Wheel cut glass

I was in the process of posting the following comment to a post on Wheel Cut Glass by Tomas Tisch (the post was removed):

I don’t normally comment on posts by vendors etc but this is a special case. Tomas reproduced 3 panes in our house that we needed to complete the sets in our parlor floor entrance & pocket doors (2 missing when we got our house & 1 I broke during our renovation *$&%*##!). Because he uses the same tools/techniques used in making the originals (& knows how to use them no less), the results are outstanding / indistinguishable. The glass is a pleasure to look at with its play on light passing through the cut design.

I did research (incl with Brownstoner) on alternatives both in terms of cheaper more approximate reproductions and also other wheel-cut glass specialists. Some alternatives would have cost less (though I feel his pricing was reasonable) but would not have matched at all / been very poor substitutes. I believe we are very lucky in Brooklyn (if I remember correctly the next closest alternative was in Pennsylvania somewhere) to have someone who has the skills & tools to do this dying art.

PS one of my old question posts on brownstoner is below (though the photo doesn’t do justice to the end result):

http://bstoner.wpengine.com/forum/archives/2008/01/glass_copper_wh.php#comments