04x17 - Vintage Jigsaw Puzzle

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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...

So nice that we can be part of that
history to just keep things going.

..and a dream team

of some of the country's
most skilled craftspeople...

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.

Is this working?
You beauty!

Utilising 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, my gosh!

..the memories...

I'm going to have to hug you.

..and the stories behind them.

Look at that!

Thank you so much.

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

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

In The Repair Shop today,

Lucia poaches an ancient
painting method...

What are you going to do with eggs?

..from Michelangelo himself...

It's an old painting technique.

This is what artists used
before oil paint was invented.

..while Steve and Will tackle
a secret c*ck compartment

that leaves them shaken,

and stirred.

Oh, so that needs to be
twisted round. Yeah.

And you can't do that by hand now.
Yeah.

COWS MOO

But first to arrive today,
Beth and Martin Cross from Hereford.

They're here on behalf of
a dear friend

bearing an item with an
extraordinary w*r story attached

to it for the attention
of restorer Roger Thomas.

Hello.
Hello.

You are...?
Beth.

All right, Beth? I'm Jay.
Martin. All right, Martin?

What have we got in the box, then?

Ooh.

We have a very old concertina.
It's in a very battered case,

I'm afraid.
You've got leather pieces there.

Yeah. And another piece there.

This has been on quite some journey.
OK, so tell us about this.

Well, this belongs to a very dear
friend of ours, Audrey, who's 97.

Oh, wow.
And it belonged to her grandfather.

OK. And he took it out with him
to the First World w*r,

to the trenches in France.

He and his son joined up together

on the first day of when
w*r broke out.

Audrey's father Clifford,
and her grandfather, Herbert Bailey,

were munitions drivers
throughout the w*r.

But they were also known
for their musical skills,

Clifford on the cornet,
and Herbert on his concertina.

It travelled all through France,
and they played it in the trenches

for the soldiers.
He played when soldiers were dying.

He was asked to play in the
hospitals and things. Really? Yeah.

The French soldiers was marching
past in what grandfather and father

referred to as the March of Death
out to the front.

And they jumped out of their lorry
and got out their instruments,

and played the Marseillaise for the
French soldiers who were marching.

Yeah. And they all stopped and stood
to attention while it was played,

and then saluted,
and off they went on their march.

If only it could talk!
Yeah!

So, Beth, do you know exactly
what's wrong with this, then,

and what we need to do?

It's obviously been through
the wars, you can...

Literally!

But I don't know whether all
these notes work or... OK.

..whether some have been damaged,

or whether in fact the bellows
are actually airtight.

Right. You could see
where it's sort of had

patches put on.
Still beautiful, though, isn't it?

It's absolutely beautiful.

Cos this is all leather-work,
is it? Yes. And it's...

This is paper.
Is it paper?

Yeah, this bit is.
Right.

It's 38 keys.
It's an Anglo concertina,

so that means you get a different
note on push and pull.

It might have been made about 1880,
1890, that sort of time. Yeah.

Gosh.

What would this mean to Audrey
if we're able to restore it?

She'd just be thrilled, and...

It's part of her life
that means so much to her,

because it's not only
her grandfather,

but it brings back memories
of her father, as well.

Right. She'd just be overwhelmed,
I think, really,

if she could hear it played.
I'd love to hear it played.

Yeah, for sure.
I would love to hear it played.

I'd love to see Audrey
hear it played.

So, thank you, guys,
for bringing this in.

I can't thank you enough.

And please do bring Audrey in
when you come back. We will.

Thanks a lot.
We're very excited.

Bye-bye.

When Audrey first showed me
the concertina,

I was just blown away by
the history behind it.

If it was possible at all
for it to be played,

I'm sure that would just be such an
amazing, emotional thing for Audrey.

It'll bring back those memories
of her grandfather.

It's very special.

This masterpiece was made by
celebrated concertina maker

Charles Jeffries,
whose instruments are regarded as

some of the best ever made.

But this example, with its leaky
bellows and battered leather-work,

is in dire need of attention.

What I'm going to do is
I'm going to take the ends off

and inspect the button mechanism
underneath.

You never know what you're going
to find inside with these.

I think this'll be
an interesting moment.

Some of these buttons may go...

Oh, yeah. OK.

Yeah, looking at this,
it obviously needs a good clean.

And these buttons need
refurbishing with new bushing,

and I need to replace
all these pads.

You can see it's pretty dirty
in here.

Now, here's the air button,
and this is interesting,

because somebody's made
some kind of repair on this,

back in the mists of time.

It looks like it's got some kind of
knicker elastic or something.

So that's the first piece of work
I've got to do.

While Roger begins work
on the venerable concertina,

two more visitors are seeking help
with their aged heirloom,

Carol Brough and her husband Graham.

Hello. You must be Carol.

I am.
I'm Jay.

Hi, I'm Graham.

So we've... Oh, this is nice.

Lucia, if you don't mind.

Fine art restorer Lucia Scalisi

has over 30 years' experience
with artworks big and small.

It's a jigsaw.
It is, yes. Yes, it was my father's.

It was in an old suitcase
in our loft.

It wasn't until recently that
we started to have a big clear-out,

and that's when we discovered
the jigsaw. Yeah.

But this was all in pieces,
it wasn't in a box,

so we all took ages doing it!
Right, yes!

Yes, there was no picture
to go from.

What, you had no reference?
No, nothing. No reference, nothing.

It was quite difficult.

How long did it take you to do that?
Oh, weeks.

Because it's not interlocking,
and you only had to breathe

on it and it...
And it all moved.

..just fell apart.

Oh, look at that.
I know what the picture is.

Yeah, HMS Pinafore.
Yes, HMS Pinafore!

This is the opera, isn't it?
Gilbert and Sullivan.

My father love it, you see,
so we played opera at home.

He took me to the opera
when I was a kid, up in London...

Oh, right.
..and I loved it.

That was my childhood,
and a very happy one.

That is absolutely gorgeous.

I mean, these figures look
very sort of 1920s. They do.

You see the style of the faces?
Yes.

And, yeah, the modelling,
even though their fashions are

HMS Pinafore, you can tell
by the way that they look

that they're 1920s style.

It's amazing. I mean,
despite these losses,

it's in pretty good condition.

Well, yes, but it's Parker Brothers.

OK.
We did the research on it,

and Parker Brothers are
an American outfit.

When they started doing jigsaws,
they employed seamstresses.

OK. Cos they could use
a treadle machine. Right.

And they were given carte blanche,
basically, to cut at random,

and they actually cut out little...
Animals. ..animals and things.

There's a cat here somewhere.

Oh, yeah! With his little tail.

Yes.

Can you see it, Jay? That's really
cute, yeah. Yeah, I can see it.

I do like it, cos now I'm not
only looking at the picture,

I'm looking at all of the shapes,
and there,

I see a little Scottish terrier.

Look at that.
You're right!

Oh, my goodness.

Once you start looking, it's like...
There's loads in there.

What would you like us
to do to this?

To make it look complete.

And it is now, obviously, an
heirloom which can be handed down.

Yeah, we'll do you proud.
We'll do your dad proud on this one.

Thank you.
Well, thank you for bringing it up.

Oh, that's all right!
Lovely to meet you.

Take care.
Bye-bye.

Putting Dad's jigsaw together
was a very moving time for us.

For us to have it in its full form
without any blemishes,

it'd be lovely to be something
that we can... Treasure. ..treasure.

It's quite unusual.
It's sort of multimedia

in that it's three-ply wood
with paper on top.

There are quite a few pieces
missing.

I've counted 13 plus a couple
that are actually...

The pieces are there,

but the paper design
on the top has disappeared.

Really, the first thing that needs
to be done is for me to talk

to Will, because he's going to have
to cut out some jigsaw pieces.

My job will be to put a surface,
a painted surface, on the top,

so I'll take this over to Will now,

and let him have a look at
what he's got to do.

Furniture restorer Will Kirk
has a way with wood,

and Lucia's hoping he might
extend his repertoire

to vintage jigsaw puzzles.

Hey! My gosh.
Yeah. It's on three-ply,

and as you can see, there are
quite a few pieces missing,

and I was wondering if that's
something that you could help with.

Oh, yeah?
What do you think?

Gosh. How many are missing?
About 13 pieces.

Gosh. Is that painted,
or is that paper?

It's paper, and I think what
I'm going to do is not put paper on

the new pieces,
I'm actually going to paint them.

Really?
Just because the paper is very old,

and matching it would be
problematic.

So all you'd like me to do is
replace those missing pieces?

Well, that's a big all.

I'm sure I can help.

I've got some three-ply
around there somewhere.

Thank you. Can I leave it with you?
Yep, leave it with me. Thanks a lot.

Lucia's successfully press-ganged
Will into helping on the

HMS Pinafore project,
but Roger is still flying solo.

He has dismantled the main body of
the 130-year-old concertina...

This really is a very sad-looking
mechanism that needs repairing.

..and can now turn his attention
to the keys.

This is the air button lever.

I just want to gently remove this.

This tool is
something I made myself.

It's for manipulating springs.

it's just a screwdriver
with the end shaped,

so I can hook that on, whenever
I'm removing these little springs,

unhooking springs.

So I just have to be careful
how I do that.

The most important task Roger faces
is making the concertina airtight.

These are the new leather pads.

There's a layer of felt and card.

Now, the thing here is, I've got
to get these little pads

in exactly the right spot.

Let's just glue on, like this.

That's how they're held on.

I find musical instruments
of any sort inherently beautiful.

I just love them.

And it's a passion, really,
it appeals directly to the emotion.

I find it very difficult
to walk past an accordion,

or any stringed instrument, without
picking it up and looking at it.

While Roger lovingly reconstructs
and secures every valve and gasket,

he's asked master saddler
Suzie Fletcher

to overhaul the damaged
leather case.

I love this case.
I love the shape of it.

The overall condition,
considering its age

and what it's been through,
is remarkable.

The good news is we have
all of the pieces,

so I'm going to repair behind to
hold the three sections together,

and then sew them back onto the lid.

Suzie reinforces the damaged panels
of the lid with new leather,

before gluing and stitching them
back into place.

I'm just following the previous
holes as much as I'm able to,

and instead of going
straight down through the leather,

you're actually going through
at an angle

so that you don't see any
of the threads on the inside.

So just using this
to open up the holes,

and then I can use it
to guide the needle.

This is very helpful,
as the leather is so fragile.

Roger, meanwhile, is carrying out
his own leather work.

The leaky bellows need repairing.

This is kidskin.
It's 0.2 millimetre thick.

It's kind of stretchy,
but it's airtight.

This binding, it's going to do
two things - one, it's going to

seal around the edge of the bellows,
but it also is going to make it

look a lot tidier.

With the new binding in place,
Roger checks the airflow

through the sound board
of the instrument.

This is one of the reed pans
from the end of the concertina.

So when air is passing in
this direction, through here,

this reed sounds...

TING
..and that valve closes.

When air comes in
the other direction,

through this little reed chamber,

that valve closes,
this reed sounds...

TWANG
..and I can simulate what happens

inside the concertina
with my test bellow

and I can just... I've got
a little jig here to hold the reed.

And at this stage, I would pick up
on those issues and fix

any problems that I encounter.

So, visually, I can see
that these valves

potentially will need replacing

because it would be nice
if they're laying flat.

With the valves secured
and the reeds checked,

Roger can finally reassemble
the concertina.

Rog. Yes. You all right?
Yeah, I'm fine.

I haven't heard much noise
come out this concertina.

I'm going to just test it now...
Cool. ..so we'll see.

HE PLAYS A TUNE

Even got Suzie dancing!

JAY LAUGHS

I don't know who I should clap for,
Suzie or you.

But you're both done a great job.
It's all right, isn't it?

I think Audrey's going to be
totally made up when she hears this.

You've done a brilliant job.
You give her a ring, then.

Get her to come in. Cheers.
All right? Splendid, yeah.

Good man.

Next into the workshop, an item
boasting a secret party compartment

any spy would be proud of.

Hello. Hello.
All right, Jenny? I'm Jay.

Hello, Jay. Nice to meet you.

Likewise. Steve. Hello, Steve.
Nice to meet you.

Jenny Harvey has travelled
from Essex to see if

Repair Shop agent Steve Fletcher
will accept

the mission of fixing
a chic antique.

So, what we've got here, then?
It's a c*ck table. OK.

And had a little accident
because one of my cats

landed on it and I'll show you
what happens.

Oh, wow.

Whilst the cat was on this... Yes.
..it's fired up? Yes, and... OK.

..hit the ceiling.
Claws everywhere.

This is from the cats when
they were being thrown into the air

or one cat... A little scratch
on it. Probably as they landed.

So, it wasn't the cat's fault
for being on there, was it? No, no.

Cos it's not supposed
to just come up. No, it's not.

You're supposed to press that.
Sometimes, it will come up slowly

and then, other times,
it'll go, "Bang!"

So, what's the history
behind it cos...

How long have you had it
and where's it from?

A friend of my aunt's,
his name was Ted Page,

and he patented this
and designed it

and I've since found out
that this is actually

the first original one
and it was given to my aunt

for her 30th birthday.

It used to have
glasses hanging on it

and it had all the vessels
and the glasses on there.

It was her pride and joy.

It was special.

My aunt gave it to me early
because she'd left it to me

in her will and she had to go
into a home

and when I had to confess
to her about the cats... OK.

..she nearly fell out the chair
laughing.

I think this is just fantastic...

Yeah. ..and to have it coming up
nice and gently, instead of fast...

Yeah. ..would be great. You don't
want your c*ck shaken

all the time, do you? No. No.
We want them stirred, too.

But, I mean, I think
it's a beautiful item

and it really deserves

to be preserved...

Yes. Absolutely. ..so...
I think it's fabulous.

I think it's the most
wonderful piece.

I'd love to have it myself. Yeah.

So, can I just press the button?

Yes. That's just come up
with a bit of a jolt. Yeah.

Steve, what do you reckon?
Do something with that spring?

Never seen anything
like this before

and I look forward to having
a look at the mechanism.

But he does love a challenge.
He does love a challenge.

Well, hopefully, we'll be able to do
something with this and restore it,

get the spring working the way
it should be. That's fantastic.

Thanks. I'll leave it
in your capable hands.

Mixed emotions leaving
my c*ck cabinet behind.

I feel sad with it in its present
state because it was entrusted to me

by my aunt.

I'm hoping that Jay and Steve
will be able to restore it again,

as it should be.

That is quite dangerous,
isn't it? Yeah.

Especially if it sometimes
shoots up really quickly. Yeah.

No wonder the cats went
and hit the ceiling.

But I love this to bits.

I absolutely love it to bits
and I've no idea how it works.

We'll definitely get Will
on this side, innit? Yes.

To French polish it, because it does
look a bit tired, in my opinion,

but you've got to deal
with that mechanism.

It can't be sh**ting up
when it leaves here.

Well, there you go.

I've no idea, but it can't be
that difficult.

This is another of those jobs
that I'm really looking forward

to working on because I've
no idea how it actually works

and I love working out
how things work,

and this one is intriguing.

Steve disassembles the table
to find out

how the secret compartment works.

Once I've released this spring
from this part of the table,

I'm hoping the whole thing's
actually going to just lift off.

Inside, the c*ck cabinet
on a powerful spring is held

under the surface
by a hook to catch.

This is the release mechanism.

Just got to work out why
it's triggering too easily.

I'm just going to take
the triggering mechanism off

and I'll get this on my bench
and try and suss it out.

In the outdoor workshop,
Will, too, is problem-solving...

Everything is different.

There's no sort of uniform shape
here at all.

..starting work on the missing
pieces of the wooden jigsaw.

All of these pieces are so fine.

It's quite tricky to sort of really
get round those hoops and turns.

As it's a jigsaw,

everything has to fit really snug

and because that gap between
each piece is just so fine,

you really need to sort of
saw really carefully,

get that nice and spot on.

Not too far off.

Tweaking until... You really
have to be quite precise with this.

I actually think that some of
these pieces are slightly tapered

on the top. That means that if you
get your measurement from the bottom

and then you try to
slide it from the top,

it's going to be too big.

Well, I'm still on my first piece.

Nearly there, but I think it's
going to take a bit more tweaking.

I've got lots of files
and I've got a scalpel,

so I can keep on making adjustments.

It's tight somewhere.
Where are you tight?

Come on.

Nearly there.
Just a bit more of a rub.

Yes! That's the first one down.

Only about 12 or 13 more
left to go...

..so, er, but that's a nice fit.

Pleased with that.

Hello.

Oh, the lovely jigsaw!
Look at that. Wow.

Oh, great! So, all the pieces
are cut. All the pieces are cut,

everything's back in.
It's going to look great.

THAT is over to you.
Thank you very much.

With the wooden surface intact,
Lucia can now repaint the picture

and to help her do so,

Jay's arrived with a delivery.

Is this right that you
wanted eggs? Yeah.

What are you going to do
with the eggs?

Ah, it's an old painting technique.

This is what artists used
before oil paint was invented.

Eggs? Yeah, eggs. Egg tempera.

It can be quite thick
and I need to build up the surface

on some of these shapes.

Well, I am intrigued to see this.
How do you make paint from an egg?

OK. So, what I'm going to do is

separate the yolk from the white.

What I need now is one of
these lovely paper towels

and I just tip the yolk out
on there.

Now, the oily fatty bit of the yolk
is inside the yolk sac...

Right. ..and I don't want
the yolk sac.

So, I just nick the yolk sac
and just pour.

That's, that's going to be
the medium.

And, so, what I need now
are my pigments,

but I'm going to mix up
a basic colour first of all.

Yeah. So, it's going to be
just one of these blues.

So, this is the egg. Yeah.

Now, I know if I left eggs alone,
they start to smell.

This won't smell, won't make
the painting smell, then?

No. Once it's dry, that's it,
it's set and it's very tough.

You have to work quite... And
this will dry quite quickly? Yeah.

Basically, once it's dried,
you can't re-dissolve it.

Right. It becomes very, very solid.

So, you just make up small
quantities, as and when you need it.

You really do have to work quickly,
then. Yeah, but it's good.

These are small pieces,
so I'm going to treat

each piece as an individual
mini painting.

So, I'm going to let you crack on.
Excuse the pun!

Thank you, my dear.
I'll talk to you later.

When the base coat has dried,
it's time for Lucia to give

the rest of the jigsaw
a surface clean.

I'm using something called
draft clean powder,

which is a powdered rubber.

It's a bit like breadcrumbs.
It's very soft, very gentle.

It's used mostly in paper
conservation for cleaning documents

and the idea is that
the powdered rubber will pick up

the surface grease

from many years of finger marks
and oil from your skin,

as well as dirt and dust.

It's a very delicate process.

But it doesn't take
an awful long time

and it's actually
quite a nice thing to do.

On the opposite workbench, Roger
has reassembled and polished

the 130-year-old concertina.

Got a present for you, Roger.

This is from Suzie.

It's nice, isn't it? I think so.

See if it fits, shall we?
Yes, please.

OK. Let's have a go.

Yeah, that's great. That works.

Oh, that is perfect. OK. Thank you.

You've got to join me. Come on.

Beth and Martin have returned
and brought with them

a very special guest -

97-year-old Audrey, the owner
of the historic concertina.

The concertina was
in very poor condition

and I had been wanting
to have it repaired for years.

Well, it holds memories of
the stories my father used to tell

about my grandfather and he, when
they were in the First World w*r.

We're just absolutely like
cat on hot bricks,

waiting to see what it's like.

We're so excited.

Hello, Audrey. How you doing?
OK? All right. Good.

Audrey. Hello. Pleased to meet you.

So, how are you guys feeling?

Excited. Excited?

I don't know!

So when was the last time
you heard this being played, then?

When my father played it at home.

That's got to be
over 80 years, maybe.

Oh, yeah. Oh, yes.

I think we should show you
what we've done.

Are you ready? Ready for this?

I don't know.

Well, we hope we've done
you proud, your father

and your grandfather.
I'm sure you have.

THEY GASP
Look at the case!

Oh, my goodness!

Oh!

Oh, that's brilliant.

So, do you want to open it?

Don't you dare!

Come on! I want to see it.
This is my...

LAUGHTER

Oh, my Lord.

Shall I get it out for you?

Yes, please.

Need to tip it out, like this.

Oh!

So, how does it look? Wonderful.

Yeah? I can't believe it.

You've got a great talent.

Thank you. A great gift.

When I was a little girl,

my grandfather used to play
this to me.

But he didn't just play,

he performed.

Did he? He swung it up
in the air and down,

still playing and just, I suppose,
to amuse us. Yes. Yes.

Do you remember what he played?
Do you remember any of the tunes...

Oh. ..he played particularly?

Home Sweet Home was a favourite.

Would you like to hear it?

Oh, I would! Someone can play it?

Well...

HE PLAYS A TUNE

Lovely. Thank you.

You're welcome. Thank you.
You're welcome.

Oh, well, that's got us all going,
hasn't it?

Oh, that's amazing.

Very emotional and I don't know
how to express...

..what I feel, really.

It's such an amazing...

..amazing feeling.

Don't you start!

To see it being played again...

..I suddenly saw my grandfather

playing it to me
and shaking it about.

It brought him very much back to me.

Mechanical maestro Steve
has been struggling with the issue

of the trigger-happy c*ck case.

The rubber that controls its ascent
no longer creates the seal required

to slowly raise the compartment.

The... I don't know
what you call this, really.

I suppose it's like a piston

and I've made up this rubber ring

and, basically, I'm putting it here

and what that does is splay
this rubber out,

so that it actually fits
tightly into this tube,

or snugly, I should say,

so that when this unit comes up
out of the table,

it should just rise
very, very slowly.

Then, this table should be cat-safe
and shouldn't fling cats

up in the air.

Steve needs to test if the seal
now fits tightly enough to control

the ascent of the c*ck case.

Jay? Give us a hand. All right.

How we doing? What are you doing?

Well, this is just... I'm using this
just so that I can

put this right up there because
my hand doesn't fit up there.

All right. Cool. And that is...
Test it's right.

So, this here, can you see
that hook there? Yeah.

That is the hook that goes
on this lip up here... OK.

..in this hole and, basically,
I need you to push.

Right. If you go around there...
All right. ..right?

And push it up there...

..and then get ready to pull it.

SQUEALING

You know what that reminds me of?

I used to have a whoopee cushion.
Did you have a whoopee cushion?

I thought you'd enjoy that.

I did enjoy that!

So I want you to pull down,
as if the spring is on it, right?

Right. I'm with you. I've got it.

Yeah. I get that. That's cool.
That's secure. OK.

Oh, yeah! See? And that is
not coming out as fast.

Absolutely. Clever bunny,
aren't you? I like that.

But the rubber seal
is only half the battle.

I've realised that I've got to
make a new foam washer.

This washer went here

and the button presses down
on it and the foam washer

has gone brittle and powdery

and isn't doing its job.

So I've got some foam and
I'm going to try and make a washer

and I'm hoping that that's
going to fix the problem.

I've not had to make
any foam washers ever.

Clocks don't have
foam washers in them.

Right. So, this washer goes here,

the button goes there,

then the table...

..goes over the top there and...

..push this down.

Then press the button
and this should unhook it...

..which it has done.

That's still coming up
much too fast.

I was hoping that
the foam would create

a seal that would allow
a small amount of air

to come through, but it's just
letting too much air through,

I think, so I'm going to have to try
and find some other form of foam.

While Steve hunts for
an alternative material,

outside, having completed
his work on the jigsaw,

Will is now free to work on
restoring the polished table top.

The top of the c*ck cabinet
is really scratched.

It looks like that cat has had
an absolute field day with it.

That to one side,
the varnish itself

is pretty damaged.

It has cracks and cratering
along the surface.

I'm going to remove the varnish
that's on there now

with some stripper.
Once that's done,

have a look at the wood underneath

and if that's in
really good condition,

then I can get varnishing again.

Back in the barn, Steven's found
a higher-density neoprene foam

which will hopefully allow
less air to pass through,

creating a tighter seal.

Good. I'll see if this works.

Fantastic. Good.

Right, another of the problems
solved.

Lucia is also going strong
with her assignment.

With the colours revealed
on the freshly-cleaned puzzle,

she can now begin to fill in
the fine detail on the new pieces.

I'm mixing up the colours as I go.

And for the blues it's basically
Prussian blue with some raw umber

and a little bit of yellow ochre.

And sometimes a little touch
of alizarin crimson,

cos it goes into the purples

in this middle section here.

So I'm just sort of bringing
little areas up, sitting back...

..looking for the next area
that catches my eye

that I need to modify
a little bit more.

With egg tempera, once it's dried -

and I'm sure as any parent knows

when their children have got
egg on their clothes -

it dries like concrete.

Returning to the repair shop
to collect the treasure belonging

to her beloved father, Carol,
accompanied by her husband Graham.

We're very much looking forward to
seeing the jigsaw again

and seeing what Lucia's done.

Going to be something
tangible that...

My dad played with, really.
Yes. Yes.

Hello. Hi, Carol. Hi. Hello.

Lovely to see you again.
Very well. Hello.

Nice to see you. Good.

So, are you ready to see it?
Yes. And I'm quite excited. OK.

Oh. Wow.

Oh, dear me. Oh, great.

I hope that's a good, "Oh, dear."
Yes, it is.

Wonderful. Good.

Can't even see the joins. No.

There are loads of joins.
You're such a clever lady.

You are kind. That is wonderful.
That's absolutely cracking.

Will cut out the jigsaw sections
to replace them.

Then I have treated each section
like a miniature painting.

Oh, did you?
Because they're all different. Yes.

It looks so different being
complete now. Yes, wonderful.

It's a wonderful piece.

Quite unusual and it was
a challenge to work on.

But a really lovely thing
to work on as well. Good.

It's amazing really because
this has been in our family,

well, in our home, we didn't
know it was there in our loft.

And now we're getting so much
joy out of it. Yeah.

We're going to take it home
and frame it.

We're going to get a lot out of it.
The family will. Yes.

Well, I'll wrap it up for you and
you can take it away. Thank you.

Lovely to meet you again. Lovely.
Thank you. Thank you vey much.

Bye-bye. Bye.

Well, she does
beautiful work, yes. Faultless.

Yes, it is faultless. Faultless.

I've thought about my dad a lot
and my dad would love the fact

that we've gone to all the trouble
of getting it mended.

He'd be tickled pink.

Will and Steve have been labouring
over their respective sections

of the c*ck cabinet
with the secret compartment.

They are now working together
to reunite the freshly-polished top

and the overhauled
raising mechanism.

That's a sweet screwdriver.
Where did you get that from?

It's my grandfather's.
Your grandfather's?

Look after it.
Really, it's your grandfather's?

Yeah. That's really cool.

Do you inherit lots of
your grandfather's tools?

Yeah, quite a lot. And my dad's.
And it's just lovely.

You know, when I'm when I'm using
a screwdriver, you know,

they've held it.

It's almost like holding their hand.

I like that.

Right, that's that screw done.
Let's just test it.

Yeah. Test it.

It's really quite sort of...

Uh.

Oh, no.

You see the obvious thing,
can't you?

Um, what?

The fact that it's popping up
on its own accord?

Well, that and the grain's
the wrong way round.

So it needs to be twisted round?
Yeah.

You can't do that by hand now? Yeah.

And it's popping up on its own.

Ah! But it's coming up
beautifully slowly, isn't it?

it's coming up beautifully slowly!

Oh, blow.

A last minute readjustment

and the cabinet remains
locked safely inside.

Yep, it's not popping up.
It's not popping up.

Nice job, Steve. Yeah.
Thank you very much. Good job.

Will and Steve manoeuvre the table
into place, ready to show off

their handiwork to owner Jenny.

I'm hoping that Steve has
been able to repair the mechanism

because it's really important
to the family, and it would be

really nice to pass it down to
the younger generation.

Hi, Jenny. Hello, Steve.
How are you? I'm well, thank you.

Nice to see you again. Yeah.
This is Will.

Hi, Will. Nice to see you.
Hi, Jenny.

Right. OK, This has been
a bit of a challenge.

Has it? Yeah. Are you ready? Yeah.

Oh, wow.

That is amazing.

That really is amazing. The finish!

And dare I?

THEY CHUCKLE

Well, there's only one way
to find out.

GLASSES CLINK
Ah!

It's absolutely incredible.

Thank you so much, both of you.

It's-it's just beautiful.

And I love that everything fits.

Can I give you a hug?
Of course you can.

Thank you so much.
That's all right, sweetheart.

Thank you.

That's absolutely gorgeous.

You're very welcome. Thank you.
Thank you. Stunning.

Everybody will be so pleased.
Going to have a party.

I don't think I'll let anyone
touch it, actually.

Oh, it's just gorgeous.

Does this is take you back
to when it was with your aunt?

Yes, it does. Yeah.

Because one of the things
when I was really young

I used to ask permission to,
you know, pop the top.

And if anyone wanted a glass,
can I get it? So, you know, it does.

It's been really enjoyable
to work on and I've learnt

a lot by doing it. Great.

So thank you for bringing it in.
Thank you.

Shall I close it? Go on.

We'll get it all wrapped up.

Pop it out to the car for you.
Thank you.

Thanks very much. Bye-bye.

The table is just incredible.

Surpassed all my expectations.

The finish on the polish,
the mechanism.

The fact they've put the glasses in.

You get a flashback to all those
happy memories.

And it just brings up that little
lump in your throat.

And, you know, you think of
your grandmother and people

who have gone and my aunt, all
enjoying a Sunday afternoon around,

having a drink.

It's excellent. Incredible job.

So very, very happy.

Join us next time as more treasures
are resurrected...

Well, it would bring my dad
back to me, wouldn't it?

..and their memories
brought to life...

Oh, my word.
I'm absolutely speechless.

..in The Repair Shop.