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Welcome to The Repair Shop,
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where cherished family heirlooms
are brought back to life.
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This is the workshop of dreams.
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Home to furniture restorer,
Jay Blades.
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Nowadays everybody spends a fortune
on stuff that once it's broken,
they just bin it.
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But everybody has something that
means too much to be thrown away.
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And that's where we come in.
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Working alongside Jay will be
some of the country's leading
craftspeople.
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Every piece has its own story.
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It's amazing to think that some of
my work becomes part of that story.
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I've always played with things,
I've always repaired things.
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And I just love it.
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There is a real pleasure in bringing
people's pieces back to life again.
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Each with their own unique
set of skills...
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I can't wait to get started.
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..they will resurrect....
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..revive...
Come on, man! ..and rejuvenate...
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..treasured possessions and
irreplaceable pieces of family
history...
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Wow!
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..bringing both the objects...
She's fantastic!
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That's just taken me back 50 years.
..and the memories that they hold...
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THEY GASP
..back to life.
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Oh, my God!
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In The Repair Shop today,
silversmith Brenton uses talents
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he didn't know he possessed.
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This job comes with all sorts
of challenges.
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I didn't think I'd be a
plastic surgeon but here we go.
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The first nose
I've ever had to make.
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While furniture restorers
Will and Graham
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prepare to perform some
reconstructive surgery of their own.
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All of a sudden, I heard a big
scream and a crack and I rushed in
and Mum was on the floor.
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We just sat down and it went bang.
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Did you go for Mum first or did you
go for the chair first?
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Mum first! If I went for the chair
first, I wouldn't be standing here.
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But first to arrive at
The Repair Shop is Cheryl Matthews
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and her daughter Philippa,
from Wolverhampton.
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Hello. Nice to meet you. Likewise.
In you come, ladies.
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Cheryl and Pip have an unusual
timepiece
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that needs the expert eye
of Steve Fletcher.
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Hello. Hello. I'm Steve. Hello.
Nice to meet you. I'm Cheryl.
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Pip. Nice to meet you. Hi, Pip.
A lady holding a swinging clock.
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Yes. You said it swings.
What do you mean by "it swings"?
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Well, that little thing that's
fallen off, it pivots on this.
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And this has got little spikes on...
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And those spikes... And the two
spikes rest on that, and it swings.
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It's lovely to see it going, as
well.
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I've seen these before, they're
sometimes called a barmaid clock.
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Right. She's a barmaid, then, yeah?
So what's the story behind this one?
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It was my grandparents'
wedding present.
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Right. They got married
in the late '20s.
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They passed it on to my mum... OK.
..and then Mum passed it on to me.
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Unfortunately, it's in this
state now,
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so Mum gave it to me on the premise
that I looked after it.
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I don't feel like I've looked
after it. OK. It's in a box.
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So it would be lovely to get it back
in the way it should be.
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Nan doesn't know it looks like this,
does she? No.
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She knows it as fully-working, then.
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It was whole when she gave it me.
Not in a box in bits. No.
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OK. Oh, ho-ho!
We'll keep it a secret.
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THEY LAUGH
Won't tell her. She'll never know.
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When was the last time it was
working? About the '70s.
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Oh, right. OK. Yeah.
Not for a long time. No.
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It's always been awkward,
it's always been hard to keep going.
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It used to be on the mantelpiece.
Right.
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And if ever they leant on the
mantelpiece,
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the clock would stop swinging.
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So when my mum had it she put
a glass shelf
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in the corner of the room
so that nobody would touch it.
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OK. And it did used to swing but it
just never kept going, kept good
time.
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And there's obviously been
some work done to it.
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Yeah. My father-in-law tried
but unfortunately he's not a clock
or a watch mender.
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But, no, I couldn't get anybody
else to look at it. OK.
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I've been to two or three clock
menders and they wouldn't look it.
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I mean, they are regarded as a
slightly... A problem clock.
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Are they? That doesn't surprise me.
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THEY LAUGH
Yeah.
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And I can see that your
father-in-law's had fun and games
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getting this back off. Yes.
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Undoing it is a real
difficult thing,
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unless you know
what you're doing. Right.
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So there's lots of bits and pieces
in the box here, so I'm hoping that
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all the bits are here.
Yes, I think they are.
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I hope so. Yeah. That becomes a bit
of a problem. Yes.
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Not for you, Steve, nothing's a
problem for you. Come on.
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Makes it more difficult.
Let's put it that way.
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More difficult. Well, we can handle
that, can't we, Steve? Yeah, we can.
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Great stuff. Well, thank you for
bringing it in. Thank you very much.
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All right. Thank you very much.
You take care.
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I feel bad when I look at the clock.
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It's one of the few things that have
come down from my grandparents.
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Mum remembers it when she was a
girl, I remember when I was a girl
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and then because we're going down
the female line, it would be lovely
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to pass it down to Pip as well.
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Once Steve's finished with it, I
think I'll be kidnapping it off
you.
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I like it. You don't need it.
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You haven't got anywhere to put
it yet! Need a house first.
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Then I've got a clock already, so...
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So this is a problem clock. You know
about these kind of ones.
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Some of them are problem clocks,
yeah,
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and this one really has been
through the mill.
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So why are these clocks a big
problem, then?
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Because they have a small
weight inside
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that just swings one way
then the other,
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just enough to swing the pendulum
one way and another as well.
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So that will explain when they was
leaning on the mantelpiece,
it would stop working.
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Well, exactly. All of that. Yes.
So all these things you know.
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Fully in control. Yep.
Everything's going to be hunky-dory.
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I'm hoping all the bits are there.
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I'm really hoping all the bits
are there. Hoping all the bits are
there.
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Well, I'm going to wish you luck.
All right. All right, see ya.
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Cheryl's father-in-law has had real
fun and games,
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especially trying
to get the back off of it.
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And also on this shaft here, he's
filed it almost half away.
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This is not uncommon to see this
sort of thing happen to clocks
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when people are
trying to fix it themselves
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and don't know the right
way of doing things.
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They can often cause more damage...
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..than cure the problem.
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I'm really hoping that I've got
all the rest of the bits and pieces.
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I think I have, actually, and the
rest of the stuff in this box
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that she brought along, has got
nothing whatsoever to do with the
clock.
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So everything I've got is here.
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These swinger or mystery clocks
were first patented in the 1860s.
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This one dates from the early 20th
century
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and was a popular model made by the
German clockmakers, Junghans.
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The other thing I need to do
is take this dial off
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and take this over to Kirsten.
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I know she'll make a lovely job
at filling these chips.
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So it's over to The Repair Shop's
ceramics conservator Kirsten.
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Hi, Steve. Well, that's very diddy,
isn't it? It is diddy.
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What do you reckon?
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Obviously it's been bashed around,
hasn't it?
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It's lost quite a lot of the enamel.
It has, yeah.
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Yeah, I mean, I can certainly do,
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like, a coloured fill on that for
you. OK. I'll do my best.
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Brilliant. Get my special specs out.
Excellent. OK.
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Not a desperate hurry. 25 minutes?
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LAUGHS
Leave it with me. OK.
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Liz Bradbury has brought
a tarnished memento
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given to her by a very special lady.
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Silversmith Brenton West
is standing by.
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Hi, you must be Liz. Hi.
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I'm Brenton. Oh, nice to meet you,
Brenton. What have you brought?
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I have brought my Great Auntie
May's silver hand mirror. OK.
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At least I think it's silver.
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Let's have a look.
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Oh. Isn't that lovely?
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Oh, dear. Yes.
We're missing some glass. Yes.
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Can you remember the moment that
Great Aunt May gave you this?
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Yes, very clearly.
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She invited me into her bedroom
which, as children,
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we didn't normally
go in to her bedroom. OK.
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Did you think you were in trouble,
or...
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Well I did sort of though,
because I thought, "Oh,"
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you know, "What does she want?"
sort of thing.
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and I knew it was something
special to her
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because she took it
off her dressing table
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and I was overwhelmed, really,
because... I bet you were.
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I was quite a little child
at the time and it seemed such
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an important, precious item.
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So shiny and silvery and grown up.
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Tell me, what did
Great Auntie May mean to you?
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Does this bring back memories
of her?
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Oh, it certainly does.
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Once a year, we always went
to stay with her,
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my dad, my mum, and myself
and my brother. OK.
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She made it a lovely little
family holiday for us
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in her little terraced house in
Swansea.
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We always used to have
a lovely time there,
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and she always used to take
the best care of us.
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My father was one of her nephews
and she used to look after him
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when he was little as well. Really?
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She is one of these ladies
that was in the background.
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But always there as well. Always
sort of holding everything together.
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It's a lovely item. I love it.
It looks like it's silver.
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Do you know if there's
any marks on it?
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Any hallmarks or anything?
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Is there something...on the handle?
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No. I can't see.
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Oh, is that something
at the end there?
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Or is that just a dent?
That's just a dent, I think.
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Well, also, the lady's nose
is missing.
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OK. Yeah, I can see that. I might
have to make a new nose for her.
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A little dainty nose. A little
dainty nose for the lady.
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Yeah. OK. And then we need
to do a bit of repair on that
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and then, obviously, a new mirror.
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I regard it as a sort of a tribute
to Auntie May, really.
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It was important to her and it's
come to represent her love and her
kindness.
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Right. It's priceless to me.
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When I hold the mirror, I'm always
sort of transported back
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to when I was a child and my
holidays,
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and that's what the mirror means to
me, it means...
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..it means love, really.
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So this is, this is a lovely, lovely
mirror and I know it means an awful
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lot to Liz to have it repaired.
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We've got a bunch of dents in here
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that need to be... Need
to be removed.
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And of course it needs a really,
really good polish.
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The silver is very thin.
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What happens is the thinnest parts,
where they're raised up here,
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get worn away if it's put down
on a dressing table or if it's
polished too hard.
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This poor little thin, hollow nose
is the highest point on the mirror.
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It's the first thing that's going to
hit the table when you put it down.
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And her nose has completely
disappeared.
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So we're going to make her a solid
nose so that it lasts a bit longer
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than her old hollow nose
she used to have.
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Inside, I'm going to be heating
up some pitch,
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which is what it had originally -
that's what this black is here.
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I'll be putting the pitch in
to give the silver strength again
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and to give the mirror some weight.
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Now with the strategy in place
for this Art Nouveau looking glass,
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Brenton can tackle
all the tarnished silver
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with a trick he's used for years.
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I'm going to put
some aluminium foil,
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baking soda and some hot
water in the bowl.
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It's ordinary baking soda,
so it's not poisonous.
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No exact amount, just a good
old dollop of it.
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You may put your own
piece of silver in here,
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as long as it's silver on its own,
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no pieces of wood or ivory
or...if it's got...
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If it's still got its mirror in it,
I would not recommend this.
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If it's a silver spoon
or something like that,
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or a coin, it will be fine.
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The silver has to be in contact
with the aluminium paper,
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the aluminium foil,
for the reaction to occur.
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And, indeed, if you look at it
you can see
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it's starting to clean up already.
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So I'm just going to put this in.
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Leave it in the aluminium foil, I'll
probably put that over the top of it
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and we'll leave that for ten minutes
or so and we'll come back
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and check it when it's done its bit.
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Back inside the workshop,
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Steve has discovered that a key
component of the barmaid clock
is beyond repair.
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This has been really badly damaged.
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The barrel arbor, and key.
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The barrel arbor is the axel which
tightens the mainspring,
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to power the clock movement.
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Without it, the timepiece
can't be wound up.
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I'm going to cut this end off.
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I'm going to drill it.
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And then put a new piece in it.
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That will have a square on it.
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And once I've done that you'll be
able to slide a key onto it,
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in the normal way that you would
put a key into a clock.
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That's quite a complex job, but
I'm going to get on with it now.
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There we go.
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This watchmaker's lathe
is a lovely piece of kit...
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..for keeping things really
accurate.
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The next job is I've got to make up
the square.
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The little pivot that goes
into that hole.
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I'm going to make a square out
of this blue steel.
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This blue steel is really,
really strong.
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When you put a key on it and turn
it, it's not going to bend.
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It's not going to break.
It should be absolutely fine
255
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once I put it in there,
it's very tough material.
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Good. So that's perfect.
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So next stage is I'm going
to turn it down
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so that it's the right diameter
to fit into this hole.
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That's a really good tight fit.
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And job's a good 'un.
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At her workbench, ceramics
conservator Kirsten
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has cleaned decades of dirt
from the antique clock face.
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But it's exposed several
deep chips in the enamel.
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My plan now is to actually just try
and do a colour fill on these areas
of loss.
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So for that I'm going to just use,
like, an adhesive,
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which is specially
made for ceramics and glass,
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and hopefully that's going to fill
these areas
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and mimic the enamel quite nicely.
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I'm going to add quite a lot
of titanium white
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in the hope that it will make this
fill quite opaque
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and block out the copper
that's on the base.
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I'm going to try a little bit
here and see how it's looking.
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I think that's looking quite good.
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While Kirsten
works on the clock face...
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..Steve is cleaning the rest of the
parts, which have accumulated
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years of grime from sitting above
Cheryl's grandmother's fireplace.
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You usually see a clock on the
mantelpiece above a fire,
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which is not a good place
for a clock.
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Because you get all the heat and
dust coming up from the fire.
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I'm talking about open fires,
mainly.
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This is very old-fashioned
clock-cleaning fluid,
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it's an ammonia-based
water solution.
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It's really quite satisfying
cleaning up clock parts.
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You know when you get it back
together again, the whole clock's
going to look beautiful.
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And also the next clockmaker can see
that it was done very well
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the last time, and there's
a certain pride knowing that
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you're handing it on to the next
clockmaker to take it apart
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in the order that they know it's
been looked after well in the past.
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Next to arrive is Joanne Silverstein
and her daughter Lisa,
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with a distinctive piece of
furniture that's had
a catastrophic accident.
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I'm Will. I'm Joanne. Joanne, very
nice to meet you. I'm Lisa.
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Lisa. Very nice to meet you.
Lisa. Hi, Joanne. Graham.
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I'm Lisa, the daughter. Hello.
We've been expecting you with this
interesting chair!
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That I presume shouldn't be
in two pieces. No, absolutely not.
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Is this an Eames chair?
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It's an Eames lounge chair.
It's called a model 670.
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The Repair Shop are calling on the
expertise of mid-century
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furniture restorer Graham Mancha.
299
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It's definitely an Eames chair and
it's a real one, because there's a
lot of copies.
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This is quite an iconic chair
and I'm sure I've seen this before
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with...is it like a footrest or an
ottoman, or...
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Yes, there is a foot stool.
Yes, I do have that.
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Do you? Right, so you have the set.
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Well, I bought it in about 1962,
it's had plenty of use.
305
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It was the first piece of furniture
I bought for my flat.
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It was an iconic chair. You know,
it was THE furniture to have.
307
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What were you doing in the '60s?
I came over from America, right.
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I caught the accent. And I was
following a young photographer.
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He had been sent over by American
Vogue to work for English Vogue.
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Joanne and her late husband
Donald moved to London
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from America in the swinging '60s.
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Joanne was a model and successful
fashion designer.
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Donald was the go-to photographer
for the biggest stars of the fashion
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and music industries,
including Jimi Hendrix.
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He did a series of very famous
photos of Hendrix
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stripped to the waist,
and the big hair and so on.
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Wearing, like, a medallion. Yeah.
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Meeting those musicians
was quite exciting. I can imagine.
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I wanted to keep the chair for Lisa
because it was her father's
favourite chair.
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Spent a lot of time in it,
lots of memories,
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just sitting there and us
being children, running around
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while he was sitting in the chair,
watching all of us.
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00:18:44,040 --> 00:18:48,040
After two daughters,
four grandchildren spinning around,
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it's pretty well done-in.
325
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But it lasted all these years
until recently,
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when we just sat down
and it went bang.
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It literally just...snapped.
328
00:18:56,840 --> 00:18:59,080
Literally... Snapped, snapped,
snapped. Yes.
329
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I was with Mum and I went in to
the kitchen to make a cup of tea.
330
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All of a sudden, I heard a big
scream and a crack and I rushed in.
331
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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.
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And I thought, "Oh, no. That's it."
That's it. Never happened.
337
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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
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Because the chair depends on key
points,
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which are these rubber mounts
under the arms,
342
00:19:40,800 --> 00:19:42,440
and what's probably happened...
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In fact, I'm sure what's happened
here, because it's broken here,
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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is to actually get the thing up
and running again
366
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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
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Graham has become one of the world's
authorities in restoring these
chairs
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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
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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
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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.