“Thanks to Jacob, one of the skilled army of carpenters we have in this country. Trev and Rich are up next, let’s end with ZZ Top and ‘Gimme All Your Lovin’.”
Presenter Robin Clevett, by day a member of said army, leans back from a microphone with Fix Radio emblazoned across its orange foam cover. This week’s Carpentry Show is in the can. He shakes hands with guest Jacob Bell, a talented young furniture maker with bleached hair and heavily tattooed forearms.
The carefully curated studio aesthetic is men at work: a desk of unpainted MDF, racks of hard hats, a planked wall decorated with silhouettes of tools and vans. “FIX RADIO – THE BUILDER’S STATION” reads a banner. Clevett, 53, has been a carpenter since his dad ordered him to start paying rent at the age of 16, and a celebrity tradesman since his YouTube joinery channel “went…
