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January 9, 2008
Glass Copper Wheel Engraver needed
The wood pocket doors on my parlor floor were made to include 6 panes each of glass in the upper 2/3. The glass is quite beautiful, I think etched and then copper wheel engraved with a design (some of which you can see in the photo of one pane, albeit somewhat covered with edging tape & photographed on my phone in the cellar). Unfortunately, one of the panes was gone by the time I got the house.
Can anyone recommend a copper wheel engraver to make a replacement copy? If not, does anyone have ideas about what alternatives I have if I can't find/afford a copy?
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I had 3 panes from my pocket doors reproduced just about a year ago at this place in Oakland, CA:
http://www.lehmannglass.com/index.html
They did an absolutely beautiful job, indistinguishable from the original remaining panes. They quoted me a price based on a high quality dimensioned digital image I emailed them. I carefully packaged a partially broken pane (actually made a plywood box for it), sent it to them UPS and got the new glass back about a month later. Total cost for all three was $1,600.
Before finding this place I had gone to Cristalvetro Glass & Mirror (recommended on this forum ages ago following a similar question to yours) on 3rd Avenue in Brooklyn and had left there with a heavy heart when they quoted me $1,600 PER PIECE, expecting never to be able to afford to restore my doors to their former glory. Thankfully Lehmann Glass exposed Cristalvetro to be the opportunistic price gougers they are.
Posted by: johnife at January 9, 2008 2:51 PM
johnife, you'll be happy to know Cristalvetro closed up shop. I myself found them a great resource for glass and was sorry to see them go.
Posted by: guest at January 9, 2008 4:02 PM
Tomas Tisch, in Red Hook, Brooklyn, http://www.tomastisch.org/
does wheel-cut glass. I had him reproduce 6 (out of 8) panes that were missing from my pocket doors. He is an excellent craftsman who does very fine work and, as far as I know, he is one of the few people left in the area who still does this kind of work. I was extremely pleased with the result.
I should point out that this craft (wheel-cutting glass as opposed to just frosting, or etching it) requires great skill and years of training. Tomas Tisch's prices are very reasonable, but you have to be prepared to pay for this kind of work.
Posted by: guest at January 9, 2008 5:36 PM
I used Wiliamsburg glass for my doors, they are on Classon near Flushing.
I give him a n old broken glass.
They made a copy on maylar.
He was using an art students from Rusia to copy my designs and sand blasted it into the new glass. It was very inexpansive, I'm an architect and I know it was half of everybody alse. Good lock.
Posted by: guest at January 10, 2008 4:55 PM
4:55 obviously doesn't understand the difference between wheel cut and sand blasted patterns despite the last paragraph of 5:36's post.
Posted by: johnife at January 10, 2008 7:21 PM
And 4:55 sounds like he is Williamsburg glass. A self-recommendation on the order of good old Suba Contracting. Not a good marketing technique.
Posted by: guest at January 14, 2008 10:15 PM
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