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 Repair Steuben Pear

crystal repair steuben pear

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crystal repair decanter broken neck

The crystal decanter had a broken neck and they were missing pieces. The crystal repair job was going to be more than a glue job. I needed to replace the broken neck .I cut off what was left of the old one and attached the new neck.  Its not a perfect match to the old neck but very close.

crystal decanter broken neck

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Crystal repair chipped on neck of decanter

Good morning Marc,

I’ve finally gotten round to opening the box (major fall season home re-org project is in full swing).  Your work is fantastic!  I would never have known that there was ever any damage.  Once I get the music box mechanism back together I’ll reassemble the decanter and send you some ‘after’ pictures.  I plan to show off your work to everyone I know.

I would like your opinion on something.  The half-dome well that forms the bottom of the decanter and where the music box mechanism fits was originally mirror-silvered.  When I purchased the decanter some time ago the mirroring had long since been replaced with hobby silver paint.  I didn’t care for how that looked so I removed the paint intending to resilver it with silver or gold mirroring once it had been repaired.  Now that I see it all repaired, and with the music box mechanism all cleaned and polished and gleaming in silver and gold itself, I’m leaning towards leaving the decanter bottom unsilvered allowing the music box mechanism to show through the glass.  What do you think?

John

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Repair Crystal Antique Cut Glass Vase

Broken Crystal Vase

Make new bottom and attach

Repaired cut glass glass vase in silver foot

Done in time for the holidays it will make a great center piece.

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How to make a wine bottle a vase

This unique blue glass wine bottle had to be saved from the trash. My customer brought it in so I could just cut of the neck.  This was not a good  solution.  I cut off the bottom of the bottle then used the bottom to make a foot for the new vase.

Blue Glass Wine Bottle to make vase

Cobalt Blue Wine Bottle Vase

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antique glass cruet repair

One from a set of the crystal cruets got damaged . It had a broken neck and missing stopper. The repair process required making a new neck. I cut off the broken neck and made a new piece. The small decanter /cruet/ bottle was broken and the pieces were gone for years. When repairing antique glass it requires a little imagination. The best way to repair antique  crystal is to just get started and made something you will learn from your mistakes . I made a  lot of garbage over the years.  

old cruet new top

Saved from the scrap pile. Antique glass sets are very valuable and with the silver tray very rare. To  restore this set I did a little glass blowing, a little stone engraving ( wheel work) , a little hand lapping to fit the stopper,and a little gluing.

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antique glass bottle repair

The antique glass bottle had a broken stopper and the pieces were missing. I have some old black glass call vitolite and I used it to make a new stopper top.

antique glass bottle with broken stopper

broken stopper from antique glass bottle

 I cut off the top of  the broken glass stopper. I used a 1 1/2″ diamond  core drill and a hole in the black glass .  Inside the dill was a 1 3/8 core I used to make the new top for the stopper.

new top on stopper

Antique Glass Bottle with repaired stopper

I think the bottles belongs to a witch and she has one that says eye of nuet also.

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Crystal Repair Broken Candlesticks

Only one of  the candlesticks were broken but I repair both .  I replaced the bobeches and attached the candle cups.

Broken Candlestick

Antique Crystal Repair

I just received my bowl and it is perfect.  I will recommend you to

all my friends. Thank you again for fixing the bowl for me, as it was gift from my sister.  Thank you Jane Cox–Commerce, Texas

Glass Bowl

 New foot and bottom on the bowl see pictures of before and after scroll down . This beautiful crystal bowl was sent to me for repair  from Texas.

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