News and information regarding Hammer & Hand Bangalow.

Great exhibition.. lovely people .. big thanks to Vashti-Sita and Peter Hubbard and all the artists involved !

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 and took my guitar out of the boot. My mobile rang and after I had finished taking the call I noticed that I had parked my car very close to the car in front so I decided to move my car back a little. I was reversing when I heard a crunch and feeling devastated I ran to the back of the car to see what I had damaged. I had left my guitar case on the ground behind the car but the only damage I did was to pop off this machine head. ‘That was lucky!’, I thought & tied the machine head to this piece of leather and hung it around my neck.

“I’m a big Stephen Stills fan and I was at his concert a few years ago .. down the front. He flicked his guitar pick out into the audience. I put up my open hand and closed it around the pick. ‘That was lucky’, I thought & tied it to the piece of leather with the machine head.  I’m a bit bored of this leather, can you put them on a chain and maybe make them into a pendant.”

“Sure”, I said. This is what we came up with.

Lucky pendant. Guitar pick and machine head.

Here are a couple of rings I made last year …

Sterling silver engagement ring featuring Australian parti-coloured sapphire by Julian de Saxe

Gentleman’s wedding band in white gold with patina

Three of the Carbon steel knives.. Forged, hardened and tempered, ground and polished with brass riveted hardwood (Brushbox) handles

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little bronze man

little bronze man just cast

Bronze in the furnace

little bronze man as incense holder

Electro etch setup

Cuttlefish-cast just poured

Forged mild steel poker with riveted Brushbox handle and one of the kitchen knives.

Sandcast silver critter

So a few more “works in progress” pieces from Josh and myself …

‘A guiding Hand’  (Bruce)

‘Jacks hands…’    (Bruce)

‘Jack’

‘Jack’ again.. “Here is the man all tattered and torn who kissed the girl all forlorn, who milked the cow with the crumpled horn,

who chased the dog that worried the cat that ate the rat that ate the malt that lay in the house that Jack built”… ie: the full catastrophe .. or just runaway house prices.. ?

A little silver ‘critter’ , sand-cast by Josh.

Some clay ‘masters’ of Josh’s to be cast in Bronze.

Josh forging a blade

Said blade of Josh’s

Josh at the little gas forge making a poker  (Happy?)

Some of my new range of steel and gold-leaf jewellery

The two of us…

Joshes forged , hardened and tempered kitchen knife  ( a good-un !!!)

and a page from the journal he is keeping of this time in the Workshop..

Check out his Blog here  www.joshpringle.comThis has been a great time … We’ve had a ball!… A few more days to go for him to finish up a few things then he’s headed back to Tasmania to continue his degree in Print-making, drawing, furniture design and Sculpture..

….of lace….and necks 😉

How ’bout these pretties?

eye catching sterling and lithograph pendant – going to do a series of scene pendants for an exhibition later this year

sterling silver and green beryl leaf pendant. extra pretty

‘moon over the water’. ebony, bone, sterling and 24ct gold leaf. changing the findings and chain to 9ct gold and will then be SOLD 🙂

so pleased with this one! pre-purposed printers copper plate necklace

cast sterling silver elder seed cone pendant

re-purposed printers copper plate keepsake

american white oak and sterling silver SOLD

washi paper and acrylic necklace

…Don’t forget – those of you who received our 10% discount vouchers at Hammer and Hand’s last exhibition, still have until Valentines Day (14 February) to claim your discount!