Did you ever discover a chip on one of your expensive goblets? Or chip a serving dish that you are especially fond of? Or break a vase off at the foot? These folks really do work miracles repairing damaged glassware. When goblets were manufactured at the factory, the workers had to cut off the extra glass at the top and then polish the rims to make them smooth. These repairmen do essentially the same thing.
Since we live in the wild, wild west, the professional glass repair people we are personally familiar with are located in the west. There are fine glass repair professionals in the center and eastern portions of the USA, but we have not had personal dealings with any of them. We can proudly recommend the three businesses listed below.
If you don't live out west, or want to find someone more local, the JustGlass.com site has a great list of professional glass repairmen on their site. You should be able to find someone fairly close to you with their list.
One more thing -- while these folks do a fantastic job of restoring a piece, when we have an item repaired, we always mark the price tag with an "R" to indicate that the item was repaired. We are proud to have saved a piece of glass from the trash can, but believe that our customers need to know that the piece was repaired. In nearly all cases, you cannot tell by examining the piece.
This is one of the services that we use for our own glassware. Kenny and Judy Lang are friendly, reliable and they do a terrific job. Their own collection consists of cut glass, so you can trust them with expensive Irish crystal as well as depression era glassware. They also do some repair work on pottery and china. They set up at glass shows and mall shows, mostly in Northern Nevada, California and Southern Oregon.
Montano's Glass Repair operated for many years in Southern California, and then moved to Idaho (to get out of the chaos). Wayne Montano does excellent work on all types of glass, including art glass. He does shows in Washington and California, and has several pickup locations as well.
2810 9th Street SW
Puyallup, WA 98373
reoldies@comcast.net
Roy Taylor can repair your glass for reasonable rates year round, not just
at shows, and with short turnaround times. Sorry, Roy doesn't do pottery
or porcelain repair other than gluing. Roy works out of his home, so he
asks that you PLEASE call first to have repairs done (253-845-4417 or
253-845-3184).