I have a few new tools in my workshop to enable me to do some blacksmithing. My buddy Clay kindly cut a stump for me to mount the anvil on. He even cut 3 feet into the base so that it won’t wobble around on the uneven floor.

Here are some pics of some commissions I have completed recently and a cocktail ring I finished yesterday.  

A customer came into the shop with a guitar pick and a machine head tied to a piece of leather around his neck. He took them off and told me a story about them. “See this machine head? It used to be on my favourite guitar .. I had just driven to a mate’s place […]

Here are a couple of rings I made last year …  

Here’s some cufflinks custom made for a couple that wanted a special gift…

A customer brought in a beautiful opal triplet that her father had given her and asked if I could set in a pendant. I offered up a few designs and she liked on this one..  

I made some new sterling silver earrings today using the Cuttle Bone Casting technique. There’s lots of cuttle bone on the beaches around Byron Bay and it’s fun to collect. It’s very soft so you can use just about anything to carve designs into it. It’s very resistant to heat so it’s perfect for using […]

3 is a very important number – more important than 4 to most of us. When people talk of numbers I’m always reminded of Sesame Street. Our lives are filled with paradigms of a 3 fold nature… mind, body & spirit past, present and future art, science & religion 3 dimensions of space there are 3 […]