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Antique glass repair blue cut glass bowl

Crystal Repair broken bowl

A blue cut glass bowl was broken and sent in for repair. I have not see many blue on clear bowls.  Red and green are more common  but the peach and blue must not get damaged very offen . I didn’t get the story how it was broken. When they found out I did antique glass repair they were very happy.

Cut glass bowl

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Cut Glass Compote Repair

The antique crystal compote was broken the foot and the bottom of the bowl. There were cracks on the bottom of the bowl were the foot had been attached.  I had to drill out the cracks to prevent them from cracking any further.  The bowl portion of the compote needed a new bottom so I could attach a new foot.

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Drilled out cracked glass

Removed bottom

New Bottom on bowl

cut glass compote new foot

New Foot Attached

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Chandelier Repair broken Bobeche

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Broken Crystal Vase

Joe emailed he had a Waterford Crystal vase that was a wedding present to his parents and the foot was broken and missing pieces.  Can I fix it ?  Yes  send it . He sent the vase from Resto Va.

Vase with broken foot

The vase came in safe and sound. Joe followed the shipping instructions. My job make it new again.  I removed the old broken foot and found a replacement foot. A simple foot transplant and all you need are flowers.

Old vase with new foot in need of flowers

Its time to bring home the roses.

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broken martini glass

Is that your " minkey"

Your monkey is all better

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Antique Glass Repair- broken stopper

An antique glass decanter with a broken stopper was brought in for repair. The stopper broke off many years ago and was lost. The owners still had the silver top to the stopper, but a new glass bottom had to be made. I started with a glass rod a little larger than the neck of the decanter. I ground the end of the glass rod to fit the neck of the decanter. I made a stem on top of the stopper through heat and manipulation. This was fitted in to the silver top. The other chips on the bottle were left alone because they all had a story to go with them.

antique crystal decanter missing stopper

Starting with a solid glass rod I shape the end .

glass rod use for glass stopper

Heat and pull to create a stem to fit in to the silver top.

heat and pull ( stopper neck)

Keep it hot and on center

Decanter with new stopper (fill with rum )

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Cut crystal repair

cut glass bowl

cut glass bowl repaired

A clean break makes this repair very hard to spot. This cut glass bowl broke without chipping, so the repair was not very involved.

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Crystal Repair Swarovski Whale

It’s hard to swim straight with no tail. This whale was in need of some saving.  It was a simple repair. Please view some of my other Swarovski repairs if you have a piece of crystal that needs to be rescued.

Crystal Whale with broken tail

Swarovski Crystal Whale

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crystal repair

broken bird

crystal bird

This crystal bird had broken feathers, but it’s now fit to fly.

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Crystal Repair Waterford Wine Glass

Waterford Wine Glass Chipped Foot

Wine Glass New Foot

The chip was to large to grind and polish so I removed the foot at the base of the stem. With the foot off of another Waterford Glass I transplanted the foot .  Open a  so so bottle of wine and lets test the glass. You don’t need  open a good bottle wine because  the beautifull  glass makes every thing taste better.

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Crystal Repair Waterford Spoon

Crystal spoon good as news

THis Waterford serving spoon was glued many times before it came to me. Repairing crystal seving pieces is harder than other pieces of crystal because of  the functional work side . They are going to be used and abused.I neeeded to clean off  the old glue and make a new stud . I attached the new glass stud the handle . Then glued the seving spoon part to the handle.I picture all the steps .

Waterford Crystal Spoon broken handle

waterford crystal spoon with broken handel

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Depession Glass Repair

Depession glass bowl  with two large pieces broken off and some smaller pieces missing  first I glued the broken pieces back in and the ground and polished what was left.  Pressed glass is sentimental because it was not expensive so every one had some. Grama then left it to the kids. I have little red shot glasses with handles that I got from my grama. Had my first shot of whiskey grama gave me at sixteen . It was awfull then and still is. Repairing depression glass or pressed glass is not cost effective but  you have to save it.

Depression Glass Bowl

Depression Glass Bowl

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chandelier repair antique crystal bobache

BROKEN BOBOCHE /BOBACHE/BOBECHE YOU PICK

ANTIQUE CRYSTAL CHANDELIER ” 0″ THE ELECTRITION “1”  SAME STORY

The boboche was broken and a few pieces were missing so we glued the pieces back together and  bent a piece of glass to fill the hole left by the missing pieces.

Repaired chandelier Part

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Antique Water Glass Repair Crystal

WATER GLASS BROKEN BOTTOM

This antique water glass has a broken bottom and just the bottom none of the sides of the glass was damaged. I was able to cut / grind off the botton and using a thin glass cut a diameter and made a new botttom.  Crystal water glass repair or antique rock glass  not shure what to call it but its ready to be used again.

ROCK GLASS NEW BOTTOM

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