Reply With QuoteThanks for that. The strap change was very clever - I just don't have the vision to think of the repair that she made and would have chucked (the strap) in the bin!Originally Posted by BillyCasper
Mappin Campaign Watch, given to a Sgt who was awarded an MM. it was a nice story. Nice strap as well.
Series 6 episode 14.
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Thanks for that. The strap change was very clever - I just don't have the vision to think of the repair that she made and would have chucked (the strap) in the bin!
We went down to the Weald and Downland centre today with my SIL and her husband.
When we got to the barn that is the 'Repair Shop' there was filming being set up.
I looked around to see if anyone was there, they were filming in the area where Dom does a lot of metalwork and I spotted Jay Blades.
A family was next to us and he wandered over to say hello to a young girl who was very excited - She got a bit shy and tearful, but he was great and asked her mum if she had a video camera on the phone.
Of course, she did, and he filmed a little clip specifically for the young girl, who became much less shy and stopped crying and went away most happy.
He could easily have stayed away, out of the rain, but made a point of coming over to say hello and was great - A really nice thing to do, I thought - Top marks!
M
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I believe Jay is a furniture restorer by trade, but I don't think he has actually ever been given anything to restore on The Repair Shop. He sometimes does the odd, small job, to help one of the others, but he never seems to be the main person working on a project.
Now, I don't claim to have seen every episode, so I could be wrong. Can anyone confirm this?
As I understand it he is indeed a furniture restorer, he frequently appeared on some programme where a lady (don't know her name) picked up stuff from council recycling centres and up- cycled, Jay often doing said jobs.
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I couldn't say for sure, I work from home and turn on the TV in the lounge (I work from my dining room) simply as background noise.
"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action."
'Populism, the last refuge of a Tory scoundrel'.
It's an OK programme. I'm not sure about the woodworker's skills. They are often vary careful about the angle they show his work. He's good, but not amazing.
What really makes my teeth itch is that they keep showing an arty shot with tools on a bench in the foreground. One of the tools is a plane and it's resting on it's face.
I much prefer Salvage Hunters - The Restorers.
In my humble opinion the main cast seem more skilled although on the Repair Shop, Fletcher does seem to be more skilled in his profession.
B
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Were you traumatized by your carpentry teacher at school? ;-)
I think the main reason for not putting them blade down was to protect the surface of the work bench. There's a counter argument that says have the blade exposed is a safety hazard.
Traumatised? Most definitely. I was always taught it was to protect the blade, preserving limbs was always lower down the priority list than preserving the tools.
It would be interesting if at the end they also showed how long that job had taken and what the material cost was - bit like Wheeler Dealers.
Just be interested to get an idea of how long some of these repairs actually take.
...and who else was involved in the repair. Sometimes they draft in other specialists who aren’t seen on camera.
They could be really radical and show some jobs where they failed to complete the repair - there must be some, although you wouldn’t know it from the show. I thought Steve came close recently with the mechanical calculator thingy; he said at the start that he didn’t know whether he could figure out how it worked, although he may have just been modest.
Anyway, he fixed it in the end, which made me curious if there was anything he had not been able to repair, because it must have been fiendishly complicated.
Of course, blade protection would be very important to the man who had to keep 20 of them sharp.
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