.
17:31Do what?
17:31Oh, oh, oh, oh.
17:32Whoa!
17:34Whoa!
17:35Whoa!
17:36Oh, man!
17:37Whoa, mama!
17:39Whoa!
17:41Whoa!
17:43Whoa!
17:44You think he made the initiation?
17:45I think he passed the test.
17:47You're part of the lodge now.
17:48Wow.
17:49I loved what Rick did with the goat wheel.
17:51And that was awesome.
17:52But now we've got to check out that knife board.
17:54And it's got to be just right.
17:55I'm hoping you'll like it.
17:56I'm excited.
17:57I'm excited.
17:57Okay.
17:58Ready?
17:58Here we go.
17:59One, two, three.
18:03Check it out.
18:04Wow.
18:04That's awesome.
18:05This is really, really cool.
18:08When the cloth came off that old board, I was really concerned.
18:10And he did some amazing things that are kind of magic technology.
18:13He did a really nice job.
18:15I mean, the front of this was a disaster.
18:17It was buckled open.
18:18You could see the knives.
18:20The material on the front was shot.
18:21So when your guy Homer came over, he was saying that this would need to look like a tree and
18:26sort of distract your eye.
18:28Absolutely.
18:28It's important to look at it and not see those.
18:31Something's going to keep your eye off of these slits.
18:34So all this is one piece of material.
18:37And then Ted went and did all the art, made it look like a tree.
18:40Well, I think what works here is, you know, you have all the light and the dark contrasting each other.
18:44It misdirects from the slits.
18:46Right.
18:46So I think that's a winner.
18:48Okay.
18:48Cool.
18:48That's good.
18:49That was what I was worried about most.
18:51On the back.
18:52Well, this is nice.
18:53Very nice.
18:54The inside of it, we cleaned up, you know, oiled everything enough, made it sort of rustic.
18:58You know, something that's been used.
18:59The metal looks great.
19:00Each one of the springs were bent down, so we straightened up each one of the springs.
19:04And then the knives, we made these for somebody to throw.
19:08We actually made them out of steel.
19:10So we did the handles exactly like it.
19:12We put the brass studs through it, the exact same as this up here.
19:16So when that comes into the side of your head, you know, you're going to look at that and
19:20it's going to look like the same one, you know, as you just threw.
19:22And the other thing is, is when you get the victim in front, you give them a little
19:26touch that makes you sure.
19:28Yeah, yeah.
19:28I like them very, very much.
19:30And I can't wait to throw them at somebody.
19:32I've got a few people I'm thinking about, actually.
19:35Well, I think they did a great job.
19:36You know, it looks great in the back.
19:38It's great in the front.
19:38And I can't wait to test it out.
19:40Well, you want to put on a little show, you know?
19:43Sure.
19:43You have a good victim?
19:43I think you met the victim.
19:45He's the greatest guy, right?
19:47He said he'd do anything.
19:48All right.
19:49We're going to go ahead.
19:49Okay.
19:50All right.
19:51So David agreed that we could do a performance.
19:53So, you know, I wanted to go ahead and set the mood, you know?
19:56I mean, it needs to be exciting for both the audience and for the victim.
20:00Feel those tips there.
20:01Leonard was out picking when we were working on this project.
20:04That's sharp.
20:04That's right.
20:05So he doesn't have a gosh dang clue how it works, what it does.
20:08He's the perfect guy for the job.
20:11Can I at least put on a cup or something?
20:17You good there, buddy?
20:19I'm good.
20:19Don't move, okay?
20:20Okay.
20:21Guys, you ready for this?
20:22Yes!
20:23I've never done this before.
20:24I really haven't.
20:24Here we go.
20:25First knife.
20:27By the leg.
20:33Torso.
20:35So close.
20:36Other side.
20:37Here we go.
20:38There you go.
20:40Closer.
20:43Right by your ear.
20:45Behind the back.
20:46Behind the back.
20:46Behind the back.
20:47Oh!
20:49What the hell?
20:53What the hell, guys?
20:54Oh, good job, Leonard.
20:56Good job, Leonard.
20:57Guys, guys, guys, guys, guys, guys, guys, guys, guys, guys, guys.
20:58Thank you so much, Rick.
20:59You did a great job.
20:59Your team did a great job.
21:01The buffet's outside, by the way.
21:02Come on, guys.
21:02Good job, Leonard.
21:03That was awesome!
21:06Guys, can someone untie me?
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