03x03 - Swiss Chalet Music Box

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NEIGHING

Hello, ladies. Hello.
How are we doing?

In The Repair Shop today,
a world in miniature

as three small scale treasures
get The Repair Shop treatment.

Kirsten's working on a tiny globe...

This is amazing. I can see people
running around in there.

..while goldsmith Richard
brings out the big g*ns

for some minuscule welding.

So, I'm looking through a microscope
that's magnified to 20 times

and allows me to know exactly
where the piece is going to be

hit by the laser beam.

First through the doors
is Suzanne Anderman from Kent.

How are we doing, Sue? Hiya.

Hello, I'm Steve.
Pleased to meet you as well.

She's hoping music box expert
Stephen Kember will be able to

get a tune out of this vintage
example from the Swiss Alps.

It is a little chalet.

Inside there's bagfuls
and bagfuls of bits

that have fallen off it
over the years. Loads of it.

It's a splendid looking thing,
isn't it?

You've got the dog kennel there.
Yes, and no dog. No dog.

So how come you've got this, Sue?
Tell me a bit about it.

It's a bit of a long story.

When I was a child, every summer
holiday I went to Somerset

to stay with my aunt and uncle. OK.
On their landing,

which was a huge landing,
there was this.

So as a little girl I used to
lay down and play it,

when I was allowed to turn the key.
Yeah.

And I used to imagine that people
lived in it. Right.

I absolutely loved it.

Then one day in 1996, I had a phone
call from this aunt and she said,

"I believe you'd like
the music box,"

and that's how I got it and now
I'd love it to be restored

for my grandchildren. Right.

So Auntie May knew
how much this meant to you.

Auntie May definitely knew
how much it meant.

How much does it mean to you?

Oh, you just can't say.
It's priceless to me.

Yeah? Because it's just my
childhood, isn't it?

Oh, I think I need to get... Will?

If you don't mind, come and have
a look at this, mate.

Will's out expert in wood.

How are we doing? All right?
I'm good.

So what we've got, Will, is we've
got loads of bits that somehow

they belong in here somewhere,
don't they, Sue? They do. Yeah.

We're missing a small carved
wooden door for the kennel.

Yeah, a dog. There should be a dog.

So what do you reckon, Will?

Small enough job for you, isn't it?

THEY LAUGH

STEPHEN: During lunch maybe.

WILL: Yeah, could just do it
on my lunch break.

I'm speechless.

Between us, I'm sure we can do
a fantastic job with this.

Thank you very much indeed.

So thank you for bringing it in,
Sue. You're very welcome.

It's a pleasure to have met you.
And you. And good luck.

And especially good luck to you.
Thank you.

Cos I think you're going to need it.
He's going to.

The music box was part
of my childhood memories,

and really happy memories,
so to have it restored

just means everything really.

It means I can pass it on
to my grandchildren

and also it means I can look at it
and remember it how it was.

So, you're on the property ladder,
are you?

A bag of matchsticks
and kindling here.

Yeah, a jigsaw puzzle.
It's a really tricky job. Yes.

Where is the music?

The music is in the cellar.
In the cellar?

Yeah, let's sort of...

Like a good James Bond
baddie film, you know,

we'll elevate the headquarters
to reveal the brains of machine.

Look at that. Look at that.

Yes, I know. It's lovely.

So I think I'll maybe leave you to
your puzzle, your matchsticks...

Thanks. ..and I'll go and do some...
I'll go and do some music.

Toodle-pip. See you later.

Next to arrive, Jane Simpson
with something beautiful but broken

left to her by her mother.

Hello, I'm Steve.
Hello, I'm Jane.

Hi. What have you got for us.

I've got a garnet bracelet.
Oh, right.

Bring it over to the table.

Richard,
I think this is one for you.

Master goldsmith Richard Talman
is The Repair Shop's expert

on all that glitters.

In fact, I've got three bits
of garnet bracelet.

Beautiful, isn't it?
Absolutely beautiful piece.

Can you tell us a bit about
the history of this bracelet?

It belonged to my great grandmother.

She was living in India
in the 1870s and my...

..grandfather gave that
and the matching locket to my mother

as a wedding present.

And I remember when I was a child,
playing with it and her wearing it

when they went to posh dos.

Were you the one that broke it?

No. Definitely not.
I promise it wasn't me!

I inherited it in this condition
and wanted to get it fixed

so I could wear it.
I just think it's lovely.

Yes, it's...

..cabochon garnets in the centre
and faceted ones on the outside.

I would say...

..gold of around about nine carat.

Obviously we've got quite a few
stones missing there,

which we need to rebuild.

Have you tried having it repaired?

Yes. When I inherited it, I took it
to a jeweller who dismissed it

out of hand, wouldn't touch it
because of the repairs

that have been done in the past.
Oh, gosh, right, OK.

He said it was impossible to fix.

I could certainly understand
why they would've said that,

because of the lead solder that
has been used to repair it.

Lead solder melts at a very, very
low temperature in comparison

to the hard solder
you would usually use.

So any heat that was applied to this
bracelet, it would act like an acid

and almost ruin
the rest of the links.

So I think certainly for me to
repair it, I'm going to have to look

at a different form
of joining it together.

I think that's something we can do.
That would be wonderful. Thank you.

I will take great care of it, Jane.
Thanks. Thank you very much.

Thank you for bringing it in.

Is that going to be difficult?

It's not going to be easy,
that's for sure.

He's filled me with confidence.

I'm so excited to see
what he can do.

I'm not expecting a miracle but

if he can make it wearable again,
that would be amazing.

It's always going to remind me
of my mother, I think.

I love that photograph that we have
of her wearing the set so...

..it'll bring memories of her

and memories of my childhood
with her back.

Richard has been in the jewellery
trade for over two decades,

learning his craft in London's
famous Jewellery Quarter,

Hatton Garden.

So on this piece here,

it's bent quite badly.

That is going to be the first thing
that I'm going to have to address.

This type of damage is quite common
on bracelets

because when people wear them,
they can get them caught on things

and it obviously bends
at the weakest point.

So the only way to straighten these
back out is just to push it back

in the direction it came from.
And that can go one of two ways -

it can either go well
or it can break.

But obviously it needs to be done
so...

If I was to put this in pliers
and start bending it

I run the risk of cracking stones
so good thing about your fingers is

they're like a perfect
cushioned pair of pliers.

So I'm just going to push
on that point there.

A break now would leave Richard
with even more work ahead of him.

OK. That's straightened out fine.

So I'm really happy with that.

Critical moment over,

foreman Jay can safely head over
to check on progress.

So how's it going, Rich?
Very well, Jay. Thank you.

So, Rich, I've got a bone
to pick with you.

You wanted me to bring in your desk

even though we've got desks
all around. What's so special

about your one? Well, it's
a special jeweller's bench.

It's cut away there so you can sit
closer to it and then this

under here is called a skin, usually
made from leather, and that collects

something called lemel, which is a
fine... Lemel? Yes. What's lemel?

So the filings, when you're filing
away any piece of precious metal,

it will create, like, filings

and that will all gather
into the bottom,

as you can see like this here.
Yeah, like dust. Absolutely.

And if you're working,
as I do mostly,

with, like, 18-carat gold
or platinum... Yeah.

..over the course of a year,

about that much in a jam jar will
get you about £3,000 with a refiner.

Really? Yeah.

I think I might have to
take up your trade, mate.

It's a hive of activity
in The Repair Shop today

as yet another customer arrives.

Janet Adams from Leicester
has brought a small object that

could prove to be a big challenge
for ceramics conservator Kirsten.

It's a little miniature globe.
Oh, right.

Gosh, it is miniature, isn't it?
It is.

Look. Oh, wow.

But unfortunately, it's split.

Oh, no.

Well, I've never seen one of these
before. Haven't you? No, I haven't.

Unfortunately it did have a little
crack on but when I moved, it went

into storage and I think moisture
got it and it's split now.

What a shame.

It looks like a very sort
of low fired clay

or...I don't know, it might even be
something like a plaster actually.

There's a few little bits
as well there.

OK, lovely. I think there might be
a few little bits missing still.

That's always useful to bring those
bits, especially with something

like this with a map which has
got sort of tiny writing on it

cos that's actually
incredibly difficult to do.

Do you know sort of
what date the map is?

Somebody told me it's about 1850.

Oh, really? Yeah.
What's the story behind this?

It was in my mother's china
cabinet.

So it's really precious then?
Yes. Yes. Yes.

It was just something we wanted
to keep

to pass down to future generations.
Yes, absolutely.

If you're happy to leave that
with me, I will repair that for you.

Thank you. And hopefully get it
spinning again for you to enjoy.

Yes, that'd be lovely. Thank you.

We've never seen it spinning,
I don't think. It was always

locked away in the china cabinet.
I don't ever remember getting it out

and seeing what it did or what
was on it really.

And I'm looking forward to getting
it back when we can see it

hopefully in its full glory.

Looking at this material,

I suspect that it's actually
probably made of something

called gesso, originally made with,

like, an animal glue, like a rabbit
glue mixed up with chalk

and some pigments and then laid
over this central wooden ball.

Dating back as far as ancient Egypt,

gesso has been used to prime rough
surfaces such as wood and stone

to create a smooth surface
for painting.

I suppose my only concerns with this
little globe is the fact that

it's made of gesso and it's quite
a sort of fragile substance

when it's exposed.

So I'm going to actually try and
sort of get some adhesive into these

joins, sealing the edge initially,
and then I will just make up

the missing areas
and touch in the map.

It looks slightly crooked to me,
this...

..this base.

I think perhaps it's been knocked.

Will? Can I borrow you for a moment?

How can I help?
World's smallest globe.

That's really sweet. Isn't it?

I've always wanted to just spin one
of these. Is that really...?

HE CHUCKLES

Visions of bits, like, flying off.

The base, as you can see,
looks pretty ropey to me.

And it's also slightly crooked.

Is there... It is, isn't it?
..anything you could do with that?

Yes, I think so.

I'm just thinking should I do the
base before you've done your work

or should I do the base after?

I think it's best if I can stabilise
it actually and then do your bit.

You let me know when you're finished

and then I will sort the base out
for you. That's lovely.

Thank you very much.
That's all right. Cheers.

I've got a couple of tiny,
little pieces here.

Just not quite sure where
this tiny one goes yet.

I just need to work that out.

The only sort of clue
that I've got is a dotted line.

Ah, I think that's probably it here.

Just above the Maldives.

OK, so I'm going to go for this.

I'm going to pop my adhesive on

and I'm just going to go all the way
around the world here.

Pop those together...

..like that. This is when
I could do with a...

..spare hand.

I'm going to introduce a little bit
of adhesive where the Maldives are.

Just ease that in.

Normally I actually use tape
to hold things in place

but I'm worried if I were to
apply tape to this

it might just damage the surface.

I'm going to leave it
while the adhesive goes off.

Steve and Will are working together

to bring the dilapidated
music box back to life.

Steve's given the components
a thorough clean.

He can now turn his attention to
getting the mechanism back on song.

I'm going to repair
this damaged tip.

A previous restorer
has corrected this fault

but his repair has failed
so I'm going to do it again.

So what I've got to do is I've got
to clean out his original slot

with this cutting disk,

which is happily the same
thickness as our tooth tip

which is 10,000ths
of an inch wide.

The teeth on the mechanism's comb

should strike corresponding pins
on the revolving cylinder

to make the tune.

It's always a bit tense.

Steve's emergency dental work
involves rebuilding the broken tooth

so that it hits the right note.

We tune it by removing mass,

so the lighter the tooth,
the higher the note.

At the moment you can see...

HE PLUCKS ASCENDING SCALE

DISCORDANT NOTE

Oh. Wrong note.

So you don't have
to be Mozart to understand that

we need a little bit of work there.

So I'll do that by just sort of
little tweaks like that.

Remove some material
and then give it a test.

HE PLUCKS NOTES

So it's too low at the moment
so I carry on until I get near

the note that I think
it's going to be

but the final tuning has to come

when the comb is attached to
the mechanism and producing music.

While Steve's tweaking his teeth,
Will's set about trying to rehome

the hundreds of loose and broken
pieces from the wooden chalet.

So, how are you getting on
with Suzanne's chalet?

Oh, the roof's done.
That's all right.

Once I knew that these go on
the roof then I could say,

"That's for the roof." Yeah.

I'm just basically putting
stuff into smaller piles

and smaller piles and smaller piles.

And then it's just a process
of elimination. Yeah, exactly.

And then you're making pieces
on top of that.

That shutter on the front there,
that's the only original

so I've actually replicated
and put them on there.

What it sounds like to me
is you just need to be left alone

in a corner to just
get on with this.

Yes. Cos you've got a load of stuff
to do. Thanks, Jay.

Goldsmith Richard
is repairing the hinges

on the Victorian garnet bracelet,

but previous repairs have left the
bracelet vulnerable to heat damage

and Richard with a tricky
repair on his hands.

This hinge here is where
it was previously joined

with the lead solder

so I'm going to have to
cut out the old piece

with the lead solder on it,
remove it and re-drill it,

and then rethread
a bit of wire through it.

This here is one of the saw blades
I'm going to be using to cut it out

and if you look really,
really, really carefully,

you can even see some teeth on it.

Check it's tight...
BLADE PINGS

..by pinging it.

So, with the very fine saw blade,

I'm cutting the inner part
of the hinge.

Even with his superfine tools,

Richard must cut
with pinpoint accuracy.

One slip could damage the fine
metalwork or the garnet stones.

It's a very slow process, sawing.

You use the weight of the saw frame

to actually make the cut
rather than pushing on it.

There you go.

There's the middle piece...
has now been removed.

Now I've just got to get the pin out
from either side.

Also easier said than done.

Such fine work needs
minuscule machinery.

Richard's using a dental drill

to extract the pin from the hinge.

OK, so we're free both sides.

Richard's now going to
build a new hinge

using tiny pieces of tubing
which are then wired together.

But once again, earlier
restoration attempts mean

he's got to tread very carefully.

Because Jane's bracelet has
previously been repaired

with lead solder, we can't put
any heat onto the piece

in order to affix the piece of
tubing,

so I'm going to have to be using
a laser welder which keeps

the proximity of the heat

right in exactly the area you want
it and thus it doesn't affect

the rest of the bracelet.

Richard's going to use the laser
welder to melt a minute thickness

of gold wire to join
the new hinge to the bracelet.

So I'm looking through a microscope
that's magnified to 20 times...

..and that microscope
allows me to know exactly...

..where the piece is going
to be hit by the laser beam.

I'm just now filling in
the feeder wire...

..so we can get a good, strong join.

So now the piece of tubing is secure
enough on this part of the bracelet

so I'm just going to offer it up
to the second part.

This piece of wire would be
cut back either side and joined.

There.

You've got a hinge.

Once the hinges are repaired,

Richard turns to
the missing gemstones.

This bracelet has managed to lose
quite a few of the garnets

over the years so I've had
to get these replaced

with an exact same size,
exact same colour and cut...

..which was not the easiest thing
to do but managed to find them.

I just take a piece of beeswax here

to pick the stone up...

..and then place it into the cleaned
up area where the stone will sit

and then we just take some tools.

This tool is called a setting pusher

and that just pushes up

against the metal
that holds around the stone

and it sort of levers it in,

sort of burnishes it over the stone
to keep it in secure.

That particular cluster is now
full of the correct stones

and I'm pretty safe to say that
when Jane looks at this bracelet,

she's not going to be able to notice
which ones are the new ones

and which ones are the old ones.

On the other side of the workshop,

Kirsten has a big challenge
on her hands

with a 19th-century miniature globe.

So I'm really looking forward

to seeing what's underneath

the bandage here on the globe.

I'm hoping that all the joins
have gone together quite nicely.

I'm really pleased with
the way that's gone together.

There's no stepping there at all,
it feels secure.

I'm really pleased with that.

So how are you getting on
putting the world to rights?

It's quite interesting actually.

I've been trying to
have a look at this map

and actually it's just so tiny.

The underneath is actually that
lovely sort of greeny colour

and you can sort of see
quite well there,

but there's not actually
much landmass on the bottom.

Right.

Steve let me borrow this
so I can have a butcher's at this.

See what you can...
See what I can see. Yeah.

This is amazing.

I can see people running around in
there and all sorts. No, I can't.

Whoever did this...

..has really got...

This is really small handwriting.

Next Kirsten sets to work
on the surface,

with a surprising choice of solvent.

So I'm just cleaning this globe.

I'm using some cotton wool
swabs and some saliva

and the enzymes in the saliva
work really well

to remove
the surface dirt from this.

It's a very gentle way of cleaning

and it's actually quite
a satisfying process,

seeing these different
countries revealed.

There are some areas
that are missing,

they've basically been lost,

and there's these tiny,
little cracks as well,

which are going to need filling.

I have to be really careful that
I don't actually go over the edges

and let the filler dry onto the map

because I'm not going to be able to

smooth it with sandpaper or abrasive

because that could damage
the actual map itself.

With the cracks filled,

Kirsten needs Will's expert
touch on the base.

Hi, Will. Hey.

Oh, the globe's looking really good.

It's getting there.
It's not actually quite finished.

Oh...
THEY CHUCKLE

There's still a few bits to work on

but I was wondering if you had
a moment, if you could...

Ah, you mentioned cleaning up
the base. Yeah. Yeah.

Let me have a little...
That would be great.

..look. And sorting out that...
Little squint that it has.

Yeah. What do you think?

I'm slightly worried that
if you try and do something with it,

it's going to snap.

Do you know what? I'm going to
straighten it in front of you now.

You're not. I am. Really?
Yes. Seriously?

I promise I won't break it.

OK, yeah. I am slightly anxious.

I'm going to trust you, Will. Yeah.

Right?

Oh, my goodness.

So that's definitely straight,
isn't it? Looks loads better.

Lovely. And you didn't break it.
And I didn't break it.

Relief. OK.
So that's the first thing.

I will give this a bit
of a clean and polish up.

Lovely. Then I'll hand it back to
you and then you can finish off

your last bits. Great. Lovely. OK.

All right, thanks, Will.
That's all right.

To clean and open the grain
of the wood,

Will uses white spirit.

Already that looks better,
doesn't it?

He then applies
a thin layer of polish

before it's ready to be returned.

Why, hello there. Hi.

HE HUMS FANFARE

Oh!

Gosh, that looks better.
Doesn't that look a lot better?

Oh, wow. Fantastic.

It definitely looks a lot cleaner
and a lot richer.

And it smells quite nice too.

That's just me.
THEY LAUGH

Great. Thank you so much.
That's all right. I appreciate it.

Nearly there. Thanks, Will.

His work on the globe complete,

Will can return to the music box.

He's painstakingly
repairing and replacing

every single broken piece
of the wooden chalet,

while Steve is putting the delicate
mechanism back together.

What we're going to do now is

we're going to set the comb
onto the bed plate

and we're going to check to see if
we can align it as much as we can,

listen to the music
and see what we've got.

Off we go.

TUNE PLAYS

CLICKING

You can hear the,
"Tck, tck!" already.

Not good.

From a closer examination,
I now know that I need to realign

the tips of the comb with
the pins on the cylinder.

It's all little small adjustments
and tweaks until we get some music

that's of the required standard.

Will has his own high standards
to maintain.

Even though I have some more work
to do on the actual chalet,

Suzanne mentioned that she remembers
seeing a dog just on the front,

in front of the kennel, and it'd be
really nice if I could actually

carve a replacement.

So I've got a really
small piece of wood here

and I found an image of a dog
with a very similar chalet

and I've just glued that on the
front of a piece of wood.

I'll start carving
in the shape and hopefully...

..the little dog...

..is exactly the right size.

It's really quite tricky.

Not only is it really small and I'm
using really small carving tools,

but I'm having to think in 3D.

And one slight bit

of wood taken off too much,

it throws everything out of shape,

so I'm just going really slowly,

taking my time and making sure that
my proportions are just right.

So I'm very happy with the little...

..dog.

I think it looks like a dog.

Kind of like a bit of a monkey dog.

I don't know if I need to
take the ears down a bit.

But nonetheless I'm very pleased.

That looks like a dog to me.

Master Goldsmith Richard
is restoring a garnet bracelet

that other jewellers
had deemed beyond repair.

With Richard's skills and some
state of the art equipment,

the bracelet is in one piece again.

Now he's got to get it gleaming.

I'm polishing the rear
of the bracelet

using jeweller's rouge paste

and a bristle brush,
and I'd say that's probably

the first time it's been cleaned
in probably about 80 years.

Rouge, it's a ferrous oxide,

so it's basically like a lump of
rust with some oil and it's...

When put on a high speed brush,
it produces this fine lustre finish.

I'm just giving it a final
little rinse in there

to get off any of the residues

and now if I just rinse that under
some clean water and let that dry,

that'll be ready for Jane
to come and see it.

The garnet bracelet had been
handed down Jane's family line

for four generations,

but the toll of over 100 years of
history had left it unwearable,

tucked away in a drawer.

I'm feeling very nervous now that
it's time to pick up the bracelet.

I'm not sure what to expect.

I'd really given up hope

so it's very exciting to see
what he's managed to do.

Hello, Jane. Hello. How are we
doing? You all right?

Yes, I'm good, thank you.
Hi, Jane. Good to see you again.

Hi, Richard. Nice to see you.

So what are you expecting to see
underneath here then?

I don't really know.

I'm quite nervous.

I'm hoping it's a bracelet
all in one piece,

but what it's going to look like...
OK.

Shall we let her see it?

I think it's probably a bit unfair
to make her wait any longer. It is.

Oh, my goodness.

Oh...

Can I touch it?
Of course you can. You can.

Carefully!
THEY LAUGH

I don't think I've ever seen it...

No, I've never seen it
looking like that.

I just don't remember it looking...

..looking so beautiful.

It's just amazing.
Well done. Done a good job, mate.

Fantastic.

That's music to my ears.

So what's going to happen
with it now then?

Are you going to wear it or is it
going to be passed down to anybody?

Well, for the time being,
I'm going to wear it.

But, yes, I'm going to hand it
on to my daughter in due course

so she can be the fifth generation

to love it and treasure it.

What do you think Mum would
think of it now?

Oh, I think,
I think she'd be thrilled, amazed.

I don't know how to thank you.

It's been an absolute pleasure.

Do you want to try it on then?

Yes, I'd love to try it on.

Are you going to do the honours?
If it fits.

It fits beautifully.
It's nice, innit?

When I used to play dressing up
with it, it didn't look that good.

So looking at it now on your wrist,
what does it remind you of?

Reminds me of my mother.

Yeah? Yeah. Absolutely.

It does.

I just remember her wearing it.

Brings her back.

I sincerely hope it gives you...

..you and your daughter, many,
many further years of pleasure

looking at it and enjoying it.
Oh, I think it will. Thank you.

So it looks like I don't have
to wrap this up.

It's one that you're going to wear
and walk away with, isn't it?

I can just go home, yes, wearing it.

Well, seems like you're happy.
I'm very happy, I'm ecstatic.

Thank you for bringing it in.
Thank you.

And thank you... It's been a
pleasure. ..so much. Thank you.

Can't believe I've just seen my
great grandmother's bracelet

in one piece. I haven't seen
it like that for 40 years.

More than 40 years maybe.

It's just the most
incredible feeling.

To put it on and see it on
the way my mother used to wear it,

it's lovely. It's just...

Just feels wonderful.

I thought it was going to spend
the rest of its days,

the rest of my days
in a envelope in a drawer

until somebody after me
threw it away.

And yet here it is.
It's repaired and I can wear it.

The garnet bracelet may be complete

but there's still plenty
going on in the workshop.

Over on Kirsten's work bench,

she's preparing to paint
the repaired areas

on the miniature globe.

It's amazing how few colours
you actually use generally

to actually get
the colour that you need.

I think it needs a little bit more
of the darker brown,

the raw umber,

just to sort of dirty it up
a little bit.

It's been very interesting sort
of getting to look at the world

as it was in the 1850s

and seeing all the countries
and borders, continents.

It's just been very enjoyable.

While I've been looking
at it very closely,

I did find a maker's mark.

So, Outline Of The Earth
by J Mannings

and he was apparently a well known
globe maker in the 18...

..I think the 1850s,

through to the 1860s.

When the tiny globe arrived
at The Repair Shop,

it was broken in two and
in serious need of restoration.

Owner Janet has returned to see
what Kirsten has achieved.

It's been in the family
for a number of years.

I don't think I've ever been
able to spin it round

because it was in
the china cabinet locked away.

I think when you see a globe,
even in a shop,

you like to have a spin
round to see how it goes

so it will be nice to be able to

spin this little
miniature globe round

and for the rest of the
family to see it.

Hi, there. Hello.
Nice to see you, Janet. How are you?

All right. Looking forward to
seeing what you've done. Are you?

Yes. I'm sure you're dying
to have a look at this.

Oh, I am. Yes, please. OK, right,
well, I won't keep you in suspense.

There we go.

Oh. That's lovely.

Goodness me, that's lovely.
Thank you ever such a lot.

And I can even turn it round.

What's it like to see it sort
of upright and spinning again?

Oh, it's lovely cos obviously I
couldn't spin it before

in so many bits so, yes,
and it looks very stable as well.

So that's lovely. Thank you.

You're very welcome.
That's beautiful.

It's a nice thing to hold, isn't it?
Yes, yes, it is.

Cos, I mean, it's only about
the size of your hand, isn't it?

Yeah. There is a name on it,
a maker's name.

Oh, is there? Oh, right. Yes.
James Manning.

He was known as a globe
maker from 1853 to 1860,

around that time.
Oh, that's really interesting. Yes.

Well, I'm really pleased
to see it repaired.

I suppose it's not too bad
after about 160 years.

It was always there.

My brother, sister and I remember it
being there.

I'm glad it's repaired and
they'll be able to see it

as it was originally.

Yes, I'm delighted that you're happy
with this. Well, I am. Thank you.

I'll just be careful with it.
Yeah. Thank you.

It's been a real pleasure.

Lovely to meet you. Thank you, bye.
Bye.

When my parents saw it,
it was probably in working order.

It's only fallen to bits since
I've had it really,

so I'm very pleased to have
it repaired,

I'm glad to take it back in one bit
and to show the rest of the family.

Steve and Will are on the home
straight of their repair

of the music box.

For Steve,
it's been a sprint to the finish.

Will's marathon still has a way to
go. Hiya, Will. Hey. How you doing?

You haven't finished already,
have you? Of course.

I feel like I got the short
end of the straw.

I've still got another 2,000 pieces
to glue on. I'm getting there.

I am winning. It might not look it,
but I am winning.

Well, I've got a piece of wonderful
19th-century technology here

that you're going to house.

Slide the beast down.

Look at that! Perfect fit.
Yeah, how about some music?

I'd love some music.
On that happy note.

MUSIC BOX PLAYS

That sounds lovely.

Wistful stuff!

But maybe if we chose a more upbeat
one, you'd work a bit faster.

Enough of that! OK. Good luck!
I'd better get on with it.

I'll leave you to it.
Thanks a lot, Steve. Cheerio.

When it arrived at The Repair Shop,
this 200-year-old music box

was broken into thousands of pieces
and hitting all the wrong notes.

Now, the newly renovated chalet
is ready to be reunited with

owner Suzanne and her grandchildren.

I'm feeling very excited to be
able to get my music box back.

I think it was quite a challenge
for them to do it and I'm so

interested to see how
they've got on with it.

I can't wait. I've waited quite
a while. I'm very excited.

Hello! Hello. Come in.
Nice to see you again. Here I am.

Yes, and you.

Right. Careful as you go.
Are you excited? I'm very excited.

Are you as nervous as I am?

Highly nervous. Oh, my goodness!
Right, well, are you ready for this?

SHE GASPS

Oh, my goodness!

It's amazing!

It's totally amazing!

I wouldn't have imagined it to look
anything like that! It's great.

Oh, thank you!

Look what you've done! New shutters.

Yeah, new shutters.

And the snow stoppers. Snow guards.

Oh, my goodness! It's just gorgeous!

And... And...

..we have a new resident.

Do you want to unwrap him? Yes.
There he is.

Oh!

The missing dog!

And he lives in his kennel.

You'd better give it a bit
of a wind.

That's right.

MUSIC PLAYS

Oh, wow!

It's lost the hiccup.

I'm glad you said that.

It has!

Oh, my goodness! It's just how it
should be, isn't it?

It is. Oh, you've worked so hard!
Thank you so much! I have.

I know!

Oh, my goodness me!

And there are three other interested
parties waiting in the wings.

Ailsa, Tess, Gus! Come on!

What have we got?

Come on, sweetie!

That's amazing!

And very vintage!

It is vintage. Look! Do you remember
it when it was all broken?

Yes! Isn't it incredible?

Here's the dog! The dog kennel!

Where does he live?

In the dog kennel.
You wanted the dog...

Wow!

I can't believe my music box.

It's just the most amazing thing!

It's beyond my wildest dreams.

I didn't think that anybody could
have done such a good job on it.

The grandchildren have seen it
broken and for their little

faces to see it mended,
and just imagine it like I did,

like it's somebody's home.

I can tell them my memories and
then they'll be able to make

memories of their own.

And hopefully,
pass it down to the next generation,

which will be incredible.

Join us next time, as more precious
pieces are rescued...

We've had to make things worse
before we got better.

..and their cherished memories
restored...

Oh, my Lord! ..in The Repair Shop.