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00:00a workshop full of wonders I heard the word watch home to experts and time
00:07honored crafts hopefully we call this in the nick of time together repairing
00:13treasured pieces of the past oh no wow look at that wow look at that
00:20quite proud of that and unlocking their stories I'm completely blown away by this
00:26oh dear bringing the broken oh I'm desperate to take a look back to life
00:37oh fantastic
00:39oh my god wow this is amazing
00:46welcome to the repair shop
00:56today the busy barn is all abuzz as it awaits its first arrival
01:08Ruth Dunderley Hay from Nottinghamshire has a challenging assignment for art restorer Lucia
01:19Scalesi hello hello this must be yours yes what is it it's a portrait I had commissioned of my dad
01:29about 10 years ago for his 52nd birthday holding a frame of bees okay frame full of bees he's got his
01:37gloves on he's got his beekeepers outfit on okay it's painted on us on stone it's started I learned
01:43from a hardware store I think it's probably some sort of man-made yeah it's concrete why is it so worn
01:50out he was so proud of it when I gave it to him that he put it outside and by his front door film
01:58was 12 years it got a lot of rain it got a lot of snow and so naturally it's just deteriorated over
02:04time what was your dad's name david julian clune was he a professionally a beekeeper or was it like a
02:10big hobby it was a big hobby so um he was a reverend when this was taken he was a curate a lot of people
02:18found him very approachable and very warm um and I think you like the parallels between beekeeping
02:23and church because I guess like colonies are like a congregation in a way so how many bees did he have
02:30oh at any one time you could have up to 20 30 000 bees in a really strong colony really yeah a lot of
02:37bees a huge amount of honey it was the most rewarding part for him was harvesting the honey
02:42because he would sell it at the front door and then he would donate a part of that money to the church
02:46did it catch on with you were you interested in yeah when my husband and i bought our own home
02:51i said to my dad i want some bees and he gave me my first colony so you kept this going then you're a
02:57beekeeper yourself i think bees are such interesting creatures when you go into the hive you can smell the
03:02honey you can smell the wax you can hear the gentle humming of the bees um it's absolutely intoxicating
03:10it really really does feel like being at one with nature quite literally it's just incredible and if
03:16i know he felt like that why have you chosen to have this looked at now um four and a half months ago
03:23he passed away very suddenly and very unexpectedly of bronchopneumonia oh that's really recent that
03:31must have been quite a shock yeah it was yeah yeah but five or six weeks after he passed away
03:39my husband and i found out that we were expecting our first child um which is wonderful oh that is
03:47fantastic i want our child to be able to look at this and know it's their granddad yeah i want to
03:52remember him in all the good ways and this is a good way yeah but yeah it's become incredibly worn now
04:01what would you like me to do to this ruth it's important that it keeps some of its history of
04:07my dad had this for many years yeah but his portrait is the most important i i would love to see his
04:13ginger mustache again um and obviously i'd like all the bees to be on there
04:18well you brought in a really interesting challenge really this is going to take some
04:25different skills uh but yeah leave it with me thank you and i'll get back to you look after it
04:31i will do thank you my heart thank you
04:42will i need a hand with this it weighs a ton seriously you want some of this yeah it's really
04:49heavy that's not heavy at all actually it's really quite heavy it was really lovely to hear how ruth spoke
05:12about david he obviously had a very close father-daughter relationship i can only hope that i can do justice to
05:20this for her but my first job really is to clean this very disfiguring black mold and i've got this lovely
05:30stiff bristle brush and it's it's quite good for taking surface dirt off hard surfaces
05:37my approach to the painting will be reconstructing a lot of that shape um the big challenge for me
05:47is i do not want it to look picture perfect it's really got to show that it's been through at least
05:54the last 12 years i think what i need to do actually is go on a concrete hunt because i need to practice
06:03the paint technique how i'm going to apply it the colour matching and how it sits on the surface that's
06:09going to be fun next at the barn a special challenge for silversmith brenton west ian agar and daughter
06:27issy have dropped in to tell a remarkable survival story hi welcome to the barn hello hello hi how are
06:36you both doing good thank you so what have we got here then this is a silver statuette of the eternal
06:43airborne soldier and it did belong to my granddad john my father was given it to commemorate his time
06:53in the parachute regiment and there's a hundred of them and this is number 74. it was a very prized
06:58possession which uh he loved it just told a story really of his time in the army um he spent over
07:0516 years in the british army and the parachute regiment was a chunk of that wow yeah i think
07:11the parachute regiment to my father was the pinnacle of his career in the army beautiful absolutely
07:17beautiful tell us a bit about him so my father was a major he was a military man through and through he
07:25was very smart tidy efficient so it was polish your shoes in the morning and you know all the little
07:33chores that were done but he was a very kind man and loved his family and loved all his memories of
07:39of his time in the army but then when he he retired he decided that uh he would sell his house buy a
07:47catamaran and sail it round uh the mediterranean and all his possessions were on the catamaran including
07:54this and then one year he decided to sail to lagamera which is next to tenerife and he got caught in a
08:02storm coming home and unfortunately the the catamaran hit rocks he had to abandon uh the boat
08:09with his dog and managed to swim to shore he was okay he was okay dog swam ashore but everything
08:15got left on the catamaran including the parachutes we came out after he'd sank and we helped him retrieve
08:23things from this wreck that was on the beach that must have been awful yeah but he then bought an
08:28apartment in tenerife lived there forever and died in tenerife in 2016. so he's happy there
08:34it was his home and did he he gave up sailing after that he did yes but at least you got this
08:40off yes that obviously meant a lot to him to keep it looking like that absolutely what are you hoping
08:46brenton can do obviously having the strings taut and within the holes that are that are here
08:54it would do it justice to have it back to its former glory and have it how it should look he'd
09:00want it polished exactly exactly like the shoes it's the memory of my my father and izzie's
09:07grandfather you'll just keep his story alive thank you both for trusting us for this beautiful thing
09:13thank you very much thank you bye-bye are you not blown away that this still exists absolutely
09:24believe absolutely resilient yeah resilient just like john yeah i can't wait to see it here lovely
09:30thank you best of luck with it ian and izzie's statuette is something i really really like
09:48a model that's made out of silver is one of my favorite things however there is a lot to do having
09:55been on a boat wreck and tossed about in the waves uh this has got quite damaged the parachute has been
10:05dented at the top here the paratroopers come loose i think the trickiest part is going to be
10:13making these wires look correct they're tangled they're broken so i'm gonna have to have a little
10:19think about what i do about those and silver tarnishes even in the best conditions salt is
10:26aggressive and pollution anything like that makes silver go black what i do know is under all that black
10:34there is a shine i've just got to go and find it i'm going to take this apart before i start polishing
10:40and repairing and repairing the metal
10:54i'll come to ask you a favor or ask if you've got any pieces of concrete to practice my painting of
11:16bees on concrete say no more i've got a couple of broken bits here that's all i need actually they're
11:23perfect i've just got to paint some small bees yeah i'll wash them and then i'll be able to paint
11:28on it great hope it works out thank you
11:44i'm quite pleased with the way this paint is sitting on the stone i've painted on marble and
11:49things but this piece of concrete is a rougher surface so the next thing is to transfer the effect
11:56onto the original portrait and this is always a very tentative nervous moment but um let's go
12:08i've got two reference photographs that ruth managed to dig out for me which is really great i've got how
12:13it looked when it was originally painted and i've also got the original photograph that was taken of
12:18david with his bees i'm going to start on this bottom bit first
12:27you want to keep that very distinguished line along the bottom where the bees are literally dripping
12:34off the end of the frame it's really juicy i haven't painted on concrete before but i like it i
12:41mean this is nice this is nice it's taking this paint really nicely i'm using acrylic paints not least
12:48because they dry quickly i'm going to leave this section now and move on to get some structure into
12:54the hand and then go over the whole thing again and sort of build up the opacity where it needs it
13:00just a bit more depth
13:20i've done enough of the white for now but i really need to start working on the frame
13:24here goes let's just do a nice bee
13:36all right there's one little bee might be too picturesque
13:41what am i gonna do
13:46what the artist has done has just defined them quite casually but put some splodges on that are
13:52obviously indicating that they're bees
13:57it it's difficult it really is difficult they need to be more abstract
14:13with the silver statuette dismantled brenton's tackling its dented and tarnished canopy
14:22this parachute i have to remember is a living silk parachute that's blowing around in the wind
14:27and the way it's been made shows that movement it certainly doesn't want to be bent like it is
14:33here so i'm going to get a pair of pliers and just try and ease this up a bit just to make it look like
14:39the rest of it if i do a little bit of the time hopefully the parts that are meant to be raised
14:44will come up into their position and look the part
14:49it's hard to know which of these dents happened during the shipwreck and which ones are meant to
14:53be there the first pleat that i've straightened definitely looks better but this flap that we've
14:59got here i think is meant to be there because it is so even so the artistic license of the folding of
15:06the pleats of the fabric help me in a way so i'm just going to leave it at that i'm just going to
15:12go around the rest of these pleats and get them looking as good as i can
15:25i've got the dents out really satisfactory really pleased with that and the proof will be once i've
15:36polished it how good it all looks so i'm using a foam polish it gets into the nooks and crannies and
15:46you can wash it off with water so it's not so dirty to work with as some of the other polishes
15:52izzy and ian were so proud of john's achievement in the army and if i can get this as highly polished
16:00as possible hopefully it will reflect on that career it's going to take quite a while but once
16:08it's done i can move on to the paratrooper himself
16:29i can't help but notice you're wearing pink you're not trying to outdo my pinkness are you brenton um
16:34no i'm inspired by you i'm never going to outdo you i'm never going to out pink you am i come on
16:49arriving next at the barn is paddy from ormskirk she's brought a precious treasure from her childhood
16:57overseas hello hi there hello what do we have here this is a leather baby hammock from iran a baby
17:11hammock a baby hammock it's quite traditional all my cousins slept in this and my baby brother did as
17:18well i mean i remember as a child i had like loops here and then it would be hung up between the two
17:26walls in the bedroom see that everybody slept in and the baby would be in there swaddled just to make
17:33sure it didn't fall out right so did you grow up in iran i grew up yes in iran okay my dad's from iran
17:42uh and my mom's from england and they met in england when my dad was sent over by an oil company for
17:50training and they met on a blind date how lovely i think it was love at first sight because then
17:58that was it got engaged and we're going to get married but then in 1951 the iranian government
18:08had decided to nationalize the oil the 1951 oil crisis erupted when iran nationalized the anglo-persian
18:18oil company as the majority stakeholder britain retaliated by imposing sanctions including a boycott
18:27on iranian oil as a result my father had to go back to iran and my mom had to stay in the uk
18:37because they weren't married but eventually they got married by proxy then she joined my dad
18:44in iran as an adult looking back now it just blows my mind sometimes how brave they were and you know
18:52how how special a completely different life for your mom when she left the uk then but my mom loved iran
18:59she embraced the culture she learned the language she spoke it fluently wow my father's family where
19:06this comes from my mom loved visiting them we used to go there during the school holidays myself my
19:12sister my brother and my mom she had a good strong bond with my aunt who's this this belonged to and
19:22why did your aunt give your mom this mom just loved it it was quite different and unusual and it meant a lot
19:29to her yeah yeah after she died in 2022 i took this down from the wall and behind it she'd done a
19:37drawing of what it looked like because obviously at the moment it doesn't look like a working hammock
19:43have you still got it i've got it yes good
19:46yeah i have no idea how it's supposed to look yeah so this looks like it's been well used it's very
19:54worn i think there might be some stains on there from babies being changed
19:58nice and also like the sewing to be repaired as far as possible it's it's a link with my mom
20:07it's a family history and um it's a piece of iran although i only lived there till i was 16. it
20:15always feels like home iran yeah miss it this is such a lovely piece i'm a little concerned as to
20:25what i'm going to be able to do but i will put my best foot forward and and get it as good as i can
20:30oh thank you we'll see you soon bye bye wow this is great it is it's in a very very fragile
20:40condition i don't know where you're going to start susie me neither maybe start by taking you over to
20:44your bench good luck okay i'm really overwhelmed with this it's an amazing piece but i have so many
21:05questions about how i'm going to make it whole again this leather is in a very fragile state
21:14there are some tabs at the end here missing these tabs are actually loops so something slides
21:22through them and then there's a strap that hangs to the wall and for some reason these loops being
21:28cut off and there's a lot of decoration also missing the best approach with something like this
21:38is for me to start removing all the surface dirt and baby stains
21:51the cheers finally found her artistic stride with the concrete portrait of beekeeper david i managed
22:11to contain myself and just go into little dotted abstract bees for now i'm just going to finish up on
22:18these because i want to move on to david's face the big feature is going to be the ginger moustache which
22:25i know was an actual really personal feature of david i do have to remember
22:32remember to blink
22:42oh this is tricky
22:57this is tricky it seems that whatever i do is like really really heavy-handed i think i'm trying
23:06to make the face too perfect and i think i need to go backwards a bit
23:11this is not going right this is not going right before i do any more work on the features
23:21i really need to get these background colors right i need a lot more light in this face
23:27i'm going to try and take a little bit of what i've already put on there off with a with a damp swab
23:35and then i'm going to actually go back in on on that forehead in particular
23:49after some serious spitting polish the parachute and its trooper are ready for inspection
24:05so this is the first time these have been cleaned for over 40 years and they do look fantastic
24:12i'm really really pleased and excited to be thinking about putting this back together soon
24:17however i can't do that until i've soldered two little tabs back onto the soldier's hands
24:23these have been broken off of the soldier probably when the boat had its accident these need to be
24:29soldered back on so there's somewhere to attach the strings of the parachute
24:34this is really tricky things move when they get hot and i don't get this too hot so i don't know how
24:40he was made and i don't really want to damage him that's now got a lump of soldier on it and i'm now
24:46going to heat his hand up hopefully stick this strap to his hand
24:50i'm just going to let this cool down a bit and hopefully when i let go that is attached
25:04that's not quite on there yet right let's have another go
25:11thank goodness for that that's on there now it's now i've just got the other side
25:26to solder up and i've got to be really careful that i don't melt the side that i've just done
25:45susie has removed the remnants of the hanging loops that held up the baby hammock
25:51hey susie just the person so this is what is remaining of the leather oh i see okay and here's
26:00the exciting bit so parry has has given me this incredible diagram of how these attach to the baby
26:10hammock yeah but here is like rods of wood that need to be made to fit exactly in the right place
26:19is it possible to make such a thing definitely i'd get on it hey there you go hey thanks
26:27with some new rods in the pipeline susie can start recreating the missing leather loops
26:34in keeping with their traditional design
26:40so this has given me a really clear idea as to how these were originally made
26:44there is a hessian type material that's being covered with a very thin leather and then it looks
26:52like it's been stained with a red colored dye it looks quite primitive but i think that would be
27:00quite effective like a stripe running around these loops the plan will be to try and emulate as close
27:07to the original as possible i found some hessian which matches which is great and now i'm just going
27:14to cut a couple of strips the reason why they've used hessian or a burlap is to give the strips of leather
27:25the strength necessary to hold the weight of a baby in a hammock without this filler it would stretch over time
27:33and possibly break so i've got my strips cut and then i can sandwich it in the leather
27:54now that the strips of leather are made up and fully glued i'm now going to dye the edges
28:04i've been playing with lots of different mixtures of dyes and i've come up with a recipe that creates
28:13a pretty close match to the various tones of red that i've got going on here
28:23so i'm just going to run a line across the side here just like the original
28:33i'm really getting a feel for this and um the beauty of the hammock is that it's quite rustic
28:40so it's not like i've got to make sure lines are absolutely spot on it can have lots of variations
28:47that's what gives it lots of character oh it's looking great you can see how it's it's matching that
28:54pinky color exactly what i want and just going to let this one dry and get on with the other two
29:08so i finish making and preparing the the leather strips for the loops after i dyed them i just cut
29:23them to size and and then just trimmed the edges into like a point so that when they get mounted onto
29:32the the hammock they'll bed in nicely to where they were originally put now i just have to put this
29:41decorative stitching into position i'm using a chain stitch which is what has been used throughout the
29:49whole of the hammock there are miles and miles and miles of chain stitching which is really beautiful
29:57and decorative but it's taking a lot longer than i was expecting it to take so there we have it all sewn
30:05together looks beautiful it's also incredibly strong once they're all completely sane i can go ahead and
30:13get them stitched into place lucia had hit a sticky patch trying to revive beekeeper david's face
30:33but now this queen bee is flying i've lightened david's forehead a bit um and i'm much happier with how
30:44that's looking it's time now to move on to painting david's features and keeping them very subtle and soft
30:51because they are behind a veil i don't want it to look like it was painted yesterday because it isn't
30:59so it's got to show some of its age and less is certainly more it's trying to do justice to the
31:08portrait of david which is what ruth remembers
31:17this faded portrait of a nature lover had been at the mercy of the elements day and night
31:23for 12 years but lucia swapped canvas for concrete and put her restoration skills to the test
31:33lucia that looks absolutely amazing thank you susie
31:40for ruth it's a touching reminder of her beloved dad and their shared passion for beekeeping
31:47so good to see you welcome back thank you oh how are you feeling very nervous very emotional
31:59obviously i think about my dad a lot every day still so um yeah i'm really excited to see it
32:06and as you know we've got a little one coming soon they're going to know exactly who he is
32:11and i want to be able to share with family and friends who he was are you ready to see it
32:23yes
32:37it's so clean
32:41ruth it's a great thing it's so great it's so great it's great it's exactly how i remember it
32:57it's
32:57uh tara said it's better
33:01mustache looks great come in
33:05you'd be so glad it's here and it's been looked after and restored it's stunning thank you so much
33:20that's my dad
33:23it was an honor ruth it really was a challenge but we're always up for a challenge but an honor and a
33:29wonderful thing thank you for restoring it thank you for looking after it i'll see you soon bye
33:35all i saw was my dad it was just so nice to see him full of life in his portrait
33:50it brings back memories of being in that field with him uh watching him go into the bees and the
33:54excitement that was a really wonderful time all i want to do is talk about my dad all i want to do
34:01share his stories and share his stories and things that he's taught me and i get to do that even
34:06more so now with the portrait
34:15next up some heavy metal for dom jenny lindsey hi hello you okay yeah welcome to the bomb head on in
34:33that looks heavy it is lindsey simpson has brought along a piece of rock and roll history
34:40in need of a comeback tell me what what is this this is a bass guitar flight case uh this particular
34:50case belonged to as it says across the front you can see trevor boulder trevor boulder yeah during
34:56his time with a band called uriah heap a really big uh prog rock band from the 70s uh and mostly 70s
35:02and 80s he's from hull where i'm from but he was also in uh several other bands including uh david bowie's
35:08spiders from mars wow that's quite a claim to fame yeah i mean you don't get much bigger than that
35:26really yeah the idea that this case was used by that same bass guitarist is is phenomenal to me
35:32listen to bowie a lot and um growing up knowing that somebody from the city i'm from was able to
35:38be in a band of that level um it's just incredibly inspirational to me in the music scene in hull
35:44now how well known is trevor if you're from the the whole scene then you'll know who trevor boulder
35:49is he's just a an idol of the place really local legend absolutely yeah so i've got to ask this is
35:57trevor's flight case for trevor's bass how have you got hold of it so this case was left at a venue in
36:02hull uh called the boat house which was like an underground music venue um and a friend of mine
36:09was gifted it and basically that friend of mine became homeless at one point and um i let him stay
36:14in my house whilst i was away and when i came back he'd left me this as a thank you so that's how i came
36:20to to have it so growing up was music a big thing in your family massive i'm in a band in hull myself um
36:27i've performed around the country in various bands what do you play i play guitar and bass and piano
36:33okay so this is obviously an amazing piece of history but it's also quite a functional thing
36:39for you absolutely having a functional item like that that has the history behind it just adds that
36:43extra layer of cool to the item yeah that era of proper rock and roll every little dent is a story
36:49in some way does it open barely it but the hinges are a little see how rusty yeah the hinges are a
36:56little bit gone oh no look at it in there exactly the interior lining is completely gone pretty much
37:01um there's tiny remnants of the of the foam what are you hoping i'm able to do to this case
37:07make it functional ultimately one day i could be using this to travel the world myself with with my
37:13instrument in it is that the dream ideally yeah not more than anything just it deserves to be
37:19in a better state well thank you so much for trusting me with it and i'll see you soon thank you
37:40this may well just be a slight case for a guitar but to lindsay this is a symbol of what's possible
37:49and a dream that came true for trevor and i hope that in the future lindsay will be putting his
37:54bass guitar in here and taking it around the world on his tours with his band but before then
38:01i have got some work to do to get it back into working condition all of the steel components
38:07have gone rusty and then with the rust comes things seizing up i am going to have to do something with
38:14this writing on the front that is what makes this case so special but you can't read it i really
38:20don't want to repaint it because this is the original writing i'll give it some thought
38:28i can't even get it open at the moment now from what i can see from peering inside
38:34it's not looking good so i think i'm best starting with the hinge get that removed which
38:38gain access to the inside and then we can really start work
38:49there are a lot of rivets holding this together the only way to remove them is to drill them out
38:54but they seem to be coming off quite easily
38:56i should have this apart in no time
39:10perfect that is one sorry looking hinge yes right now i can get inside that is going to be a big
39:30clean-up job in there with the silver paratrooper back in one piece brenton's turning his attention
39:51to the trickiest part of the repair
39:53i've got to replace the wires from the canopy to the soldier so i need some 0.3 millimeter silver
40:03and i've only got 0.5 0.3 is really thin i'm going to draw my wire down using a draw plate making the
40:09wire progressively thinner as i go down through these holes what this does rather than taking any
40:18metal off of the wire is it squeezes the wire thinner and thinner now we go down to 0.45
40:26i've got to keep doing this until i get down to 0.3
40:40now that i've got all of the rusty steel parts removed from the case it's now time to try and
40:51get rid of that rust i will admit it would be a lot easier to replace all of these parts but
40:58these are all of the original pieces to trevor's case and i think it's worth keeping them the benefit
41:04of using this rust removing solution is going to be really helpful on this hinge because it's going
41:09to seep in and creep in okay that is all the parts fully submerged now it's just a waiting game
41:20i'm going to pop these all over to one side and let that do its thing whilst i get on with the rest of
41:26the case oh dearie me
41:45with the silver wire thinned out and cut to size brenton has the tricky task of re-rigging the statuette
41:56i'm attaching my new lines to the parachute ready for the paratrooper to start hauling
42:08the canopy in and these lines will be pulled tight in groups of eight to each of the four straps
42:18that the paratrooper is holding this is very fiddly this wire will break really easily so i have to be
42:27really careful with it
42:31so these now need to be gathered
42:33and these were on the original model just twisted over the shoulder strap
42:45just three more sections to go
42:47and i'm hoping that when izzy and ian see this it will remind them of the tidy and immaculate way that
42:58major john lived his life
43:00this silver statuette was a treasured memento of major john's time in the parachute regiment
43:11but a shipwreck
43:12left it tarnished and dented with a torn and tangled mess of streams
43:20oh it looks amazing look at that you're pleased very please
43:24ian and daughter izzy are back to collect this prized possession of the father and grandfather they adored
43:34welcome back thank you thank you very much nice to you again how have you been very excited very
43:43excited a bit emotional to see what's under here you said emotional is he for me i've only ever seen
43:50the statuette with the damage so it's almost like i'm going to be looking at it through grandad's eyes
43:57i guess how he saw it for the first time so that's what's so special to me it's big day big day
44:05okay go on brinson
44:13oh wow that's incredible incredible
44:21that is amazing i didn't even know it could be that shiny wow that is something else isn't it
44:28oh my gosh izzy look at that it's beautiful
44:32my father your grandfather would be would be amazed to see it back like that i think he'd be
44:39over the moon yeah he carried this with him isn't he everywhere he did so i think that just shows how
44:45much it meant to him so now we can hopefully keep it future generations it's ready for its next chapter
44:52that's it it's incredible thank you so much pleasure thank you thank you bye-bye thank you bye-bye
44:58i didn't think it could look like this at all this is a perfect representative now of how proud he was
45:10to be in the parachute regiment it will be pride of place and kept for years to come it will keep his memory
45:17alive while will whips up a pair of poles for the leather baby hammer
45:38i'm now focusing my attention on the decorative edges here which are made of of
45:51a strip of leather rather than individual triangles the actual process has been quite challenging
46:01the top line stitch in that chain link alternates between white and brown thread
46:07so i've had two needles and different threads going at the same time which kept on getting tangled
46:12um but it's beginning to come together just getting to the last triangle in the brown thread and then i
46:21can go ahead and trim off the excess leather to form the triangular shape
46:37i've got a lot of respect for the person who made this the amount of effort that's gone into making this
46:48is quite extraordinary it's got so much decoration on it so far i have spent a great deal of time
46:56sewing and i do love sewing but uh it's definitely a workout on your hands
47:13what's this then don i try my best to tidy up this flight case for a bass guitar from uriah heep
47:20i see right i thought i recognized that yeah i saw them when i was 14 years old hammersmith odeon
47:27and they were so loud i think my ears are still ringing now from it
47:32there's every chance this case could have been there you never know
47:34after much deliberation dom is ready to take the plunge with his paintbrush
47:52i have made the decision that i'm going to try and touch up the lettering a little bit more i'm
47:58reluctant to paint over it because i don't want to want to lose the original writing but i'm going
48:04to be very cautious with just a very faint wash i can build that up i know it looks like i'm using a
48:13incredibly small brush but i'm not repainting i'm just picking out where it's worn
48:19and the worst of the areas just to say you can make out the lettering
48:22some of the projects i end up getting involved in tend to quite often be big loud dirty messy
48:33taking things apart getting engines running so it's quite nice actually to have a quite a nice
48:40gentle clean job to do it's going to take a few different attempts to blend this new paint in with
48:49the old paint and get it as seamless as possible
49:10i've got all of these steel components from the flight case and they are looking so much better
49:16i'm coating them with a rust preventative oil this should make them last a lot longer
49:25the last piece that i need to clean up is the all-important hinge which was completely seized
49:30up and covered in rust and things are already looking promising this is looking absolutely brilliant
49:38i am confident that i'll be able to get this freed up enough so that i can bolt it back onto the case
49:43and lindsay will actually be able to open it
49:57and that is everything fixed back in place
50:17oh effortless that is so much better i just need to attach a new handle onto the top
50:25and then i'm finished on the outside and i can start thinking about the interior
50:42suzy is on the home straight of her baby hammock sewing marathon
50:47hello hello i come bearing gifts ah they're beautiful now i kept the design very simple
50:58because there's a lot going on with this yes so what's left to do um i've just got a few finishing
51:03touches and then i can give it back to parry beautiful i'll let you get on with it thank you
51:07to do it this handcrafted baby hammock had been so well used that the leather was stained the stitching
51:18broken and the hanging loops long gone right let's get this covered up okay
51:26now parry is back to collect this treasured connection to her parents love story
51:41hello hello hi parry welcome back thank you are you looking forward to seeing a bit of iran here today
51:48oh gosh yes quite uh overwhelming i think it symbolizes my mom and my dad
51:55and my mom embracing the iranian culture and also the history of it it belonged to the family so it
52:03it's um it does mean a lot we are desperate to show you oh i'm so anxious to see it
52:10oh my gosh
52:25that's so beautiful wow you've done the loops it's stunning absolutely stunning
52:41i could just imagine it hanging up with my cousins in it
52:49my mom would have been so happy she would have really loved to have seen it like that
52:57thank you so much you've done an amazing job don't know how you've done it it's a beautiful
53:03piece and may it continue to give you much joy not really appreciate it pleasure over to you
53:08yeah yeah beautiful oh thank you so much pleasure bye-bye take care bye bye bye
53:22it's beyond expectations i will never tire of looking at it and reminding myself of my mom and my dad which
53:31that is symbolic of them it's a family treasure and i think it's brilliant that it's been restored
53:45you ready brenton yeah it's nearly cut enough for the guitar case that rocked its way from hull to the
53:52world stage back in the 1970s that stuck well this is specific foam for flight cases
54:01that's why it's got this texture on it just the right just the right amount of squidge to hold your
54:04guitar in place it's um a historical monument and it's nice to see it back being used again just need
54:12to get the other half in yep and that will hold the guitar nice and secure ready to give back to lindsey
54:17this case once held the bass guitar of 70s rock musician trevor bolder but years on tour had left it battered
54:34dulled and rusted shut
54:39whoa that's a proper flight case i've ever seen one isn't it it's looking good
54:49its latest owner lindsey is hoping the newly restored case will lend some rock god magic to his own
54:57musical aspirations hi welcome back i can see you've come prepared i have indeed
55:05i'm honestly so excited i just want to be able to use it again but also the historical value because
55:10this was trevor's yes 100 are you excited to see it very yeah yeah yeah yeah i look at work
55:17it oh whoa that's me that's wow can i touch it of course it's your case
55:33whoa look i mean look at that the locks work all the original ones as well really yeah yeah oh what
55:41oh wow that's crazy oh still the original text but hopefully you can read it a lot clearer now i
55:53absolutely can i'm so excited it's hard to be able to know that this had his base in it and it'll now
55:59have mine i'm ecstatic thank you so much what's the plan for it i've got a load of gigs coming up with
56:06the band we're going to be going to glastonbury to to do a small like stint there you're performing
56:11there yeah yeah that's amazing to be able to take it there as well it'll just be the icing on the cake
56:16really i think trevor would be pleased to know that his whole case has ended up in the right hands
56:21do you want to try for size i cannot wait oh this is so cool ah perfect literally perfect
56:29oh okay well it's over to you now good luck at glastonbury thank you very much let me get the door
56:39for you see you later thank you so much you're welcome
56:49i couldn't believe the job that dom's man is to do it's so lovingly restored i never actually dreamt
56:56to seeing a bass guitar in it again the case itself deserves more life and it deserves to be used more
57:03and for me to be the one that's actually going to be the able to carry that on it's just it's just a
57:08dream come true really amazing
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