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Broken Dish Glassblowing

You break them, we blow em'
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Ever dropped your favourite wineglass on the floor? Knocked a cherished vase of a table? Watched a priceless glass memory shatter into sharp, glorified sand? Unrecoverable, you mournfully sweep it into a box, tape it out, and put it out to the curb... unless you send it us. We'll reshape the razor sharp shards into something stunning and full of character. A paperweight or plate, perhaps a vase. You can choose how the memory lives in your life. And we'll make sure they're extra thick this time so you don't break them again.

For a significant premium we could create an imitation of the original, a complete self-grafted Frankenstein repair like Modern Prometheus and the Ship of Theseus. No guarantees on identical, though; you cannot step in the same river twice.

mace, Jun 15 2025

Kintsugi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kintsugi
Japanese art of repairing broken pottery, highlighting the cracks with gold lacquer [Loris, Jun 15 2025]

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       Kintsugi?   

       That may just be possible with glass - gold's melting temperature is 1,064 °C, while glass melts somewhere between 1,400°C to 1,600°C, although it softens below that.   

       Perhaps a lower melting temperature alloy of mostly gold would be better for this purpose?
Apparently 80% gold, 20% tin melts at 280 degrees C - that's probably lower than we strictly need, so it seems pretty feasible.
Loris, Jun 15 2025
  


 

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