Crystal Repair and Antique Glass Repair – Bruening Glass Works

Chipped crystal glassware repair wine glass water glass

Chipped wine glasses ,chipped water glasses ,chipped rock glasses, champagne  glasses and chipped cordial glasses can be ground and polished to look like new.  Crystal glassware is hand made and each glass is a little different size.  Stemware from the major manufactures can be very expensive and some times the patterns have been retired so repairing is the only option.

crystal stemware repair

Waterford Crystal , Baccarat Crystal  , Lalique Crystal  , Steuben Crystal , Orrefors  Crystal , Tiffin , Fostoria , Kosta Boda, Cambridge, Stuard, Hawkes Crystal, Daum Crystal, I have repaired them all.

Crystal Chandelier Repair Candelabra Restoration

Right out of the basement, the antique candelabra was in total disrepair. It was removed from the dinning room and  placed in the basement .  The bronze frame work was broken in several places.  The antique wiring was fared and need to be replaced.  The globes were dirty and  badly chipped.

Chandelier Repair / Candelabra Repair

It had a broken center column.

Crystal Candelabra Restoration / Chandelier

Antique Glass Repair Broken Crystal Stopper

The cut glass stopper was stuck in the decanter when it fell over and broke.  The break was in the center of the stopper were it necks down .

Broken Crystal Stopper

I decided to make a new center section and plug .  I used a glass rod to make the new part.

The new plug was ground to fit the antique glass decanter.

fire polish plug

The glass rod was make of borosilicate glass ( pyrex )  so I was able to fire polish the new stopper.

Old Stoper Top and the New Stopper Bottom

The antique crystal decanter is made from lead glass so I had to hand polish the neck were the new plug fits

The stopper is finish and the decanter that has been in the family for many years can be passes on .

Antique Glass Chandelier Repair / candelabra /crystal bobeche replacement

This antique crystal  bobeche is from a late 1700′s early 1800′s candelabra that  was electrified.  I needed to make two replacement bobeches .  The first step is to make the glass blanks.

Bobeche Blank

Rough cutting the shape is next.

Rough Cutting Crystal Blank

Using smoothing stones the glass is given a 400 to 600 grit finish and ready for polishing.

Bobeche before polishing

Crystal Bobeche and replacement

The replacement crystal  bobeches are marked for drilling the holes.

Crystal Bobeche and replacement

Replacement Bobeche

I also made replacement arms for this chandelier shown in the picture.    I will post picture showing the process I use to duplicate the solid crystal arms.

Antique Glass Repair broken crystal basket

The antique cut glass basket had a broken bottom.  I cut off the broken part and made a new bottom of the antique cut  glass plate.