A guy walked into the shop with this 1970 Gottlieb Playball backglass. At first look it didn’t seem too bad, but after viewing the back side of the glass I completely understood why he was interested in getting the glass restored. There was definitely damage that could be seen from the front (cracking like in […]
Category: Restorations
The good thing about these classic Stern games is the copyright is not protected, leaving many people (other than us) to reproduce the classic Stern 1977-1985 backglasses without any legal fears. Because of this, when a customer walked in with a Stern Nugent backglass, we not only could restore his original, but can also sell […]
This one came into the shop in about as bad of a condition as we ever want to see. It’s an old game this 1955 United Fifth Inning, but a fun one. I’m not sure how a targette shuffle alley and baseball go together, but United made it work. The question was though, can we […]
A guy walked in with his original Gottlieb Flying Carpet backglass. It was in pretty rough shape, with cracks in the inks over nearly the entire glass. He had bought the game without a glass, and after two years of searching, found this original glass. It was all he had, and obviously in pretty poor […]
Sometimes people want a new backglass for no particular reason. We really believe this to be the case here. The owner of the original said the colors were faded. Perhaps, but the condition otherwise of the original glass was very nice. Almost a shame to replace it, but we did the work requested. The nice […]
Customer came into the shop with a really nice 1970 Williams Dipsy Doodle backglass. The problem is, the entire right bottom corner was cracked. So we scanned in the original glass and fixed the cracks in Photoshop, giving a very nice fix to this otherwise parts machine. You can also check out the single player […]
A customer walked in with a 1955 United Derby Roll backglass that was broken. Normally fixing broken backglasses isn’t too bad, but in this case, we were missing the entire lower 1/3 of the glass! So what do you do? Well we checked out the internet for sites that had pictures of the glass, and […]
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At the time in 1975 when this game was released, they sold more 1975 Williams Space Mission pinballs than any other flipper pinball. So there’s a large amount of these games out there, and it was only a matter of time before someone needed their backglass restored. Though this example was in pretty good condition, […]
The 1971 Bally Twin Win was one of the first backglasses drawn by the infamous Dave Christensen. It’s a great glass, with an amazing looking female, who is very well drawn. The story is that Dave made a custom topless version for the Bally executives. Only a handful of these glasses were made, and most […]
The 1967 Williams Beat Time pinball had some unique feature. Nothing really amazing, except for the obvious reference to the iconic rock band, the Beatles. Since it’s an unlicensed theme, Williams changed the name to “the Bootles”, but the link to the Beatles is obvious. So when this glass came in for restoration, we thought […]
Here at BgResto.com we admittedly have some favorite games. The 1971 Gottlieb Lawman is certain one of them. So when a customer requested his glass be restored, we really felt like we had to take this job. The original glass wasn’t terrible, but all the reds in the transparent parts of the glass had flaked […]
Not every restoration is a total pain in the butt. This 1973 Gottlieb Hot Shot had an original glass, though decent, it was faded (4 player version of Big Shot). In particular the foam backing had off-colored the graphics, like right in the center girl’s face. The owner wanted a nice new glass. Since conventional […]
When the 1973 Gottlieb Big Indian pinball was first conceived, it’s original name was the slightly derogatory “Big Injun”. Gottlieb made a few sample games with this backglass, and after receiving a concerned complaint from a distributor, changed the game’s name to “Big Indian” instead. That said, this customer had an original “Big Indian” backglass […]
In pinball, there are some games that have silkscreened top glass too. This happened mostly in the 1940s and 1950s, and one such game was the 1951 Chicago Coin Playball pinball. This is a really strange game, as it’s a reissue of sorts of the 1934 Rockala Playball pinball. The difference is where the original […]
1960 Bally Skill Score (another great Bally nickel flip game.) Here’s some pictures of the before and after work.
Because Gottlieb used water based inks when they originally silkscreened their backglass artwork. This was a constant for all Gottlieb backglasses which used silkscreening. Though easy to work with, water based inks don’t wear well, and certainly aren’t UV resistant. Because of this, fading is common. And below is a classic example of what happens […]
When the customers showed up with his glass, initially we were thinking, “why does he want to re-do this glass?” But after looking at the back of this Gottlieb Quick Draw, it was pretty obvious why (2 player version of Fast Draw). The original water based red inks used for the transparent parts were badly […]
In the case of the 1973 Williams Gulfstream pinball, this is a typical situation where the client wanted a new glass. This particular game is not worth a lot of money, so the chance of this game’s backglass being reissued was near zero. But the client loved this game, and wanted it to look its […]
The 1956 Gottlieb Harbor Lites woodrail pinball is another great game made by Gottlieb. In this case the owner wanted their backglass to match the condition of the rest of the game. He was unable to find a reissue backglass – it is common that glasses get re-made, but then sell out, making the reissue […]
The 1970 Gottlieb 2001 pinball is a somewhat low production machine. The client here wanted a good clean backglass to match the rest of their game. The problem is, no one has ever recreated this backglass. So we were contacted to see if their original backglass could be touched up and re-printed for this machine. […]
Here we had a client that has a 1973 Gottlieb Jumping Jack pinball, and his backglass was in poor condition (2 player version of Jack in the Box). Now generally we wouldn’t take this restoration, as re-issues of this glass were available at one time from the Shay Arcade Group. But this customer wanted a […]