A Different Epergne Bowl

Last year we were contacted by a customer who needed a cut glass insert dish for a sterling sliver epergne.
The one dish had to match perfectly the other 3 existing inserts.We contacted David McDermott of McDermott's Art Glass Studio. David made two blanks just in case one did not work out. Lucky for us we had an extra. The first bowl that was cut was about 85% done. It was sitting on the work bench when Wayne heard a light "ping". It had been sitting there for over an hour, by itself. He knew exactly what the ping meant. DANG! The bowl cracked from stress. This will occasionally happen on new glass as well as old.
He had about 5 hours into the bowl. He started over on the second bowl with great success! After 7 hours to cut the bowl we shipped it to the customer. It matched perfectly and he was very happy. The cracked bowl was put on a shelf and forgotten about until our post Tuesday on the epergne bowls.

             This photo shows the bowl. Notice the bottom step cuts and a deep rayed cut on the base.

     This shows the rayed base and step cuts and the sawtooth top. The gray area is the unfinished pattern.
     That was the easy part left to do.

                                         This photo shows the unfinished underside of the bowl.

                                         It can be hard to see the the crack it a about one clock

This piece could not be salvaged. We intend to use it has a display piece of how cut glass can be cut. With the several hundreds of thousands of glass items we have repaired or re-cut this has happen to about 30 items both new and old.