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Archive for the ‘Swarovski Crystal’ Category

Swarovski Crystal Candlestick Repair

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 Posted in All Repair Projects, Glueings, Swarovski Crystal | No Comments »

A very common problem    people let the candle burn down to low and it breakes the crystal  candle holder.

Broken crystal candlestick

Broken crystal candlestick

repaired swavorski crystal candlestick

repaired swavorski crystal candlestick

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Swarovski crystal restoration

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009 Posted in All Repair Projects, Crystal Repair Pictures, Glueings, Swarovski Crystal, glass sculpture repair, zoo | No Comments »

The Swarovski glass dog was missing a tail.  I made one and attached it.

swarovski crystal repair a new tail for an old dog

swarovski crystal repair a new tail for an old dog

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Crystal Repair Broken Swarovski

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009 Posted in Glueings, Swarovski Crystal, zoo | No Comments »

Swarovski Crystal Elephant broken and missing tusk

Swarovski Crystal Elephant broken and missing tusk

The crystal elephant came  in broken and missing a tusk. Reattaching the tusk was the first step.  Them I made a new glass  part  for the Swarovski Elephant using the old glass tusk as a guide. Etching the new glass part to match the old was the final step in the glass restoration.

Swarovski Crystal Elephant

Swarovski Crystal Elephant

crystal elephant with new tusk

crystal elephant with new tusk

Crystal restoration complete old tusk  and the new one .

New glass tusk installed

New glass tusk installed

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Swavorski train wreck gets repaired

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009 Posted in All Repair Projects, Crystal Repair Pictures, Glueings, Swarovski Crystal, glass sculpture repair | No Comments »

What a train wreck! This swavorski crystal train came to me in about 25 pieces. It needed to be completely reassembled and glued into place, but I had not been given a picture of the original. Reassembling this train was a like a jigsaw puzzle. The fun part was creating a something beautiful from the pieces. I consider that crystal repair at its finest.

Swarvoski Crystal Train

Swarvoski Crystal Train

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Crystal Repair Swarovski Whale

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009 Posted in All Repair Projects, Crystal Repair Pictures, Glueings, Swarovski Crystal, zoo | No Comments »

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

Crystal Whale with broken tail

Swarovski Crystal Whale

Swarovski Crystal Whale

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Crystal Repair Swarovski Mouse

Sunday, March 15th, 2009 Posted in All Repair Projects, Glueings, Swarovski Crystal | No Comments »

This mouse must have lost a fight with a cat. Both ears were off and the tail was missing from this whimsical Swarovski crystal mouse. Now he looks good as new with a spring in his tail.

crystal mouse before

crystal mouse before

Swarovski Crystal Mouse

Swarovski Crystal Mouse

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Crystal Repair Swarovski

Saturday, February 14th, 2009 Posted in All Repair Projects, Glueings, Swarovski Crystal | No Comments »

Swarovski Snow Flake

Swarovski Snow Flake

Swarovski Crystal came unglued  simple repair to reglue.

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Swarovski Crystal flower broken stem

Thursday, January 29th, 2009 Posted in Chipped Glass Repair, Glueings, Swarovski Crystal | No Comments »

swarovski crystal flower

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

Broken Glass Repaired

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Swarovski Crystal Repair

Friday, January 2nd, 2009 Posted in All Repair Projects, Crystal Repair Pictures, Glueings, Swarovski Crystal | No Comments »

Swarovski makes very fine crystal and over the years Icould fill a zoo with  Swarovski Glass Animals I have repair . I recently restored a pair of Swarovski Crystal Birds. Swarovski crystal repairs are generaly  simple reglues. I   made a custom, wall hung,  bent glass display case just for a collection of Swarovski Crystal Animals with mirrored shelves and custom low voltage lighting . The small Swarovski crystal prisims are glue together to create all kinds of shapes.Its not uncommon for the glue to fail so  don’t bame the kids if you find a three leged dog .

Crystal Repair Glue Swarovski Crystal Birds

Crystal Repair Glue Swarovski Crystal Birds

 

Custom Bent Glass Wall Hung Display Case

Custom Bent Glass Wall Hung Display Case

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