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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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Anything could happen. This is the workshop of dreams.
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Home to furniture restorer Jay Blades.
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Nowadays, things are not built to last,
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so we've become part of this throwaway culture.
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It's all about preserving and restoring.
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We bring the old back to new.
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Working alongside Jay will be some of the country's leading craftspeople.
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I like making things with my hands.
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I love to see how things work and I want to know how things work.
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Whether it's a Rembrandt or somebody's family piece,
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every painting deserves the same.
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Each bringing their own unique set of skills.
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You're about to witness some magic.
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They will resurrect...
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- ..revive...
- Oh, yes!
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..and rejuvenate...
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..treasured possessions
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and irreplaceable pieces of family history.
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Oh, my goodness me, it looks like it's new!
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Bringing both the objects...
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SHE GASPS
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Oh, wow!
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..and the memories that they hold back to life.
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Oh, thank you!
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In the Repair Shop today...
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Bosh, bish, bash.
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..furniture's Batman and Robin - Jay and Will - pull some heroic moves
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to rescue a 100-year-old chair.
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Wow, that's impressive.
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- Where there's a Will, there's a way!
- There's a way!
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THEY LAUGH
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While Guillaume Pons,
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a specialist ceramics conservator,
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works on a stunning mother-of-pearl peace.
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First customers of the day are Scott Ferguson and Diana Colleran,
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here to see the Repair Shop's resident ceramics restorer, Kirsten Ramsay.
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- Hello.
- Hello.
- How we doing?
- Good, thank you very much, very well.
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OK, so what have we got here?
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A majolica stick stand formed as a bulldog.
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It's a bulldog?
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Yes. Poor Sweet Pea, I think he's missing a bit of tail.
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So you call him Sweet Pea?
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- He's called Sweet Pea?
- He is, look.
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Ah, bless!
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He was already christened that, yes.
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- Looks a bit Frankenstein now, doesn't he?
- He does.
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At least all the pieces are there.
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It looks quite crude but the pieces are all there,
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so you haven't got to make anything up,
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- apart from a few little spots here and there.
- That's true.
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That makes it easier. Right.
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Well, I don't know about easy, but...
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- THEY LAUGH
- ..it certainly helps, yes.
- It helps.
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Antique collectors Diana and Scott live in Lincolnshire with
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their two dogs, Ginger and Lily.
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- Come on, good girl.
- They're both barking about bulldogs.
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One day I was speaking to one of my colleague dealers and he said,
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"I've got this bulldog figure, it's quite badly damaged,
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"smashed about a bit, do you want it at all?"
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I said, "Yes, that would be lovely, thank you very much.
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I went into work one day and it was just there.
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It was a big smashed-up pottery bulldog called Sweet Pea.
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When Scott brought Sweet Pea home, I took one look and I thought,
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"Oh, my goodness!"
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"What's that?" It was a face only a mother could love!
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Sweet Pea was assigned to sit by the front door,
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as pride of place under the stairs belonged to another very special
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bulldog, their beloved pet, Harvey.
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He was part of the family.
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A mainstay of the family.
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He was a good guard dog, he barked.
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He was always attentive to anything going on around the place.
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Harvey had been part of the family for eight years when tragedy struck.
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Harvey started to limp initially.
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The vet diagnosed arthritis, which, erm...
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got very bad very quickly, and after X-rays the word used
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was "mashed", they were shot.
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There was nothing they could do to help him, really,
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so we made the decision for Harvey, not for us, for Harvey, to...
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..to have him put to sleep.
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He couldn't be in that pain, so we had to do it, and as you can see...
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..quite a while after, I'm still...
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He was a big part of our lives.
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- HE SNIFFS
- Sorry.
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Having the space filled under the stairs with Sweet Pea
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has just sort of helped us get over it a bit.
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It's softens the blow.
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It helps us cope.
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It is a memorial to Harvey and it would just mean an awful lot to see
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the silhouette out of the corner of your eye, have a bulldog sat alert.
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It would mean quite a lot to get fixed, really.
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What I'd like to do is clear off all this sort of old adhesive and stick
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it back, nicely, so it looks a lot better than it does.
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And his tail, is there anything...
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Oh, dear, oh, dear!
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OK, guys, if you leave it with us and we'll get back to you
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once we've fixed it. It will look a lot better than it does now.
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- Absolutely.
- Thank you very much.
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- You guys take care.
- Thank you, bye-bye.
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You've got the sentimental value which is directly linked to Harvey.
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Absolutely. That responsibility.
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- It is a big responsibility.
- Yeah.
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So I'm just applying the paint stripper now.
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This should start to break down the previous adhesive
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which will enable me to remove it
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and undo the previous repair.
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- What have you done? You've covered him up.
- Yes, I've covered him up.
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It's to hold the active chemicals in place...
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- OK.
- ..so it can work on the adhesive.
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That's the ugliest thing I've ever seen in my life, really.
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He's going to look a lot more beautiful when I've finished.
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From fading masterpieces...
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The purpose of the filling is to actually bring up the surface.
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..to clocks that have fallen silent.
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The Repair Shop squad is poised to repaint,
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reupholster and restore Britain's broken objects.
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Next to arrive is Sue Wright.
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She's been assigned to Frenchman Guillaume Pons,
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a specialist ceramics conservator who works with natural materials
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such as horn, amber and shell.
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What did you bring, then?
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I have a mother-of-pearl item.
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Sue's brought a seashell,
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intricately carved with a depiction of the Last Supper.
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It arrived in the family via an ancestor who travelled
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as part of his duties to the church.
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I'm not quite sure whether it's come from Brazil and that would have been
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about the beginning of the 20th century,
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or it's come back a lot further through various ministers
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in the family who have used it for
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baptisms or something like that.
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And what is the story behind Brazil, then?
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My grandfather was working out there.
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Oh, right. It's been broken how long?
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- Since 1960.
- Oh, right.
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Do you know who did the repair, no?
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- My mother.
- Right.
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It's got the yellow 1960s-type glue on there,
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and it obviously didn't hold.
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It looks like more or less everything is there,
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and the fact that your mother kept it for so long,
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keeping all the bits together, it must have meant a lot to her.
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It did. She was very upset when it broke, hence why she kept all the bits,
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so we're really looking forward to see if you can do something with it.
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Yeah, you will be very pleased, yeah.
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It looks very promising.
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He seems to be quite confident that it can be repaired back to pristine
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condition, which it hasn't been in for 60 years.
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First of all, what needs to be done is to clean, very well,
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the glue that was put in the '60s,
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so my work today is going to be
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to remove all the adhesive with a scalpel.
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It's time-consuming but it works very well.
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I'm very pleased with the cleaning, actually, it worked very well.
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I don't need to put
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much glue, just
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a little drop.
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It's a bit tricky to do the bonding, because the bits, as you can see,
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are very small, and you can't really
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put them together with tape.
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I will have to stick them together with some sticky wax.
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The wax holds the glued pieces tightly together,
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while the adhesive is drying.
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Done. So that means that...
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..we wait until tomorrow, until the adhesive has set...
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..and hopefully it's going to stay together,
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so tomorrow it should be finished.
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Guillaume's final task is removing the stabilising wax from the glued shell.
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All done now. I remove the sticky wax.
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You can see where it was broken.
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You can hardly see it now.
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It's been a very nice piece to work on and I'm very pleased with the results.
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On the other side of the workshop,
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Kirsten's plans for Sweet Pea the bulldog are coming unstuck.
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But not in the way she'd hoped for.
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It's not going very well, actually.
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It's proving incredibly difficult to get the old adhesive off Sweet Pea.
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I don't know what they used but it's absolutely rock hard
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and I've tried all my usual techniques to try and break down
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the repair and I'm just getting nowhere at the moment,
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so it's quite frustrating.
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- Will?
- Yeah.
- I know you keep suggesting a sledgehammer,
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but I wonder if you have any practical suggestions.
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You could try drilling.
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KIRSTEN LAUGHS
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- OK...
- Drilling, right, in the cracks with a really fine drillbit,
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or a really fine file, kind of like what dentists use on your teeth.
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I know, yeah. No, I've used...
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That is a really good idea.
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You go over to Steve, maybe if you offer to make him a cup of tea
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- or some toast.
- This workshop runs on tea, doesn't it?
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Exactly. Speak to Steve, I'm sure he can help.
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Look out, here comes trouble.
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I'm thinking I might actually try drilling through the little areas
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where there's... I've actually broken through.
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I've got a very, very fine dentist's drill.
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This drillbit should go in there really nicely.
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It's got a long reach to it as well, so you can go quite deep.
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OK, I'm going to give it a go.
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I just have to be really mindful of not damaging the break edges.
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I think that might be a bit ambitious. Turn it off.
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And that's definitely not the ceramics that's crunching, is it, Steve?
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That's adhesive, I'm sure.
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You're starting to make me nervous now!
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THEY LAUGH
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- Over to you!
- Give that to me!
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Despite careful drilling and filing,
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Kirsten has realised that
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she is in danger of further damaging the ceramic.
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I've tried absolutely everything I can possibly think of,
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and also asked around as well for a few of my conservator friends.
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So she's had to change tack.
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Instead of breaking Sweet Pea apart then putting him back together again,
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she's concentrating on improving the existing repairs.
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I'm now having to fill Sweet Pea,
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which is a little bit of a compromise.
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It's not ideal, but it's the only thing I can do,
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actually, in the circumstances.
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After filling and sanding several times to achieve the perfect finish,
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Kirsten must now disguise her repairs by creating the perfect colour match.
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I'm just starting to block in the colours and sort of try and hide
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the white fills that are there.
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There's lots and lots of different colours all over the face.
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The decoration under the glaze is very sort of spotty,
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so I kind of just stipple with my brush to recreate that effect.
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It's taken Kirsten days of dogged work to get Sweet Pea looking less
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rough, and she still has to put the spring back into his corkscrew tail.
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Putting Sweet Pea's tail back on is sort of a little bit like...
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..surgery.
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Restoring him to his former glory.
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It's really critical to get the shape absolutely right at this stage.
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You can sand it and shape it once it's cured, but it becomes very,
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very hard and it's much,
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much easier to do it now while it's soft and malleable.
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With the way everyone's sort of handling the objects,
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it's just having a respect for the pieces you're working on.
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At the end of the day, people have brought them to you because they're...
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They're precious items, so...
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..we handle them with care and respect.
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It's this ethos that drives the Repair Shop team,
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in their quest to recycle,
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renovate and rejuvenate items that were once consigned to the scrapheap.
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The next deserving item is being brought in
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by Scandinavian-born Nina Tucknott, who now lives in Hove.
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Oh. So this is your one, yes?
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This is my rocking chair.
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So, tell us about it.
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My maternal grandparents were given it for their wedding day,
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back in the late 1920s, and this was in Finland where I come from.
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And in 1960 in August, when my parents got married,
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they were given it in turn for their wedding.
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- Wow.
- And I am born in 1961 and it's been part of my life always.
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So, the '20s. Do the maths, you're younger than me.
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- That's nearly 100 years.
- Nearly 100 years.
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This is nearly 100 years old!
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So I'm told. My grandparents had a big farm and it was always in
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what they call the salon, and then my parents,
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it was always in the lounge, but I know as a child,
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I suffered very badly from severe ear infections,
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and my mum and dad used to take turns sitting at night rocking me
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- in this chair.
- So much history.
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I mean, I have never seen a rocking mechanism like this before, never,
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never. It's so simple, but really effective.
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Yes, it is. It means you don't topple over.
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You can go back a long way but it keeps you quite safe.
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It's a bit worse for wear.
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This down here has always looked like that,
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and my mum used to stuff it with cotton wool because it used to annoy
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her having a hole! Since before it came on the journey to England,
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this chipped off so it's never... There was a little piece there,
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but that went on the journey when it came over.
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The one thing I would love fabric-wise,
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to feature a little bit of red.
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This is the farmhouse that my grandparents had,
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and this is a very typical Scandinavian colour,
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so I kind of feel the red, a little bit of red in the fabric
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would just sort of tie it back, back to home, sort of thing.
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- Do you reckon you could do the wood?
- I think I can handle the wood.
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You can handle the fabric?
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The fabric, yeah. I love going a bit of red, that's not...
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And the painting, um...
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- Yeah, does need... It's had a couple of coats.
- It has.
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The last time my dad did it and I was a little girl
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so it was back in the '60s! So it's not been done since!
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All right. OK, well, if you leave it with us, we'll fully restore it.
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Can't wait, that would be wonderful.
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- Thank you, Jay.
- Thank you.
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Thank you, and to you, Will, thanks, bye!
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I don't know how it's held on together.
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Because there's a cable going from this end on the left side,
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and that goes into the back leg on the left side,
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and there's a cable on this side, and that goes down into this side,
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so it's sort of like an X.
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- I'm with you.
- So you're never going to flip off because you're being
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- held from the other direction.
- Yeah.
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So simple, but like, really clever.
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I get the feeling that they really, really liked it,
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and they're obviously excited about bringing it back to its former glory.
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If you don't mind, bring it over to me bench, will you?
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- Yeah.
- Nice one.
- That's all right. If you make some space...
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- I will do.
- ..I'll be there in about 45 minutes!
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- THEY LAUGH
- All right.
- Oh, that's lovely.
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Over on Kirsten's workbench,
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Sweet Pea the bulldog's grooming session is nearly complete.
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Sounds like you got a new toy.
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Kept that quiet, didn't you?
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- You love a bit of kit.
- I do love a bit of kit.
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I'm just doing a little bit of airbrushing on Sweet Pea.
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I've hand-painted most of it and I was actually just putting
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- a clear glaze over the top.
- Hold on, glaze is like the end, isn't it?
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- Well, yes.
- So the end is near.
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Well, the end is near, yes, I'm sort of in the final stages, really.
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Steve, come over here a minute, mate.
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Will, here we go.
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- All done?
- Sweet Pea.
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- All done, yeah.
- Amazing.
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When Scott and Diana left Sweet Pea at the Repair Shop, he was, well,
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a bit of a dog's dinner.
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Since Sweet Pea's been gone,
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Harvey has been at the forefront of our minds.
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The sooner Sweet Pea is back in the rightful place, I think we move on.
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I won't keep you waiting any longer, I've got him just here.
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It's not Sweet Pea as you know him.
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Sweet Pea mark two.
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- Are you ready?
- We're ready!
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- Definitely ready, yes.
- OK. There he is.
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SHE GASPS
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- So...
- Wow.
- The eyes are all...
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- Just wow.
- Oh, my goodness me.
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- Wow.
- Good grief.
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Obviously, the tail was missing as well.
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- Fantastic.
- I hope that's the right...
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No, that's beautiful.
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- It's perfect.
- I can't get over this.
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Sweet Pea looks stunning, and I think the tail is the icing on the cake,
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to have the whole thing finished off and the colour match as well,
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around the head, the shading - beautiful.
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And the inside, have you seen the inside?
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How the heck have you done that?
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Well...
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You're a miracle worker.
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- Thank you very much.
- No, thank you.
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- This is the lady you've got to thank, not me, she's done all the work.
- It has been a pleasure.
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I'm so, so pleased that you're happy.
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Yes.
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I think it will help us draw closure.
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I think once Sweet Pea's back where he should be....
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- It's the final chapter, yeah.
- Yeah.
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Back inside the Repair Shop,
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Jay's getting to grips with the 100-year-old rocking chair.
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To me, this looks a bit home-made,
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because you've got this Regency fabric just stitched onto,
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looks like the back of some hessian, but actually,
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I think it's a bit of carpet.
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You're making some serious progress.
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- Yeah, it is, actually.
- But you're missing some pieces,
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- there's a piece off the top.
- No, I'm not missing any pieces,
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you're the guy that's sorting out the pieces, so I'm not missing them,
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they're just in your brain, your fingers, and you're going to do it all, ain't you?
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So I need a bit on here and then there's a bit on there that I need.
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I got the other bit, it's just drying at the moment.
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- So where are you going?
- I'm going to get my stuff!
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- Oh, you're going to get your stuff.
- I can't do it all in my mind
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- and my fingers.
- What are you going to do anyway?
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- You're going to make... You're going to fix this, aren't you?
- Yeah.
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I have some really cool mould-making stuff.
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- OK.
- And I think what I'll do, because we can't replace these...
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I think these are made out of metal, and they screw on to the inner
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wiring, but what I could do is make a mould of that and make that
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out of plaster or something.
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Will repairs the hole with a fast-setting filler,
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before using a silicon-based putty
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which hardens to form a mould of the missing button.
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Easy with the back.
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- Easy, tiger!
- WILL LAUGHS
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- You keep on doing it!
- I keep on doing it.
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I am apologising profusely.
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Take it off, let's have a look.
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It's got to look like... Cor blimey.
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It does look like it, as well.
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And it's hard already.
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Wow. That's impressive.
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- Hey, hey?
- Well done.
- Where there's a Will...
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- There's a way!
- There's a way!
- THEY LAUGH
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Jay will have to down tools momentarily.
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With ceramicist Guillaume having left the Repair Shop
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after completing the restoration of the mother-of-pearl shell,
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it's up to Jay to hand it back to its owner, Sue.
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Hello, Sue, how are you doing?
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- You all right?
- Fine, thank you.
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You've come for your mother-of-pearl shell, is that right?
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- Yes, I have.
- Two minutes.
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Sue's about to see her rare and beautiful heirloom intact
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for the first time in almost 60 years.
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- SUE GASPS
- Guillaume has done a brilliant job,
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- I believe.
- That is absolutely wonderful.
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I'm... The pieces that were broken off were down in this bottom
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right-hand corner here.
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And it's difficult to see where it is!
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He's just done such a wonderful job on it.
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He has, hasn't he?
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- Yes.
- What would Mum think of this now?
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Oh, she'd be thrilled, because obviously, having kept all the bits,
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- it would have been her ideal, I think, to get it mended.
- Yeah.
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And it never happened.
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So where is this going to be placed in your house now?
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Well, I think it needs to be framed, safe, because it's still delicate,
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- rather than on a plate stand.
- I totally agree with you.
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With a similar velvety or something,
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- dark-coloured background to show it off.
- To show it off.
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So what I'll do is I'll get it wrapped up now,
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and allow you to take it home
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- and enjoy it some more.
- Thank you very much indeed, thank you.
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- No problem.
- I was absolutely amazed at the wonderful craftsmanship
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that Guillaume has done on it. I'm just in awe of them.
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I'm so grateful to have it back.
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With another satisfied customer on her way, it's back to work for Jay,
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and there's final flourishes to add to the 100-year-old rocker.
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Bosh, bish, bash, bam, bam, bam.
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Done.
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- What do you think, then, guv?
- I reckon that is really, really smart.
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I love that little touch there.
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That just sets it off beautiful.
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- Will's done proud on there.
- He's done a great job.
- Carved it in.
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And this little bit here as well.
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- Has he turned it up?
- Well, he's made it out of plaster.
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What? He's a skilful chap.
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- (Don't tell him!)
- I know, I know, I have problems telling him.
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- Ladies.
- THEY LAUGH
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- All right?
- Yeah, we're good.
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- Hears his name...
- And he's straight in there.
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- So, it's done, what do you reckon?
- That's like a chair version of you.
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It's true. Oh, yeah, it is, actually!
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In fact, if you sat on there, you'd be camouflaged, wouldn't you?!
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You jokers! You know I don't sit on a chair.
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No-one sits on it until the owner.
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Restoration complete, Nina's beloved chair is rocking up in Hove...
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..with her two sons Sebastien and Lucas taking charge of this family
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- treasure.
- Both Will and Jay seemed very excited when they first got the
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chair in the Repair Shop and they both seemed very confident.
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It was a bit scary for me to leave it there and not know what was going
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- to happen.
- The chair is really important for my mum.
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It's always been there, really.
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It's just kind of been something that we've always played with,
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it's always been, literally, part of the furniture.
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- You ready to see it?
- Yes, I'm ready to see it.
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Here we go.
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Wow!
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Amazing.
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Look at that lovely red piping on the side, which is what I wanted,
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a bit of red to remember and remind me of Grandma and Grandad's farm.
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And look at this. A new lease of life.
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And look down here, they've put a new covering on there.
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That used to just be a hole and you could see right through.
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Precious, absolutely precious.
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I just wish they could be here and I could say thank you so much,
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because they've...they've
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done a really grand job with it.
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Brings back so many happy memories, doesn't it?
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It's brilliant, isn't it?
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It's priceless, because obviously there's so much history I remember,
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and also because I'm living in a different country,
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every time I look at it, it does bring back memories of the farm,
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memories of my mum.
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It is part of my life, it is very,
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very important and that's why we have it and we'll keep it.
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Can you rock? Can you rock?
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It's really important to recreate those kind of moments.
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We've had photos in the chair and it's so nice to see Hayden
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in the chair as well and re-capture those memories and hopefully,
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in many, many, many years,
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his children will have photos in the chair as well.
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Join us next time as more items receive the Repair Shop treatment
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and are given a new lease of life.40665
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