PSA Repair Shop, BBC1

Nitefly

Right now (20:00 Weds 24/02) a chap has brought on a 1959/60 Hofner Club guitar for repair - it's pretty much a wreck!

Jimbro66

Luckily have already set that to record. Is it Julyan again doing the repair?

Nitefly

He's managed to get the neck off, and is now removing the frets.  Luthier is a chap called Julyan Wallis.

Jimbro66

Nitefly said:

He's managed to get the neck off, and is now removing the frets.  Luthier is a chap called Julyan Wallis.

Yes, Julyan Wallis is The Guitar Doctor based just outside Penzance in Cornwall. I knew him quite well when. I lived in Cornwall. Nice guy.

He dealt with the Levin archtop that someone took to the Repair Shop in a previous episode.

prowla

I’m watching it - looks good so far. 

prowla

Well done, that man!

Nitefly

Short and sweet, but didn't it look great!
 

Andy79

Oh come on. Is that guy for real? 

Oh hang on it’s a TV show, makes sense now 

And that cockerel looked like something my kids make out of the recycling box

thermionic

So is two screws through the fretboard how these were originally built?

Jalapeno

He did a bloody good job !

vivalacoulter

Watching on catch up now! Thanks.

thegummy

thermionic said:

So is two screws through the fretboard how these were originally built?

I was shocked when I saw him do that!

What an amazing job he did though - the guitar looked superb at the end, must have made the guy's day.

chrisj1602

Nice to see it restored so well and how happy the owner was with it.

Rocker

Andy79 said:

And that cockerel looked like something my kids make out of the recycling box

He absolutely nailed it.  It is repaired yet it looks like it has been on the church roof for the last 200 years.  Amazing skill.

NelsonP

Thanks, just watched it. I've been meaning to watch that programme for a while but never got round to it and this was a good excuse. Amazing skills on display.

HarrySeven

Repair Shop - I f*cking hate it.

Can’t stand the TV fakery - “Oooh, look who’s just randomly turned up with a knackered clock - and by some strange coincidence, we appear to have a visiting horologist in the house”. Also can’t bear cockney geezer Jay Blades or Bill Patterson’s plummy voice-overs.

it’s like the televisual equivalent of Simon Bates’s “Our Tune” back in the ‘80’s.

Sarge

HarrySeven said:

Repair Shop - I f*cking hate it.

Can’t stand the TV fakery - “Oooh, look who’s just randomly turned up with a knackered clock - and by some strange coincidence, we appear to have a visiting horologist in the house”. Also can’t bear cockney geezer Jay Blades or Bill Patterson’s plummy voice-overs.

it’s like the televisual equivalent of Simon Bates’s “Our Tune” back in the ‘80’s.

This, 100%

Sarge

Also every item has a charming history of love, memories of grandpa and the kids playing shove ha'penny, tiffin and how much it would mean to him if he was still alive.
Nauseating. 

Bennyboy-UK

Sarge said:

Also every item has a charming history of love, memories of grandpa and the kids playing shove ha'penny, tiffin and how much it would mean to him if he was still alive.
Nauseating. 

I’m with you guys on this.

I love the work the guys do - they are excellent. ...it’s the bullshit human factor I hate. Which we HAVE to endure on so many tv shows these days.

...so and so artifact meant so much to xyz, that they never bothered to ever look at getting it fixed or restored for 20-30-40 years, covered in dust and crap in the back of the shed until the offer of some free expert help turns up with 5 minutes on the telly included.

A lot of the stuff that turn up is junk worth many times less than the work and expertise would cost to fix it up. 

Those guys must roll their eyes at some of the crap they are asked to work on - being paid well by the Beeb obviously helps overcome that I would hope!

p90fool

Whenever any of the punters say they'd promised themselves they wouldn't cry we always scream "You have to, it's in the bloody contract!" at the TV. 
In fact my wife calls the show Takes Out Onion. 

We tend to entertain ourselves by inventing "real" back stories, like the two generations of scallys who turn up on their social sticks with a crappy twocked Hofner, to get it tarted up for free so Cash Converters will accept it. 

The experts really do seem to be experts, but the schmaltz and the lies are absolutely shameless. 

scrumhalf

It seems that almost all telly programmes these days have to have some sort of human back-story.

You can no longer have "this is Bill, he has an interesting shop that sells..." and it's into the shop to have a look.

No. Nowadays we have to find out how Bill's feet are on the wrong legs and an owl flew into him when he was twelve and left him unable to use a teaspoon.

It fills airtime, replacing content with nausea.