Glass Figurine Repair Project Repair Gallery

antique glass figurine repair

Antique glass repair is made a lot harder when like this piece because they tried to glue it them selves.  They used a silicone glue and there are no known solvents for it .  It took a lot of rubbing and scraping to remove the silicone. Then we were able to repair it.

antique glass repair figurine

antique glass repair after

Tags: Antique Crystal repair, Antique Glass Repair, Broken Glass Glued, Chipped Crystal Repair, Crystal Repair, Crystal Restoration, Glass Figurine Repair, Glueing Glass, Venetian Murano Glass Repair

Antique Restoration & Repair Glass & Jade

A beautiful antique  jade horse came in with broken legs.  No  I didn’t shoot the horse I repair it. Carved jade is a lot like glass it has a translucent green color.

Broken Jade

Repaired Jade Horse

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

Antique glass figurine repair

Glass Figurine broken off base

Antique glass repair is very rewarding. This glass figurine had been broken for years before they found me. Even with pieces missing I was able to complete the restoration.

Glass Figurine

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

crystal repair glass cat

The glass cat  figurine had a broken ear. I removed the good ear and made two new ears.   No one will know the ears match and her husband can get out of the dog house.  Friends Romans lend me an ear. 

glass cat with one broken ear

glass cat new ears

Being able to make ears ,noses ,trunks, tails,and other parts gives me alot of options when restoring glass figurines. Under categories there is a heading call zoo it holds before and after picture of crystal animals I have repaired.

Tags: Antique Crystal repair, Antique Glass Repair, Broken Glass Glued, Chipped Crystal Repair, Crystal Repair, Crystal Restoration, Glass Figurine Repair, Glass Parts, Glass Repair, Glassware Repair, Glueing Glass, Venetian Murano Glass Repair

glass clown repair

A Venitian Glass Clown with one broken hand and one missing hand was sent from Dallas   Texas for repair.  First I cut off the small pieces left from the hand and ground it smooth. Then I made a new glass hand .  It looks like a micky mouse hand.  Its a white glove with only four fingers. They have been making glass clowns in Venice Italy for at least eighty years. I have made  Bo Ties , Balloons, Hats, Shoes, and every thing else for repairing them.

Venitian Glass Clown missing hand

This is the new hand I made.

New glass hand for clown

Glass restoration complete, back on the shelf  so the grand kids don”t get to it.

Glass restoration complete on the Venitian Glass Clown

Tags: Antique Crystal repair, Antique Glass Repair, Broken Glass Glued, Glass Figurine Repair, Glass Parts, Glass Repair, Glass Stopper Repair, Glassware Repair, Glueing Glass, Remove Broken Stopper, Remove Stains in Vases and Decanters, Sick Glass Repair, Waterford Crystal Repair

crystal horse repair

crystal horse repair

Blowen glass horse with broken leg in for repair.

crystal horse repaired

Tags: Blowen Glass Figurine Repair, Broken Glass Glued, Broken Glassware Repair, Chipped Crystal Repair, Crystal Figurine Repair, Crystal Repair, Crystal Restoration, Glass Figurine Repair, Glassware Repair, Glueing Glass

Venitian Glass Figurine Restoration

This glass lady came to the United States in the 1950’s and has been broken a long time. Its a long boat ride from Venice Italy to the states.

I can repair the foot or make a new one. The cutomer wants the foot repaired first and if that doesn’t look good I will replace her foot and her mates.

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

Venetian Glass Repair

broke glass man

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

Crystal Repair Lalique Horse Head

This large glass sculpture was damaged when an earth quake knocked prisms off of a chandelier onto the sculpture below. This very large, very expensive, LaLique Crystal Horse Head sustained many small chips from each of the falling prisms. Crystal repair on such a heavy piece of glass over such a large area can be tricky, but the sculpture’s appearance, and it’s value were completely restored.

LaLique Horse Head

First Grind (remove more than thirty dings

More than thirty chips had to be removed from this very expensive LaLique Crystal Sculpture.

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

Crystal Repair Steuben Bunny Repair

crystal repair Steuben

Steuben Bunny after repair

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

Crystal Repair Steuben Elephant new ears

Steuben Elephant Missing Ears

Broken many years ago and put in a box and forgotten. Then the internet and solution to the earless elephant .  I formed two ears out of a broken Steuben plate. This type of repair is fun know one would ever know the elephant had a ear job. Steuben glass figurine repair

Steuben Crystal Figurine With New Ears

Tags: Antique Crystal repair, Antique Glass Repair, Baccarat Stemware Repair, Blowen Glass Figurine Repair, Broken Glass Glued, Chipped Crystal Repair, Crystal Figurine Repair, Crystal Restoration, Glass Figurine Repair, Glassware Repair, Lalique Stemware Repair, Orrefors Stemware Repair, Stemware repair, Steuben Crystal, Steuben Stemware Repair, Waterford Stemware Repair

Swarovski Crystal flower broken stem

swarovski crystal flower

A Broken Crystal flower with missing piece of the stem needed to be repaired. I asked if they could send in one of the flowers that was not broken to use as a guide . Then I make a new stem and replaced the broke one. In this repair the challange was getting what was left of the stem out with out breaking any leaves.

Broken Glass Repaired

Tags: Antique Crystal repair, Antique Glass Repair, Broken Crystal Arm, Broken Glass Glued, Bubble Convex Glass, Chipped Crystal Repair, Crystal Figurine Repair, Crystal Restoration, Glass Figurine Repair, Glass Parts, Glassware Repair, Glueing Glass, Swarovski Figurine Repair, Swarvorski Crystal Repair, Swarvorski Glass Repair, Waterford Stemware 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

Glass Sculpture Repair Chip Repair

We  were challenged to repair this badly broken sculpture brought in by a customer.  It was brought to us in many pieces.  The biggest hurdle of this project was to make it look like it was brand new and wasn’t repaired.  We implemented a new design element that used blue cobalt to meet the customer’s expecations.  Please see the repair gallery below.

glass repaired crystal and cobalt blue

Tags: Broken Glass Glued, Chip Repair, Chipped Crystal Repair, Crystal Repair, Crystal Restoration, Glass Figurine Repair