Glueings Project Repair Gallery

Crystal Repair Blenko Vase Repair

  Blenko Glass  made this  very colorful vase. It  had the miss forture of getting broken when mom was out of town. I found a glass foot the same size as the original . Then I painted the foot to match the color and fired in my kiln to make it perminent. I use paint and stains used in stainglass windows for crystal repair. Antique glass came in many  unique colors .

Crystal Repair Blenko Vase

Blenko Vase With New Foot

Tags: Antique Crystal repair, Antique Glass Repair, Chip Repair, Chipped Crystal Repair, Crystal Repair, Glassware Repair, Glueing Glass

Swarovski Crystal Repair

Swarovski makes very fine crystal and over the years I could fill a zoo with  Swarovski Glass Animals I have repaired. I recently restored a pair of Swarovski Crystal Birds. Swarovski crystal repairs are generaly simple reglues.

I  also made a custom, wall hung, bent glass display case just for a collection of Swarovski Crystal Animals with mirrored shelves and custom low voltage lighting. The small Swarovski crystal prisms are glued together to create all kinds of shapes.It’s not uncommon for the glue to fail so don’t blame the kids if you find a three-leged dog.

Crystal Repair Glue Swarovski Crystal Birds

Custom Bent Glass Wall Hung Display Case

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

Waterford Crystal Wine Glass Repair

The chipped wine glass was headed for the trash when another Waterford wine glass got broken . One with a broken goblet ,the other had a huge chip on the foot. I did a footectimee . I used the foot from the broken waterford wine glass to repair the chipped foot . Grind down the chip was not an option it was to larg a chip . The wine glass wouldn’t have a foot to stand on.

Waterford Wine Glass With Large Chip

Crystal Repair Broken Foot Restoration

Tags: Antique Crystal repair, Antique Glass Repair, Broken Glass Glued, Chipped Crystal Repair, Crystal Repair, Glass Parts, Glassware Repair, Glueing Glass, Waterford Crystal Repair

Crystal Repair Wine Glass

Crystal Repair New Stem

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

Crystal Repair Orrefos Candlestick

If you forget to put out the candle it will burn down and crack the candle cup. Repairing crystal candlesticks is a challenge.  The easy way is to make a new candle cup if all I could do is grind the old one down there wouldn’t be much glass left to hold the candle . Crystal repair on candlesticks can be avoided by drill a small hole up through the bottom of the candle removing the wick.  The candle will go out before it can crack the candle cup.

Crystal Repair Orrefors Crystal CandlestickCrystal Repair Orrefors Candlestick New Top

Crystal Repair Orrefors Candlestick New Top

Tags: Antique Glass Repair, Chipped Crystal Repair, Crystal Repair, Glassware Repair, Orrefors Crystal Repair

Crystal Repair Waterford Lamp

This Waterford Hurricane Lamp came from

Irland many years ago and has much

 sentimental value. The cup that holds  the glass

 globe got broken. I used a cut glass cup from

a new Wareford Chandelier to repair  the damaged

one.  Crystal Repair : Cut,Grind ,Polish and Glue

Grama’s Waterford Crystal Hurricane Lamp is

back on the nitestand.

Repair Crystal Lamp Waterford Crystal Hurricane Lamp

Repaired Lamp Waterford Hurricane Lamp Crystal Repair

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

Crystal Repair Broken Neck on Decanter

Crystal Repair Broken Decanter replace neck

This decanter is part of a set . It has a silver tray and cruet set so fixing it was a must . It was part of the family and I had to get a little creative to blend in the repair. I added some more etching to hide the new neck sorry I didn’t get a final photo. 

Crystal Decanter Repair Glass Fit Stopper

Crystal Decanter Repaired Glass Neck Fit Stopper

Tags: Antique Crystal repair, Antique Glass Repair, Bottle Repair, Crystal Repair, Crystal Restoration, New Stopper

Venetian Glass Repair

We received the Venetian glass  figurines” blue couple “via mail.  When they came in I didn’t know if I had all the pieces. In the past, I have worked on many venetian clowns that have needed hands heads and balloons so I was sure I could restore then to original condition.  However, as you can see below, I was able to restore the piece to it’s original state.

Venetian Blue Man

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

Crystal Repair Waterford Biscuit Jar

A larg peice broke off the top of the biscuit jar and small chips were missing. We were able to glue the broken pc back in . Then grind and polish the top as good as new.

Tags: Broken Glass Glued, Crystal Repair, Waterford Crystal Repair

Crystal Repair Waterford Vase

This Waterford Vase came to me with a broken stem. I ground down the stem 1/16 of an inch to remove chipped area. Its now ready for a rose.

Waterford Repair Crystal bud vase

Waterford Crystal Repair Vase

Tags: Antique Crystal repair, Crystal Repair, Glassware Repair

Antique Crystal Repair Broken Foot

No chance of repairing  broken foot . The foot was broken off many years ago and the peices were lost. I found a donor foot on a footed vase. It was a little larger than needed but I can grind the foot down to the right size. I cut off what was left of the broken foot and attached the new foot . Missing foot repalced and the antique crystal candlesticks were ready to set the table. 

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Antique Crystal Repair Candlestick

Tags: Antique Crystal repair, Antique Glass Repair

Crystal Repair Of Steuben Candlestick

This time of the year out come the candles and if you let them burn down to low they will crack the glass.

Repaired Steuben Teardrop Candlestick

 I made two new glass parts to replace the broken steuben candlestick top and bottom.  This $900.00 Stueben candlestick is ready to use .When I repair  Steuben Crystal  the restoration are cost effective. Glass blowing is the key to this repair . With out the ablity to make new parts this broken crystal candlestick would end up in the trash. This antique crystal candlestick will make many more Christmas Dinners.

Tags: Add new tag, Antique Crystal repair, Antique Glass Repair, Broken Crystal Arm, Broken Crystal Candlestick, Broken Glass Glued, Chipped Crystal Repair, Crystal Candlestick repair, Crystal Repair, Crystal Restoration, Glass Parts, Glassware Repair, Glueing Glass, Steuben Crystal, Steuben Crystal Repair

Glass Fish Repair blowen glass

broken fish with new fins

Broken fish

Repaired Fish now has a fin to stand on

I repair glass sculptures and I repair memories. Her grandfather was a glass blower and he made the fish back in the old counrty. The two bottom fins got broken . I have to remove what is left of the original fins and make new ones .Grind and polish the bottom of the fish first step. Next make two new fins that match color and size of the old ones. Attach the new fins and I’am done . That wasn’t so bad.

Tags: Antique Crystal repair, Antique Glass Repair, Crystal Repair, Crystal Restoration, Glass Figurine Repair, Glass Fish Repair, Murano Glass Repair

Steuben Crystal Snail Repair

I received two broken steuben snails that were missing their antlers, tenticals, and antennas. I polished the area were the things used to be. Then I made about twenty antlers picking out the best for shaped and sized and attached then. They were as good as new.

Steuben Snails with new antlers

Stueben Snail Broken Antlers

Making snail antlers

Tags: Antique Crystal repair, Antique Glass Repair, Chipped Crystal Repair, Crystal Figurine Repair, Crystal Repair, Crystal Restoration, Glassware Repair, Glueing Glass, Steuben Crystal