glass restoration.co.uk. Specialist restorers of damaged antique and collectable, new and cherished crystal and glassware
Specialist restorers of damaged antique and collectable, new and cherished crystal and glassware.
All about repairing chipped glass and crystal.
All about removing scratches from glass and crystal.
All about repairing broken glass and crystal.
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A badly chipped cut crystal vase.
Repairing damaged feet on rummers.
Broken cranberry dish.
Replacing a broken decanter stopper.
Antique airtwist wine glass with a very deep chip to rim.
GRINDING AND POLISHING CHIPPED CRYSTAL AND GLASS.

Please click on pictures opposite to view previous work

To remove chips and rim fractures from glass I use a selection of water cooled aluminium oxide and silicon carbide abrasive belts. Starting from a reasonably coarse 180 to 120 grade, (depending on the severity of the damage a large enough section may have to removed by cutting with a diamond saw.) through to a very fine, normally a well worn 400 grade, this will remove the tiny chips that form while grinding the main chip. The polished finish is achieved by using a cork abrasive belt, it will take the skin of your hands as I have found out on occasions! But strange as it seems it polishes glass very effectively. This is the simple explanation but as you can imagine there are many variations in the methods to get the desired results.

Prices start from £5.00. And are based on what I would call a normal chip in say, a wine glass, as in the images below. Most jobs tend to fit into this category.

It takes a certain amount of skill and experience to do this work. So I feel morally obliged to say, if you were to try this at home you may be at risk of serious injury.


Chipped wine glass.
Grinding the chip out of the wine glass.
Ground, polished and completely restored wine glass.

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Although a great deal of care is taken.
There's always a very slim chance a piece of glass may break whilst being worked on. This is because the glass as well being a naturally fragile material may have a stress fault caused by the initial damage.
All restoraton work is undertaken on the understanding that it is entirely at the customers own risk.

If the worst should happen no charge will be made and unfortunately no compensation can be offered.

Alan Hislop Glass Engraver
32 Holt Road. Horsford. Norwich. Norfolk. NR10 3DD. England
01603 897428
www.ahglassengravers.co.uk
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