That level of engineering isn't economically feasible for a one-off piece of something, unless you're NASA and have enormous amounts of money to spend on a one-

That level of engineering isn't economically feasible for a one-off piece of something, unless you're NASA and have enormous amounts of money to spend on a one-off. If universities were willing to spend that much money on glassware, they'd just pay glassmakers $750k or so, and wouldn't have any trouble hiring them.