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Rocky River, Ohio 44116
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Crystal Repair Project Repair Gallery

CRYSTAL REPAIR ANTIQUE WINE GLASS BROKEN STEM AND FOOT

Thursday, November 11th, 2021 Posted in All Repair Projects, Antique Glass Repair, Broken glassware, Broken Stem | Comments Off on CRYSTAL REPAIR ANTIQUE WINE GLASS BROKEN STEM AND FOOT

CRYSTAL REPAIR ANTIQUE WINE GLASS BROKEN STEM AND FOOT - Before

Antique Wine Glass Broken Stem

 

CRYSTAL REPAIR ANTIQUE WINE GLASS BROKEN STEM AND FOOT - After

Repaired glasses

 

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CHIPPED CRYSTAL WINE GLASS REPAIR

Saturday, November 6th, 2021 Posted in All Repair Projects, Chipped Glass Repair, Chipped Glassware, Chipped Stemware, Waterford Crystal Repair | Comments Off on CHIPPED CRYSTAL WINE GLASS REPAIR

At Bruening Glass Works, we can literally repair any type of glass wine, water, martini glass etc. Here’s another example of a before and after project that we completed for a customer. You can clearly see the chip in the top of the glass as it was mailed to us.

CHIPPED CRYSTAL WINE GLASS REPAIR - Broken

Chipped Glass

 
Here’s a shot of the same glass that is now repaired. Additionally, we’ll clean the glass prior to shipping it back to you.

CHIPPED CRYSTAL WINE GLASS REPAIR - repaired

Polish Out The Chip

 

 

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CRYSTAL REPAIR BROKEN SHADE

Saturday, November 6th, 2021 Posted in All Repair Projects, Antique lamp repair, Uncategorized | Comments Off on CRYSTAL REPAIR BROKEN SHADE

The antique glass shade that had been in the family for many years got broken and chipped. We repair the antique glass shade and filled the chips where the glass was missing.

CRYSTAL REPAIR BROKEN SHADE - before

broken reverse painted shade

CRYSTAL REPAIR BROKEN SHADE - after

repaired shade

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CHIPPED CRYSTAL REPAIR

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2021 Posted in All Repair Projects, Chipped Glassware | Comments Off on CHIPPED CRYSTAL REPAIR

We repair all types of chipped and broken crystal pieces. Here’s another example of a piece that was shipped to us in its broken state.

CHIPPED CRYSTAL REPAIR

 

In many cases, our customers are unsure if something can be repaired. If you are curious, please reach out to our staff and we’d be happy to assess your repair project and provide you with a quote. People typically ship us their pieces in order to get the most accurate quote for us to repair it.

 

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Crystal Repair Antique Cruet Set Chipped Foot

Sunday, June 28th, 2020 Posted in All Repair Projects, Antique Glass Repair, Chipped Glass Repair | Comments Off on Crystal Repair Antique Cruet Set Chipped Foot

The foot on the antique crystal cruet was chipped badly.

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CHANDELIER REPAIR RESTORATION PARTS

Saturday, June 13th, 2020 Posted in Antique Glass Repair, Chandelier Repair | Comments Off on CHANDELIER REPAIR RESTORATION PARTS

We need to make a couple of bobeches for a antique chandelier. The fist step is to make the crystal blanks.  We cast a mold of the old bobeche in high temp ceramic. We used that mold  to cast the class in to.

Glass / Crystal Blank

cut to shape and stone cut the sides

final polish

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The last thing to do is drill the holes for the pins . Then hang the prisms .

Install

 

 

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DAUM NANCY CHIPPED CRYSTAL VASE REPAIR

Saturday, June 6th, 2020 Posted in Chipped Glass Repair, Crystal Repair Pictures, Daum Crystal | Comments Off on DAUM NANCY CHIPPED CRYSTAL VASE REPAIR

The crystal vase had two very large chips in the top. Grinding down the chips was an option but it would have looked very obvious . We made a replacement vase to attach to the old foot.

Daum Crystal vase with large chips

We removed the old broken vase from the foot.

 

Then we remove what was left of the vase from the foot.

Daum Crystal vase with part of the old vase attached to base.

Removed last little chip from the bottom.

Daum Crystal vase base.

New vase top to be attached.

Replacement vase

The new vase added to old Daum foot.

Repaired Daum vase

Just add flowers.

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CHIPPED GLASS SCULPTURE BROKEN ART GLASS

Thursday, April 16th, 2020 Posted in All Repair Projects, Chipped Glass Repair, Figurine, Glass Sculpture Repair, Zoo | Comments Off on CHIPPED GLASS SCULPTURE BROKEN ART GLASS

A large beautiful glass fish was broken of the base and had three large chips to each of its fins.

Glass Fish With Three Chipped Fins

Chipped And Broken Black Glass Base

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Repaired  Black Glass Base

Reattached to Base

 

 

 

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CRYSTAL BOBECHE CHANDELIER REPAIR REPLACEMENT

Wednesday, April 15th, 2020 Posted in Chandelier Bobeche Replacement Parts, Chandelier Repair | Comments Off on CRYSTAL BOBECHE CHANDELIER REPAIR REPLACEMENT

The bobeche from an antique chandelier was broken during a move. It has a unique cut glass design. I was send just a small piece of the original. A mold was made of the broken piece so the new blank could be made.

GLASS BLANK

 

 

 

POLISHED BOBECHE

 

DRILL HOLES

 

ADD PINS

 

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Crystal Repair broken foot large pitcher

Monday, March 23rd, 2020 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on Crystal Repair broken foot large pitcher

The large pitcher had a broken foot.  The chips were missing. We made a new foot and frosted it to match.

Broken Foot

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Crystal Repair chipped and broken figurine

Monday, March 23rd, 2020 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on Crystal Repair chipped and broken figurine

The glass elephant was missing his hat and tail. We made a new hat and tail and frosted it.

 

 

New Hat and Tail  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Crystal Repair Chipped Decanter Broken Neck

Saturday, March 21st, 2020 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on Crystal Repair Chipped Decanter Broken Neck

Chipped Crystal Decanter Broken Neck

The decanter had a large chip and most of the lip was gone. We cut off the top of the decanter flat. Then we made a new neck.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

New Neck old stopper ground and polish to fit.

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Crystal Repair Broken Stem Wine Glass

Monday, March 16th, 2020 Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on Crystal Repair Broken Stem Wine Glass

It was an old repair . They made a replacement stem from plaster. I make a new stem from crystal and replaced the old broken stem.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Old repair

 

 

 

 

 

 

Old plaster stem.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Made a new stem using

glass rod.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ground the old foot flat.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ground the bottom flat.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Joined the old goblet,the new stem and old foot.   Now it matched the rest of the set.

 

 

 

 

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Crystal Repair Chipped And Cracked

Friday, March 13th, 2020 Posted in All Repair Projects, Chipped Glass Repair, Figurine, Glass Sculpture Repair | Comments Off on Crystal Repair Chipped And Cracked

The large crystal bull had a chipped and broken horn.  A big part of the horn was missing. I used the horn on the other side to make a pattern . Then I made a new horn.

 

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