During that time I have received a great many enquiries with regards to removing chips, knocks, dings, scrapes, scratches, fractures, bruises. Whatever you like to call them from glass and crystal, and through working out different ways of using the grinding and polishing equipment at my disposal I was able to develop a unique way of restoring glass. Depending on how deep the flaws are, in most cases, the finished result will be a piece of glass returned to a condition that looks as good as before the damage occured.

while working on damaged pieces of antique or just old glassware, we are very sympathetic to the aged condition of these items i.e. the accumulation of scratches on the base which shows it's age and certain markings which help identify and authenticate a piece, and if removed would in some cases decrease the value of the item. Also wherever possible we try not to affect the overall look and repair just what is nessesary.

Restoration successes are very high. And I am not kidding when I say I have Removed chips and scratches from literaly hundreds of pieces of glassware and crystal, including bowls, vases, goblets, wine glasses, tumblers and decanters ( also making replacement stoppers fit) in fact you name it and something similar has probably been through my workshop. My day job was also working for a large engravers and part of the work was developing new ways to restore glass, a large workshop means lots of chips, scratches and engraving mistakes (not mine you understand...) and to save money they all needed fixing.

Hand on heart I can honestly say I have only lost a hand full of pieces, but I believe the ones lost were eccessively stressed by the initial damage. (I repair one item at a time, so rest assured I give each job my full attention.)