Antique lamp repair Project Repair Gallery

Crystal Repair Antique Glass Chandelier Arm

The movers packed the chandelier like they always do ” wrong”.  They hung the chandelier in box fully assembled . You must take the arms off a chandelier before shipping. I have repaired hundreds of arms .

Crystal Chandelier Arm

The antique glass chandelier arm will be as strong as new after it is repaired .  When photographed on black you can see the repair if you look close .  When installed back on the chandelier the repair will be very hard to find.

Antique Glass Chandelier Arm

This repair could have been avoided if the mover had removed the arms before shipping.  Never ship a chandelier with the crystal arms attached.

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

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

Waterford Crystal Repair Broken Lamp

The Waterford crystal lamp was  sent to me from Pennsylvania  for repair.  The base of he lamp was broken off and they didn’t have all the pieces .    There was a crack a running up the bottom and I had to carefully control the crack and turn it so it ran back to the bottom.   I didn’t want the crack to run up to the top of the lamp.

Broken Waterford Lamp Base

I looked and found a Waterford Crystal bowl to make the new base out of.

Brioken glass lamp

Cut off broken parts from the bottom of the  lamp.

Crack running up

I loop the crack back down and remove piece so it can be repaired.  The lamp is stable now by controlling the crack we minimized its in-pack.  Little cracks only stay little for awhile.

New base for lamp

Smooth and polish the parts for reassembly .

Hole for lamp cord

Using a Waterford Crystal bowl I made a new base for the lamp complete with Waterford logo.

Drill a large hole in the bowl.

Waterford Table Lamp

Tags: Broken Crystal Repair, Crystal Repair, Crystal Restoration, Waterford Crystal Repair

Art Deco Light Repair Glass Slip Shade

Two slip shades were broken during a remodeling project .   One shade was broken into about  ten pieces and one was broken into hundreds of pieces . I repaired  one shade  and reproduced one shade  .  Using a good shade as a form I cast a mold to make a new glass deco shade.

new Art Deco Slip Shade

original  shade

Replacement shade

casting mold

mold

High temperature plaster and silica mold for make new glass shade.

Tags: Antique Glass Repair, Art Deco Lamp Repair, Cast Glass Shade, Glass Panel Lamp Repair, Slip Shade Repair

Slag Glass Lamp Repair Bent Panel

Making bent glass replacement panels for antique slag lamps is just a small part of what we do.

slag lamp panel

bent glass lamp repair

We bend  opalescent flat glass  over a form in the kiln to make replacement panels.   Most of the bent glass shades were made out of Wissmach or Kokomo Glass.

Tags: Antique Lamp Repair, Bent Glass Panel Lamp, Curved Glass Panel, Slag Glass Lamp Repair

Chandelier Repair broken crystal parts

Repairing broken crystal parts for chandeliers is cost effective .  This antique crystal part from a chandelier was broken and a replacement was not available .  I made a new top piece to replace the broken part and used the bottom part that was still good.

Cut off damaged part and make new replacement piece.

restoration complete

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

beveled mirror for antique light

This small mirror with a scalloped  edges

mirror with scalloped edges and v grooves

and satin v grooves goes to an  antique wall scone  . Sent to me from a light restoration company on the east cost , they need a duplicate mirror .

antique lamp parts

I was told they go in silver wall sconces .  I will post pictures of the restored lights if and when I receive them.

Tags: Beveled Glass Mirror, Custom Made Chandelier Parts

antique crystal light cut glass globe repair

The painter broke the globe.  The cut glass globe goes to a  antique ceiling fixture.  It came in as a basket case.  I taped it together to see if we had all the pieces.

Before repair

After restoration

The adhesive is stronger than glass .  After repairing the globe I frosted the glass to remove all of the glue and hide the repair.

Tags: Antique Crystal repair, Antique Glass Repair, Antique Lamp Repair, Broken Crystal Repair, Broken Glass Glued, Crystal Repair, Glass Repair

Antique glass globe repair with missing pieces

The” gone with the wind oil lamp” has been in the family for many years .  Some one broke it and lost some of the pieces. This make the restoration of the glass globe very difficult.  First we reassembled the the pieces we had leaving a large hole that needed to be filled.   Casting  a mold off of the antique globe we were able to make a new curved white opal glass to fill the hole.

broken glass globe " gone with the wind oil lamp"

antique glass globe with hole

antique glass globe with new glass in hole

fill the hole and paint

Antique "gone with the wind lamp " glass globe repair

The repair

Tags: Antique Glass Lamp Repair, Antique Glass Light Repair, Antique Glass Light Restoration, Antique Glass Repair, Broken Glass Glued, Crystal Repair, Crystal Restoration, Glass Repair, Glueing Glass, Painted Glass Lamp Repair

repair beveled glass lens for railroad oil lamp

The lamp fell and two pieces of beveled  glass were broken.  The front lens was a diameter and I used a piece of old mirror because of the color. The newer glass has a very dark green color to the edge.  The antique glass has a yellow not the green edge.  I have repaired many Rail Road lights over the years. I used cast iron grinding mill to rough in the bevel.

antique mirror

old and new glass

I cut the antique glass and rough in the bevel.

Hand beveling glass

Smoothing Stone

oil lamp repair

Hand beveled replacement glass

side glass broken

New beveled lens

New beveled glass side panel

Tags: Antique Beveled Lens, Antique Glass Repair, Antique Lamp Repair, Custom Beveled Lens, Hand Beveling

crystal repair antique sandwich glass oil lamp

Marc, just received the oil lamp back today, wonderful work for such an old piece, just wish it hadn’t been broken, but your work was magnificent, absolutely professional, it can now join it’s other Sandwich Glass Whale Oil Lamp brothers. Truly enjoyed our conversation days ago, and I sincerely wish you and all your family all the best, a most remarkable accomplishment of which you and your wife should be so proud.

Tags: Antique Crystal repair, Antique Glass Repair, Antique Glass Restoration, Antique Lamp Repair, Broken Pressed Glass Repair, Crystal Repair, Crystal Restoration, Oil Lamp Repair, Sandwich Glass Repair

crystal repair antique glass oil lamp

A very old oil lamp the first of his collection and it got broken.  He sent the pieces to be repaired.  I was able to bond the pieces together and fill the areas were  chips were missing.

crystal repair antique glass oil lamp

My customer emailed the question can you repair a broken crystal lamp even if you don’t have all the pieces.  Yes I can repair glass even if you don’t have all the pieces.

crystal repair antique oil lamp after

Tags: Antique Crystal repair, Antique Glass Repair, Antique Glassware Repair, Antique Lamp Repair, Broken Crystal Repair, Broken Glass Glued, Chipped Crystal Repair, Crystal Repair, Crystal Restoration

Crystal Repair Waterford Lamp

Off the table on to the floor the lamp went with a crash. ” Don’t worry I know a place that does crystal repair. Who  Bruening Glass Works can repair crystal.” Mom was still crying about her lamp but when she called I told her I can repair it.

Broken Waterford Crystal Lamp

I cut off the broken base and went looking for a new base in my parts department. The shade for a hurrican lamp was the right size and shape. 

Repaired Lamp with new base

Tags: Antique Crystal repair, Antique Glass Repair, Antique Lamp Repair, Broken Glass Glued, Chipped Crystal Repair, Crystal Repair, Crystal Restoration, Glueing Glass, Waterford Crystal Repair