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00:00A workshop full of wonders.
00:03I heard the word watch.
00:05Home to experts and time-honoured crafts.
00:09There you go, that's a good sound.
00:11Together repairing treasured pieces of the past.
00:15Oh, I like that. That is really good.
00:19Wow, look at that!
00:20Wow, look at that!
00:23Quite proud of that.
00:25And unlocking their stories.
00:27I'm completely blown away by this.
00:30Oh dear.
00:31Bringing the broken...
00:33I don't know where to start with this.
00:35...back to life.
00:36Wow.
00:38Stunning.
00:40Wow, fantastic!
00:43I think it's just amazing.
00:46Yeah!
00:47Welcome to the Repair Shop.
00:56Oh, talk of the devil. There he is.
00:58Good morning.
00:59You all right?
01:00Yeah, how are you?
01:10First into the barn this morning are Paul and son Sam from Bradford.
01:15They've brought along a show-stopping gift that's lost its pizzazz for the Prince of Percussion, Pete Woods.
01:24Hello, welcome to the barn.
01:26Thank you very much.
01:27Hi.
01:27Oh, it's a drum kit.
01:29Drum kit clock.
01:30That is amazing.
01:32Every part's handmade.
01:33That is absolutely incredible.
01:36It was actually solid brass and it's got gold leaf on.
01:38The pedals work.
01:40Even the snare drum got a proper snare on that it used to work.
01:43The springs across, look.
01:45I'm losing.
01:46I like it.
01:46It's just lovely, isn't it?
01:48How have you come to own something like this?
01:51My dad had it ordered for my 25th birthday.
01:54He knew I was mad on drums and he just wanted to get me a keepsake.
01:59I always wanted to be a drummer and got my first kick when I was 11.
02:03So your childhood was playing drums?
02:06Music.
02:06Musical childhood.
02:07Where did that come from?
02:08Where were you inspired?
02:09Well, I mean, I was a club act, a comedian, and as a child I used to go to clubs
02:15with him
02:16and I was enthralled by drummers.
02:18What was his name?
02:19Tommy Harper.
02:20Quite well known in the early one.
02:22He did have Opportunity Knocks and stuff like that.
02:24Okay.
02:25I remember that.
02:26Yeah?
02:26Yeah.
02:27Before my time, Pete.
02:28My second home were like Blackpool because he used to do summer seasons there.
02:32You must have some great stories, being a kid, travelling around with a comedian as a dad.
02:36Loved it.
02:36It was a brilliant upbringing, a lot of happy memories.
02:41He was a massive character, my grandad.
02:43I remember as a kid, he was always doing daft magic tricks and fooling around.
02:50I was a magician as well.
02:51Yeah, yeah.
02:52He was an all-round entertainer.
02:53Yeah.
02:53I'm a singer entertainer now, so I've kept my dad's name going.
02:56Nice.
02:57You know, in entertainment.
02:58It's in the blood, but it's missed you, hasn't it?
03:01Yeah, it's missed me.
03:02It says on the front here, made by Harry.
03:05Who was Harry then?
03:06Harry Bradbury were a local drummer who used to play the drums for my dad.
03:10Okay.
03:11And he was a clocksmith as well.
03:13So your dad asked his friend to make it for you?
03:15Exactly.
03:15Exactly.
03:16But my dad passed away in the middle of making it.
03:20So he never actually saw the finished product, did he?
03:23No.
03:23Which is sad.
03:24Yeah.
03:25Out of goodness of his heart, Harry continued to build it and give me it on my 25th birthday.
03:31Oh, how amazing.
03:32So that's the memory of my dad that he would have loved it.
03:36I bet this would have looked beautiful that day that you got it.
03:40It would have been shiny.
03:41What's happened since then?
03:43Well, basically, I have it in, like, my office just on display.
03:47But as you can see over the years, it's just deteriorated a little bit.
03:50Yeah.
03:50And with the sun, the skins, they've corroded.
03:54Okay.
03:55Has it still gone on the clock?
03:57No.
03:57It didn't wind.
03:58That sounds like a job for Steve.
04:00Yeah.
04:01So I guess the dream really for you is to get it back as it was when you were 25.
04:06My pride and joy.
04:08Thank you so much for trusting us with this amazing thing.
04:11Thank you very much.
04:12You're so welcome.
04:13Thank you very much.
04:13Lovely to meet you both.
04:20I think I'm going to enjoy doing this one.
04:22I think you are too.
04:23You know what, Peter?
04:23If we get you a small pair of drumsticks, maybe you can play it.
04:27I think...
04:27The stool might be a bit small for me.
04:39I've seen little miniature models before drums, but I've never seen the whole drum kit.
04:44It's great.
04:45But everything's small, which is always fiddly, and my fingers are not that small.
04:53The foot pedal for the hi-hat stand, oh dear me, is a bit rickety.
05:00The heads all need replacing, but the main thing is we've got to do something about the gold plating.
05:06That needs redoing.
05:08When Paul got it, it was a nice, bright, shiny kit.
05:12We want to get it back to the one his dad had made for him.
05:16So, the first thing to do now is to get the stuff off the base.
05:24Harry's made a real good job at this.
05:27It's just like a real kit.
05:29You know, everything moves as it should do.
05:33It's just great.
05:35I'm just going to get this fully dismantled.
05:37And I could get the clock out and pass it over to Steve.
05:50How's life been, Angie?
05:51Great.
05:52I'm engaged.
05:54Congratulations.
05:55Look at that ring.
05:56So happy.
05:57I'm so pleased for you.
05:58Thanks.
05:59Exciting.
05:59Yeah.
06:00Paper conservator Angelina will need her feet firmly on the ground to restore the barn's
06:06next item.
06:07Capturing a special bond forged with a legendary family.
06:11It belongs to Rachel from Devon.
06:14Hello.
06:15Hello.
06:16Come on in.
06:18What do you have for us?
06:20Well, this is a photograph of my great aunt Maude, who was the White House nanny.
06:26What?
06:27To President JFK's children, Caroline and baby John.
06:31Wow.
06:32And she was there from 1957 to 1965.
06:36How on earth did your great aunt Maude end up at the White House?
06:42Well, Jacqueline Kennedy, at the time heavily pregnant with Caroline, wanted an English nanny
06:48because she'd been brought up by an English nanny.
06:50And she was actually nanny to Caroline at 11 days old.
06:55Oh.
06:55So she must have had a really close relationship with the Kennedys.
06:59Very close.
07:00She was there when baby John was born.
07:02She went on holiday with them when they spent Christmas down in Palm Beach.
07:07She looked after the children literally 24-7.
07:10Wow.
07:10And the President would always come along and see his children in the morning before going
07:15down into the Oval Office.
07:16So she developed a very, very strong bond with them.
07:20Yeah.
07:20So would Maude have been there at that terrible time of the assassination of JFK?
07:27Yes.
07:28And it was Maude that had to tell Caroline that Daddy had been shot, he'd been taken to hospital
07:34and he couldn't get better.
07:35Oh, wow.
07:36Yes.
07:36And then the aftermath, the funeral, she was there for all of that, just focusing on the
07:43children.
07:43Yeah.
07:44And then in 1965, Maude left service.
07:49She was going to retire.
07:51Wow.
07:51And this was given to Maude by Jacqueline as a parting gift when she left the White House.
07:57Wow.
07:58And then once she was back home, we saw quite a bit of her.
08:01Wow.
08:01And she was a dynamo.
08:02She was tiny.
08:03She was only five foot two.
08:04And she always had that twinkle.
08:06She was a bit naughty.
08:07Yeah.
08:07She could get away with anything really, because she'd seen it all, done it all, been there.
08:11Yeah.
08:11So how come you have it now?
08:13Well, it was given by Maude to my parents.
08:17The relationship between Maude and my father was very, very close.
08:21Yeah.
08:21And I think she just wanted to know that it was going to be kept within the family and
08:28cherished.
08:29Yeah.
08:29Which it has been.
08:31How did you discover that it had been damaged?
08:33It has always had pride of place in my father's study on a desk.
08:38And unfortunately, one of the pot plants was watered and it overshot.
08:43And unfortunately, the water ended up being poured over here.
08:48And sadly, Mum didn't realise what had happened.
08:50And it sat in a pool of water for quite a while.
08:53It's very, very wrinkly.
08:56Yeah.
08:56And there are some brown stains.
08:58And where the photograph was removed from the glass, the surface of the photograph has
09:02come apart.
09:04Yeah.
09:04There's only one of these photographs.
09:07And she's a very special lady.
09:09Yeah.
09:10With a very special story.
09:11It's a piece of history.
09:13It is a piece of history.
09:14And it's part of my history.
09:16If there's anything you could do to make it not so obviously distressed, it would be lovely.
09:22Hopefully, you can sleep easy and know that it's in the best possible hands.
09:27Thank you very much.
09:28Bye.
09:28I'll see you soon.
09:45Oh, my goodness.
09:47This photograph, it breaks my heart how it looks right now.
09:50I can see so many ripples.
09:53It was clearly handled when it was wet.
09:56I think this is probably a fingerprint.
10:00Because of that, the emulsion is quite disturbed here.
10:05And the losses around the edges, which have been attached to the glass, I might be able
10:12to get these onto the surface of the photo.
10:15Also, there's quite a bit of water stains.
10:19It's a really tricky and difficult job.
10:21But for me, the first thing that I need to do is just remove the tape from the back.
10:26Because I need a clean surface to do any treatment that needs to be done.
10:31So I'm just going to use my heated spatula to reactivate the adhesive, which will allow me to lift it
10:38up.
10:54Oh, Steve.
10:55You all right?
10:57There's a room going around you, not too bad on clocks.
11:00I've been doing it half a century, so I'm getting the hang of it now.
11:04It's in the little miniature drum kit.
11:08What's wrong with it?
11:09I don't know.
11:10You're the clock, mate.
11:11You're not me.
11:13Yeah, leave that with me and I'll see what I can do.
11:16That's great. Thanks, Mike.
11:17Cheers.
11:22Just looking at this clock, this unit coming down here is for winding it, but also for setting the hands
11:31as well.
11:31But usually when you set the hands, you would pull this and it would click into the right position.
11:37And it's not doing that at all.
11:39So I'll just start taking it apart now so I can see what's going on.
11:52Now I've got the drum kit all apart, I've just got a few little repairs to do.
11:58So I'm just going to solder this onto there, which is foot pedal for the hi-hat stand.
12:06It's all got to be squared up nicely because you can press the pedal and the cymbals go up and
12:11down.
12:13It's great. I love it.
12:22This is the flags, which cleans the metal so that the solder will take.
12:36That's it, all done.
12:37Now I've just got to clean it, polish it up, and then it'll be ready for plighting.
12:45So this little spring unit here feels quite sluggish.
12:50And I think that that's not going back into position.
12:54So when I push it all the way back, I can then push the mechanism up and down as it
13:05should work.
13:06And I think that's just probably down to the fact that it has gummed up with old oil that has
13:13just solidified instead of a lubricant.
13:17What I'm going to do is just take the whole clock apart, degrease it, clean it all, and then I
13:23can actually look through it to see if there's anything else really wrong with this clock.
13:34The barn's next hopeful arrival is Londoner Jean.
13:39She's come with Megan from children's charity Barnardo's, along with interpreter Ruth Ann.
13:47They've got an appointment with ceramics restorer Kirsten Ramsey.
13:51Hello!
13:53Hi!
13:54Hi!
13:56Lovely to see you all.
13:57You too.
13:58Thanks for having me.
13:59And we've brought along a wax prototype of a full-size statue which is in Tower Hamlet Cemetery Park.
14:06And it commemorates 513 children who were buried in unmarked graves.
14:11The children who were buried there had all been in the care of the charity at some point, dating right
14:17back from 1867 up until 1929.
14:22London, in Victorian times, was plagued by poverty and infectious diseases like tuberculosis and cholera.
14:31And while hundreds of poor, sick and orphaned children were cared for by the charity, many of them died.
14:38With no funds for individual headstones, they were buried together in unmarked graves until more recently when memorials were built
14:49for some of the burial sites.
14:51Several, thanks to fundraising, done by Jean.
14:56Jean, can I ask what your connection is with Barnardo's?
15:01I went in when I was one, till I was 21.
15:05My mum had TB, she died.
15:08School was in Barnardo's.
15:10Everything was in Barnardo's.
15:12The biggest family in the world.
15:15Yeah.
15:16For all the children that died, I wanted them to have a name on the memorials.
15:23So, she's right.
15:26I think that's a fundraise.
15:27So this is the third memorial that Jean has fundraised for.
15:31So the first one commemorates around 600 children.
15:34The second one commemorates 16 boys.
15:37And then this one, which commemorates 513 children.
15:41It's in my family.
15:43My brothers and sisters.
15:45Right.
15:45A sculptor called Tom Nicholls created the statue.
15:49This is his prototype, which he very kindly gifted to Jean to thank her for her fundraising to have the
15:54statue built.
15:55What did you do to raise the money?
15:57Raffles.
15:58People make cakes.
16:01Loads of different things.
16:02How much money have you raised in total?
16:0530,000.
16:0630,000 pounds?
16:0730,000 pounds, yep.
16:09You must have been so proud to have a daily reminder of the money that you raise and the children
16:14that you raised it for.
16:15Yeah.
16:17But what happened to this?
16:19Well, I didn't know it was wax.
16:21Oh.
16:22And it was by a radiator.
16:24And how did you feel when you saw it like that?
16:27Gutted.
16:28The statue is actually of two hands holding a sparrow.
16:33The sparrow being a bird that represents the Cockney community of East London.
16:37Okay.
16:37It fell asleep.
16:38It fell asleep.
16:39Aw.
16:40I'm hoping that he can get back to beautiful.
16:46It's important that they still remember it.
16:51Yeah.
16:51I'm going to see what I can do and try and get it back for you.
16:56Thank you so much.
16:58We'll see you soon.
16:59Bye.
16:59Bye.
17:00Bye.
17:17it's really quite tragic to see this piece as it is this has clearly melted and cracked
17:29and until i can lift that up i'm not going to know what the damage is underneath and the back
17:36of the piece
17:37you can see where the wax has sagged and slumped i do use waxes when i'm casting up missing sections
17:46on ceramics but i've never worked on an actual wax sculpture before so i think that this is going
17:53to be challenging i think before i go for any dramatic moves here i've got these wing tips
18:04which have just curved over so i'm just going to see if i can warm this using my hands to
18:14soften the
18:14wax so that i can start to resurrect this top section that feels really fragile and really
18:24like it might just snap there's no hurrying here i'm going to let the the wax itself dictate
18:34the pace that i work at
18:53in her quest to repair the water damaged photograph of president kennedy's children and their nanny
19:00angelina's come up with an unexpected plan i have prepared a bath for the photograph
19:09the reason why i have decided to wash the photograph is because i need to remove the the ripples and
19:18of
19:18course reduce the staining as much as possible it feels so counterintuitive to put paper in water
19:26but photographs when they're developed they are put into baths they don't mind it when it gets wet the
19:34fibers expand everything moves and will allow it to relax and coax it into removing some of the
19:42discoloration i just need to be careful with it because it has losses that means that water can easily
19:50penetrate under those layers causing further damages and further losses of the image
19:56so i need to monitor it really really closely because if i see anything that looks out of the
20:02ordinary i'm going to need to get it out of the bath immediately it's going to be me and great
20:07aunt
20:07mud looking at each other for a little while how many cotton swabs do you go through you must go
20:24through quite a few yeah you know the bigger paintings it can be thousands really yeah dirt coming
20:30off i know i love it you think oh yeah this is really working it's good
20:40okay it's had enough time in the water i think it looks a little bit cleaner but
20:45it's really important if anything it can lay nice and flat
20:54so i will allow it to air dry a little bit just to get most of the water out and
21:01then i will leave
21:01it under weight to dry under pressure i will use a layer of non-woven polyester this is a nice
21:10barrier
21:11so that means that i can at least touch the photo i just have to hope that it will dry
21:16nice and flat
21:18while the photograph is safely out of the water
21:24the component parts of the miniature drum kit are getting a thorough degrease by pete ready for a very
21:31different bath i've had to take out every little tiny screw they all need a bit of gold plate on
21:40them
21:40so it's a fiddly old job really but grease will block the plating process so and make sure everything
21:51is spotless if you do the job properly it's going to look nice we're now ready to start our gold
21:58plating
21:59process this is done electronically when you look at the solution it looks totally clear
22:08but there's about 0.8 of a gram of gold floating about in it somewhere
22:14and we've got a just simply a 12 volt charge as we dip it in the electrons jump across they're
22:23attracted out of the liquid onto the drum kit it's an electrolysis process it's as simple as that
22:30just seeing a little bit of bubble in there i like just to see a bit you know that it's
22:35working
22:35there only needs a few seconds in there i think that's it now just washed it off in the deionized
22:45water so it doesn't leave any staining that's looking really nice i'm quite happy with that you can
22:52see now that one is gold plated and that one's brass there's quite a difference in the color
23:00there's a lot more pieces in this drum kit to do so i've just got to get on with the
23:04rest of it now
23:06as pete continues to put the bling back into the drum kit parts
23:12steve's been reassembling the cleaned up clock mechanism in the hope that it will stay wound up
23:20the button is winding it up really well and that clicks back that's absolutely perfect
23:29which means that i can get on and put the balance on and see whether it ticks away
23:41the balance is part of the the mechanism that actually regulates the speed of of the clock
23:49and attached to the balance is the hairspring and the hairspring
23:54also as a part of the the regulation of the clock but i've just spotted the fact that the hairspring
24:01has been shortened in the past to try and make it go faster i'm going to pop it onto my
24:08timing machine
24:09just to see whether it's keeping time or not it's got a little microphone and it picks up the sound
24:18of
24:18the ticks and and then tells me how many seconds fast or slow it is so the ideal is to
24:27have zero zero
24:29zero up there at the moment it's showing nearly plus 200 seconds per day which is much much too much
24:37so i'm going to have to do a probably a multitude of different adjustments to the hairspring now but i
24:44will get it right
25:04i made some adjustments and this is showing now that it's two seconds a day which means it's
25:10keeping really good time very very happy with that still flying in uncharted skies ceramics restorer
25:19kirsten has straightened out the sparrow's wings on the memorial statue bed her next tricky task
25:26is to try and coax the hands back into shape looking at the reference i can see that the hands
25:33are really
25:34quite open so i've got quite a long way to go still what i'm hoping is the warmth of my
25:42hand and gravity is
25:44just allowing this to almost relax into the shape of my hand but because there's different thicknesses
25:54of wax they all want to move at a slightly different rate and that's when you get cracking so i'm
26:03having to
26:04keep an eye on those and just smooth them back together as the piece unfolds
26:11i think the sticking point really is is in here i think this area has been really compacted there's not
26:23much flexibility there
26:27much flexibility there it really just wants to snap into and i'm hoping that that won't happen
27:00that really looks
27:04much more like the sculpture that jean would know it's not a hundred percent sort of upright but
27:13honestly i think that that's probably as close as it's going to be to push it any further would risk
27:19damaging the piece my next challenge is the back of the piece and i'm going to try and make this
27:29as flat and as smooth as i possibly can
27:45pete's been making great strides with his repairs to the mechanics and metal on the tiny set of drums
27:53i've more or less got the drum kit ready to assemble on the base but the drums need these little
28:01heads on
28:02so i found some plastic that's thin enough so i'm going to try and just warm up the hoop
28:10to see whether i can just shape it down
28:16i can't get this just to the right temperature it's got to be hot enough to make it bend
28:24not hot enough to melt it so it's a little bit of guesswork
28:30i think that would possibly do it
28:51that's it that's done that shaped it up now i'm going to take it off
28:57and because the old heads were white i'm going to spray inside to make it completely white as it was
29:16the time has come for angelina to see if the presidential photograph is now suitably clean and pressed
29:26oh right okay this is amazing the surface looks great the discoloration hasn't been able to move
29:34completely but there was never an absolute guarantee that the discoloration was going to come off
29:40but the photo is laying nice and flat and beautiful the next thing that i need to do is address
29:48the couple
29:48of pieces of the photograph on the glass if i manage to get them out i will be able to
29:53replace them back
29:54on the photo because i do not want these pieces to be lost i want to see if with the
29:59brush that's a
30:00tiny bit wet it might actually start lifting off i'm just trying to reactivate the gelatin enough
30:07so it allows me to lift it off the glass slowly starting to move come on
30:21okay i need to put it under weight immediately so it can be nice and flat and dry once everything's
30:31off
30:31the glass then i will be able to reattach them onto the photograph the joint restoration of the drum kit
30:47clock is almost complete all right pete oh my how's it going look at this it looks lovely we're nearly
30:56there mate yeah can i hand this to you well better than that look i'll let you do the honors
31:02okay drum
31:03roll please put fit and that'll go on top security look amazing i think any drummer will be more than
31:17pleased to have one of these nice isn't it yeah well done cheers mate cheers
31:23a truly unique miniature version of a real drum kit this was a meaningful gift from father to son
31:33hey that looks absolutely brilliant it come up bad does it well done paul has returned with his own
31:41son sam to be reunited with this most treasured reminder of his late dad hi welcome back thank you
31:50come on in nice to see you look at your smiles well i was going to ask how you're feeling
31:54but i
31:55think that's quite obvious me dad had it made because he loved me being looking forward to this
32:01moment yeah yeah just excited to see it looking its best again back to its glory yeah yeah it's priceless
32:08to the family absolutely priceless go on then pete
32:17wow look at it look at the shine it's beautiful
32:25oh that's fantastic look at the shine on it that's brilliant thank you
32:36that is beautiful i'm blown away with it blown away oh is it right time as well it is
32:45the clock works steve has prepared the clock absolutely amazing i just can't believe how much
32:51love has gone into that i've got all the time in the world for dear old harry he he made
32:57a
32:57fantastic job there yeah thank you so much i'm so glad that you're both pleased and thank you so much
33:04for trusting us with it i know how much it means to you thank you so much thank you guys
33:09see you later
33:15i am feeling very very very happy the the shine on it now is just out of this world just
33:23brings back
33:24the love that my dad when he had it made for me and you know it's always there there's never
33:29a day
33:29goes that i don't think about my dad you know and uh just means a lot to me
33:54next a more traditionally sized musical item which holds special memories of her home country
34:01for nat from yorkshire she's hoping luthier julian wallace can return it to full working order
34:10hello hi hi welcome to the barn thank you thank you hi how are you what have you brought in
34:17for us
34:17uh this is a little ukulele is it or it's actually a venezuelan quattro okay yeah which is
34:24a very special instrument for our traditional music i've worked on a few in my years similar to
34:31a guitar but just four strings four strings yeah hence the name quattro exactly will you tell us a
34:36bit about it this was bought by my father and i was about a nine years old when i used
34:42to live in
34:43maracaibo in venezuela i was very very happy when i saw it i was excited to get it out of
34:49the case
34:49been very much looking forward to know what to do with it learning to play it exactly what's dad's name
34:55felipe tell us a bit about him very positive man um still very positive man he has always
35:02been very much into music he likes specifically something called gaita which is a typical music
35:08from my hometown and you need this to play gaita so this instrument is this is the soul of venezuela
35:14what was it like growing up in venezuela it was great i had a happy childhood uh fun i come
35:21from a very
35:21big family so very loud okay and in my family music was everywhere yeah it's just wonderful um but
35:32around 2010 2009 the political situation wasn't very good the country was basically split into um
35:40supporters of um the government and the ones that didn't support the government there was a lot of
35:45violence on the street so unfortunately because of how unsafe it was to be at home i have to leave
35:53basically everybody behind and then i moved to australia you just moved to australia on your own
35:58yeah did the quattro come to australia with you no actually it was brought to australia by my dad when
36:05he came to meet uh my daughter vienna when she was born do you think there was a little hint
36:09there of sort
36:10hoping to inspire yeah yeah and then we actually moved to england and we had traders doing repairs
36:21around the house and one of the traders um stood on it oh no so i was very very distraught
36:28like just
36:29special connection i have with this one so yeah i haven't played it since that happened
36:35it's a lot of cracks here look but it's so thin it's so light yeah the worst is at the
36:41back oh no
36:43big one there look and i i don't think i need to mention this it's in a sorry state isn't
36:47it yeah
36:49if jules is able to repair it what's the plan i hope be able to try to teach myself again
36:55and i would
36:56definitely love for um my kids to just be familiar with the sound of um our traditional music and hope
37:03that
37:04they would you know play it it takes me back to that previous life and those amazing memories now
37:10is a way of keeping that legacy of where we all come from where you're from your heritage yes you
37:16have
37:16to leave it with us and see what i can do no thank you for trying to to fix it
37:21take care you too see you
37:23later bye bye i can't wait to hear it there's a lot of work to do until we get to
37:32that point yeah
37:33you're right good luck yeah thanks norm
37:44it's really been through the wars bless this little art these cracks are not very nice got to get those
37:52sorted out we're adding in little strengthening cleats which are little pieces of flatwood on the
37:58inside and that will pull everything nice and solid then the head when it was trod upon it just
38:04snapped and opened up the joint so i can see quite a lot of glue there lots and lots of
38:10work to do here
38:11the first thing i need to do is get the strings off the tuners remove the tuners from the head
38:16then i can
38:16clean the glue on both parent surfaces and get them all put back together
38:26as julian prepares to put the two parts of the quattro back together
38:31angelina still has gaps to fill in the photograph of the kennedy's nanny so the areas where i've
38:39reattached the old fragments are now dry and they're looking gorgeous however this little
38:46area here is where i think rachel's mom touched the photo when it was wet so it took away all
38:52of the
38:52emulsion now what i want to do is just blend it in so it's not a really stark reminder of
38:58what happened
39:00this is going to be a long process of layering really thin washes one on top of each other just
39:08to create
39:08that depth i am using watercolors which generally dry quite matte so in between the layers i will be
39:20adding a little bit of gelatin which is essentially what this photo emulsion is made of just to help
39:26create a little bit of sheen so i'm just dabbing it on nice and soft this looks like a good
39:35start this
39:36is just going to be a step-by-step process and i have to be really patient with it
39:57that's what i like to see a nice little bit of glue oozing it
40:03on kirsten's bench the melted wax memorial is improving from all angles that is so much smoother
40:14now now i can move on to some of that lovely detail it's just lost that really lovely crisp
40:24edge and i'm going to see if i can try and put some of that back the wax is carving
40:33nicely however
40:34i'm getting little ruffled edges and i want this to look quite nice and crisp so i'm going to use
40:43this
40:43almost like a rubber tool just to smarten up those edges
40:51once i'm happy with the detail on the base i'm then going to bring out that detailing on the wings
41:00and also tidy up the hands
41:10next on julian's list for the venezuelan quattro is dealing with its maze of cracks
41:19so this is a very very intricate part of the process where i have to align my strengthening cleats
41:27to pull the cracks flat and i've marked out and drilled into a piece of acrylic
41:35some holes and a wire is basically going to pass through on the inside of the quattro will be a
41:41stopper on the outside will be a winch to clamp it into position
41:48i now need to transfer these holes with this little pin tool
42:00so i've got the holes in the wood and now the first of four wires are going to go through
42:08the holes turn the quattro over
42:19so fiddly here we go
42:26brilliant so that's the wire come out this side
42:30now what i need to do is pop some glue on this side of the cleat
42:38and to hold it in place because if you just put glue on and stick it on
42:41it'll just drop off so this is my stopper it pulls it up and it tightens the cleat on the
42:47inside
42:48keeps it in place with the glue turn the quattro over again
42:59pulling it all the way up there you go that's a good sound
43:03i know now that that cleat is right at the point of where i wanted to be on these cracks
43:10just three more to fish through i'm involved in a community of luthiers that we all share each
43:17other's ideas and knowledge and i learned from some of the best guys in the world and this little trick
43:27really really does work well when you do it right
43:32so this will then go through this little jig which acts as the winch
43:38which is basically pulling the wire i hooked through the stopper and i'll feel it go a bit
43:45stiff and then i know that it's grabbing i just need to put this clamp on the end
43:50where there's a tiny separation and i can let the glue dry
44:13the end is now in sight for angelina and her work on the photograph of the kennedy children and their
44:20english nanny the retouching has gone very well i'm really pleased with the way the photograph looks
44:27right now so i guess it's just time for it to go into its frame i have a new board
44:34and made these
44:36photo corners out of this polyester sheet so they will be used as an anchor to the mount board
44:44i do not want to use sticky tape again to attach the photo onto the board
44:53ah lovely it hasn't been easy working on this photograph but i am very excited for rachel to come
45:01and see it this image was gifted by former first lady of america jackie kennedy to the nanny who looked
45:12after her children through good and tragic times but an unfortunate mishap with a watering can
45:20have left it badly damaged and wrinkled
45:25ah angelina it looks fantastic thank you rachel has returned to see if her great-aunt maud's photograph
45:36can do justice to her important role hello hello this is too exciting i'll come back lovely to be here
45:45oh my goodness i'm reed as a family we love this picture we loved maud just the anticipation of
45:53looking at it again and knowing that where it was damaged is hopefully just a part of its story but
45:59not so obvious now um i just want you to take off that cloth my heart's going okay
46:14that's just magic oh my goodness wow that is amazing
46:25even those white bits are stuck to the glass they're gone unfortunately the stains had been
46:32ingrained so much so they have remained a little bit but i think because the wrinkles have all gone yes
46:39that was what your focus was on before now you'd have to look really hard to see any stains yeah
46:45i'm
46:45really i'm really glad oh god i can't get over it this is what it should look like i mean
46:50all i see now
46:51is lovely maude on her knees in the nursery where she was so happy and the children i mean it's
46:58magic it
46:59really is magic keep it away from water please promise i will do that i promise can i give you
47:07a goodbye
47:07hug of course again thank you i can't tell you what this means to us incredible absolutely incredible
47:18for yours to cherish forever more yes thank you very much take care oh what an amazing job angie
47:26has done on this i've always been very proud of maude and her story i mean she didn't go to
47:32the moon
47:33but she looked after president kennedy's children and i will cherish this for ever and ever
47:44with the cracks in the venezuelan quattro cleverly closed up julian's now focused on ensuring it will
47:52be tuneful now the threats need leveling because they're quite uneven and i have in my possession this
48:00pretty cool tool this is called a fret rocker so if i span three frets and the middle one is
48:07high
48:08this will effectively rock then that one's that's a high fret basically if these frets are high then
48:15any fret you play on a string it will buzz against the next fret that's high and make an unwanted
48:21sound
48:21now that's a big one but i've got a level them so they're all the same height
48:29so to do that i'll take a black marker pen you just draw on the top of each fret
48:39and when i put a file on it the file will file off the high spots taking the black ink
48:45away
48:46you keep going until they're all disappeared and then the frets are level
49:00this is looking good they're all nice and flat and level but the tops are so flat now that they
49:07need crowning off which means a random process so it's really comfortable to play buzz free
49:12in order to do that the black marker pen is going to go back on and then i can use
49:19a crowning file
49:20and what the crowning file does is take off the sides but not the top what i'm going to do
49:27is is just
49:27run it across like this and i've got this thin black line which is what we're looking for here
49:33and at this point i'll switch to my triangular file but that is looking really good
49:47that's the first fret ground i've got another 12 to do
50:01kirsten is almost done with her repair of the children's memorial statuette
50:07i'm just trying to tidy up the wings and just refine that original detail because i had to
50:17soften some of the wax to try and regain that shape it has become a bit rough and jagged in
50:26places
50:27so i'm just trying to smooth that and refine it it's been really interesting working with wax and it's
50:38certainly been challenging but it's been one that i have enjoyed it's such an incredible
50:46daily reminder of the work that dean has done so tirelessly to raise money for these memorials for
50:57the children
51:04fundraiser jean was given this miniature version of a statue to mark her heroic efforts to bring about
51:11the real thing which now marks the graves of more than 500 children but the heat from a radiator had
51:19melted it badly out of shape absolutely amazing are you pleased yeah i am very pleased
51:27now jean is back to collect her cherished gift with the support of charity representative megan
51:34and jean's interpreter there they are hi there welcome back hello hi how are you feeling over the moon
51:48i'm a bit delighted my dream come true well hopefully hopefully i think jean's hoping that you've been
51:55able to wake the statue back up and that we can see the hands back in place i trust you
52:03are you ready to see it i am yes yeah i can't wait
52:10right it's okay
52:17oh my god
52:19oh oh my god
52:25oh oh it's incredible
52:29wow look at it isn't that amazing
52:34i can't believe this room
52:37magic
52:39you can see the love that's gone into it look at it it's perfect
52:44great thank you so much you have achieved so much for others and it's been really lovely for
52:52me to be able to do this for you it's amazing don't you melt on me again
53:00it's been lovely to see you again and something tells me that your fundraising days aren't over yet
53:06never
53:07i don't doubt it thank you so much safe trip back okay careful as you go bye bye bye thank
53:19you
53:21what an amazing lady absolute magic
53:29jean's connection to bernardo's and the incredible fundraising she's done for us is so important and
53:35this is such an important symbol of that for her i can't believe it's there it's real it's like a
53:44dream come true
53:46it was done for the children not me never be forgotten
54:03there's just one more job for julian to do to ready the quattro for playing
54:09i have got to the stage finally where i'm putting the tunas back onto the quattro and this will allow
54:15me to put the strings on and um make it play nicely always good to get to this stage when
54:23you get near
54:24the end that's when i have that great moment so it's nice to be there that's the last screw in
54:34they're looking great already my work is done except full strings
54:42this traditional strained instrument came a long way from south america but unreaching england was
54:49damaged beyond use nat's back at the barn to find out of the precious link to her home country venezuela
54:58has had its fortunes reversed hello hey nat hi how you doing i'm good how are you yeah very good
55:07i'm so
55:07excited are you i can't wait it's the soul of venezuela in a way venezuelan music being able to
55:15keep that tradition going it's going to be priceless really so would you uh like to see the quattro um
55:23yes please silly question really isn't it
55:34oh my goodness you actually fix it that is amazing that is wonderful
55:43well done you're welcome thank you so much beautiful it looks almost like brand new
55:52wow oh how does it feel holding it feels great it feels like i'm back home would you
56:00do you want to give it a little drum wow that's a lovely sound isn't it yeah it sounds almost
56:20like
56:21somebody saying welcome back oh yeah that's good thank you so much very very very very very very happy
56:28this is unreal really very much looking forward to play that specific sound in the house yeah and
56:35play some tunes with the kids that's what it's been missing in my house yeah thank you so much guys
56:40um phenomenal work so you're welcome i'm forever grateful take care yourself bye thank you bye nat
56:49it's a very special instrument in my family and obviously was given to to me by my dad when i
56:55was a little
56:55girl now i have two other little girls and i would like to think that they would keep the tradition
57:00going because it doesn't matter physically where you are i think music have that power just reconnecting
57:06with the place that you came from and where you belong
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