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crystal repair steuben beaver

Marc Konys — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 03:09:20 +0000

The Steuben crystal beaver had a broken tail. It was sent to me for repair. It wasn’t a very clean break so I ground and polished the chipped glass . I had to reshape the tail also.

broken crystal steuben beaver

Steuben Crystal Beaver

restoration complete

crystal repair glass cat

Marc Konys — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:20:46 +0000

The glass cat figurine had a broken ear. I removed the good ear and made two new ears. No one will know the ears match and her husband can get out of the dog house. Friends Romans lend me an ear.

glass cat with one broken ear

glass cat new ears

Being able to make ears ,noses ,trunks, tails,and other parts gives me alot of options when restoring glass figurines. Under categories there is a heading call zoo it holds before and after picture of crystal animals I have repaired.

Swarovski crystal restoration

Marc Konys — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:26:27 +0000

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

swarovski crystal repair a new tail for an old dog

Crystal Repair Broken Swarovski

Marc Konys — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:16:17 +0000

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

crystal elephant with new tusk

Crystal restoration complete old tusk and the new one .

New glass tusk installed

crystal horse repair

Marc Konys — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:20:58 +0000

crystal horse repair

Blowen glass horse with broken leg in for repair.

crystal horse repaired

This is a borosilicate glass and can be reheated or fused with heat. Reheated very carefully with a torch.

antique glass repair

Marc Konys — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 02:59:33 +0000

A Steuben crystal quail came in with a broken and missing ” thing on its head” I don’t know what to call it. So with a little research I found picture of a good one . I then made a new wachama call it.

Steuben Quail BrokenSteuben Quail new thing on head

I ground and polish the top of the birds head to remove what was left of the old piece of glass. With a picture of how it use to look I made a new “wachama call it” that goes on top of the quail head.

Steuben Quail new thing on head

Crystal Repair Steuben Bunny Repair

Marc Konys — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 02:34:11 +0000

crystal repair Steuben

Steuben Bunny after repair

Crystal Repair Swarovski Whale

Marc Konys — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:04:51 +0000

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

Swarovski Crystal Whale

crystal repair

Marc Konys — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:07:35 +0000

broken bird

crystal bird

This crystal bird had broken feathers, but it’s now fit to fly.

Glass Fish Repair blowen glass

Marc Konys — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:19:41 +0000

broken fish with new fins

: Broken fish

Repaired Fish now has a fin to stand on

I repair glass sculptures and I repair memories. Her grandfather was a glass blower and he made the fish back in the old counrty. The two bottom fins got broken . I have to remove what is left of the original fins and make new ones .Grind and polish the bottom of the fish first step. Next make two new fins that match color and size of the old ones. Attach the new fins and I’am done . That wasn’t so bad.