1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:03,800 Welcome to The Repair Shop, 2 00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:06,720 where cherished family heirlooms are brought back to life. 3 00:00:06,720 --> 00:00:08,680 This is the workshop of dreams. 4 00:00:08,680 --> 00:00:11,560 Home to furniture restorer, Jay Blades. 5 00:00:11,560 --> 00:00:15,920 Nowadays everybody spends a fortune on stuff that once it's broken, they just bin it. 6 00:00:15,920 --> 00:00:19,880 But everybody has something that means too much to be thrown away. 7 00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:21,200 And that's where we come in. 8 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:25,720 Working alongside Jay will be some of the country's leading craftspeople. 9 00:00:25,720 --> 00:00:27,920 Every piece has its own story. 10 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:31,400 It's amazing to think that some of my work becomes part of that story. 11 00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:34,440 I've always played with things, I've always repaired things. 12 00:00:34,440 --> 00:00:36,120 And I just love it. 13 00:00:36,120 --> 00:00:40,200 There is a real pleasure in bringing people's pieces back to life again. 14 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:43,040 Each with their own unique set of skills... 15 00:00:43,040 --> 00:00:45,120 I can't wait to get started. 16 00:00:45,120 --> 00:00:46,960 ..they will resurrect.... 17 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:50,800 ..revive... Come on, man! ..and rejuvenate... 18 00:00:51,960 --> 00:00:56,520 ..treasured possessions and irreplaceable pieces of family history... 19 00:00:56,520 --> 00:00:58,680 Wow! 20 00:00:58,680 --> 00:01:01,040 ..bringing both the objects... She's fantastic! 21 00:01:01,040 --> 00:01:05,880 That's just taken me back 50 years. ..and the memories that they hold... 22 00:01:05,880 --> 00:01:08,560 THEY GASP ..back to life. 23 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:10,600 Oh, my God! 24 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:30,840 In The Repair Shop today, silversmith Brenton uses talents 25 00:01:30,840 --> 00:01:32,880 he didn't know he possessed. 26 00:01:32,880 --> 00:01:34,840 This job comes with all sorts of challenges. 27 00:01:34,840 --> 00:01:38,760 I didn't think I'd be a plastic surgeon but here we go. 28 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:41,280 The first nose I've ever had to make. 29 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:43,800 While furniture restorers Will and Graham 30 00:01:43,800 --> 00:01:47,640 prepare to perform some reconstructive surgery of their own. 31 00:01:47,640 --> 00:01:51,560 All of a sudden, I heard a big scream and a crack and I rushed in and Mum was on the floor. 32 00:01:51,560 --> 00:01:53,800 We just sat down and it went bang. 33 00:01:53,800 --> 00:01:56,920 Did you go for Mum first or did you go for the chair first? 34 00:01:56,920 --> 00:02:00,840 Mum first! If I went for the chair first, I wouldn't be standing here. 35 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:08,320 But first to arrive at The Repair Shop is Cheryl Matthews 36 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:12,120 and her daughter Philippa, from Wolverhampton. 37 00:02:12,120 --> 00:02:15,720 Hello. Nice to meet you. Likewise. In you come, ladies. 38 00:02:15,720 --> 00:02:18,800 Cheryl and Pip have an unusual timepiece 39 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:21,120 that needs the expert eye of Steve Fletcher. 40 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:25,960 Hello. Hello. I'm Steve. Hello. Nice to meet you. I'm Cheryl. 41 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:29,320 Pip. Nice to meet you. Hi, Pip. A lady holding a swinging clock. 42 00:02:29,320 --> 00:02:32,760 Yes. You said it swings. What do you mean by "it swings"? 43 00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:36,880 Well, that little thing that's fallen off, it pivots on this. 44 00:02:36,880 --> 00:02:39,240 And this has got little spikes on... 45 00:02:39,240 --> 00:02:42,320 And those spikes... And the two spikes rest on that, and it swings. 46 00:02:42,320 --> 00:02:44,520 It's lovely to see it going, as well. 47 00:02:44,520 --> 00:02:48,360 I've seen these before, they're sometimes called a barmaid clock. 48 00:02:48,360 --> 00:02:52,640 Right. She's a barmaid, then, yeah? So what's the story behind this one? 49 00:02:52,640 --> 00:02:56,040 It was my grandparents' wedding present. 50 00:02:56,040 --> 00:02:58,480 Right. They got married in the late '20s. 51 00:02:58,480 --> 00:03:02,600 They passed it on to my mum... OK. ..and then Mum passed it on to me. 52 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:05,600 Unfortunately, it's in this state now, 53 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:08,160 so Mum gave it to me on the premise that I looked after it. 54 00:03:08,160 --> 00:03:10,880 I don't feel like I've looked after it. OK. It's in a box. 55 00:03:10,880 --> 00:03:13,640 So it would be lovely to get it back in the way it should be. 56 00:03:13,640 --> 00:03:15,680 Nan doesn't know it looks like this, does she? No. 57 00:03:15,680 --> 00:03:18,240 She knows it as fully-working, then. 58 00:03:18,240 --> 00:03:23,160 It was whole when she gave it me. Not in a box in bits. No. 59 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:25,520 OK. Oh, ho-ho! We'll keep it a secret. 60 00:03:25,520 --> 00:03:28,120 THEY LAUGH Won't tell her. She'll never know. 61 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:30,280 When was the last time it was working? About the '70s. 62 00:03:30,280 --> 00:03:33,200 Oh, right. OK. Yeah. Not for a long time. No. 63 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:37,320 It's always been awkward, it's always been hard to keep going. 64 00:03:37,320 --> 00:03:39,880 It used to be on the mantelpiece. Right. 65 00:03:39,880 --> 00:03:42,320 And if ever they leant on the mantelpiece, 66 00:03:42,320 --> 00:03:44,320 the clock would stop swinging. 67 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:47,360 So when my mum had it she put a glass shelf 68 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:50,000 in the corner of the room so that nobody would touch it. 69 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:56,880 OK. And it did used to swing but it just never kept going, kept good time. 70 00:03:56,880 --> 00:04:00,960 And there's obviously been some work done to it. 71 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:08,000 Yeah. My father-in-law tried but unfortunately he's not a clock or a watch mender. 72 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:10,360 But, no, I couldn't get anybody else to look at it. OK. 73 00:04:10,360 --> 00:04:14,160 I've been to two or three clock menders and they wouldn't look it. 74 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:18,080 I mean, they are regarded as a slightly... A problem clock. 75 00:04:18,080 --> 00:04:21,000 Are they? That doesn't surprise me. 76 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:22,920 THEY LAUGH Yeah. 77 00:04:22,920 --> 00:04:27,360 And I can see that your father-in-law's had fun and games 78 00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:29,240 getting this back off. Yes. 79 00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:31,600 Undoing it is a real difficult thing, 80 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:34,160 unless you know what you're doing. Right. 81 00:04:34,160 --> 00:04:38,040 So there's lots of bits and pieces in the box here, so I'm hoping that 82 00:04:38,040 --> 00:04:41,000 all the bits are here. Yes, I think they are. 83 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:44,000 I hope so. Yeah. That becomes a bit of a problem. Yes. 84 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:46,880 Not for you, Steve, nothing's a problem for you. Come on. 85 00:04:46,880 --> 00:04:49,200 Makes it more difficult. Let's put it that way. 86 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:52,200 More difficult. Well, we can handle that, can't we, Steve? Yeah, we can. 87 00:04:52,200 --> 00:04:55,560 Great stuff. Well, thank you for bringing it in. Thank you very much. 88 00:04:55,560 --> 00:04:57,880 All right. Thank you very much. You take care. 89 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:02,120 I feel bad when I look at the clock. 90 00:05:02,120 --> 00:05:06,080 It's one of the few things that have come down from my grandparents. 91 00:05:06,080 --> 00:05:09,000 Mum remembers it when she was a girl, I remember when I was a girl 92 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:12,280 and then because we're going down the female line, it would be lovely 93 00:05:12,280 --> 00:05:14,640 to pass it down to Pip as well. 94 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:18,120 Once Steve's finished with it, I think I'll be kidnapping it off you. 95 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:20,800 I like it. You don't need it. 96 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:23,280 You haven't got anywhere to put it yet! Need a house first. 97 00:05:23,280 --> 00:05:26,160 Then I've got a clock already, so... 98 00:05:26,160 --> 00:05:29,120 So this is a problem clock. You know about these kind of ones. 99 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:31,040 Some of them are problem clocks, yeah, 100 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:33,360 and this one really has been through the mill. 101 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:35,360 So why are these clocks a big problem, then? 102 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:37,520 Because they have a small weight inside 103 00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:39,880 that just swings one way then the other, 104 00:05:39,880 --> 00:05:43,200 just enough to swing the pendulum one way and another as well. 105 00:05:43,200 --> 00:05:46,680 So that will explain when they was leaning on the mantelpiece, it would stop working. 106 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:49,880 Well, exactly. All of that. Yes. So all these things you know. 107 00:05:49,880 --> 00:05:53,520 Fully in control. Yep. Everything's going to be hunky-dory. 108 00:05:53,520 --> 00:05:55,720 I'm hoping all the bits are there. 109 00:05:55,720 --> 00:05:58,680 I'm really hoping all the bits are there. Hoping all the bits are there. 110 00:05:58,680 --> 00:06:01,760 Well, I'm going to wish you luck. All right. All right, see ya. 111 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:10,240 Cheryl's father-in-law has had real fun and games, 112 00:06:10,240 --> 00:06:12,560 especially trying to get the back off of it. 113 00:06:12,560 --> 00:06:16,600 And also on this shaft here, he's filed it almost half away. 114 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:20,520 This is not uncommon to see this sort of thing happen to clocks 115 00:06:20,520 --> 00:06:22,680 when people are trying to fix it themselves 116 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:25,120 and don't know the right way of doing things. 117 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:27,520 They can often cause more damage... 118 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:30,920 ..than cure the problem. 119 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:33,800 I'm really hoping that I've got all the rest of the bits and pieces. 120 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:37,400 I think I have, actually, and the rest of the stuff in this box 121 00:06:37,400 --> 00:06:42,120 that she brought along, has got nothing whatsoever to do with the clock. 122 00:06:42,120 --> 00:06:44,360 So everything I've got is here. 123 00:06:45,400 --> 00:06:50,560 These swinger or mystery clocks were first patented in the 1860s. 124 00:06:50,560 --> 00:06:53,400 This one dates from the early 20th century 125 00:06:53,400 --> 00:06:58,240 and was a popular model made by the German clockmakers, Junghans. 126 00:06:58,240 --> 00:07:00,760 The other thing I need to do is take this dial off 127 00:07:00,760 --> 00:07:02,960 and take this over to Kirsten. 128 00:07:02,960 --> 00:07:06,520 I know she'll make a lovely job at filling these chips. 129 00:07:06,520 --> 00:07:11,760 So it's over to The Repair Shop's ceramics conservator Kirsten. 130 00:07:11,760 --> 00:07:14,120 Hi, Steve. Well, that's very diddy, isn't it? It is diddy. 131 00:07:14,120 --> 00:07:16,040 What do you reckon? 132 00:07:16,040 --> 00:07:18,480 Obviously it's been bashed around, hasn't it? 133 00:07:18,480 --> 00:07:21,600 It's lost quite a lot of the enamel. It has, yeah. 134 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:24,280 Yeah, I mean, I can certainly do, 135 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:28,520 like, a coloured fill on that for you. OK. I'll do my best. 136 00:07:28,520 --> 00:07:31,840 Brilliant. Get my special specs out. Excellent. OK. 137 00:07:31,840 --> 00:07:34,560 Not a desperate hurry. 25 minutes? 138 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:37,480 LAUGHS Leave it with me. OK. 139 00:07:46,920 --> 00:07:49,800 Liz Bradbury has brought a tarnished memento 140 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:52,640 given to her by a very special lady. 141 00:07:52,640 --> 00:07:55,520 Silversmith Brenton West is standing by. 142 00:07:55,520 --> 00:07:57,280 Hi, you must be Liz. Hi. 143 00:07:57,280 --> 00:08:01,040 I'm Brenton. Oh, nice to meet you, Brenton. What have you brought? 144 00:08:01,040 --> 00:08:05,200 I have brought my Great Auntie May's silver hand mirror. OK. 145 00:08:05,200 --> 00:08:07,560 At least I think it's silver. 146 00:08:07,560 --> 00:08:09,480 Let's have a look. 147 00:08:09,480 --> 00:08:11,400 Oh. Isn't that lovely? 148 00:08:11,400 --> 00:08:15,400 Oh, dear. Yes. We're missing some glass. Yes. 149 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:18,720 Can you remember the moment that Great Aunt May gave you this? 150 00:08:18,720 --> 00:08:20,800 Yes, very clearly. 151 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:24,280 She invited me into her bedroom which, as children, 152 00:08:24,280 --> 00:08:27,240 we didn't normally go in to her bedroom. OK. 153 00:08:27,240 --> 00:08:29,000 Did you think you were in trouble, or... 154 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:31,880 Well I did sort of though, because I thought, "Oh," 155 00:08:31,880 --> 00:08:34,440 you know, "What does she want?" sort of thing. 156 00:08:34,440 --> 00:08:36,440 and I knew it was something special to her 157 00:08:36,440 --> 00:08:39,320 because she took it off her dressing table 158 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:41,840 and I was overwhelmed, really, because... I bet you were. 159 00:08:41,840 --> 00:08:44,120 I was quite a little child at the time and it seemed such 160 00:08:44,120 --> 00:08:46,120 an important, precious item. 161 00:08:46,120 --> 00:08:49,160 So shiny and silvery and grown up. 162 00:08:49,160 --> 00:08:52,280 Tell me, what did Great Auntie May mean to you? 163 00:08:52,280 --> 00:08:54,520 Does this bring back memories of her? 164 00:08:54,520 --> 00:08:56,360 Oh, it certainly does. 165 00:08:56,360 --> 00:08:58,960 Once a year, we always went to stay with her, 166 00:08:58,960 --> 00:09:01,720 my dad, my mum, and myself and my brother. OK. 167 00:09:01,720 --> 00:09:04,400 She made it a lovely little family holiday for us 168 00:09:04,400 --> 00:09:07,480 in her little terraced house in Swansea. 169 00:09:07,480 --> 00:09:09,960 We always used to have a lovely time there, 170 00:09:09,960 --> 00:09:12,080 and she always used to take the best care of us. 171 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:15,960 My father was one of her nephews and she used to look after him 172 00:09:15,960 --> 00:09:17,800 when he was little as well. Really? 173 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:20,200 She is one of these ladies that was in the background. 174 00:09:20,200 --> 00:09:24,680 But always there as well. Always sort of holding everything together. 175 00:09:24,680 --> 00:09:29,320 It's a lovely item. I love it. It looks like it's silver. 176 00:09:29,320 --> 00:09:31,400 Do you know if there's any marks on it? 177 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:33,120 Any hallmarks or anything? 178 00:09:33,120 --> 00:09:36,680 Is there something...on the handle? 179 00:09:36,680 --> 00:09:38,840 No. I can't see. 180 00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:42,360 Oh, is that something at the end there? 181 00:09:42,360 --> 00:09:45,560 Or is that just a dent? That's just a dent, I think. 182 00:09:45,560 --> 00:09:48,640 Well, also, the lady's nose is missing. 183 00:09:48,640 --> 00:09:52,080 OK. Yeah, I can see that. I might have to make a new nose for her. 184 00:09:52,080 --> 00:09:54,920 A little dainty nose. A little dainty nose for the lady. 185 00:09:54,920 --> 00:09:58,240 Yeah. OK. And then we need to do a bit of repair on that 186 00:09:58,240 --> 00:10:01,160 and then, obviously, a new mirror. 187 00:10:01,160 --> 00:10:05,800 I regard it as a sort of a tribute to Auntie May, really. 188 00:10:05,800 --> 00:10:12,200 It was important to her and it's come to represent her love and her kindness. 189 00:10:12,200 --> 00:10:14,520 Right. It's priceless to me. 190 00:10:16,880 --> 00:10:20,360 When I hold the mirror, I'm always sort of transported back 191 00:10:20,360 --> 00:10:23,760 to when I was a child and my holidays, 192 00:10:23,760 --> 00:10:27,080 and that's what the mirror means to me, it means... 193 00:10:28,880 --> 00:10:30,920 ..it means love, really. 194 00:10:34,680 --> 00:10:39,000 So this is, this is a lovely, lovely mirror and I know it means an awful 195 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:41,600 lot to Liz to have it repaired. 196 00:10:41,600 --> 00:10:43,720 We've got a bunch of dents in here 197 00:10:43,720 --> 00:10:46,000 that need to be... Need to be removed. 198 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:48,120 And of course it needs a really, really good polish. 199 00:10:48,120 --> 00:10:49,960 The silver is very thin. 200 00:10:49,960 --> 00:10:53,760 What happens is the thinnest parts, where they're raised up here, 201 00:10:53,760 --> 00:10:57,920 get worn away if it's put down on a dressing table or if it's polished too hard. 202 00:10:57,920 --> 00:11:01,760 This poor little thin, hollow nose is the highest point on the mirror. 203 00:11:01,760 --> 00:11:05,280 It's the first thing that's going to hit the table when you put it down. 204 00:11:05,280 --> 00:11:07,880 And her nose has completely disappeared. 205 00:11:07,880 --> 00:11:12,000 So we're going to make her a solid nose so that it lasts a bit longer 206 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:14,280 than her old hollow nose she used to have. 207 00:11:14,280 --> 00:11:17,360 Inside, I'm going to be heating up some pitch, 208 00:11:17,360 --> 00:11:20,400 which is what it had originally - that's what this black is here. 209 00:11:20,400 --> 00:11:23,520 I'll be putting the pitch in to give the silver strength again 210 00:11:23,520 --> 00:11:25,600 and to give the mirror some weight. 211 00:11:28,880 --> 00:11:33,080 Now with the strategy in place for this Art Nouveau looking glass, 212 00:11:33,080 --> 00:11:36,280 Brenton can tackle all the tarnished silver 213 00:11:36,280 --> 00:11:38,720 with a trick he's used for years. 214 00:11:38,720 --> 00:11:41,920 I'm going to put some aluminium foil, 215 00:11:41,920 --> 00:11:44,880 baking soda and some hot water in the bowl. 216 00:11:44,880 --> 00:11:47,600 It's ordinary baking soda, so it's not poisonous. 217 00:11:47,600 --> 00:11:51,560 No exact amount, just a good old dollop of it. 218 00:11:51,560 --> 00:11:54,080 You may put your own piece of silver in here, 219 00:11:54,080 --> 00:11:56,200 as long as it's silver on its own, 220 00:11:56,200 --> 00:11:59,760 no pieces of wood or ivory or...if it's got... 221 00:11:59,760 --> 00:12:03,200 If it's still got its mirror in it, I would not recommend this. 222 00:12:03,200 --> 00:12:05,200 If it's a silver spoon or something like that, 223 00:12:05,200 --> 00:12:07,200 or a coin, it will be fine. 224 00:12:07,200 --> 00:12:10,000 The silver has to be in contact with the aluminium paper, 225 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:13,680 the aluminium foil, for the reaction to occur. 226 00:12:13,680 --> 00:12:15,880 And, indeed, if you look at it you can see 227 00:12:15,880 --> 00:12:18,600 it's starting to clean up already. 228 00:12:18,600 --> 00:12:20,240 So I'm just going to put this in. 229 00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:23,520 Leave it in the aluminium foil, I'll probably put that over the top of it 230 00:12:23,520 --> 00:12:26,560 and we'll leave that for ten minutes or so and we'll come back 231 00:12:26,560 --> 00:12:29,080 and check it when it's done its bit. 232 00:12:35,200 --> 00:12:37,760 Back inside the workshop, 233 00:12:37,760 --> 00:12:43,440 Steve has discovered that a key component of the barmaid clock is beyond repair. 234 00:12:43,440 --> 00:12:45,680 This has been really badly damaged. 235 00:12:45,680 --> 00:12:48,360 The barrel arbor, and key. 236 00:12:48,360 --> 00:12:52,440 The barrel arbor is the axel which tightens the mainspring, 237 00:12:52,440 --> 00:12:54,840 to power the clock movement. 238 00:12:54,840 --> 00:12:57,960 Without it, the timepiece can't be wound up. 239 00:12:57,960 --> 00:13:01,760 I'm going to cut this end off. 240 00:13:01,760 --> 00:13:03,840 I'm going to drill it. 241 00:13:03,840 --> 00:13:06,480 And then put a new piece in it. 242 00:13:06,480 --> 00:13:09,000 That will have a square on it. 243 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:13,360 And once I've done that you'll be able to slide a key onto it, 244 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:16,480 in the normal way that you would put a key into a clock. 245 00:13:16,480 --> 00:13:21,600 That's quite a complex job, but I'm going to get on with it now. 246 00:13:26,760 --> 00:13:28,200 There we go. 247 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:35,160 This watchmaker's lathe is a lovely piece of kit... 248 00:13:37,400 --> 00:13:39,880 ..for keeping things really accurate. 249 00:13:39,880 --> 00:13:43,960 The next job is I've got to make up the square. 250 00:13:43,960 --> 00:13:46,440 The little pivot that goes into that hole. 251 00:13:46,440 --> 00:13:49,800 I'm going to make a square out of this blue steel. 252 00:13:49,800 --> 00:13:52,840 This blue steel is really, really strong. 253 00:13:53,840 --> 00:13:57,080 When you put a key on it and turn it, it's not going to bend. 254 00:13:57,080 --> 00:14:00,240 It's not going to break. It should be absolutely fine 255 00:14:00,240 --> 00:14:03,120 once I put it in there, it's very tough material. 256 00:14:15,920 --> 00:14:17,560 Good. So that's perfect. 257 00:14:17,560 --> 00:14:19,880 So next stage is I'm going to turn it down 258 00:14:19,880 --> 00:14:23,400 so that it's the right diameter to fit into this hole. 259 00:14:40,200 --> 00:14:42,720 That's a really good tight fit. 260 00:14:42,720 --> 00:14:45,000 And job's a good 'un. 261 00:14:46,440 --> 00:14:49,840 At her workbench, ceramics conservator Kirsten 262 00:14:49,840 --> 00:14:53,480 has cleaned decades of dirt from the antique clock face. 263 00:14:53,480 --> 00:14:57,280 But it's exposed several deep chips in the enamel. 264 00:14:57,280 --> 00:15:03,760 My plan now is to actually just try and do a colour fill on these areas of loss. 265 00:15:04,800 --> 00:15:07,760 So for that I'm going to just use, like, an adhesive, 266 00:15:07,760 --> 00:15:11,840 which is specially made for ceramics and glass, 267 00:15:11,840 --> 00:15:15,040 and hopefully that's going to fill these areas 268 00:15:15,040 --> 00:15:17,480 and mimic the enamel quite nicely. 269 00:15:18,520 --> 00:15:21,200 I'm going to add quite a lot of titanium white 270 00:15:21,200 --> 00:15:25,840 in the hope that it will make this fill quite opaque 271 00:15:25,840 --> 00:15:29,640 and block out the copper that's on the base. 272 00:15:31,400 --> 00:15:35,480 I'm going to try a little bit here and see how it's looking. 273 00:15:38,200 --> 00:15:41,720 I think that's looking quite good. 274 00:15:41,720 --> 00:15:44,440 While Kirsten works on the clock face... 275 00:15:45,640 --> 00:15:49,480 ..Steve is cleaning the rest of the parts, which have accumulated 276 00:15:49,480 --> 00:15:54,560 years of grime from sitting above Cheryl's grandmother's fireplace. 277 00:15:54,560 --> 00:15:59,360 You usually see a clock on the mantelpiece above a fire, 278 00:15:59,360 --> 00:16:01,920 which is not a good place for a clock. 279 00:16:01,920 --> 00:16:06,400 Because you get all the heat and dust coming up from the fire. 280 00:16:06,400 --> 00:16:08,560 I'm talking about open fires, mainly. 281 00:16:10,520 --> 00:16:14,000 This is very old-fashioned clock-cleaning fluid, 282 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:16,760 it's an ammonia-based water solution. 283 00:16:18,040 --> 00:16:21,000 It's really quite satisfying cleaning up clock parts. 284 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:25,560 You know when you get it back together again, the whole clock's going to look beautiful. 285 00:16:25,560 --> 00:16:29,640 And also the next clockmaker can see that it was done very well 286 00:16:29,640 --> 00:16:34,320 the last time, and there's a certain pride knowing that 287 00:16:34,320 --> 00:16:37,440 you're handing it on to the next clockmaker to take it apart 288 00:16:37,440 --> 00:16:42,360 in the order that they know it's been looked after well in the past. 289 00:16:46,240 --> 00:16:50,440 Next to arrive is Joanne Silverstein and her daughter Lisa, 290 00:16:50,440 --> 00:16:55,800 with a distinctive piece of furniture that's had a catastrophic accident. 291 00:16:55,800 --> 00:16:59,320 I'm Will. I'm Joanne. Joanne, very nice to meet you. I'm Lisa. 292 00:16:59,320 --> 00:17:02,480 Lisa. Very nice to meet you. Lisa. Hi, Joanne. Graham. 293 00:17:02,480 --> 00:17:07,520 I'm Lisa, the daughter. Hello. We've been expecting you with this interesting chair! 294 00:17:07,520 --> 00:17:11,200 That I presume shouldn't be in two pieces. No, absolutely not. 295 00:17:11,200 --> 00:17:13,400 Is this an Eames chair? 296 00:17:13,400 --> 00:17:16,520 It's an Eames lounge chair. It's called a model 670. 297 00:17:16,520 --> 00:17:20,200 The Repair Shop are calling on the expertise of mid-century 298 00:17:20,200 --> 00:17:22,920 furniture restorer Graham Mancha. 299 00:17:22,920 --> 00:17:26,280 It's definitely an Eames chair and it's a real one, because there's a lot of copies. 300 00:17:26,280 --> 00:17:28,920 This is quite an iconic chair and I'm sure I've seen this before 301 00:17:28,920 --> 00:17:31,800 with...is it like a footrest or an ottoman, or... 302 00:17:31,800 --> 00:17:34,360 Yes, there is a foot stool. Yes, I do have that. 303 00:17:34,360 --> 00:17:37,120 Do you? Right, so you have the set. 304 00:17:37,120 --> 00:17:41,400 Well, I bought it in about 1962, it's had plenty of use. 305 00:17:41,400 --> 00:17:43,680 It was the first piece of furniture I bought for my flat. 306 00:17:43,680 --> 00:17:48,280 It was an iconic chair. You know, it was THE furniture to have. 307 00:17:48,280 --> 00:17:52,000 What were you doing in the '60s? I came over from America, right. 308 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:56,040 I caught the accent. And I was following a young photographer. 309 00:17:56,040 --> 00:18:01,160 He had been sent over by American Vogue to work for English Vogue. 310 00:18:02,640 --> 00:18:06,160 Joanne and her late husband Donald moved to London 311 00:18:06,160 --> 00:18:08,520 from America in the swinging '60s. 312 00:18:08,520 --> 00:18:11,840 Joanne was a model and successful fashion designer. 313 00:18:11,840 --> 00:18:15,760 Donald was the go-to photographer for the biggest stars of the fashion 314 00:18:15,760 --> 00:18:19,440 and music industries, including Jimi Hendrix. 315 00:18:19,440 --> 00:18:23,040 He did a series of very famous photos of Hendrix 316 00:18:23,040 --> 00:18:25,960 stripped to the waist, and the big hair and so on. 317 00:18:25,960 --> 00:18:28,720 Wearing, like, a medallion. Yeah. 318 00:18:28,720 --> 00:18:31,600 Meeting those musicians was quite exciting. I can imagine. 319 00:18:31,600 --> 00:18:36,040 I wanted to keep the chair for Lisa because it was her father's favourite chair. 320 00:18:36,040 --> 00:18:38,600 Spent a lot of time in it, lots of memories, 321 00:18:38,600 --> 00:18:41,160 just sitting there and us being children, running around 322 00:18:41,160 --> 00:18:44,040 while he was sitting in the chair, watching all of us. 323 00:18:44,040 --> 00:18:48,040 After two daughters, four grandchildren spinning around, 324 00:18:48,040 --> 00:18:50,560 it's pretty well done-in. 325 00:18:50,560 --> 00:18:52,920 But it lasted all these years until recently, 326 00:18:52,920 --> 00:18:55,200 when we just sat down and it went bang. 327 00:18:55,200 --> 00:18:56,840 It literally just...snapped. 328 00:18:56,840 --> 00:18:59,080 Literally... Snapped, snapped, snapped. Yes. 329 00:18:59,080 --> 00:19:02,640 I was with Mum and I went in to the kitchen to make a cup of tea. 330 00:19:02,640 --> 00:19:05,880 All of a sudden, I heard a big scream and a crack and I rushed in. 331 00:19:05,880 --> 00:19:07,000 Mum was on the floor. 332 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:09,800 Did you go for Mum first or did you go for the chair first? 333 00:19:09,800 --> 00:19:13,920 Mum first! If I went for the chair first, I wouldn't be standing here! 334 00:19:13,920 --> 00:19:16,160 So how did you feel when this broke? 335 00:19:16,160 --> 00:19:21,800 I was absolutely devastated because I had always promised Lisa this chair. Her father's chair. 336 00:19:21,800 --> 00:19:25,680 And I thought, "Oh, no. That's it." That's it. Never happened. 337 00:19:25,680 --> 00:19:30,600 Is this a straightforward-ish sort of break and mend? 338 00:19:30,600 --> 00:19:32,560 Well, it's not uncommon. 339 00:19:32,560 --> 00:19:34,560 I've seen a few of them like this. 340 00:19:34,560 --> 00:19:37,600 Because the chair depends on key points, 341 00:19:37,600 --> 00:19:40,800 which are these rubber mounts under the arms, 342 00:19:40,800 --> 00:19:42,440 and what's probably happened... 343 00:19:42,440 --> 00:19:45,400 In fact, I'm sure what's happened here, because it's broken here, 344 00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:48,160 this mount has come away and, unfortunately, the chair... 345 00:19:48,160 --> 00:19:50,480 Were you sitting in it when it broke? Yes. 346 00:19:50,480 --> 00:19:52,600 What's probably happened is, you sat in the chair, 347 00:19:52,600 --> 00:19:57,000 this went... Yes. ..and as it broke, you were leaning back, and it swung 348 00:19:57,000 --> 00:20:00,000 round and unfortunately instead of the mount coming away, 349 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:04,000 the plywood snapped. Right. So it's quite serious. 350 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:09,800 I think it can probably be fixed but it's going to actually require a new lower-back panel. 351 00:20:09,800 --> 00:20:13,680 Now, the problem there is this is Brazilian rosewood. 352 00:20:13,680 --> 00:20:17,560 You can't actually get it any more because it's an endangered species. 353 00:20:17,560 --> 00:20:23,760 So the new panel won't probably look quite like this, if that's OK. 354 00:20:23,760 --> 00:20:26,400 Well, that has to be, I imagine. 355 00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:29,200 It's the fact that we want it fixed, no matter how. 356 00:20:29,200 --> 00:20:33,120 Do you feel that it's going to be strong? It'll be strong, 357 00:20:33,120 --> 00:20:35,080 but within the constraints of the design. 358 00:20:35,080 --> 00:20:37,720 So if I have any great-grandchildren, 359 00:20:37,720 --> 00:20:39,280 they could still spin around? 360 00:20:39,280 --> 00:20:42,680 I think you could safely say they'd be OK to do that, one at a time. 361 00:20:42,680 --> 00:20:44,920 One at a time. One at a time, definitely. 362 00:20:44,920 --> 00:20:47,520 This chair's been loved, it's been at home, 363 00:20:47,520 --> 00:20:50,560 it's something you cherish and has a lot of memories 364 00:20:50,560 --> 00:20:54,000 and, to my mind, I would say probably the main thing 365 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:56,680 is to actually get the thing up and running again 366 00:20:56,680 --> 00:20:58,880 and make it reliable, and have it so it lasts. 367 00:20:58,880 --> 00:21:02,640 I think it'll be fantastic. It's such an emotional attachment to this chair 368 00:21:02,640 --> 00:21:08,520 and I so had promised to Lisa for so long that if I couldn't fulfil that promise, 369 00:21:08,520 --> 00:21:10,640 I...would feel very bad about that. 370 00:21:12,080 --> 00:21:15,360 Nice to meet you both. Nice to meet you. Good luck with the repair! 371 00:21:16,440 --> 00:21:20,440 I kind of feel a strong energetic connection with that chair 372 00:21:20,440 --> 00:21:23,440 and my dad, so that's why it's really, really important. 373 00:21:24,920 --> 00:21:29,120 Nice chair. It is. Or it was. Shame it's in two pieces. It is. 374 00:21:29,120 --> 00:21:33,320 I think it can be put back together and... You think? 375 00:21:33,320 --> 00:21:37,360 I'm pretty sure it can, in actual fact. Yes, it can. 376 00:21:37,360 --> 00:21:39,040 Not to be overly optimistic about it. 377 00:21:39,040 --> 00:21:41,840 Basically, we're going to replace the lower-back panel, 378 00:21:41,840 --> 00:21:43,760 that's this bit of plywood here, 379 00:21:43,760 --> 00:21:47,280 because this is a write-off. Yeah. The leather will be cleaned. 380 00:21:47,280 --> 00:21:49,760 I'm going to tidy the base up. 381 00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:52,200 And then it will be a case of putting the thing back together. 382 00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:55,360 Well, I will give you a hand back up to the bench. 383 00:21:55,360 --> 00:21:57,040 I'll take the lighter part. Yes. 384 00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:03,360 There have been many imitations of the Eames lounge chair. 385 00:22:03,360 --> 00:22:06,680 The original was designed by American husband and wife team 386 00:22:06,680 --> 00:22:09,520 Charles and Ray Eames in 1956. 387 00:22:10,560 --> 00:22:14,360 It remains a highly sought-after piece of fashionable furniture. 388 00:22:14,360 --> 00:22:18,680 Graham has become one of the world's authorities in restoring these chairs 389 00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:21,000 and knows them like the back of his hand. 390 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:24,480 This is the part of the back that has broken. 391 00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:29,080 Now, as I take this off, I can see that it's actually been repaired before. 392 00:22:29,080 --> 00:22:31,120 You can see that in the light just there, 393 00:22:31,120 --> 00:22:34,640 there's actually a slight sort of imperfection in the wood. 394 00:22:34,640 --> 00:22:38,760 It broke in, say, a similar fashion to what it's broken this time, 395 00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:41,560 except this time the wood snapped completely and you can't 396 00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:43,680 do anything with that. 397 00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:48,960 So, that's the broken panel that's going to be disposed of. 398 00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:50,920 That's scrap. 399 00:22:58,760 --> 00:23:01,320 Silversmith Brenton has come to the rescue 400 00:23:01,320 --> 00:23:04,280 of a treasured Art Nouveau hand mirror. 401 00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:07,760 Its glass is long gone and it's lost its lustre 402 00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:10,320 after years of languishing on a shelf. 403 00:23:10,320 --> 00:23:15,880 But thanks to a trick of the trade, this mirror may have a new lease of life. 404 00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:17,640 Hey, that's pretty good. 405 00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:22,080 It's got most of the black out of the details. 406 00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:24,560 It's going to want a final polish up, 407 00:23:24,560 --> 00:23:26,520 but that little trick's worked well. 408 00:23:26,520 --> 00:23:29,120 I'm going to give this just a gentle polish over, 409 00:23:29,120 --> 00:23:31,360 just to make it really, really shiny. 410 00:23:31,360 --> 00:23:33,400 It's still slightly dull. 411 00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:37,600 Now that decades of dark tarnish are erased, 412 00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:41,920 Brenton can concentrate on crafting a crucial missing feature. 413 00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:44,400 So this job comes with all sorts of challenges. 414 00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:47,560 I didn't think I'd be a plastic surgeon, but here we go. 415 00:23:47,560 --> 00:23:49,720 In all these years of silversmithing, 416 00:23:49,720 --> 00:23:51,640 this is the first nose I've ever had to make, 417 00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:54,000 and it's actually much more difficult than you think 418 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:57,800 cos a nose is a funny shape, and this is a tiny, tiny little nose. 419 00:23:57,800 --> 00:24:01,720 I'd love to have soldered a piece in there and banged another nose out 420 00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:06,320 but this metal is just so, so thin that if I did anything like that 421 00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:08,200 it would just split completely. 422 00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:12,240 So I've got to... I've got to look after the integrity of this mirror. 423 00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:14,640 So I'm going to put that through there. 424 00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:17,880 We can have a nice little button nose, like Liz wanted, 425 00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:20,880 or we can have a...big Pinocchio nose. 426 00:24:20,880 --> 00:24:23,800 I think that be a bit silly, so I think what we'll do, 427 00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:25,800 we'll go for the little button nose. 428 00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:29,040 I'm just going to glue that into the hole from behind. 429 00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:32,720 Next on the list, before he can fit a new piece of glass, 430 00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:36,160 Brenton must reinforce the structure of this fragile keepsake 431 00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:39,240 using a material called pitch. 432 00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:42,000 So this is pine resin. 433 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:45,720 It's just a hard resin that when it's hot becomes liquid 434 00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:47,760 and when it's cool... 435 00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:51,400 ..it's hard, and it's ideal for pouring in to hollow silver objects 436 00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:53,520 that are very thin metal. 437 00:24:56,280 --> 00:24:58,480 So, this will take a few minutes. 438 00:24:59,920 --> 00:25:02,400 So, the pitch is slowly melting. 439 00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:06,640 Once it's all liquid, I can pour it into the back of the mirror. 440 00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:10,280 So this smells like a pine forest in summer, which is... 441 00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:13,440 ..quite rewarding, actually. 442 00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:17,280 Pitch has been used to fill and give weight to pieces crafted from gold 443 00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:20,240 or silver sheets for hundreds of years. 444 00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:23,440 It was first discovered in early Islamic jewellery. 445 00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:27,400 We know it's ready when all of this pitch has melted. 446 00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:30,440 There's still a lump in there that's slowly melting, 447 00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:32,800 so any second now this will be ready. 448 00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:35,200 I don't want to pour it in and have a big lump sticking up 449 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:38,440 in the middle, cos the mirror won't fit in. It's got to be smooth. 450 00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:41,080 So I'm just warming the mirror up slightly, 451 00:25:41,080 --> 00:25:43,520 so it's not shocked by the heat of the pitch going in. 452 00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:45,840 The mirror's cold and the pitch is hot. 453 00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:49,680 Just better just to have it slightly warmed up. 454 00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:52,520 Silver is a really good conductor of heat, 455 00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:55,600 so it doesn't need much heat to do that. Right. 456 00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:58,360 So I'm just pouring the pitch now. 457 00:25:58,360 --> 00:26:01,000 Obviously, I can't put too much in or the mirror won't fit. 458 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:02,960 I've got to put just enough in, 459 00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:05,720 just to give that silver some strength. 460 00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:08,320 So this, because it's liquid, it's naturally self-levelling. 461 00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:13,000 If you look at the middle of that pitch you can see the old pitch 462 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:15,320 that was in there before. 463 00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:19,200 It's melting and floating to the top of my new pitch, which is quite nice. 464 00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:21,520 Right. Put that down there. 465 00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:25,280 Just got to level that a bit. 466 00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:30,760 So I'm just making sure there's enough room for the mirror. 467 00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:33,920 Just removing any pitch out of the way that's going to cause me problems, 468 00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:37,160 but I think that's about right now, so I'm going to leave that to set 469 00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:40,120 and then I'll try the mirror in there when it's cooled down. 470 00:26:40,120 --> 00:26:42,120 It'll probably take about half an hour. 471 00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:55,200 Restorer Graham Mancha is rescuing a 20th-century design classic, 472 00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:57,920 a genuine Eames chair. 473 00:26:57,920 --> 00:27:03,040 Now he's got it in bits, Graham examines the evidence. 474 00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:06,640 Within minutes, he's deduced the likely cause of the accident. 475 00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:09,160 A suspect shock mount. 476 00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:13,440 Essentially, to the untrained eye, I mean, it pretty much looks OK 477 00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:15,440 but in actual fact it's not. 478 00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:18,120 This mount is actually sagging, it's starting to twist 479 00:27:18,120 --> 00:27:20,080 and it's much lower. 480 00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:23,320 It means the back of the chair would be much lower than it should be. 481 00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:26,960 This one has been glued on before, which is the reason it broke this 482 00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:29,400 time, because it was an old mount 483 00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:31,560 and you can't really glue old mounts back. 484 00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:33,040 This is a new mount. 485 00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:38,280 The geometry of this and the alignment is perfectly square and straight. 486 00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:42,800 But badly fitted mounts aren't the only problem. 487 00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:45,240 The seating panel has a weak spot. 488 00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:48,200 I noticed earlier that on this side there's a split 489 00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:50,240 and it's not in just one laminate, 490 00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:54,560 it's actually, there's a couple of layers of laminate...have come away. 491 00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:58,720 So I'm going to use a gauge to actually just see how deep that is. 492 00:28:00,360 --> 00:28:02,760 So, that goes down quite a long way. 493 00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:07,280 Eames chairs are such precision pieces of engineering 494 00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:09,760 that any slight defect in a single component 495 00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:12,680 can have a knock-on effect. 496 00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:14,600 So, you've got a seven-layer ply. 497 00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:16,720 This is splitting over two layers, 498 00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:20,760 which severely compromises the structure. It's not very strong. 499 00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:23,440 And you're gluing the mount to that, and the whole back of the chair 500 00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:28,280 and the weight of the person sitting in it are taken by this area here. 501 00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:30,800 I don't really want Joanna to have another accident 502 00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:33,960 like she did when the thing broke recently. 503 00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:37,240 So what I'm going to do now is I'm going to glue all that 504 00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:39,520 and make sure it's structurally sound 505 00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:42,440 before I prepare and attach the new shock mounts. 506 00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:53,320 A few hours later, the base panel is now solid and safe. 507 00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:56,360 It does look, to me... 508 00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:01,280 ..all good. So the shock mount should be fine. 509 00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:04,680 I also noticed another thing I've got to do is the plate. 510 00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:08,360 You can probably see, if you look at that you can just see 511 00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:12,120 how bent it is along the straight edge. 512 00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:14,920 That's happened when the back fell off. 513 00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:17,480 So that needs to be straightened out. 514 00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:20,880 It's actually a very, very strong piece of metal. 515 00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:31,240 Every component of the cherished chair 516 00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:34,160 is examined, refurbished or upgraded. 517 00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:37,840 But the Brazilian rosewood panel that can no longer be sourced must 518 00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:40,440 be replaced with an alternative. 519 00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:41,920 How're you doing, Graham? Hi. 520 00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:44,280 Postman's been. Got a little parcel for you. Oh. 521 00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:46,640 Is that all right? Yeah. Is that the right one, though? 522 00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:48,880 Let's have a look. Is that the right colour? 523 00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:52,720 This is Santos. This is Rio rosewood. 524 00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:54,920 This is the closest we could get. 525 00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:58,440 Clearly there's a variance in the colour, this will wear in over time. 526 00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:01,640 OK, so then my question is, how are we... 527 00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:05,240 Is that...you're just saying, "OK, leave it like that and the sun will age it."? 528 00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:07,200 Or are we going to bleach this? 529 00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:09,120 I mean, it's possible to do that... Right 530 00:30:09,120 --> 00:30:11,680 ..but it's quite an involved process, and we considered this, 531 00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:13,040 Will and I discussed it. 532 00:30:13,040 --> 00:30:16,680 Joanne's been informed of that and the conclusion we came to 533 00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:19,120 was that it's best to leave it like this 534 00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:20,840 and it's an honest repair. 535 00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:22,800 OK. You've got to remember this is a repair. 536 00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:26,520 It's not conservation, and that is the most practical solution. 537 00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:28,920 It's an obvious repair and we can see that it's obvious, 538 00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:31,560 so we're going to leave it in that colour? Yes. 539 00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:41,320 After hours of long labour, it's finally time to reconstruct this 540 00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:43,720 pioneering piece of furniture. 541 00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:46,560 How's it going? It's good. If you can... 542 00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:53,040 ..offer that up. Yeah. That goes there like that. OK. 543 00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:55,440 And find the screws. 544 00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:01,160 One either side. Just do it finger-tight. Yeah. 545 00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:04,760 We're not too far away from completion. 546 00:31:04,760 --> 00:31:07,880 No, it's getting there. This is like flat-pack furniture, isn't it? 547 00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:10,280 Yeah, it's funny. It's funny you should say that. 548 00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:14,560 Charles Eames did try and design some furniture. 549 00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:17,240 There was a shelving system he designed, 550 00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:18,880 but it was a bit ahead of its time. 551 00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:20,720 In the end, it was actually mass... 552 00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:25,160 It was actually assembled in the factory because people couldn't handle building the stuff at home. 553 00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:27,520 It will take me an age to put this together. 554 00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:30,320 So the deal is, now that I've helped you with this, 555 00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:33,920 as soon as you get the upholstery on, I'm the first one then gets to sit in the chair. 556 00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:37,400 OK. Yeah. Deal? That's a deal. You can test it. 557 00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:39,120 Perfect. Deal. 558 00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:54,440 At his bench, Steve is also busy reassembling. 559 00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:56,840 He's getting ready to see if the barmaid clock 560 00:31:56,840 --> 00:31:58,880 will ever call time again. 561 00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:02,480 Been quite a nice clock to work on actually because... 562 00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:07,240 ..repairing the barrel arbor and doing some other repair work 563 00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:12,960 is proper clockmaking, which I particularly quite like so, nice. 564 00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:15,920 Nice job. Just hope it's going to work. 565 00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:21,720 This is quite a tricky piece to pop in. 566 00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:24,280 So this is a tiny, tiny little pendulum... 567 00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:28,600 ..that ticks one way and then the other way. 568 00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:31,840 And that's all the power it needs to swing... 569 00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:35,160 ..this big pendulum. 570 00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:38,720 I just think it's fantastic that a tiny, tiny little weight 571 00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:41,440 is just moving one way and then the other way. 572 00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:44,600 So it's the whole clock that acts as a pendulum 573 00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:46,800 that will regulate itself. 574 00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:51,400 But there is one part that Steve's still waiting to get his hands on. 575 00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:54,040 The enamel clock face. 576 00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:56,960 Fantastic. Thank you very much. 577 00:32:56,960 --> 00:32:59,880 Is that all right? That's brilliant. OK. Absolutely brilliant. 578 00:32:59,880 --> 00:33:01,800 I look forward to seeing her holding it. 579 00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:05,920 So it'll be swinging like that next time you see it. Very cheeky. 580 00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:07,800 THEY LAUGH 581 00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:29,400 With the clock reassembled, it's time to see if all Steve's hard work has paid off. 582 00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:33,720 This is the best part, really, of doing this job. 583 00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:36,720 Just to see whether it does tick or not. 584 00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:40,880 This is the... 585 00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:44,360 ..moment of truth. 586 00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:55,360 So far, so good. 587 00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:04,640 HE SIGHS Good. 588 00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:09,000 Fingers crossed it's going to carry on going. 589 00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:16,200 This unusual time piece arrived in bits after an attempted repair 590 00:34:16,200 --> 00:34:18,880 at home went wrong. 591 00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:23,040 But with some expert reconstruction and a little TLC, 592 00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:27,120 it's happy hour for the barmaid once again. 593 00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:31,320 And just in time for Cheryl and Pip's return. 594 00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:33,240 Hello. Hello. How are you? 595 00:34:33,240 --> 00:34:35,160 Fine, and you? Good, thank you. 596 00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:38,320 Nice to see you again. You too. You've been looking forward to this? 597 00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:40,000 We have, yes. 598 00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:41,400 What are you hoping for? 599 00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:43,840 I'm hoping for a perfect clock. 600 00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:45,320 A perfect clock. Oh, my word. 601 00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:48,160 I won't keep you in suspense any longer. 602 00:34:51,040 --> 00:34:54,520 Oh, she's lovely. She looks lovely. 603 00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:57,840 Smashing. Just as I remember it. That's lovely. 604 00:34:57,840 --> 00:35:00,400 Did you have to do a lot of work to it? 605 00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:02,640 A heck of a lot of work. Did you? Yes. Yeah. 606 00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:04,640 I'm not surprised. 607 00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:08,600 Having it working again, does that bring back any memories? 608 00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:12,000 Yes. Yeah, because I remember seeing it like that on the glass shelf. 609 00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:14,040 Now it's lovely to see it. 610 00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:17,680 In my mind's eye I can see it on the glass shelf in the living room. 611 00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:20,760 It's gorgeous. Lovely. Thank you. 612 00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:23,120 That's smashing. You're very welcome. 613 00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:25,680 Quite mesmerizing to watch, isn't it? It's lovely. It is. 614 00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:28,960 Yeah, yeah. And she looks really happy as well, doesn't she? 615 00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:31,720 Oh, Mum will be really, really pleased with it now. 616 00:35:31,720 --> 00:35:34,880 Excellent. All right. OK. All right. Bye. 617 00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:39,640 Oh, it's absolutely wonderful getting the barmaid clock back. 618 00:35:39,640 --> 00:35:43,000 So happy. Didn't think she'd be in such good condition. 619 00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:47,720 I've seen it with her holding the clock but I've never seen it ticking. It's just fabulous. 620 00:35:47,720 --> 00:35:50,680 It's just wonderful to see it working again. And it's family. 621 00:35:50,680 --> 00:35:53,080 It's not just an object. 622 00:35:53,080 --> 00:35:55,040 It made me think of my mum. 623 00:35:55,040 --> 00:36:00,360 She'd be so happy to see it working. Yeah. Cos it comes from Nan and Grandad. 624 00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:14,440 Silversmith Brenton is adding the final flourishes 625 00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:17,360 to an Art Nouveau hand mirror. 626 00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:22,160 Its transformation is a reflection of hours of Brenton's hard work. 627 00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:24,720 It arrived dull, dented 628 00:36:24,720 --> 00:36:29,000 and with several important features completely missing. 629 00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:33,640 Now, owner Liz is back to see her much-loved great aunt's mirror again. 630 00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:35,560 I'm really excited. 631 00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:39,120 I can't wait to see what Brenton has done 632 00:36:39,120 --> 00:36:43,720 and I'm hoping that he's mended the nose 633 00:36:43,720 --> 00:36:47,000 and that it's all shiny and new and it has a glass in it. 634 00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:49,800 Hi, Liz. Nice to see you again. Hi. Nice to see you again. 635 00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:52,440 All right. Evening, Liz. You all right? I'm fine, thanks. 636 00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:53,960 That's good. 637 00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:58,000 You've come to pick up... My Great Auntie May's silver hand mirror. 638 00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:01,360 And it had sort of Art Nouveau... I figure that's the one. 639 00:37:01,360 --> 00:37:03,920 Art Nouveau lady on the front. Right. 640 00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:07,560 And she had something missing, didn't she? Her nose was missing. 641 00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:13,600 There you go. Oh! 642 00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:15,640 SHE GASPS 643 00:37:15,640 --> 00:37:19,200 That is so beautiful! 644 00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:20,920 Thank you so much! 645 00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:22,960 May I? Of course! It's yours. 646 00:37:24,040 --> 00:37:27,280 Thank you, Brenton. It's all right. 647 00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:30,160 That is so beautiful. 648 00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:33,000 And she has got a nose. She has got a nose. 649 00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:34,920 She has got a nose! 650 00:37:34,920 --> 00:37:38,000 And she's... And you've cleaned it all for me. Thank you. 651 00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:40,880 It's beautifully shiny. I'm going to turn it round now and see. 652 00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:43,280 Oh! And it's got glass in it! 653 00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:45,080 I can see myself! 654 00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:49,640 That is so fantastic! So when was the last time you used that? 655 00:37:49,640 --> 00:37:53,560 Oh, about 15 years ago. Might be longer. 656 00:37:53,560 --> 00:37:56,800 I did try and get it repaired but nobody could do it. 657 00:37:56,800 --> 00:38:00,280 So... Come to the best here. Oh, my goodness. 658 00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:03,560 I'm not allowed to leap across here and give you a hug, am I? 659 00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:05,360 He can come around and give you a hug. 660 00:38:05,360 --> 00:38:07,840 He's a gentleman, he should be coming around to give you a hug. 661 00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:10,640 Can I? Oh, thank you so much. My pleasure. 662 00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:14,480 Thank you so much. My pleasure. My pleasure. Really lovely. 663 00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:18,200 I'm just thrilled because it brings back lovely memories for me. 664 00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:22,800 When I hold it, it takes me right back to the moment when she gave it to me... 665 00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:26,640 CLEARS THROAT ..and how amazed I was. 666 00:38:26,640 --> 00:38:32,000 It's a nice thing and it wanted repairing and bringing back to life. 667 00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:34,280 It's so lovely to feel and touch. 668 00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:36,840 Do I have to be really careful around this? 669 00:38:36,840 --> 00:38:40,360 Really careful around all of it. The nose is probably the strongest bit. 670 00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:44,120 Oh, right. The nose is about the only bit you don't need to be careful about, cos it's solid. 671 00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:47,640 But the rest of it, you have to be quite careful. OK. 672 00:38:48,720 --> 00:38:50,880 Oh, I'm thrilled to bits. Are you? Yeah. 673 00:38:50,880 --> 00:38:53,000 I really am. Good. That's the aim. 674 00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:55,120 Perhaps I can pass it on to someone. 675 00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:58,040 Who are you going to pass this on to? Well, I'm... 676 00:38:58,040 --> 00:39:01,840 You know, I might... One day, I might have a granddaughter. 677 00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:04,560 Because I've got two lovely sons. 678 00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:08,680 And one day they might have children. OK. 679 00:39:08,680 --> 00:39:11,760 Mind you, I don't know what I'll do if I have two granddaughters. 680 00:39:11,760 --> 00:39:14,040 Then you have got a problem, haven't you! 681 00:39:14,040 --> 00:39:16,600 I shall hang on to it as long as I possibly can. 682 00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:19,280 Right. So you're going to use it until you get a granddaughter. 683 00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:20,880 Definitely. Right. OK. 684 00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:27,800 I'm feeling really elated that my mirror has been mended. 685 00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:32,480 It looks just the way that it did when Auntie May gave it to me. 686 00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:35,200 Beautiful and shiny and lovely. 687 00:39:45,240 --> 00:39:49,880 Back in the workshop, the Eames lounge chair is undergoing a full 688 00:39:49,880 --> 00:39:53,600 service from an expert in mid-century designer furniture, Graham. 689 00:39:53,600 --> 00:39:56,880 So, the headrest cushion is identical to this one 690 00:39:56,880 --> 00:39:59,000 but it goes up the other way, 691 00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:02,520 and it's part of the design that these cushions can be rotated 692 00:40:02,520 --> 00:40:03,960 to even out the wear. 693 00:40:03,960 --> 00:40:06,720 Not a lot of people know that but it's actually part of the design 694 00:40:06,720 --> 00:40:11,040 that was intended to be done, as with the ottoman cushion 695 00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:12,720 and the seat. 696 00:40:12,720 --> 00:40:16,440 So that's the cushions done and now I'm going to put the arms on. 697 00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:24,360 Hey, Will. It's done. 698 00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:26,080 HE CHUCKLES 699 00:40:27,520 --> 00:40:29,560 Look at that. It looks really good. 700 00:40:29,560 --> 00:40:31,040 Thank you. Really good. 701 00:40:31,040 --> 00:40:34,720 And hopefully it functions as it should do. Let's see. 702 00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:40,240 Great. Be my guest. Lovely. 703 00:40:40,240 --> 00:40:43,000 Oh, that's good. Spin. 704 00:40:44,040 --> 00:40:46,080 That is really good. 705 00:40:47,240 --> 00:40:49,720 I probably need about five more minutes of testing. 706 00:40:49,720 --> 00:40:53,480 OK. Five minutes. Five minutes. Five minutes. 707 00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:55,960 This is lovely. 708 00:40:55,960 --> 00:40:58,600 The well-loved, well-used chair 709 00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:01,840 arrived scuffed, tired and broken in two. 710 00:41:03,440 --> 00:41:07,120 But now with the rosewood panel and broken mounts replaced, 711 00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:09,840 and the leather upholstery reconditioned, 712 00:41:09,840 --> 00:41:13,280 it's looking as good as it did in its heyday. 713 00:41:15,120 --> 00:41:19,160 It's now ready to be delivered back to Joanne and Lisa. 714 00:41:19,160 --> 00:41:23,080 Look, Mum. That's sitting on the Eames chair. The Eames chair. 715 00:41:23,080 --> 00:41:26,640 It was the very first piece of furniture I ever bought in England. 716 00:41:26,640 --> 00:41:29,560 I literally had one chair 717 00:41:29,560 --> 00:41:31,600 and a kitchen table. 718 00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:34,000 So it was a very important chair. 719 00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:36,720 Besides being a sort of icon chair. 720 00:41:36,720 --> 00:41:41,240 I'd rather have the one chair than lots of other furniture. 721 00:41:41,240 --> 00:41:44,760 Because it was such an exciting period in my life, 722 00:41:44,760 --> 00:41:46,520 it means a lot to me. 723 00:41:46,520 --> 00:41:48,520 OK, let's go. Oh! SHE GASPS 724 00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:50,840 Woohoo! Present! I love presents. 725 00:41:50,840 --> 00:41:53,320 And this is a big one. I know. 726 00:41:55,200 --> 00:41:56,480 Wow. 727 00:41:56,480 --> 00:41:59,880 Look how shiny it is! SHE GASPS 728 00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:02,920 Wow, look. 729 00:42:02,920 --> 00:42:05,160 Hold on, let's just see the back. Fantastic! 730 00:42:06,560 --> 00:42:09,720 Wow. Wow. God, that's amazing. 731 00:42:09,720 --> 00:42:12,640 It's incredible. This is the bit that was broken. 732 00:42:12,640 --> 00:42:15,880 Are you sure this is the same chair? It looks fabulous. 733 00:42:15,880 --> 00:42:18,840 Every bit of it looks fantastic. 734 00:42:18,840 --> 00:42:21,440 OK, Mum, I'm going for a spin. Don't break it again, please. 735 00:42:21,440 --> 00:42:25,000 You're much bigger now, remember. Exactly. 736 00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:27,040 Spin me round. Spin me round. 737 00:42:27,040 --> 00:42:29,240 SHE LAUGHS Fantastic! 738 00:42:29,240 --> 00:42:31,200 That's it. Once. Twice. Twice. 739 00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:33,400 OK. A-a-and... OK, now your go, Mum. 740 00:42:33,400 --> 00:42:35,880 That's enough. I'm going to have a sit. 741 00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:38,960 Oh, wow. You know, it feels better than it ever felt. 742 00:42:38,960 --> 00:42:41,280 Brings back all the memories, doesn't it? Of course. 743 00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:44,240 You can't replace this, can you? You can't. No, no. 744 00:42:44,240 --> 00:42:46,960 It's definitely, you know, part of a time. 745 00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:51,720 It was just a very special time, when I used to be able to sit 746 00:42:51,720 --> 00:42:55,440 with my dad quietly on the chair, so it's wonderful to have it back 747 00:42:55,440 --> 00:42:59,400 repaired and secure, and not to break again. 748 00:42:59,400 --> 00:43:01,920 Spin! More spin! 749 00:43:01,920 --> 00:43:04,400 I'm so thrilled. I'm so happy to have the chair back, 750 00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:06,800 and it's been done so beautifully. 751 00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:11,200 It's to stay forever with lots of swinging and fun and memories. 752 00:43:11,200 --> 00:43:13,080 Does that feel good? Ah, yes! 753 00:43:15,880 --> 00:43:19,200 Join us next time, as more precious pieces are rescued... 754 00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:21,760 We've had to make things worse before we got better. 755 00:43:21,760 --> 00:43:25,520 ..and their cherished memories restored... Oh, my Lord! 756 00:43:25,520 --> 00:43:27,560 ..in The Repair Shop.