Grieving daughter has engagement ring cut from her finger in The Repair Shop as it returns to BBC One tonight
Drastic action has to be takenThe Repair Shop returns tonight for a brand new series and features a grieving daughter with a very special ring stuck on her finger.
Sally O’Connor from Sussex visits the barn in a desperate bid to mend her mother’s diamond engagement ring.
The diamond fell out of the precious piece of jewellery a year ago and Sally has been keeping the gem in a special box.
But there is one problem; she is completely unable to remove the gold ring from her finger.
Sally admits: “I can’t take it off. It’s stuck on. I’ve tried ice, I’ve tried the ribbon technique. I’ve tried olive oil…”
Drastic action needs to be taken.
The Repair Shop returns for new series with ‘stuck’ ring
Sally tells master goldsmith Richard Talman and The Repair Shop’s metal expert, Dominic Chinea, the very emotional story behind the ring.
She says she was given the ring as a present from her dad James on her wedding day, adding: “He presented me with mum’s engagement ring. He’d saved it especially.”
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Sally goes on to reveal that her mother had died “very suddenly” in 1992 from cancer before her wedding.
“I couldn’t stop crying, as it was the first time I’d seen it again since mum had passed away,” she explains. “I do think of mum every time I look at the ring on my finger.”
Sally tells Richard and Dominic that the diamond fell out a year ago. They all agree it was “fate” when she found it stuck in a clipboard in her work bag.
The only way to fix Sally’s very sentimental ring is for the Repair Shop experts to manually cut it from her finger. They fetch a special tool designed exactly for this purpose and ask her to hold her hand out.
Sally begins taking deep breaths as she admits she is “very nervous”. She then says: “I don’t think I can look.”
Within seconds, she is able to wriggle her finger out.
Repair Shop’s Richard works his magic
Sally bids farewell and leaves the barn as Richard gets to work. He discovers all eight claws of the ring have “worn away”, which caused the diamond to drop out.
He carefully adds a new piece of gold to the cut in the ring, making it bigger and ensuring it won’t get stuck on Sally’s finger again.
Richard then uses a laser beam and white gold to rebuild the broken claws in a “time-consuming” process. He resets the diamond back into Sally’s mother’s ring
“I’m really looking forward to giving it back to her and hope it brings back memories of the day her dad gave it to her,” Richard says.
Sally returns to the barn with her dad James, who tells her: “It’s your link to your mother. It means a lot.”
Shaking as she returns the ring to her finger, Sally says: “It’s shining like mum. She was very special. I know everyone says that about their mum but she had a certain shine.”
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