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CRYSTAL REPAIR chipped and broken glass candlestick

When dinner is over  “blow out the candles “.  Time and time again people finish a candle lit dinner and retire to some place more comfortable  forget to  put out the candles.  Then the candles burn down and when the flame gets close to the glass candle cup it cracks.  This were I come in.

broken crystal candlestick “before picture”

Cut off broken part and polish .

cut off the broken crystal part

Create the new candle cup     crystal replacement piece

Replacement part

Attach the new crystal candle cup.

crystal repair candlestick ” after picture”

Tags: Antique Crystal repair, Antique Glass Repair, Broken Crystal Repair, Chipped Crystal Repair, Crystal Repair, Crystal Restoration

Crystal Repair broken glass decanter neck and stopper

The crystal decanter had a broken neck and the stopper was also broken .  I will need to make a new neck and plug for the bottom of the glass stopper.  First I will need to cut off the broken part of the neck.

crystal decanter with broken neck

Broken crystal stopper

New neck for crystal decanter

Cut and polished neck

Crystal stopper with broken plug

Make new bottom for broken stopper

Make new bottom for broken stopper

Polish inside crystal neck

Repaired crystal stopper

Crystal Decanter with repaired neck

All ready to fill.

Tags: Antique Glass Repair, Bottle Repair, Broken Glass Stopper, Crystal Repair, Crystal Restoration

crystal repair Antique Steuben Crystal Teardrop Candlestick Restoration

If you let the candle burn down to the glass it will break.  The flame got to close to the glass and broke the top.  I have made many new tops for crystal candlesticks.  The teardrop candlestick by Steuben is my favorite.

Steuben Crystal Candlestick with broken top

First step to cut off broken top.

Cut off broken top

I have repair many crystal candlesticks with this same problem.

Replacement Part

I made the replacement top.

Steuben Crystal Teardrop Candlestick

Replace broken top with new top.

Candlestick restoration

Time to plan candle lit dinner.

Tags: Antique Crystal repair, Antique Glass Repair, Crystal Candlestick repair, Crystal Repair, Crystal Restoration, Steuben Crystal

Antique Glass Repair Whale Oil Lamp

The antique glass oil lamp has been in the family for generations.  During the last move the glass was broken. The pewter was in good shape.  We made a replacement glass .

antique whale oil lamp missing glass

Install glass

Whale oil lamp glass

Installed glass

Whale oil lamp restoration

Tags: Antique Crystal repair, Antique Glass Repair, Antique Lamp Repair, Antique Oil Lamp Repair, Crystal Repair, Crystal Restoration

Crystal repair Lalique broken and chipped glass

The  broken Lalique Crystal  statue was a present give to a customer in his eighties. He received it  when he was a young man.  It holds  great sentimental value and he wanted to repair it rather than replace it.  Some one tried to repair it. It was covered in glue and a number of large pieces were missing. I will need to recreate the missing piece.  

I use a foot from a broken Lalique compote to make the block .

Shaping the block to  form legs.

The final step is to etch the glass to match.  If you look close there is a small line were it was  glued.

Tags: Antique Crystal repair, Antique Glass Repair, Crystal Repair, Crystal Restoration, Glass Figurine Repair, Vhm

Antique Glass Repair Broken Crystal Oil Lamp

The antique glass oil lamp was broken and in need of repair.  When the  antique glass lamp fell over the glass nob on the bottom broke off. .  There was a hole now were it use to connect to the metal base.

Oil Lamp

Cut off the broken part and grind flat.

cut off broken part

Tags: Antique Crystal repair, Antique Glass Repair, Antique Lamp Repair, Broken Crystal Repair, Etched glass oil lamp repair, Oil Lamp Repair

Antique Glass Repair bent glass light fixture

The antique light fixture was missing a couple panels.  We  used an antique seedy  glass to make the replacement panels.

antique bent glass light fixture

Vintage Bent Glass Light Fixture

Tags: Antique Glass Light Repair, Antique Glass Repair, Bent Glass Panel Lamp, Curved Glass Light Repair, Curved Glass Repair And Replacement

CRYSTAL REPAIR WATERFORD BOWL CHIPPED GLASS FOOT

The Waterford Bowl had a large chip on the base.  The chip was to large to grind and polish out.  I found a broken candle stick that had the same shape base.  I removed the base from the damaged candlestick to use on the bowl.

Waterford Bowl chipped base

Rough grind the bottom flat and polish.

Waterford Bowl with damaged foot removed

Polished the bottom

new foot

Waterford Crystal Bowl new base

Tags: Chipped Crystal Repair, Crystal Repair, Crystal Restoration, Waterford Crystal Repair

Antique Light Repair Bent glass panels

The restoration of the old home included vintage light fixtures. The rust iron fixture had a couple of bent glass panels missing. The glass was a seedy glass. Seedy glass has a lot of bubbles and texture. Using a good panel I made a mold for bending the replacement curved glass.

Antique Light Fixture with broken bent glass

replacement bent glass panel

Custom bent  seedy glass panels  for antique  iron light.  The glass was a Kokomo Seedy Glass

Tags: Antique Glass Repair, Custom Made Chandelier Parts

Crystal Repair Antique Glass with chipped foot

The antique  Lalique  Crystal cigarette  jar was broken years ago.  The foot had a very large chip out of it.  The chip was to large to be ground out so replacement  was the only option. Over the years I have saved many pieces of glass. My basement is like a junk yard of glass.   I found a Lalique Crystal foot in my glass junk yard.

Chipped Lalique Crystal Foot

The chipped glass jar was gram’s and sat on the coffee table for many years .  The antique glass jar held cigarettes back in the day when every one smoked.

Lalique jar and new crystal foot

I cut off the damaged foot and prepared new foot.

Signed Lalique foot for repair

Bond the new foot to old crystal jar.

Lalique Crystal Lion Head Cigarette Jar Restoration

Tags: Antique Crystal repair, Antique Glass Repair, Broken Glass Repair, Crystal Repair, Crystal Restoration

Chipped crystal glassware repair wine glass water glass

Chipped wine glasses ,chipped water glasses ,chipped rock glasses, champagne  glasses and chipped cordial glasses can be ground and polished to look like new.  Crystal glassware is hand made and each glass is a little different size.  Stemware from the major manufactures can be very expensive and some times the patterns have been retired so repairing is the only option.

crystal stemware repair

Waterford Crystal , Baccarat Crystal  , Lalique Crystal  , Steuben Crystal , Orrefors  Crystal , Tiffin , Fostoria , Kosta Boda, Cambridge, Stuard, Hawkes Crystal, Daum Crystal, I have repaired them all.

Tags: Chipped Crystal Repair, Waterford Crystal Repair

Crystal Chandelier Repair Candelabra Restoration

Right out of the basement, the antique candelabra was in total disrepair. It was removed from the dinning room and  placed in the basement .  The bronze frame work was broken in several places.  The antique wiring was fared and need to be replaced.  The globes were dirty and  badly chipped.

Chandelier Repair / Candelabra Repair

It had a broken center column.

Crystal Candelabra Restoration / Chandelier

Tags: Antique Crystal Chandelier Repair, Antique Crystal repair, Antique Glass Repair, Chandelier Repair, Chandelier Restoration

Antique Glass Repair Broken Crystal Stopper

The cut glass stopper was stuck in the decanter when it fell over and broke.  The break was in the center of the stopper were it necks down .

Broken Crystal Stopper

I decided to make a new center section and plug .  I used a glass rod to make the new part.

The new plug was ground to fit the antique glass decanter.

fire polish plug

The glass rod was make of borosilicate glass ( pyrex )  so I was able to fire polish the new stopper.

Old Stoper Top and the New Stopper Bottom

The antique crystal decanter is made from lead glass so I had to hand polish the neck were the new plug fits

The stopper is finish and the decanter that has been in the family for many years can be passes on .

Tags: Antique Glass Repair, Antique Glass Stopper, Crystal Repair, Crystal Stopper Repair, Glass Stopper Repair

Antique Glass Chandelier Repair / candelabra /crystal bobeche replacement

This antique crystal  bobeche is from a late 1700’s early 1800’s candelabra that  was electrified.  I needed to make two replacement bobeches .  The first step is to make the glass blanks.

Bobeche Blank

Rough cutting the shape is next.

Rough Cutting Crystal Blank

Using smoothing stones the glass is given a 400 to 600 grit finish and ready for polishing.

Bobeche before polishing

Crystal Bobeche and replacement

The replacement crystal  bobeches are marked for drilling the holes.

Crystal Bobeche and replacement

Replacement Bobeche

I also made replacement arms for this chandelier shown in the picture.    I will post picture showing the process I use to duplicate the solid crystal arms.

Tags: Antique Glass Repair, Candelabra Repair, Chandelier Repair, Chandelier Restoration, Crystal Chandelier Parts, Replacement Cystal Bobeche