Welcome to The Repair Shop,
where cherished family heirlooms are brought back to life...
This is the workshop of dreams.
..home to furniture restorer Jay Blades.
Nowadays everybody spends a fortune on stuff
and once it's broken they just bin it.
But everybody has something that means too much to be thrown away
and that's where we come in.
Working alongside Jay,
will be some of the country's leading crafts people...
Every piece has its own story.
It's amazing to think that some of my work
becomes part of that story.
I've always played with things, I've always repaired things,
and I just love it.
There is a real pleasure in bringing people's pieces back to life again.
..each with their own unique set of skills.
I can't wait to get started.
They will resurrect...
..revive...
Whoa, man. ..and rejuvenate...
..treasured possessions
and irreplaceable pieces of family history...
Wow!
..bringing both the objects...
She's fantastic!
That's just taken me back 50 years.
..and the memories that they hold...
Oh, yes!
..back to life.
Oh, my God.
NEIGHING
Hello, ladies. Hello. How are we doing?
In The Repair Shop today, a world in miniature
as three small scale treasures get The Repair Shop treatment.
Kirsten's working on a tiny globe...
This is amazing. I can see people running around in there.
..while goldsmith Richard brings out the big guns
for some minuscule welding.
So, I'm looking through a microscope that's magnified to 20 times
and allows me to know exactly where the piece is going to be
hit by the laser beam.
First through the doors is Suzanne Anderman from Kent.
How are we doing, Sue? Hiya.
Hello, I'm Steve. Pleased to meet you as well.
She's hoping music box expert Stephen Kember will be able to
get a tune out of this vintage example from the Swiss Alps.
It is a little chalet.
Inside there's bagfuls and bagfuls of bits
that have fallen off it over the years. Loads of it.
It's a splendid looking thing, isn't it?
You've got the dog kennel there. Yes, and no dog. No dog.
So how come you've got this, Sue? Tell me a bit about it.
It's a bit of a long story.
When I was a child, every summer holiday I went to Somerset
to stay with my aunt and uncle. OK. On their landing,
which was a huge landing, there was this.
So as a little girl I used to lay down and play it,
when I was allowed to turn the key. Yeah.
And I used to imagine that people lived in it. Right.
I absolutely loved it.
Then one day in 1996, I had a phone call from this aunt and she said,
"I believe you'd like the music box,"
and that's how I got it and now I'd love it to be restored
for my grandchildren. Right.
So Auntie May knew how much this meant to you.
Auntie May definitely knew how much it meant.
How much does it mean to you?
Oh, you just can't say. It's priceless to me.
Yeah? Because it's just my childhood, isn't it?
Oh, I think I need to get... Will?
If you don't mind, come and have a look at this, mate.
Will's out expert in wood.
How are we doing? All right? I'm good.
So what we've got, Will, is we've got loads of bits that somehow
they belong in here somewhere, don't they, Sue? They do. Yeah.
We're missing a small carved wooden door for the kennel.
Yeah, a dog. There should be a dog.
So what do you reckon, Will?
Small enough job for you, isn't it?
THEY LAUGH
STEPHEN: During lunch maybe.
WILL: Yeah, could just do it on my lunch break.
I'm speechless.
Between us, I'm sure we can do a fantastic job with this.
Thank you very much indeed.
So thank you for bringing it in, Sue. You're very welcome.
It's a pleasure to have met you. And you. And good luck.
And especially good luck to you. Thank you.
Cos I think you're going to need it. He's going to.
The music box was part of my childhood memories,
and really happy memories, so to have it restored
just means everything really.
It means I can pass it on to my grandchildren
and also it means I can look at it and remember it how it was.
So, you're on the property ladder, are you?
A bag of matchsticks and kindling here.
Yeah, a jigsaw puzzle. It's a really tricky job. Yes.
Where is the music?
The music is in the cellar. In the cellar?
Yeah, let's sort of...
Like a good James Bond baddie film, you know,
we'll elevate the headquarters to reveal the brains of machine.
Look at that. Look at that.
Yes, I know. It's lovely.
So I think I'll maybe leave you to your puzzle, your matchsticks...
Thanks. ..and I'll go and do some... I'll go and do some music.
Toodle-pip. See you later.
Next to arrive, Jane Simpson with something beautiful but broken
left to her by her mother.
Hello, I'm Steve. Hello, I'm Jane.
Hi. What have you got for us.
I've got a garnet bracelet. Oh, right.
Bring it over to the table.
Richard, I think this is one for you.
Master goldsmith Richard Talman is The Repair Shop's expert
on all that glitters.
In fact, I've got three bits of garnet bracelet.
Beautiful, isn't it? Absolutely beautiful piece.
Can you tell us a bit about the history of this bracelet?
It belonged to my great grandmother.
She was living in India in the 1870s and my...
..grandfather gave that and the matching locket to my mother
as a wedding present.
And I remember when I was a child, playing with it and her wearing it
when they went to posh dos.
Were you the one that broke it?
No. Definitely not. I promise it wasn't me!
I inherited it in this condition and wanted to get it fixed
so I could wear it. I just think it's lovely.
Yes, it's...
..cabochon garnets in the centre and faceted ones on the outside.
I would say...
..gold of around about nine carat.
Obviously we've got quite a few stones missing there,
which we need to rebuild.
Have you tried having it repaired?
Yes. When I inherited it, I took it to a jeweller who dismissed it
out of hand, wouldn't touch it because of the repairs
that have been done in the past. Oh, gosh, right, OK.
He said it was impossible to fix.
I could certainly understand why they would've said that,
because of the lead solder that has been used to repair it.
Lead solder melts at a very, very low temperature in comparison
to the hard solder you would usually use.
So any heat that was applied to this bracelet, it would act like an acid
and almost ruin the rest of the links.
So I think certainly for me to repair it, I'm going to have to look
at a different form of joining it together.
I think that's something we can do. That would be wonderful. Thank you.
I will take great care of it, Jane. Thanks. Thank you very much.
Thank you for bringing it in.
Is that going to be difficult?
It's not going to be easy, that's for sure.
He's filled me with confidence.
I'm so excited to see what he can do.
I'm not expecting a miracle but
if he can make it wearable again, that would be amazing.
It's always going to remind me of my mother, I think.
I love that photograph that we have of her wearing the set so...
..it'll bring memories of her
and memories of my childhood with her back.
Richard has been in the jewellery trade for over two decades,
learning his craft in London's famous Jewellery Quarter,
Hatton Garden.
So on this piece here,
it's bent quite badly.
That is going to be the first thing that I'm going to have to address.
This type of damage is quite common on bracelets
because when people wear them, they can get them caught on things
and it obviously bends at the weakest point.
So the only way to straighten these back out is just to push it back
in the direction it came from. And that can go one of two ways -
it can either go well or it can break.
But obviously it needs to be done so...
If I was to put this in pliers and start bending it
I run the risk of cracking stones so good thing about your fingers is
they're like a perfect cushioned pair of pliers.
So I'm just going to push on that point there.
A break now would leave Richard with even more work ahead of him.
OK. That's straightened out fine.
So I'm really happy with that.
Critical moment over,
foreman Jay can safely head over to check on progress.
So how's it going, Rich? Very well, Jay. Thank you.
So, Rich, I've got a bone to pick with you.
You wanted me to bring in your desk
even though we've got desks all around. What's so special
about your one? Well, it's a special jeweller's bench.
It's cut away there so you can sit closer to it and then this
under here is called a skin, usually made from leather, and that collects
something called lemel, which is a fine... Lemel? Yes. What's lemel?
So the filings, when you're filing away any piece of precious metal,
it will create, like, filings
and that will all gather into the bottom,
as you can see like this here. Yeah, like dust. Absolutely.
And if you're working, as I do mostly,
with, like, 18-carat gold or platinum... Yeah.
..over the course of a year,
about that much in a jam jar will get you about £3,000 with a refiner.
Really? Yeah.
I think I might have to take up your trade, mate.
It's a hive of activity in The Repair Shop today
as yet another customer arrives.
Janet Adams from Leicester has brought a small object that
could prove to be a big challenge for ceramics conservator Kirsten.
It's a little miniature globe. Oh, right.
Gosh, it is miniature, isn't it? It is.
Look. Oh, wow.
But unfortunately, it's split.
Oh, no.
Well, I've never seen one of these before. Haven't you? No, I haven't.
Unfortunately it did have a little crack on but when I moved, it went
into storage and I think moisture got it and it's split now.
What a shame.
It looks like a very sort of low fired clay
or...I don't know, it might even be something like a plaster actually.
There's a few little bits as well there.
OK, lovely. I think there might be a few little bits missing still.
That's always useful to bring those bits, especially with something
like this with a map which has got sort of tiny writing on it
cos that's actually incredibly difficult to do.
Do you know sort of what date the map is?
Somebody told me it's about 1850.
Oh, really? Yeah. What's the story behind this?
It was in my mother's china cabinet.
So it's really precious then? Yes. Yes. Yes.
It was just something we wanted to keep
to pass down to future generations. Yes, absolutely.
If you're happy to leave that with me, I will repair that for you.
Thank you. And hopefully get it spinning again for you to enjoy.
Yes, that'd be lovely. Thank you.
We've never seen it spinning, I don't think. It was always
locked away in the china cabinet. I don't ever remember getting it out
and seeing what it did or what was on it really.
And I'm looking forward to getting it back when we can see it
hopefully in its full glory.
Looking at this material,
I suspect that it's actually probably made of something
called gesso, originally made with,
like, an animal glue, like a rabbit glue mixed up with chalk
and some pigments and then laid over this central wooden ball.
Dating back as far as ancient Egypt,
gesso has been used to prime rough surfaces such as wood and stone
to create a smooth surface for painting.
I suppose my only concerns with this little globe is the fact that
it's made of gesso and it's quite a sort of fragile substance
when it's exposed.
So I'm going to actually try and sort of get some adhesive into these
joins, sealing the edge initially, and then I will just make up
the missing areas and touch in the map.
It looks slightly crooked to me, this...
..this base.
I think perhaps it's been knocked.
Will? Can I borrow you for a moment?
How can I help? World's smallest globe.
That's really sweet. Isn't it?
I've always wanted to just spin one of these. Is that really...?
HE CHUCKLES
Visions of bits, like, flying off.
The base, as you can see, looks pretty ropey to me.
And it's also slightly crooked.
Is there... It is, isn't it? ..anything you could do with that?
Yes, I think so.
I'm just thinking should I do the base before you've done your work
or should I do the base after?
I think it's best if I can stabilise it actually and then do your bit.
You let me know when you're finished
and then I will sort the base out for you. That's lovely.
Thank you very much. That's all right. Cheers.
I've got a couple of tiny, little pieces here.
Just not quite sure where this tiny one goes yet.
I just need to work that out.
The only sort of clue that I've got is a dotted line.
Ah, I think that's probably it here.
Just above the Maldives.
OK, so I'm going to go for this.
I'm going to pop my adhesive on
and I'm just going to go all the way around the world here.
Pop those together...
..like that. This is when I could do with a...
..spare hand.
I'm going to introduce a little bit of adhesive where the Maldives are.
Just ease that in.
Normally I actually use tape to hold things in place
but I'm worried if I were to apply tape to this
it might just damage the surface.
I'm going to leave it while the adhesive goes off.
Steve and Will are working together
to bring the dilapidated music box back to life.
Steve's given the components a thorough clean.
He can now turn his attention to getting the mechanism back on song.
I'm going to repair this damaged tip.
A previous restorer has corrected this fault
but his repair has failed so I'm going to do it again.
So what I've got to do is I've got to clean out his original slot
with this cutting disk,
which is happily the same thickness as our tooth tip
which is 10,000ths of an inch wide.
The teeth on the mechanism's comb
should strike corresponding pins on the revolving cylinder
to make the tune.
It's always a bit tense.
Steve's emergency dental work involves rebuilding the broken tooth
so that it hits the right note.
We tune it by removing mass,
so the lighter the tooth, the higher the note.
At the moment you can see...
HE PLUCKS ASCENDING SCALE
DISCORDANT NOTE
Oh. Wrong note.
So you don't have to be Mozart to understand that
we need a little bit of work there.
So I'll do that by just sort of little tweaks like that.
Remove some material and then give it a test.
HE PLUCKS NOTES
So it's too low at the moment so I carry on until I get near
the note that I think it's going to be
but the final tuning has to come
when the comb is attached to the mechanism and producing music.
While Steve's tweaking his teeth, Will's set about trying to rehome
the hundreds of loose and broken pieces from the wooden chalet.
So, how are you getting on with Suzanne's chalet?
Oh, the roof's done. That's all right.
Once I knew that these go on the roof then I could say,
"That's for the roof." Yeah.
I'm just basically putting stuff into smaller piles
and smaller piles and smaller piles.
And then it's just a process of elimination. Yeah, exactly.
And then you're making pieces on top of that.
That shutter on the front there, that's the only original
so I've actually replicated and put them on there.
What it sounds like to me is you just need to be left alone
in a corner to just get on with this.
Yes. Cos you've got a load of stuff to do. Thanks, Jay.
Goldsmith Richard is repairing the hinges
on the Victorian garnet bracelet,
but previous repairs have left the bracelet vulnerable to heat damage
and Richard with a tricky repair on his hands.
This hinge here is where it was previously joined
with the lead solder
so I'm going to have to cut out the old piece
with the lead solder on it, remove it and re-drill it,
and then rethread a bit of wire through it.
This here is one of the saw blades I'm going to be using to cut it out
and if you look really, really, really carefully,
you can even see some teeth on it.
Check it's tight... BLADE PINGS
..by pinging it.
So, with the very fine saw blade,
I'm cutting the inner part of the hinge.
Even with his superfine tools,
Richard must cut with pinpoint accuracy.
One slip could damage the fine metalwork or the garnet stones.
It's a very slow process, sawing.
You use the weight of the saw frame
to actually make the cut rather than pushing on it.
There you go.
There's the middle piece... has now been removed.
Now I've just got to get the pin out from either side.
Also easier said than done.
Such fine work needs minuscule machinery.
Richard's using a dental drill
to extract the pin from the hinge.
OK, so we're free both sides.
Richard's now going to build a new hinge
using tiny pieces of tubing which are then wired together.
But once again, earlier restoration attempts mean
he's got to tread very carefully.
Because Jane's bracelet has previously been repaired
with lead solder, we can't put any heat onto the piece
in order to affix the piece of tubing,
so I'm going to have to be using a laser welder which keeps
the proximity of the heat
right in exactly the area you want it and thus it doesn't affect
the rest of the bracelet.
Richard's going to use the laser welder to melt a minute thickness
of gold wire to join the new hinge to the bracelet.
So I'm looking through a microscope that's magnified to 20 times...
..and that microscope allows me to know exactly...
..where the piece is going to be hit by the laser beam.
I'm just now filling in the feeder wire...
..so we can get a good, strong join.
So now the piece of tubing is secure enough on this part of the bracelet
so I'm just going to offer it up to the second part.
This piece of wire would be cut back either side and joined.
There.
You've got a hinge.
Once the hinges are repaired,
Richard turns to the missing gemstones.
This bracelet has managed to lose quite a few of the garnets
over the years so I've had to get these replaced
with an exact same size, exact same colour and cut...
..which was not the easiest thing to do but managed to find them.
I just take a piece of beeswax here
to pick the stone up...
..and then place it into the cleaned up area where the stone will sit
and then we just take some tools.
This tool is called a setting pusher
and that just pushes up
against the metal that holds around the stone
and it sort of levers it in,
sort of burnishes it over the stone to keep it in secure.
That particular cluster is now full of the correct stones
and I'm pretty safe to say that when Jane looks at this bracelet,
she's not going to be able to notice which ones are the new ones
and which ones are the old ones.
On the other side of the workshop,
Kirsten has a big challenge on her hands
with a 19th-century miniature globe.
So I'm really looking forward
to seeing what's underneath
the bandage here on the globe.
I'm hoping that all the joins have gone together quite nicely.
I'm really pleased with the way that's gone together.
There's no stepping there at all, it feels secure.
I'm really pleased with that.
So how are you getting on putting the world to rights?
It's quite interesting actually.
I've been trying to have a look at this map
and actually it's just so tiny.
The underneath is actually that lovely sort of greeny colour
and you can sort of see quite well there,
but there's not actually much landmass on the bottom.
Right.
Steve let me borrow this so I can have a butcher's at this.
See what you can... See what I can see. Yeah.
This is amazing.
I can see people running around in there and all sorts. No, I can't.
Whoever did this...
..has really got...
This is really small handwriting.
Next Kirsten sets to work on the surface,
with a surprising choice of solvent.
So I'm just cleaning this globe.
I'm using some cotton wool swabs and some saliva
and the enzymes in the saliva work really well
to remove the surface dirt from this.
It's a very gentle way of cleaning
and it's actually quite a satisfying process,
seeing these different countries revealed.
There are some areas that are missing,
they've basically been lost,
and there's these tiny, little cracks as well,
which are going to need filling.
I have to be really careful that I don't actually go over the edges
and let the filler dry onto the map
because I'm not going to be able to
smooth it with sandpaper or abrasive
because that could damage the actual map itself.
With the cracks filled,
Kirsten needs Will's expert touch on the base.
Hi, Will. Hey.
Oh, the globe's looking really good.
It's getting there. It's not actually quite finished.
Oh... THEY CHUCKLE
There's still a few bits to work on
but I was wondering if you had a moment, if you could...
Ah, you mentioned cleaning up the base. Yeah. Yeah.
Let me have a little... That would be great.
..look. And sorting out that... Little squint that it has.
Yeah. What do you think?
I'm slightly worried that if you try and do something with it,
it's going to snap.
Do you know what? I'm going to straighten it in front of you now.
You're not. I am. Really? Yes. Seriously?
I promise I won't break it.
OK, yeah. I am slightly anxious.
I'm going to trust you, Will. Yeah.
Right?
Oh, my goodness.
So that's definitely straight, isn't it? Looks loads better.
Lovely. And you didn't break it. And I didn't break it.
Relief. OK. So that's the first thing.
I will give this a bit of a clean and polish up.
Lovely. Then I'll hand it back to you and then you can finish off
your last bits. Great. Lovely. OK.
All right, thanks, Will. That's all right.
To clean and open the grain of the wood,
Will uses white spirit.
Already that looks better, doesn't it?
He then applies a thin layer of polish
before it's ready to be returned.
Why, hello there. Hi.
HE HUMS FANFARE
Oh!
Gosh, that looks better. Doesn't that look a lot better?
Oh, wow. Fantastic.
It definitely looks a lot cleaner and a lot richer.
And it smells quite nice too.
That's just me. THEY LAUGH
Great. Thank you so much. That's all right. I appreciate it.
Nearly there. Thanks, Will.
His work on the globe complete,
Will can return to the music box.
He's painstakingly repairing and replacing
every single broken piece of the wooden chalet,
while Steve is putting the delicate mechanism back together.
What we're going to do now is
we're going to set the comb onto the bed plate
and we're going to check to see if we can align it as much as we can,
listen to the music and see what we've got.
Off we go.
TUNE PLAYS
CLICKING
You can hear the, "Tck, tck!" already.
Not good.
From a closer examination, I now know that I need to realign
the tips of the comb with the pins on the cylinder.
It's all little small adjustments and tweaks until we get some music
that's of the required standard.
Will has his own high standards to maintain.
Even though I have some more work to do on the actual chalet,
Suzanne mentioned that she remembers seeing a dog just on the front,
in front of the kennel, and it'd be really nice if I could actually
carve a replacement.
So I've got a really small piece of wood here
and I found an image of a dog with a very similar chalet
and I've just glued that on the front of a piece of wood.
I'll start carving in the shape and hopefully...
..the little dog...
..is exactly the right size.
It's really quite tricky.
Not only is it really small and I'm using really small carving tools,
but I'm having to think in 3D.
And one slight bit
of wood taken off too much,
it throws everything out of shape,
so I'm just going really slowly,
taking my time and making sure that my proportions are just right.
So I'm very happy with the little...
..dog.
I think it looks like a dog.
Kind of like a bit of a monkey dog.
I don't know if I need to take the ears down a bit.
But nonetheless I'm very pleased.
That looks like a dog to me.
Master Goldsmith Richard is restoring a garnet bracelet
that other jewellers had deemed beyond repair.
With Richard's skills and some state of the art equipment,
the bracelet is in one piece again.
Now he's got to get it gleaming.
I'm polishing the rear of the bracelet
using jeweller's rouge paste
and a bristle brush, and I'd say that's probably
the first time it's been cleaned in probably about 80 years.
Rouge, it's a ferrous oxide,
so it's basically like a lump of rust with some oil and it's...
When put on a high speed brush, it produces this fine lustre finish.
I'm just giving it a final little rinse in there
to get off any of the residues
and now if I just rinse that under some clean water and let that dry,
that'll be ready for Jane to come and see it.
The garnet bracelet had been handed down Jane's family line
for four generations,
but the toll of over 100 years of history had left it unwearable,
tucked away in a drawer.
I'm feeling very nervous now that it's time to pick up the bracelet.
I'm not sure what to expect.
I'd really given up hope
so it's very exciting to see what he's managed to do.
Hello, Jane. Hello. How are we doing? You all right?
Yes, I'm good, thank you. Hi, Jane. Good to see you again.
Hi, Richard. Nice to see you.
So what are you expecting to see underneath here then?
I don't really know.
I'm quite nervous.
I'm hoping it's a bracelet all in one piece,
but what it's going to look like... OK.
Shall we let her see it?
I think it's probably a bit unfair to make her wait any longer. It is.
Oh, my goodness.
Oh...
Can I touch it? Of course you can. You can.
Carefully! THEY LAUGH
I don't think I've ever seen it...
No, I've never seen it looking like that.
I just don't remember it looking...
..looking so beautiful.
It's just amazing. Well done. Done a good job, mate.
Fantastic.
That's music to my ears.
So what's going to happen with it now then?
Are you going to wear it or is it going to be passed down to anybody?
Well, for the time being, I'm going to wear it.
But, yes, I'm going to hand it on to my daughter in due course
so she can be the fifth generation
to love it and treasure it.
What do you think Mum would think of it now?
Oh, I think, I think she'd be thrilled, amazed.
I don't know how to thank you.
It's been an absolute pleasure.
Do you want to try it on then?
Yes, I'd love to try it on.
Are you going to do the honours? If it fits.
It fits beautifully. It's nice, innit?
When I used to play dressing up with it, it didn't look that good.
So looking at it now on your wrist, what does it remind you of?
Reminds me of my mother.
Yeah? Yeah. Absolutely.
It does.
I just remember her wearing it.
Brings her back.
I sincerely hope it gives you...
..you and your daughter, many, many further years of pleasure
looking at it and enjoying it. Oh, I think it will. Thank you.
So it looks like I don't have to wrap this up.
It's one that you're going to wear and walk away with, isn't it?
I can just go home, yes, wearing it.
Well, seems like you're happy. I'm very happy, I'm ecstatic.
Thank you for bringing it in. Thank you.
And thank you... It's been a pleasure. ..so much. Thank you.
Can't believe I've just seen my great grandmother's bracelet
in one piece. I haven't seen it like that for 40 years.
More than 40 years maybe.
It's just the most incredible feeling.
To put it on and see it on the way my mother used to wear it,
it's lovely. It's just...
Just feels wonderful.
I thought it was going to spend the rest of its days,
the rest of my days in a envelope in a drawer
until somebody after me threw it away.
And yet here it is. It's repaired and I can wear it.
The garnet bracelet may be complete
but there's still plenty going on in the workshop.
Over on Kirsten's work bench,
she's preparing to paint the repaired areas
on the miniature globe.
It's amazing how few colours you actually use generally
to actually get the colour that you need.
I think it needs a little bit more of the darker brown,
the raw umber,
just to sort of dirty it up a little bit.
It's been very interesting sort of getting to look at the world
as it was in the 1850s
and seeing all the countries and borders, continents.
It's just been very enjoyable.
While I've been looking at it very closely,
I did find a maker's mark.
So, Outline Of The Earth by J Mannings
and he was apparently a well known globe maker in the 18...
..I think the 1850s,
through to the 1860s.
When the tiny globe arrived at The Repair Shop,
it was broken in two and in serious need of restoration.
Owner Janet has returned to see what Kirsten has achieved.
It's been in the family for a number of years.
I don't think I've ever been able to spin it round
because it was in the china cabinet locked away.
I think when you see a globe, even in a shop,
you like to have a spin round to see how it goes
so it will be nice to be able to
spin this little miniature globe round
and for the rest of the family to see it.
Hi, there. Hello. Nice to see you, Janet. How are you?
All right. Looking forward to seeing what you've done. Are you?
Yes. I'm sure you're dying to have a look at this.
Oh, I am. Yes, please. OK, right, well, I won't keep you in suspense.
There we go.
Oh. That's lovely.
Goodness me, that's lovely. Thank you ever such a lot.
And I can even turn it round.
What's it like to see it sort of upright and spinning again?
Oh, it's lovely cos obviously I couldn't spin it before
in so many bits so, yes, and it looks very stable as well.
So that's lovely. Thank you.
You're very welcome. That's beautiful.
It's a nice thing to hold, isn't it? Yes, yes, it is.
Cos, I mean, it's only about the size of your hand, isn't it?
Yeah. There is a name on it, a maker's name.
Oh, is there? Oh, right. Yes. James Manning.
He was known as a globe maker from 1853 to 1860,
around that time. Oh, that's really interesting. Yes.
Well, I'm really pleased to see it repaired.
I suppose it's not too bad after about 160 years.
It was always there.
My brother, sister and I remember it being there.
I'm glad it's repaired and they'll be able to see it
as it was originally.
Yes, I'm delighted that you're happy with this. Well, I am. Thank you.
I'll just be careful with it. Yeah. Thank you.
It's been a real pleasure.
Lovely to meet you. Thank you, bye. Bye.
When my parents saw it, it was probably in working order.
It's only fallen to bits since I've had it really,
so I'm very pleased to have it repaired,
I'm glad to take it back in one bit and to show the rest of the family.
Steve and Will are on the home straight of their repair
of the music box.
For Steve, it's been a sprint to the finish.
Will's marathon still has a way to go. Hiya, Will. Hey. How you doing?
You haven't finished already, have you? Of course.
I feel like I got the short end of the straw.
I've still got another 2,000 pieces to glue on. I'm getting there.
I am winning. It might not look it, but I am winning.
Well, I've got a piece of wonderful 19th-century technology here
that you're going to house.
Slide the beast down.
Look at that! Perfect fit. Yeah, how about some music?
I'd love some music. On that happy note.
MUSIC BOX PLAYS
That sounds lovely.
Wistful stuff!
But maybe if we chose a more upbeat one, you'd work a bit faster.
Enough of that! OK. Good luck! I'd better get on with it.
I'll leave you to it. Thanks a lot, Steve. Cheerio.
When it arrived at The Repair Shop, this 200-year-old music box
was broken into thousands of pieces and hitting all the wrong notes.
Now, the newly renovated chalet is ready to be reunited with
owner Suzanne and her grandchildren.
I'm feeling very excited to be able to get my music box back.
I think it was quite a challenge for them to do it and I'm so
interested to see how they've got on with it.
I can't wait. I've waited quite a while. I'm very excited.
Hello! Hello. Come in. Nice to see you again. Here I am.
Yes, and you.
Right. Careful as you go. Are you excited? I'm very excited.
Are you as nervous as I am?
Highly nervous. Oh, my goodness! Right, well, are you ready for this?
SHE GASPS
Oh, my goodness!
It's amazing!
It's totally amazing!
I wouldn't have imagined it to look anything like that! It's great.
Oh, thank you!
Look what you've done! New shutters.
Yeah, new shutters.
And the snow stoppers. Snow guards.
Oh, my goodness! It's just gorgeous!
And... And...
..we have a new resident.
Do you want to unwrap him? Yes. There he is.
Oh!
The missing dog!
And he lives in his kennel.
You'd better give it a bit of a wind.
That's right.
MUSIC PLAYS
Oh, wow!
It's lost the hiccup.
I'm glad you said that.
It has!
Oh, my goodness! It's just how it should be, isn't it?
It is. Oh, you've worked so hard! Thank you so much! I have.
I know!
Oh, my goodness me!
And there are three other interested parties waiting in the wings.
Ailsa, Tess, Gus! Come on!
What have we got?
Come on, sweetie!
That's amazing!
And very vintage!
It is vintage. Look! Do you remember it when it was all broken?
Yes! Isn't it incredible?
Here's the dog! The dog kennel!
Where does he live?
In the dog kennel. You wanted the dog...
Wow!
I can't believe my music box.
It's just the most amazing thing!
It's beyond my wildest dreams.
I didn't think that anybody could have done such a good job on it.
The grandchildren have seen it broken and for their little
faces to see it mended, and just imagine it like I did,
like it's somebody's home.
I can tell them my memories and then they'll be able to make
memories of their own.
And hopefully, pass it down to the next generation,
which will be incredible.
Join us next time, as more precious pieces are rescued...
We've had to make things worse before we got better.
..and their cherished memories restored...
Oh, my Lord! ..in The Repair Shop.