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What I like : seeing interesting objects being repaired and/or restored. The craftspeople on the show seem to be experts in their respective fields, and appear to go the extra mile to offer high end work. And that is often the challenge - to find someone with the skills and time to work through a project sensitively.
What I don’t like : Jay frickin’ Blades. Honestly, he is so condescending to his colleagues and guests. He may not realise, but the way he talks (‘you worked hard on that one’, ‘isn’t she clever’ etc) is quite archaic.
As for the posh people with the sapphire ring ? I thought they were lovely, and don’t give two hoots whether they come from money. They are just human beings like anyone else, and are either good people or not - their background is irrelevant (certainly to me). They may well have struggled to find a Goldsmith prepared to take on the restoration - given the scale and risk, so it is entirely appropriate for them to utilise the show.
My two heirlooms ? They are lovely pieces of family history, a tragic but worthy story (even down to Mont Blanc’s cold refusal to help - interestingly, their ‘lifetime guarantee’ doesn’t cover anything beyond recent production) and probably an achievable repair - so quite possibly exactly what the show want. Aside from the fact that I am a grump, and can’t stand the shite, sickly sweet reality TVness of the thing !!!
I will speak to my niece though, as she is far more outward going, and may well like to apply...
Watch this space !
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There was also the aspect that they were restoring the bass primarily as an heirloom for the guy's widow and son. They added some guff about the young man wanting to play it, but really it belongs on a wall - if he wants to play bass he's probably already got his own instruments at his age.
That's just crazy to me.
Les Paul Standards are cheap these days!
We definitely have it good these days.
Kind of sad to think how many people would have been completely excluded from having a guitar back then.
I'm rather fond of them, but they have issues any potential owner should know about.
Necks will come loose, bodies can seperate, especially on the verithins, pickups are prone to failure.
I have an old committe body and verithin bass neck I keep meaning to make into something.... must dig them out
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