repair beveled glass lens for railroad oil lamp

The lamp fell and two pieces of beveled  glass were broken.  The front lens was a diameter and I used a piece of old mirror because of the color. The newer glass has a very dark green color to the edge.  The antique glass has a yellow not the green edge.  I have repaired many Rail Road lights over the years. I used cast iron grinding mill to rough in the bevel.

antique mirror

old and new glass

I cut the antique glass and rough in the bevel.

Hand beveling glass

Smoothing Stone

oil lamp repair

Hand beveled replacement glass

side glass broken

New beveled lens

New beveled glass side panel

Tags: antique beveled lens, Antique Glass Repair, Antique lamp repair, custom beveled lens, hand beveling

Antique beveled glass mirror repair

The beveled mirror was broken out of the antique sterling silver hand mirror.  Antique vanity sets like this one were very common.  Now that ther are very few people silver mirrors I had  to blind bevel mirror this repalcement mirror.  With the oval shape and the scalopes  it makes it one of the more difficult hand mirros to repair.

wings and a cold beer.

Antique beveled glass hand mirror

Beveled Mirror for antique silver hand mirror

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Crystal pendent restoration

chipped and broken glass pendent

A  beautifull crystal pendent was dropped and broken. I was able to repair the glass .   This piece was shipped from NY.

Tags: Antique Crystal repair, Antique Glass Repair, Antique glassware repair, Antique lamp repair, Baccarat Crystal, broken crystal repair, Broken Glass Glued, Broken glassware repair, Chipped Crystal Repair, Crystal Restoration, cut glass repair, Glass Repair

custom beveled glass with wheel work design

beveled glass repair

broken piece

cut new piece of glass

rough grind bevel

polish bevel

stone cut design

polished bevel

custom beveled glass

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Antique glass repair vanity mirror

The glass in an antique vanity mirror was broken. The sterling silver frame was in good shape only the mirror was broken. The way I made the new mirror is called blind beveling. I bevel a piece of mrirror with out seeing the stone .  Old mirrors were beveled and then silvered  .  I don’t resilver mirrors so I have to bevel it blind. It takes some practice you have to watch the water coming of the stone and it will let you know if its going well.

antique hand mirror

I took off the retaining ring and removed the broken mirror.

Antique Beveled Mirror

Using the old mirror for a pattern I made a new beveled mirror. Its ready to be installed.

New beveled hand mirror

Beveled Bent Glass Light Repair

broken bent beveled panel

Out door light with four broken curved beveled glass pieces .  The hard part is the metal  it got bent when the large piece of ice fell and hit the  light. First with a hammer and a piece of wood I repair the metal . On to the glass I made a mold and bent 1/4 inch glass to the pattern needed .Test fit each piece then hand beveled each glass panel.  Installed the new beveled bent glass panels and gave the light a bath.

Ice damaged metal

bent glass test fit

Hand bevel glass panel

Polish bevel and install

Tags: Antique Glass Repair

beveled glass clock face

Old clock bezel with new beveled glass

clock bezel missing beveled glass lens

Old old clock came to me from a clock shop . It needed a beveled glass installed in the brass bezel. This is a tricky job because clock bezels are not round so the bevel is hand made to fit the out of round bezel. Its very easy to chip the new beveled glass during the installation .

glass cut out of round to fit the bezel and rough beveledNew Glass Installed

Tags: antique clock beveled, beveled glass for clock, clock glass, glass for antique clock, glass for clock bezel, Glass Parts, Glueing Glass

Carriage Fire Engine Lamp Repair

Before and after beveled flashed glass lens with engraving

I was told this is from a  fire engine . Its is made of flashed red glass and has a beveled edge and a number six engraved on it. Flash glass is made by layering two colored glasses together in this case red and clear. I have restored many carriage lamps over the years I wish I had photographed them now. I also make globes for oil lamp like on the railroad.

Tags: antique glass lens, Beveled glass lens, Glass Parts, oil lamp repair

antique glass repair Beveled Clock Door

Antique Clock Beveled Glass Door

This antique clock had a broken glass in it so I used a pc of old mirror and removed the silvering The old glass has more of a yellow color to it the newer glass has a much greener color. I save many types of old glass and on occasions have use my kiln to make new glass look old. I then put on a good inch and a half bevel on the glass My hand beveling machines are older than this old clock. They run with leather belts we use electric motors instead of steam now. Hand beveling old glass for this clock has kept its value.Hand beveling is a dieing trade. Antique Carriage Clocks have very thin glass and are the hardest to bevel. I bevel glass for many clock repair shops .

Tags: antique beveled glass, beveled glass for clock