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crystal repair cut glass decanter

Marc Konys — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 18:39:20 +0000

Red on clear glass decanter came in with a broken neck.

cut glass decanter broken neck

The break was along one of the cuts

repaired decanter

Antique beveled glass mirror repair

Marc Konys — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 17:31:36 +0000

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

Crystal Repair Steuben Pear

Marc Konys — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 01:46:25 +0000

crystal repair steuben pear

crystal repair decanter broken neck

Marc Konys — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 18:09:28 +0000

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

Crystal repair chipped on neck of decanter

Marc Konys — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 17:18:57 +0000

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

Repair Crystal Antique Cut Glass Vase

Marc Konys — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:35:28 +0000

Save the pieces it makes the repair so much easier. This crystal vase came in for repair and I had to make a new bottom.

Broken Crystal Vase

Being able to blow glass and make a new glass bottom made this repair possible.

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.

How to make a wine bottle a vase

Marc Konys — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:29:02 +0000

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

antique glass cruet repair

Marc Konys — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 06:37:28 +0000

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.

antique glass bottle repair

Marc Konys — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 06:38:25 +0000

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.

Crystal Repair Broken Candlesticks

Marc Konys — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 03:12:34 +0000

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

Broken Candlestick