Furniture restorer Jay Blades and horologist Steve Fletcher tackle a timepiece with huge sentimental value for its owner, Jane Fanner. Her late father who was completely blind made the clock himself, but it hasn't ticked or chimed since his death. Antique furniture restorer Will Kirk tests his carpentry skills on a fifty-year-old wooden flying fish that may have been carved by a descendent of one the mutineers from HMS Bounty. And accordion expert Roger Thomas wrestles with an eighty-year-old instrument that was played in the bomb shelters of London during the Blitz.
Jay Blades and Will Kirk work their magic on a much-loved Arts and Crafts piano stool that's been badly damaged by a dog without a bone. Clock restoration expert Steve is called up to work on a vintage telephone. And antique projector specialist Richard Rigby restores a collector's item that casts its spell over everyone in the Repair Shop.
In the repair shop today, Jay Blades and Will Kirk take delivery of a Davenport desk, Neil Fairly battles some Dr Who baddies and Steve Fletcher faces a time-travelling conundrum.
Ceramics conservator Kirstin Ramsay carries out some serious surgery on a cherished Victorian garden gnome. Firefighting historian Stuart Black tackles the restoration of an antique helmet. And music box expert Stephen Kember takes on a secret mission to bring a treasured family piece back to life before its owner finds out.
A precious nineteenth-century Italian chair tests Jay Blades' soft, and hard, furnishing skills... Resident ceramicist Kirsten Ramsey painstakingly puts the broken bits of a shattered piece by Jean Lurcat, a contemporary of Picasso's, back together again. And furniture restorer Will Kirk sets to work on a very special jewelry box.
Today in the repair shop, Lucia Scalisi rescues a painting, Kirsten Ramsay fixes a beloved painted plaque, and Will Kirk and Jay Blades bring a jewellery box back from the brink.
Dominic Chinea
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Suzie Fletcher
Sonnaz Nooranvary
Kirsten Ramsay
Lucia Scalisi