#pewter

Jim & Laura Stringer

@quirkymetals.bsky.social

2 days ago

​Laura has been packing up the online orders! It’s been a busy few days since the trade fair, catching up and getting these out to their new homes.
​From cuffs to clocks, thank you for keeping us busy.
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quirkymetals.etsy.com
#MadeInSheffield #pewter #sheffield #sheffieldmade

bookandswordblog

@bookandswordblog.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy

5 days ago

Tale of a Fipple Whistles “whistle” because the air you blow into them is directed against a sharp edge. A fipple is the part of the whistle that shapes the air into a smoothly flowing stream and directs it against that sharp edge. When this works, you get a nice clear sound. When it does not work, you get a muddy and/or hiss-y sound…. …which was happening with our otherwise excellent Bellows Whistle. This is a complex item made in tin with two separate molds. The outer part is slush cast (we fill up the entire mold with tin, let it cool enough that the outside solidifies into a shell, and pour out the still molten tin inside). The fipple is cast in a separate mold. It has a wire core to make the tube you blow into, and a second core to shape the airway. As the metal cools it shrinks – and in this case the tin poured into the fipple mold shrank and created a rough-walled, hollowed out, sloppy airway that did not retain the shape of the core. This made the whistle sound weak and hiss-y. Mac made a core, then a replacement core, trying to solve the problem when we introduced the whistle. The next time he cast it he made a third. When he started casting it most recently, he made a fourth. Although there was some improvement, the airflow was still turbulent. Because the problem was caused by the metal shrinking away from the wooden cores, on his fifth attempt Mac introduced a “chill” to affect the cooling pattern by making the mold from steel. This pulls heat out of the tin faster than the stone mold does, so the metal solidifies around it, retaining the shape of the mold. We need indentations in the steel core to pull it out of the mold, because the cast piece is so much tighter. When the new fipple is inserted and soldered into the body of the whistle, the airway is much cleaner – and the sound is better. Mac doesn’t have any additional ideas about making a better fipple right now, but he may – next time.

Tale of a fipple https://www.billyandcharlie.com/tale-of-a-fipple/ #materialCulture #mastoArt #pewter

Fringed Crow

@fringedcrow.bsky.social

6 days ago

Took a few days PTO to get some things around the house done and drop some of the wife's stuff off at Goodwill. Came across some pewter miniatures her and I did when we first got together back in 2005. Our goal was to build a chess set, but it never came to fruition.
#ScaleModels #Pewter

Jim & Laura Stringer

@quirkymetals.bsky.social

6 days ago

Good Morning. Day 2 , Sunday of ArtisanMadeUK has started. Only open to trade.
#pewter #madeinsheffield #handmadeuk #madeinyorkshire #insideartisanmadeuk

Jim & Laura Stringer

@quirkymetals.bsky.social

1 week ago

Good Morning. Day 1 , Saturday of ArtisanMadeUK has started. Only open to trade.
#pewter #madeinsheffield #handmadeuk #madeinyorkshire #insideartisanmadeuk

LatinoPicker

@latinopickerman.bsky.social

1 week ago

Link of items I'm selling on eBay, check it out!
#eBaySeller #Wizman02 #Auction #eBayFinds #PaBoom #Look #Fire #Lit #©1985 #Spoontiques #Pewter #Figurine #Castle #TwinCastles #Towers #2.5"Tall
©1985 Spoontiques Pewter Figurine Castle Twin Towers 2.5" Tall
ebay.us/m/9zlTtA

Jim & Laura Stringer

@quirkymetals.bsky.social

1 week ago

6am start today. loading the car for destination ArtisanMadeUK @ Skipton. We are decking out our pen for two days of selling to the owners of craft shops & Galleries. Our online shops are open and ready to take orders.
#MadeInSheffield #madeinyorkshire #quirkymetalssheffield #handmadeuk #pewter

Jim & Laura Stringer

@quirkymetals.bsky.social

1 week ago

A drawing turned into an embossing tool is exciting stuff...Its always fun seeing drawings transferred onto the metal. This is a small trinket box lid
Available on www.quirkymetals.com
#bee #pewter #designs #madeinSheffield #sheffieldmade #quirkymetals

Jim & Laura Stringer

@quirkymetals.bsky.social

1 week ago

Time is ticking down to @ArtisanMadeUK in Skipton! Just finishing this carriage clock before we head off. This is a Trade Only event for retail owners. However, our online shops are still open for all orders!

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#ArtisanMadeUK #Sheffield #madeinyorkshire #handmadeuk
#pewter

Patrick Kapty

@patrickkapty.bsky.social

1 week ago

A striking vintage 1980s handmade hand fabricated mixed metals pewter bronze and copper geometric post-modernist box by acclaimed American artist/metalsmith Jon Michael Route of Wisconsin. Entirely handmade likely a one of a kind object with hinged lid decorated in a geometric design with copper and bronze sections, and with black velvet-lined interior. Really a work of art that has a practical use as well! This outstanding post-modernist box measures 6.25" across by 3-1/8" by 1-1/8" tall at edges. It weighs 380 grams or about 13.5 ounces total prior to packing. Marked at bottom as shown, "Pewter" with the copyright symbol, and "Jon Michael Route" underneath. I haven't attempted to polish this box leaving that decision up to the new owner. Excellent vintage condition.

A striking one of a kind mixed metal post-modernist box by Jon Michael Route circa 1980s - measures 6.25" across!

Available...

www.rubylane.com/item/1879775...

#jonmichaelroute #box #handmade #mixedmetals #pewter #bronze #copper #postmodern #americancraft #metalsmith #art #craft #c1980s #ooak

Patrick Kapty

@patrickkapty.bsky.social

1 week ago

An extravagant pair of mixed metal salt and pepper shakers by Jon Michael Route of Wisconsin c. 1990s.

Available...

www.rubylane.com/item/1879775...

#jonmichaelroute #americancraft #metalsmith #mixedmetals #saltandpepper #shakers #postmoderndesign #memphismilano #handmade #metalart #art #pewter

Patrick Kapty

@patrickkapty.bsky.social

2 weeks ago

Jon Route has been a metalsmith working commercially, academically and independently, for over 45 years. Born in 1954, he received a BS in Art from the University of Wisconsin-Stout and an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Jon worked in an architectural metals firm and as a jeweler before striking out on his own as an independent craft-artist. He has been invited twice to teach at U-W-Stout, Menomonie, Wisconsin as an adjunct professor and sabbatical replacement and has given many workshops throughout his career on the technical aspects of his craft. He has exhibited his hand constructed vessel forms, teapots and wall pieces at some of the best art/craft festival events in the United States including the Cherry Creek Arts Festival, the Ann Arbor Street Art Fair, the American Craft Expo in Evanston, the Philadelphia Craft Show, and the Smithsonian Craft Show. He is a 1998 recipient of a Wisconsin Individual Artist Fellowship and one of his pewter teapots was featured in Metalsmith Magazine’s 2001 “Exhibition in Print”. Route’s work was chosen in 2001 to be included at the American Craft Museum in New York in an exhibition entitled “Objects for Use: Handmade By Design”, and the accompanying book published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Paul Smith, Director Emeritus, American Craft Museum, and General Editor. In 2006, Jon was invited to participate in an exhibition honoring the 28-year teaching collaboration between Fred Fenster and Eleanor Moty in the University of Wisconsin, Madison Art Metals program, organized by the Chazen Museum of Art, U-W Madison, Wisconsin, and at an exhibition at the West Bend Art Museum entitled “Time For A Nice Cuppa: Wisconsin Teapots”, in West Bend, Wisconsin. In 2009 Jon was invited by the Charles Allis Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to exhibit a retrospective of his work in his first solo museum show entitled, “For the Love of Metal”.

'Tallboy' teapot
pewter, bronze, copper
Jon Michael Route
USA

#handmade #oneofakind #mixedmetal #postmodern #contemporary #art #metalart #jonmichaelroute #americancraft #metalsmith #metalworking #mixedmetalworking #tallboyteapot #pewter #bronze #copper #unique

Jim & Laura Stringer

@quirkymetals.bsky.social

2 weeks ago

Finishing up these pewter dragonfly bowls in the Sheffield workshop today.
Getting stock ready for an upcoming trade fair. It’s a busy week of making, soldering and polishing.
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#Pewter #MadeInSheffield #Dragonfly #ArtisanMadeUK #Metalwork #BritishCraft

Jim & Laura Stringer

@quirkymetals.bsky.social

2 weeks ago

Catch of the day here in the workshop. We have a shoal of new Sardine Bookmarks for our shops. Ideal gift for the fisher, pescatarian etc quirkymetals.etsy.com/listing/1700...
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#handmadeuk #bookmarks #sardines #quirkymetals #Anniversarygift #pewter
#madeinsheffield

Jim & Laura Stringer

@quirkymetals.bsky.social

2 weeks ago

Using a steel stake and dipping it in molton pewter to make bowls for our insects to perch on. You have to get the temperature of the pewter just right.Too hot and the molton pewter drops off or too cool and you end up with a clump of pewter.
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#pewter #quirkymetals #Sheffield