04x28 - Toy Pedal Car

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Welcome to The Repair Shop where
much-loved but broken treasures...

This is amazing.
It is absolutely brilliant.

..are brought back to life.

Welcome to my universe.

It's pretty marvellous.

Furniture restorer Jay Blades...

It's so nice that we can be part of
that kind of history

to just keep things going.

..and a dream team of some
of the country's most

skilled crafts people...

I'm having a lot of fun and I'm
really liking the end result.

Sounds like teamwork.

..bring their talents to bear on
beloved pieces of family history...

Look at that. I'm liking what I see.
Yes.

Is this working?

You're a beauty.

..utilizing expertise
passed down the generations.

I'm going to teach you how to do it
the old-fashioned way. All right.

Transforming priceless pieces
of family history...

Oh, my goodness me!

..The Repair Shop team will
resurrect the items...

Oh, gosh!

..the memories...

I'm going to have to hug you.

..and the stories behind them.

Oh, look at that.

Oh, thank you so much.

I can't see it because there's tears
in my eyes.

This is a very emotional job to do,
but incredibly worthwhile.

CHEERING

Good morning. How we doing? Morning.
Morning.

You all right? Yep.

Morning. Morning. Morning.

Morning! Morning. Morning.

In The Repair Shop today,

the glamorous world
of furniture restoration.

A lot of that looks like spiders'
or woodlouse eggs,

or something pretty grim.

As Will transforms
a table laden with happy memories.

Definitely want to clean all that
out before I get some glue in there.

While Brendan takes on a beautiful
bronze statue...

What is she? A dancer?
Does she look like a dancer?

She looks like she's dancing,
though, is it...?

..depicting a deadly femme fatale.

She is actually an assassin.

Oh, not quite dancing then. OK!

As metal expert Dominic Chinea
readies himself

for the day's endeavours,

the first visitor arrives.

Hello. I'm Dom.

Hi, Dom. Nice to meet you.

Hi. My name's James Miller.

James? Lovely to meet you.
And you.

What have you got for us? Ah!
Let's see.

Let's take a look.

Brilliant.
Right, let's get it in the barn.

So, please tell me a bit about this.

Well, it's a child's pedal car

that's been much-loved over the
years in the family.

So it's actually, I see it's
actually got pedals inside. Yeah.

So your feet would sit in?
Absolutely.

It's a brilliant thing. I've got
to say I'm a little bit jealous.

I had like a little plastic tractor,
but nothing quite like this.

So did you used to play
with this as a kid?

No. No? No, it wasn't in the family
then.

It was actually given to us
by one of my wife's uncles. OK.

He gave it to my son, Gordon,

who was first in the car

between the age of three and four.

And my youngest son, Stuart,
has also played in the car.

You must have a lot of memories
attached to this.

Many memories. Seeing your kids
whizzing round on it.

Many memories. Yeah.

They're now six and a half foot
tall, so I'm afraid they...

They don't fit. Not fitting.

If I owned something like this,

I'd be squeezing in it
as old as I could.

Brilliant thing. It's beautiful.

And do they have kids now to pass
it on to?

Stuart has two children
who are six and nine.

Perfect size. Yeah?

And the idea is to pass it on
to the kids'

and hopefully
the grandkids' children.

Who knows? Who knows? Yeah.

So tell me about the missing
steering wheel.

This looks
a little bit dangerous as it is.

I used that little bracket
there to attach a coat hanger,

bent round into the shape of a sort
of a pilot's...in the c*ck.

Brilliant.

I can just imagine sitting there.

Yeah. Slightly terrifying.

Yeah, but they loved it.
Wobbly little coat hanger.

They've got many memories of it,
so they must have loved it.

So what are you hoping
that we can do to it?

Just make it look nice again.

It just needs a bit of TLC.

You can see that some of the remains
of the loft are still there.

It's obviously been in the storage,
yeah, in your loft.

I was going to comment on that,
actually, yeah.

But it's probably for the best,
to be honest, because I think

obviously being dry, you've kept it
in a good spot,

so it's not too rusty,
not too rotten.

The body...
It looks OK. ..it's fine.

I just, it would just be fantastic
to see her come back to life

as the car that she was,

and it would be so nice to see it
passed

down in the family
to the grandchildren

and, who knows,
maybe their children.

I mean, it's lasted, I think,

between 50 and 60 years
at the moment.

No reason why it can't last
for another 50.

With a little bit
of help from yourself.

Yeah, definitely.

Well, thank you so much
for bringing it in. Pleasure.

Thank you. Thank you.
See you soon.

Both my sons are very excited
at the fact that one of the toys

that they played in nearly 40 years
ago is getting a chance

of a second life.

We were lucky enough
to have the space to keep the car

and, boy, I'm glad we have now,

because it will be nice to see it
go through the family

and the kids playing with it again.

I thought you would have driven away
on this by now? Isn't it cool?

It is very cool. But it's seen
better days though, hasn't it?

Yeah, unfortunately.

It's structurally OK, but it needs
a bit of help

in the cosmetics department.

All right, so what you going to do?

It'll all have to be cleaned, sanded
back, get rid of all the rust.

Repair the dents and then polish
it all back up.

It's a lot of work, but then that
obviously runs into the next

problem of the chrome.

We can't have nice shiny
paint... And rusty chrome.

And if you're doing that chrome
and the exhaust...

You're kind of committed.

You've got to do the wheels. We
can't not have shiny wheels, can we?

The biggest bit that you've not
noticed.

Yeah,
he's changed the steering wheel.

Well, not changed
the steering wheel,

because his style was to put
a coat hanger in there. Yeah.

We can't have that.

I've been thinking about it
and I'd really like to make

like a miniature replica
of the original of this style

of steering wheel from this era,

when it obviously
was a full-size car.

What do you think? No, that would be
a nice touch. I do like that.

That'd be great. All right.

Thank you. Cheers, Dom.

This is really nostalgic
for me, working on this.

I have spent years and years
and years as an apprentice

in a car garage, like, doing this,
working on old classic cars.

It's really nice to actually work
on something a bit smaller

for a start, it's quite nice,

but it's bringing back
lots of happy memories.

So I'm now going to strip it
right back to a bare shell

which then I can send to be
sandblasted

and then strip off all of this old
flaky paint.

Finally! It's been a bit of a fight
to get that out.

I'm glad, really glad that's out.

It's actually come out OK.
I haven't...

My main worry was denting the rim.

That's great news.

Just got three more to do now.

While Dom gets on fixing
the mini-motor,

another visitor is pulling up.

Next to consult The Repair Shop
is Steve Cooney.

Hi, there. I'm Will.

Hi. Hi, Will.

Very nice to meet you.

He's brought an item steeped
in nostalgia for the attention

of furniture restorer, Will Kirk.

So what do we have here?

It looks like a tray.

Like you'd have your food
on there and your drink.

It's actually a table.

It's a table that my grandfather
used to sit at.

So it's actually got a mechanism
underneath here,

so you can let the legs out.

Oh, my word.

That's a bit unstable.

Yeah, it's a little bit wobbly now.

I think it's an old gaming table
or card table and this lifts out.

And you've got the brown bit
underneath, some brown baize.

I'm guessing this is sort of 1940s.

Yeah. I've always thought it was
1940s, '50s, but I'm no expert.

OK.

How do you get that flat again?

You just go like that? That's it.

So why is this table so important
to you?

I've got so many wonderful memories
of my grandad sitting at this table

having his dinner off of it,

and I used to sit with him and do
the pools on the Saturday.

Did you ever bring him any luck?

I think he did win once.

I don't know how much.

I think it was a few hundred but,
yeah, he did win once.

So I take it that you were quite
close with your grandad then?

I was very close, yeah.

My nan and grandad
were a wonderful, wonderful couple.

Whenever we went to stay with him,

he always set his time out
to look after us,

to, you know, be with us,
spending time up in his shed.

You know, he was a hard-working
man.

Never out of work.
Always working.

He never reached riches
or anything like that,

but his family were everything
to him.

When he died in 1984,

my nan moved into a flat,

and there was loads of stuff all
being prepared to be thrown away.

And I just said,

"No, I'm going to have the table.
I want to repair it."

And I can remember just
picking it up

and sniffing these little
brown bits,

and I could smell
Worcester sauce on there.

It just brought Grandad back
straight away.

And still does.

If I open a bottle of
Worcester sauce,

it brings my grandad back
straight away.

What would you like me to do
with this table?

Well, I'd just like it to be
a functional table again really,

so we can use it.

As you saw, it was quite wobbly
when it's standing.

So if that could be improved,
that'd be brilliant.

I mean the baize, really,
is gone now.

So I think it's probably going to
need to have new baize on it.

It's a shame to lose the
old staining,

but the memories are still there
and that's what really counts.

It's got a lot of lovely memories,

and I'm hoping, if you can do
something with it,

I can carry on using it with my
family.

And my grandchildren sitting
at the table with me.

Well, I will see what I can do.

Thank you for coming down.

Thanks ever so much, Will.
Thanks. Thank you.

My grandad meant the world to me
and my brothers.

He was always there for us
when we went to visit,

and I think he'd be absolutely
thrilled

to see this table being renovated.

So, how we doing, Will?

Any plans for Steve's card table?

Lots of plans, lots of plans.

This is a bit wobbly, if you look at
that.

A bit wobbly?
Imagine eating your dinner, Jay.

You've got a cup of tea there,
it's going all over the place.

You'd be on be a ship, wouldn't you?

And then your Worcester sauce is
going all over the place as well.

Yeah. So, stop the wobbly?

Stop the wobbly, fix the sides,
and polish up the woodwork.

But also this baize, which has sort
of been chewed away,

so I need to think about what to do
with the baize.

Yeah, I think we're going to get
Sonnaz to recover this.

Sonnaz? If you don't mind
coming over.

What we're thinking, Sonnaz... Yes?

..is getting you to recover
top and bottom.

It'd be great if you could think
of some clever idea

to sort of repurpose this baize.

So a request from Steve
was to keep hold of this material?

It's for me. It's for you?

But for Steve, I think Steve would
definitely appreciate it.

It's a nice touch.
I think it's a nice touch.

We love nice touches,
so I do like your thinking, Will.

Erm, there's a few ideas
that have come to mind, actually.

Really? That was quick.
I know.

But if you wanted me to take
these off,

I could take them off instead of you
doing them.

That'd be great if you could take
these off for me. Very great.

Yeah? Would that be helpful?
That would be helpful.

OK, I can do that.
But we need some new baize.

Yes. Yeah. Jay? Well, what I'll do,
I'll get ordering.

All right. Thanks, Jay.

I'll take this and get those sides
off. Thank you, Sonnaz.

Outside in the metal workshop,
Dom is waiting for the bodywork

of the pedal car to return
from sandblasting,

ready to be repainted in its racy
red livery.

But in the meantime, he's working
on the missing features.

This is the start of a quite
exciting part

of the restoration of
this pedal car.

This is going to be the steering
wheel.

It's going to look really good,

and I think it's going to set off
the pedal car fantastically.

Ever ambitious, ex-classic car
restorer Dom

is returning to his roots.

Crafting a precise mini replica

of a real 1950s racing car
steering wheel.

I've got my main centrepiece all
polished up now.

What I'm going to do
is make a little sandwich,

with the wood either side,
aluminium in the middle.

The glue that I'm using is basically
suitable

for sticking
mixed materials together.

Then I'm just going to stick
that on there.

OK. Happy there.

So now I just need to clamp it.

Once this glue goes off,

I'm never going to get this off
again.

So I've really only got
one go at this.

OK, that looks great.

Happy with that.

I'm now going to put
this to one side.

Let that dry, let that glue go
off properly,

before I take these clamps off

and then I can actually start
shaping the wood.

But before Dom can make a start,

Jay's had a delivery from the
sand blasters.

How we doing, Dom? Oh, wow.

Ooh, dear. Is it OK?

No, it looks good.

That's all right. Looks a bit like
a spaceship now, with this grey.

Yeah.

But it's a blank canvas, isn't it?

Yeah, I'm relieved.

But the problem is now, the more
we're rubbing our hands over it

with grease on our hands,

this is going to contaminate
the metal now. Yeah.

It'll all start going rusty.

So we need to get some paint
on this, pretty quickly. OK.

Is that a job for me
or is it a job for you?

I'm spraying it, so I'll probably
do it.

I don't want to ruin your shirt.
All right, I'll leave you to it.

I'm under a certain amount
of time pressure, now.

So I basically need to get some
primer on it as quick as I can.

Before I do that,
it's time to tackle these dents.

Tools for this - I'm going to be
using hammer and then a dolly.

So this is a little guide.

Keep it nice and level, and then
I'll just tap it from underneath.

A lot of it is done by sound.

TAPPING

When there's a gap between the dolly
and the metal,

it sounds very dull.

As soon as the metal starts to
touch this,

it's got a bit more ring to it.

TAPPING

There. That kind of gives me
a clue that I'm almost there.

TAPPING

With the surface smoothed of dinks
and dents,

Dom can airbrush on a coat
of protective primer.

This is now the final layer of paint
and this is the bit that James

is going to see - it's the bright
shiny red paint.

I want to be so careful not
to get runs and bits

in it. I just don't want anything
to go wrong now.

It looks really good.

I just want to get it off here
and start putting it back together.

But I'll leave it, let it dry -
come back in a bit.

The team in the workshop
is accustomed to working

with distinguished pieces
from all over the globe.

And this morning, Claire Riley
from Cheshire has arrived

with a precious cargo...

Let me take that from you. Thank
you.

..for the attention
of silversmith Brenton West.

So what have you got in the box?

I have brought Salome. OK.

She's our French Art Deco bronze,
recently given to us by my wonderful

mother-in-law, Hazel.

Yeah, she is balancing a bit
precariously on one leg.

That's lovely. Yeah, she's gorgeous.

Tell me about her.

Well, she's been in the family
possibly since she was new.

She was a wedding present
to my husband's great aunt and uncle

round about the turn of
the century, possibly 1912.

OK. She was then handed down
to his grandparents, then went

to my husband's mother,

who has recently moved into a
retirement flat,

so she's downsizing,
so she's very generously given

Salome to us. Oh, wow!

And we're delighted to have
her. Your turn.

That's fantastic. What a lovely
story.

It's a really nice object
made by... Yeah, Claire Colinet.

..Claire Colinet, a famous French
sculptor. Yeah.

I'm very fond of her.

I mean, this is a period of art
that I'm particularly

keen on. Yeah. As is my husband.

And what is the damage?
What is the problem?

Well, you can see she's quite
precariously balanced. Oh, crikey!

The piece is called Dance Of The
Daggers. OK.

It depicts Salome dancing round
the head of John the Baptist. OK,
poor chap!

She should have a dagger in her
hand.

OK. There should be one pointing
down into to the base. OK.

And I'm pretty sure she should have
one between her teeth,

and there's only one surviving - one
which is in there.

Can I have a look at that? Yeah.
Gosh, they're small, aren't they?

So how did all this damage occur?

Well, back in 2007,

my mother and father-in-law's house
was severely flooded.

The river burst its banks, and it
filled the ground floor of the house

with about four to five feet
of water.

So it was really quite devastating
for them.

But they managed to find this in the
silt somewhere, I guess?

Yeah. I think, actually, that one
dagger that's surviving was found

during the clear-up.
That's amazing that that was found,

cos it's so small, isn't it?

It's the only one, and she hasn't
really been cleaned properly...

OK, so there is... ..since then, and
it was very red silty river water...

OK. I can see... ..that she was
submerged.

I can see some red on there, so
that's not part of the design.

I don't think so.

She is like one of the family.

You know, my husband remembers it
being in his grandmother's house.

Of course, yes. And then being in
his mother's house.

She's always been there, you
know.

It's lovely that it
survived the flood.

Yeah. And it'll be really nice
to have her spruced up.

It'll just be nice to have her
complete again.

You know, back to how she should
be.

And to keep her on display.

OK. Well, I'd better get busy, then!
Mmm!
SHE LAUGHS

Nice to meet you. Thanks for
everything.

Salome's been in the family
since she was new.

A lot of family history.

She's been well loved by everyone
whose care she's been in.

To see her damaged in the floods was
quite devastating,

because she's such a beautiful item.

It will be really lovely if Brenton
can get her back to her full glory.

The red on her dress that Claire
was talking about...

..I feel might be a colouring,
and not river silt, because

if it was river silt, then there'd
be red in other places -

which there isn't. Saying that,

the flood has made the statue
absolutely filthy

and there is lots of dirt
to come off it.

But I think this red - I'm not
going to pursue removing.

I'm going to try and keep
as much of it as possible.

I think it will clean up, but I
don't want to destroy the original
patina.

Now the knives - luckily, Claire's
family managed to find the one
knife.

It gives me something to copy -
gives me something to use as a model

or a template to make the additional
knives,

and there is a lot of work in making
three knives like this.

She's quite frail-looking
on the foot.

So the first thing I've got to do
is to get this statue off of the
base,

and see why her foot has come loose.

Claire Colinet pieces are considered
highly collectible.

This is one of a series of exotic
dancers she produced in Paris

in the first part of the 20th
century.

The flood has caused the metal nut
to rust on the bottom here,

so the first thing I've got to do
on this is to get that nut undone,

and hope it doesn't break.

I think that's moving.

Actually, I think...oh, yeah,
that is....

..that's coming off.

Let's see if there's any river
in here.

Cor, look at that!

She wasn't lying when she said
it got flooded.

One down, one more to go.

Brenton now has a really tough
nut to crack -

the one through
Salome's wobbly foot.

So what I'm going to try and do
now is undo that, and hope

THAT doesn't snap off, because this
one actually is a lot worse to snap

off, because this one actually
goes up inside her leg,

and that would be a disaster for me.

This is actually coming off so much
more easily than I thought it was.

Yeah, that's gone.

It's a team effort to renovate
the 1940s card table.

While Sonnaz tackles the baize top,

Will deals with the wooden
structure.

Not only are the legs wobbly,
but the sides have also opened

up really badly.

I can see that there's a crack
down there as well.

Lots of loose screws, old glue.

Everything needs to be unscrewed,
cleaned out, glued, clamped,

then we're going to have a nice
strong table.

For the last few years, this table
has been stored in a barn,

which has added its own distinct
brand of embellishment.

You can see there's so much dirt
going down that groove there,

some of it is old glue that's
dried up.

But a lot of that looks like
spider's eggs or wood louse eggs,

or something pretty grim so I
definitely want to clean all
of that out

before I get some glue in there.

Already, you can see how that gap
has completely closed up.

So I will do the same thing with
the rest of the corners - clean them

all out, and get some fresh
glue in there and clamp it up,

and we should be one step
closer to having a sturdy table.

Right, here's the moment of truth.

Ah!

Look at that. Look at that!

That's probably the sturdiest
it's been since it was first made.

With the table now stable,

it's down to Sonnaz to top
it off.

The original baize wasn't actually
glued on

or adhered to the wood in any way.

It was only stapled along
the sides of the frame,

so I'm going to do exactly the same.

It's a really nice, very simple
way of fixing them on, actually.

So what I like to do is
I like to just pick an end,

pop a holding staple in it, and then
work in opposites - that way, I know

that I'm getting an even tension.

The original fabric
won't be thrown away.

We know how precious that this
original baize is to Steve.

I'm making some coasters
from it so that he can use

it on the card table.

I've strategically picked
some of the areas

that have got the most stains
on them.

Typically, you'd actually
try and avoid the stains,

but because he spoke so much
about the stains

of the Worcestershire sauce,

I thought it'd be really nice
for them to be obvious.

So what I'm thinking is,

if I sew that down there,
beautifully,

then I hammer...the edges should sit
really nice and flat,

and look quite stylish as well.

Having never made coasters like this
before - or coasters before -

I've got no idea
if this is going to work.

Out in the metal workshop,

Dom is cruising ahead with his
renovation of the pedal car.

His lovingly crafted reproduction
steering wheel has been shaped

to mimic the full-sized version.

Now I've got to sand it down to a
really nice fine grit

just where I need it.

I'm going to stain it,
just to knock it down a little bit -

make it a little bit darker.

All the hours and hours
of preparation and sanding

and spraying and painting
and welding have all been building

up for this moment. Everything's
here.

The chroming's back, and it looks
absolutely fantastic.

My steering wheel's finished - ready
to slide on.

I can't wait to get it all back
in place.

Seeing it gleaming and shiny like
this now, I can really imagine

it sitting in a shop window
in a toy shop.

It's quite nice to think
the next kid that rides

in this - the next driver -

you never know, it may inspire them
to have a career in racing driving.

You never know what this
might spark.

Yeah, I just can't wait to show him
now. I really hope he likes it.

James Miller has arrived to collect
the car his sons used to play

in over 30 years ago, now destined
to be driven once again

by his young grandchildren.

When we brought the car round -
a little bit dusty,

it didn't have a steering wheel,

it didn't have a windscreen on it,
it was scratched -

it was just a bit neglected,
I suppose.

That's what 30 years in a loft does
for you.

When the car is completed,
it will be in a state that's usable,

where it certainly wasn't before.

Because that was always the target -
was to get it back to a state where
children and grandchildren

can play with it in the years
to come.

Hi. Hi.

Good to see you again. And you.
Hi. How are you?

How are you doing? How are you?

Yes, very good, thank you. I'm
very good. Very good.

This has brought us loads of fun,
I must say.

So how did your children
enjoy this in the times

that they were playing it?

It's a long time ago now. It is a
long time.

The one that really played in it is
now over 40 years old.

40 years old? And he played
in it when he was three, four.

Do you remember what it looked like
when you brought it in? Oh, yes.

Hard to forget! All the little
remnants of being in the loft

for that length of time, and the
dust.

Yes. Come on. Let's pull it off.
Yeah, let's pull it off.

Oh, my goodness!

Wow!
HE LAUGHS

That is fantastic.

That steering wheel - look at that!

It's brilliant. It's handmade.

Yeah. Just felt like it
deserved something special.

That is certainly something special!

Wow!

Speechless - which doesn't come
very often.

THEY LAUGH

Just looks amazing. It looks the
part. It does, doesn't it?

Yeah.

So, who's going to get
the first ride?

It's probably going to be
our granddaughter who's six.

I can assure you she
would be desperate to get in that.

It's been a lot of hard work but...
It has been a lot of work.
..it's worth it in the end.

I can see it. I can see things
like wheel covers weren't there.

Yeah, they're new.

I'm dying to see
the other exhaust pipe.

Oh, the exhaust pipe. Yeah.
Look at that.

Oh.

Wow.

It's all the original chrome parts

but just had them rechromed.
The wheels? Yeah.

Yeah, rechromed. My goodness.
Yeah.

Full tank?

Yeah.

Ready for its first ride
down the hill.

It's ready to go.

You're not the only one.

But lovely. Thank you. Thank you.
Really, really, thank you, though.
You're welcome.

The family will think of you
because that's a fantastic

bit of work. Good.

The things you guys can do.
He's blown away, isn't he?

Yeah, well, it's fantastic.

It's fantastic.

Thank you very much.
No, thank you for bringing it.

Thank you for bringing it in.

The guys have done a phenomenal job.

Didn't think it would be anything,
anything as professional as that.

You can see that Dom's
poured his heart into that one.

And I'm sure the kids will really
enjoy seeing it and playing in it.

My son is going to wish, when he
sees it, that he was small enough

to fit inside it.

Racing car number six
returns to the track.

Metal expert Brenton has reached
a crucial stage with his damaged

bronze statue, getting Salome
securely back on her feet.

So, what I'm going to do is I'm just
going to put a little bit of glue

on here to fill up the gap
so that when it's tightened

down it won't wobble, the glue
will be packing the gap.

We're just going to put that back in
the right way round.

Make sure that's the right way
round because the last thing

we want to do is stick that
in there and then it's not

the right way round.

So we just need to leave that
for a couple of hours to dry.

With the statue stabilised,
work can begin on cleaning

the tarnished surface.

Parts of the body are very dirty
and I'm just going

to give them a little wipe
over with some water and a tiny bit

of alcohol and there'll be nothing
more aggressive than that.

So, you can see that there's a lot
of the red colour on the dress.

So when people have polished it
they've always gone

like this, which takes the
highlights off

and not the low parts.

So, on the dress itself I'm just
going to use plain water just to get

the dust out of the cracks.

So, I mean, it's really nice to be
working on a Claire Colinet

sculpture, she's very famous -
she was prolific.

She made lots and lots
of sculptures.

It's just nice to be working
on a little piece of history.

Brenton's next task is to restore
this elegant assassin's fearsome

daggers to replace the ones
lost to river silt

more than ten years ago.

So, I've got three
different components.

Brass ba*ls with holes in them,
brass rod, which is round

and I've got some brass bar
that I'll make the blade from.

This is quite intricate work.

It's filing a lot of metal off
but it has to be done accurately

because if I go over the centre
line it'll look like the knife

isn't straight, and, as you can see,
we're starting to get a bit

of a blade there.

I find it important if I'm making
parts for old items, they don't want

to look like they're new and they've
just been machined today.

So, the last thing I'm going to do
to this is just to scratch it up

a little bit with the lathe,

just to give it a rough sort of
handmade look rather than

a brand-new machine-made look.

Finally, it's time to assemble
the dagger's component parts

and solder them together.

OK, so, I'm just mixing some flux up
which is a piece of borax and some

water in this dish.

And what the flux does is it helps
the solder to flow and keeps

the joint from oxidising
when I'm heating it up.

So, get this all up to temperature.

Brilliant, I'm happy with that.

I've got to make the blade silver,
like that one, but not the handle.

So, I've got a magic solution
and there'll be some alchemy

going on here.

So, this is a chemical reaction.

And the silver becomes
part of the brass.

So it's not paint.

It's actually part of the brass now.

And as long as it's not overpolished
it'll last forever.

So, I'll just give that
a quick polish.

It's a really quick transformation
that's changed that

from a piece of brass
to a proper weapon there.

Will is also nearing
the end of his assignment.

The folding card table that holds
so many fond recollections

for its owner.

I'm sure, to many people, this must
just look like your sort of average

fold-down table.

But to Steve, sort of,
so many memories

of sitting on Grandad John's lap
and doing the pools.

And it just sort of goes
to show that something so small

and simple in design like this

can hold so many memories and sort
of almost take you right back

to being a child.

With the restoration complete,
owner Steve has returned

to The Repair Shop to be reunited
with his beloved grandad's

card table.

The last time I remember
seeing the table being used

was when my grandad was alive
and he died in 1984.

So it's long overdue
having it repaired.

It was in a really sorry
state when I brought it along

and I'm really excited
to see what Will's done to it.

He, Steve. Hi, Will.

Good to see you again.
Nice to have you back, matey.

You all right?

Well, moment of truth.

I'm really excited about seeing
what it's going to look like.

Ready?

Cor!

Wow!

Look at the colours come out in it.

That's amazing. Absolutely amazing.

I'm really pleased with it, because,
what I like is it doesn't look

as if you've made it
into a new table.

It still looks like a 1940s table.

It's wonderful.

And the colour's come up
really well as well. Yeah.

I'm amazed. That's what stands out,

the colours in the wood
have come out wonderful.

I can't believe what a lovely job
you've done of that.

It was really a joint effort.

Sonnaz, our upholsterer,
recovered the board.

And then I had to do all
the woodwork and the polishing.

It's also quite stable. Yeah.

As stable as it's going to be,
with a fold-down table.

The legs are slightly more rigid.
Yeah.

So that they don't sort of flap
all over the place.

Oh, wow. There you go.
Fantastic.

I can't thank you enough.
That's all right.

This is brilliant. Thank you.
Thank you.

And can you thank...
Sonnaz? Yeah, yeah.

I mean, she removed the old
fabric off the top.

She's actually used the same fabric
and made you some mats.

Oh, blimey.

Fantastic!

I can't believe that.

And old Grandad touched...

..he's been touching that
over the years.

Fantastic.

Brilliant.

It's really lovely.

I'm quite emotional, actually,
thinking about it.

And do thank her for me.
Will do.

Thank you again for bringing it
down... Thank you.

..and letting me work on it.

It's been a real pleasure and this
has been, really,

something quite special.
Yeah, it's very special to me.

Thank you, thank you ever so much.

I'm just overjoyed.

I'm absolutely overjoyed!

My grandad was...he was the most
loving grandfather

you could ever want.

And it's just nice to have something
tangible that we can still touch

and know that he sat at that table.

I'm going to be sitting behind it
now.

My children and grandchildren
come and sit round it.

I'll probably have a big photograph
done of it.

Brilliant!

Over on Brenton's bench, Salome's
new daggers are ready

to be fixed into place.

Hey, Brenton, you OK?
Yeah, all right, yeah.

She looks lovely.
It's coming along.

What is she, a dancer?
Does she look like a dancer?

She looks like she's dancing,
though, is it..?

She is actually an assassin.
Oh, not quite dancing, then, no?!

She's meant to have a knife in each
hand.

Oh, I see. Oh!

Then she's meant to have one in
her mouth,

and I wasn't quite sure how that was
meant to be, but I don't think...

Surely it doesn't go like that?!

I don't think it's the sword
swallower, I think it goes in.

I don't know, but then there is
a hole. There is a hole.

So, maybe it does.

No, it's got to go in sideways,
doesn't it?

It won't be that way.
No, no.

Maybe this had a pin or something.

So, I'll make one with a pin on it
and then...

..that's better, isn't it? Cor, it
really transforms, doesn't it?

Yeah, yeah. She looks proper angry,
doesn't she? Yeah!

It completely transforms her from
being a dancer to something

a little bit more sinister.

So, the final detail is to put the
knife in.

The knife, I've soldered
a threaded bar on there.

And that screws on from the bottom,
so I'm just going to put that

in the hole.

Just do that quickly and then we're
just going to put the bottom on,

and the original old nut.

With Salome back to her lethal self,

Claire and her husband Ian have
returned to collect her.

She'd seen better days.

She was balancing quite precariously
on one leg.

She did need a good clean.

I've known the statue all my life,
really.

It's always been on a shelf,
on a bookcase somewhere.

It's been in my family for over
a hundred years,

and now we're taking custodianship
of her,

to look after her and hopefully
pass it on to our daughter.

Hi, Claire. Hi, Brenton.

Nice to see you again.
Nice to see you.

And who've you brought with you?
This is my husband, Ian.

Hi, Ian, nice to meet you. Brenton,
nice to meet you. Yeah, absolutely.

Can you remember what she was like
when she came in?

She was wobbly, dirty.

Dagger-less.
Dagger-less!

OK, so I'll get her out for you.
Thank you.

Ooh! Ooh! Wow!
Oh, wow!

That's brilliant. Oh!

And you've got the dagger in the
mouth.

I was wondering how you were
going to do that.

Well, she looks fantastic.
That's real...as she was, yeah.

She's much more impressive with her
daggers, they look fantastic!

I'm not even sure which is the
original one.

That's the idea! You're very clever!
Ah, well, yes.

No, she's perfect.
Looking lovely, yeah.

Did you manage to fix the wobble?

The wobble is fixed. Oh, brilliant!
Well done.

I wasn't sure how you'd do that,
either. Yeah...

There are bits of detail that I've
never noticed before.

She was very dirty. Yeah.
What did you clean her with?

I've just cleaned it with water
and a little bit of alcohol.

OK.

The red is meant to be there.
Oh, right. OK. OK.

Actually, cos it was red silt that
got into her...

I haven't touched the dress at all
because I don't want the red

to come off it, because that's meant
to be there. Right.

Yeah. She's beautiful, isn't she?

She's definitely got a nice shine
about her. Beautiful.

Well done, you! Great job!

Good, I'm glad you're really pleased
with it.

Yeah, she's gorgeous,
I can't wait to get her home!

I miss not having her on the...
I know, yeah!

She'll steal the show.

Well, thank you very much.
Cheers, thank you.

Yeah, absolutely thrilled!
She looks gorgeous.

Quite a dramatic transformation.

We're delighted with what
Brenton's done.

It's great to see her all fully
complete.

She just looks really impressive
now that she's fully armed.

No, she's perfect!

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