Beveled Glass Lens Project Repair Gallery

Antique Gauge Barometer Beveled Glass Lens Repair and Restoration

The beveled glass lens in the antique barometer was cracked.  The tolerances are very tight fitting the glass in the brass bezel. The glass is friction fit. It is not glued in. Here is the before state:

antique beveled glass lens

Here is what we created

brass bezel with glass

If you have an antique barometer that is in need of repair, please feel free to reach out and contact us.

Tags: Antique Barometer Glass, Antique Beveled Glass, Beveled Glass Gauge, Beveled Glass Lens

Custom Beveled Glass for Antique Barometer – Antique Clock & Gauges

They sent the brass bezel from an vintage barometer for a replacement bevel glass.   The tolerances are very tight.

Tags: Antique Beveled Lens, Beveled Glass for Clock, Beveled Glass Gauge, Brass Bezel

Replacement Glass for Antique Clock beveled convex with polished dimple

The old glass was repaired so it could be use to cast a high temperature mold .  The mold and an old piece of glass went into a kiln to form a glass blank.

old broken lens beveled and convex glass

The blank was cut to size , beveled and the dimple was ground and polished.  The dimple is use to add additional clearance for the center stem.

I hope to update the post with a picture of the restored clock. I have made many lens for old clocks but this is the first one with a additional polished bent and  dimple.

Tags: Antique Glass Repair, Beveled Glass for Clock, Convex Clock Glass, Replacement Clock Glass

Custom Beveled Glass Lens for antique clock

A  clock shop sent me the front and back bezels from an antique clock.  They needed the beveled glass replaced. I used vintage glass.  It is very important to use antique glass when restoring a clock.  Using new glass will greatly effect the value of an antique clock.

bezel from an antique clock

Checking the bezel for size and roundness

The bezels look round but very rarely are .  I have  and use old glass from the period the clock was made. The equipment I use to bevel the glass is all so period.  Most of my machines I use are as old if not older than the the clocks.   The machines are run by leather belts and use lead babit bearings.  The beveling and polishing equipment  are power by electric motors not steam engines as originally.

Replacement Clock Glass

Note the small pitts in the glass .

Antique beveled glass for clock

Beveled glass for the back of clock

The beveled glass lenses  are made to very tight tolerances and are install in the bezel .  They are not glued in.

Tags: Antique Clock Glass, Antique Glass Repair, Beveled Glass for Clock, Beveled Glass Lens, Custom Glass Lenses, Customed Beveld Glass, Replacement Clock Glass

Antique Glass Clock Repair Amber Pressed Glass

The clock on grandmas mantel fell and broke .  It was a basket case and I had no idea how many pieces were missing. I started the reassembly and hoped for the best.

Pressed Glass Clock Restoration

I told the customer I would do my best but it look like there were a lot of pieces missing.

Amber Pressed Glass Clock

Filling in were needed for missing pieces.

Repaired Glass Clock

I have repaired many types of  glass clocks most of them crystal.  This was my first antique amber glass mantel clock. I have made many kinds of custom beveled and custom bent glass for clocks.  Clock shops send the bezels to me to  install new glass.  I use old glass when necessary to maintain the value of the antique clock.

Tags: Bent Glass for Antique Clock, Beveled Glass for Clock, Custom Glass for Clocks, Glass Clock Repair, Glass for Antique Clock

Antique clock glass repair beveled glass in bezel

The antique  clock sat on  the mantel since the beginning of time . One of the kids went to wind the clock and broke the glass .   I save old glass for clocks like this.  New glass is a different color green and is very flat.  The antique glass has a yellow hue and a distorted finish.  Sometimes the antique glass  has bubbles and blisters .  This is important when it comes to the value of the clock.  An antique  clock with new glass doesn’t retain its resale price.

antique beveled glass clock bezel

I have antique beveling machines that run on leather belts.  The same type used to make this antique beveled glass lens originally.  The fitting of the antique replacement beveled glass in the bezel  is very tricky.  The tolerances are with in thousands of an inch.  I make replacement beveled  clock glass for clock shops all over the the country  most of them in New York and LA.

Tags: Antique Beveled Glass, Antique Glass Repair, Beveled Glass for Clock, Broken Crystal Repair, Crystal Repair, Glass For Clock Bezel, Replacement Clock Glass, Replacement Glass for Clock

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

custom beveled glass with wheel work design

beveled glass repair

broken piece

cut new piece of glass

rough grind bevel

polish bevel

stone cut design

polished bevel

custom beveled glass

Tags: Add new tag, Custom Beveled Glass

Beveled Bent Glass Light Repair

broken bent beveled panel

Out door light with four broken curved beveled glass pieces .  The hard part is the metal  it got bent when the large piece of ice fell and hit the  light. First with a hammer and a piece of wood I repair the metal . On to the glass I made a mold and bent 1/4 inch glass to the pattern needed .Test fit each piece then hand beveled each glass panel.  Installed the new beveled bent glass panels and gave the light a bath.

Ice damaged metal

bent glass test fit

Hand bevel glass panel

Polish bevel and install

Tags: Antique Glass Repair

beveled glass clock face

Old clock bezel with new beveled glass

clock bezel missing beveled glass lens

Old old clock came to me from a clock shop . It needed a beveled glass installed in the brass bezel. This is a tricky job because clock bezels are not round so the bevel is hand made to fit the out of round bezel. Its very easy to chip the new beveled glass during the installation .

glass cut out of round to fit the bezel and rough beveledNew Glass Installed

Tags: Antique Clock Beveled, Beveled Glass for Clock, Clock Glass, Glass for Antique Clock, Glass For Clock Bezel, Glass Parts, Glueing Glass

Carriage Fire Engine Lamp Repair

Before and after beveled flashed glass lens with engraving

I was told this is from a  fire engine . Its is made of flashed red glass and has a beveled edge and a number six engraved on it. Flash glass is made by layering two colored glasses together in this case red and clear. I have restored many carriage lamps over the years I wish I had photographed them now. I also make globes for oil lamp like on the railroad.

Tags: Antique Glass Lens, Beveled Glass Lens, Glass Parts, Oil Lamp Repair