Pewter Flower Favours

Our Heavy Metal Heart is grungy, heavy and hearty version of our Heavy Heart.

Heavy Metal Heart

Finally we’ve restyled our Tableaux Pendants and fitted them with Matching red or pink cords.

Red Tableau Pendant - Smooth Finish

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I hope I’ve been keeping true to that promise. At the moment I’ve been busy in our workshops concentrating on some key new designs and products. The majority of our Pewter jewellery and giftware is created by hand carving an original model or pattern in jewellers wax. When finished these wax originals are then carefully and expertly used to make moulds. The wax carving can take days or weeks. Right Now I have one wax carving that has been on my jewellers bench for a month. The mould making process is not quick either and can take two weeks. After that we have to cast in pewter, clean up and start a long finishing process.

If I have an idea for a product for today in can take anywhere from a month to a half a year to actually get a product into our shop… and hopefully into your hands!

As to the wax carving here’s a photo of me working on a new pendant

Wax carving a heart pendant

This carving is in the early stages and there is a lot more detail to be added, it also needs to be scrupulously smooth. Sanding, polishing and finishing – there’s always a lot of that to do in any jewellery making!

How to take part:

1. Simply post on our Facebook page “I want a Heavy Metal Heart” to enter yourself into the giveaway
2. If we get 70 Followers by January 31st we’ll randomly pick one poster as winner!!

Heavy Metal Heart

Win a Heavy Metal Heart!!

From an original hand carving and cast in English Pewter with a grungy & industrial tarnished finish.

I tend to get “restless fingers” when I’ve not been making something for a few days, and being ill for two weeks gets very boring very quick so once my energy had built up I dug around for some unfinished projects and offcuts of wood and set about carving.

Christmas Carvings - Lovespoons

These are not finished yet and need to be throughly sanded, oiled and then waxed with bees-wax. The larger spoon was supposed to be a gift for someone who helped at our wedding but I wasn’t happy with it and so never completed it, the smaller spoon  is a new design. My wife dug this tray out for me to carve over while on the sofa feeling unwell – in a prime example of my powers of observation I only noticed it was a Christmas tray once I had cleared some carving chips from it!!

Carving in wood is very satisfying, but unlike carving in jewellery wax all mistakes are final – there is no going back!

We sell Pewter Lovespoons in our Snug Craft shop, pop along and have a look if you would like to see what we do!

Best wishes for 2012,

Martin & the Snug Craft team!

Hats Off © Martin Paling

I’ve not managed to develop my own film for a few months. So it was nice to find myself with a moment to develop a roll of film  taken at a family wedding.

Wedding Gifts & Favours