I gave up on FW years ago when it became obvious that Ian had run out of interesting videos long ago.
I think Ian still does interesting videos these days, but only when he has some genuinely forgotten/rare weapon and not some "Hey look, a gun designed in Croatia and being made under licence by Springfield!" kind of crap. Probably explains why these days I miss a fair amount of FW videos compared to when there was a time I probably watched every single available minute of footage that involved Ian, from his channel or otherwise.
I miss the videos where he'd spend 20 minutes breaking down a 100 year old gun, explaining all the mechanisms and the way the action worked. There was something kino about that which I haven't really seen from him in a long time.
Thats actually my point, I think, but I may need to google some more.
The problem with a channel like Forgotten Weapons is
Not to mention some European arms makers are actually hostile to him. HK Germany being one he has publicly mentioned as being awful. Come to think of it, FN has never granted access like CZ and B&T have.
I'm a fuckin' tourist here and I will freely admit it.
You need to get yourself a box of Hertenberger Buscadero Ticondas.
This quote is so legendary several otherwise gun-negative people in my life will go "noooo... not my ticondas..."
Deep for lack of a better word thought out expansive content is not rewarded.
Funnily enough, Ian has just begun to release a bunch of videos filmed at FN. Here's his video of the new ARKA:
you can get No.5 grip frames from various sources that'll fit a Ruger. the no.5 grip shape marries the bisley backstrap to the front strap of a SAA, and is what the bisley should have been. the notion had been around for a while before Kieth's no.5 was made but Kieth's revolver is the most famous by far.
I would add to this maybe the perception of him churning out ludicrous amount of videos back in the day. When his channel was growing fast, he put out six videos a week which is just a bonkers amount of content when you start thinking about the filming and whatever background work he does. Unsurprisingly his channel sits at 4.4k videos right now which is baffling amount of firearms content.
I remember that years ago he stated that he was going to have to slow down the posting schedule because he was burning through his backlog so quickly that he had no buffer if he had to take time off. that was probably a decade ago at this point.
I remember that too and he probably also doesn't want to release videos he either promised not to release yet due to whatever business stuff going in the background or because there's a chance the firearm ends up being sold in US. I think some of his Tony Neophytou videos took years to be released due to that and also like those videos he filmed in Columbia.
Yep, I learned that recently, before I presumed that Keith’s was the first instance of it.
I remember him doing a video from the FN factory showing the Hi Power production line shortly before it shut down but it looks like it's no longer on JewTube, probably because of their ever-changing rules about how much detail on firearms production is considered permissible. I might search my hard drives over the weekend because I think it was still up when I mirrored his entire channel with yt-dlp a couple of years ago.