Antique Glass Chandelier Repair / candelabra /crystal bobeche replacement

This antique crystal  bobeche is from a late 1700’s early 1800’s candelabra that  was electrified.  I needed to make two replacement bobeches .  The first step is to make the glass blanks.

Bobeche Blank

Rough cutting the shape is next.

Rough Cutting Crystal Blank

Using smoothing stones the glass is given a 400 to 600 grit finish and ready for polishing.

Bobeche before polishing

Crystal Bobeche and replacement

The replacement crystal  bobeches are marked for drilling the holes.

Crystal Bobeche and replacement

Replacement Bobeche

I also made replacement arms for this chandelier shown in the picture.    I will post picture showing the process I use to duplicate the solid crystal arms.

Tags: Antique Glass Repair, Candelabra Repair, Chandelier Repair, Chandelier Restoration, Crystal Chandelier Parts, Replacement Cystal Bobeche

Antique Glass Repair broken crystal basket

The antique cut glass basket had a broken bottom.  I cut off the broken part and made a new bottom of the antique cut  glass plate.

Tags: Antique Crystal repair, Antique Cut Glass Repair, Antique Glass Repair, Crystal Restoration

antique crystal repair broken glass handles

The cut glass sugar bowl was missing two handles.  They broke off years ago.

crystal bowl missing handles

Using the handles of a old broken glass bowl I replaced the missing glass pieces.

Tags: Antique Crystal repair, Antique Cut Glass Repair, Antique Glass Repair, Crystal Repair

Antique Steuben Glass Candlestick Repair Broken Crystal Top

The Steuben Crystal Teardrop Candlestick is one of the largest candlesticks they made.  It is very common for people to forget to put out the candles after dinner.   When the candle  burns  down the heat cracks the candle cup.  I have repaired  many of these over the years by making a new candle cup.

Broken Steuben Crystal Candlestick Repair

Glass Replacement Part

Tags: Antique Crystal repair, Antique Glass Repair, Broken Crystal Repair, Broken Glass Glued, Crystal Repair, Crystal Restoration, Steuben Crystal

Antique glass eye cup repair broken foot

This is the first antique glass eye cup I have ever see and repaired .   I tried it to see if it worked. I get pumice in my eye some times when polishing.  When this  piece was sent to me it only had a half a foot.  I cut off  what was left of the foot and ground the stem flat.  I made a new green glass foot. When making a new foot it is important to add some imperfections.   The old foot had seeds and cords in it.  Seeds  are small bubbles and cords are  lines of  distortion created from impurities in the glass .

Green Glass Eye Cup With New Foot

Antique Glass Eye Cup

I made a new foot for the vintage glass eye cup.

Tags: Antique Crystal repair, Antique Glass Repair, Crystal Repair, Crystal Restoration, Glueing Glass

Crystal Repair broken frosted glass figurine

The broken  glass leopard is made from  borosilicate glass  ( pyrex ).   This type of glass  has a very low expansion coefficient so it  can be reheated .   There is a small piece missing were the leg broke.

Most pieces of glass can not be fused back together so I use UV cured adhesive .

fusing glass leg

I used a torch and fused the broken glass leg .   I shaped the leg and fill in the area were the chip was missing.   I frosted the area to matched .

Repaired Glass Leopard

Tags: Antique Crystal repair, Antique Glass Repair, Broken Crystal Repair, Crystal Figurine Repair, Crystal Repair

Antique glass tray repair engraved mirror

The antique glass tray was broken and repairing the pieces was not an option.  I used the old glass for a pattern .   Then using a variety stones , grinding wheels and diamond wheels I recreated a new engraved glass tray.

Engraved Glass Tray

The replacement etched glass tray may not be a perfect match but it is close enough to hold the memories.

Tags: Antique Glass Repair, Crystal Repair, Engraved glass repair, Etched glass repair, Vintage Glass Repair