Sick Glass Project Repair Gallery

TIFFANY VASE VERY SICK GLASS REPAIR

L C T signed and numbered  piece  was very sick (Louis Comfort Tiffany).  Years and years of use had deposited a coating on the inside of the vase.  The deposit was so thick it made the glass vase opaque. The worst  I have seen in forty two years of cleaning sick glass .  It was a beautiful vase and well worth the effort.

Started the polishing of the inside

From opaque to translucent with a lot of polishing

Clean at last

Tags: Remove Stains in Vases and Decanters, Sick Glass Repair

Antique Glass Repair Broken Cut Crystal Decanter

The neck of the decanter was broken in many pieces and was repaired .  The repair was unacceptable and I needed a plan B.  The design engraved on the antique glass decanter gave me a good place to cut off the broken parts.

I fabricated a new neck and stone cut the  design .

Stain on the bottom of decanter " sick "

A new neck for an antique glass decanter

Stone cut design on new neck

Antique Glass Decanter

New neck antique glass decanter

The replacement part looks good and makes the antique  cut glass decanter usable again.  The set is complete and ready for the next party.

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

Cloudy Glass Bottle clean sick glass

Stains inside the bottle needed to be polished out.   The “sick glass ” devalues the antique cut crystal bottle.

Tags: Antique Cut Glass Repair, Bottle Repair, Crystal Repair, Crystal Restoration, Perfume Bottle Repair, Sick Glass Repair

Antique Glass Repair broken crystal cruet

The antique broken glass cruet needed restoration.  This one came  from a set that has a beautiful sterling silver holder.  First  I cleaned  the inside .

Dirty and broken cruet

cleaned and repaired

Tags: Antique Crystal repair, Antique Cut Glass Repair, Antique Glass Repair, Bottle Repair, Broken Crystal Repair, Broken Glass Glued, Crystal Repair, Crystal Restoration, Cut Glass Repair, Glass Repair, Glueing Glass, Remove Stains in Vases and Decanters, Sick Glass Repair

Crystal Repair remove stains from inside cut glass vase

Antique cut glass vases many times have stains from hard water.  This is call sick glass.  The stains come from leaving flowers and water in the vase and the stains are deposited on the sides of the vase.   Small vases like this one clean up very nice.

Sick Glass Vase

Cut Glass Cleaned Vase

Tags: Antique Crystal repair, Antique Glass Repair, Crystal Repair, Crystal Restoration, Remove Stains in Vases and Decanters

Repair Scratched Crystal Bowl polish out wear

Scratched Bowl

Used and abused for many years this crystal bowl had many many scratches.  It holds many memories for years it was on gramas  table .  It held keys ,coins and pins.  The question is I can restore the bowl to its beauty and shine.

Crystal bowl polished out scratches

Antique crystal bowl polish out scratches

How to polish out scratches from crystal ?  This bowl is an example of the process .  I made a cork wheel that fit into the bowl. I then used some 3f (FFF) pumice and bridgeport milling machine to spin the wheel.  I mix the pumice with water untill it was like a milk shake. You have to be sure not to heat up the glass while polishing .  The heat will crack the glass.  The final polish is done with a felt wheel and cerium oxide.

Tags: Antique Crystal repair, Antique Glass Repair, Remove Stains in Vases and Decanters, Sick Glass Repair

crystal repair cloudy glass sick glass

The crystal plates needed to be polished.  The cloudy build up came from the dish washer.   Some times called to as sick glass.

Sick Glass Plate

plate after polish crystal repair cloudy glass sick glass

Tags: Antique Crystal repair, Antique Glass Repair, Bottle Repair, Cloudy Glass Repair, Polish Off Cloudy Film, Sick Glass Repair

Steuben Crystal Vase Repair Sick Glass Cloudy Scratched

This Steuben crystal vase was sent to me for cleaning.  I thought it was sick. ( cloudy from hard water stains) It was not sick it was scratched someone tried to clean it with an abrasive. They made it a lot worse by putting in thousands of scratches up and down in side the vase. I was able to carefully polish them out . Steuben Crystal has one of the highest lead content this is why the glass is clear.

cloudy steuben crystal vase

I polished out the scratches on the inside  of the vase and then I polish out the scratches  on the bottom of the vase .

Steuben Crystal Vase after Polish of scratches

Tags: Antique Crystal repair, Antique Glass Repair, Crystal Repair, Crystal Restoration, Remove Stains in Vases and Decanters

sick glass vase cloudy crystal repair

Years of water and flowers stained the inside of the vase.  It needed to cleaned.

cloudy crystal vase sick glass

crystal vase repaired

Tags: Antique Crystal repair, Antique Glass Repair, Crystal Repair, Crystal Restoration, Remove Stains in Vases and Decanters