We’ve just finished this piece which was commissioned by a local scouts club as a presentation. For anyone who has been in the scouts you’ll recognise it’s a silver model of a woggle that you use to tie your scarf. It looks simply enough to plait some silver wire but the challenge was to get the silver to behave like the leather that is used in the original.

It took alot of annealing to get the silver wire malleable enough to plait, so what looks like three easy steps in these photos actually was spread out over a few days work!

The Finished Product

As Christmas is fast approaching we’ve been getting lots of commissions for silver tableware. Here are some pictures of a silver butter dish which Jimmy made.

The base of this dish has been made using a technique called spinning which is done on a lathe. This involves cutting a disk of silver and using a wooden chuck (which is the desired shape of the finished object) to shape the silver disk similiar to the way a wood turner works. The lid of the dish has been raised by hand which involves hammering the flat sheet of silver into its domed shape using stakes.( Click here to see what a stake looks like!)

Here are some photos of us working on silver medals which are to be presented to the Grand Slam team.

These silver medals are being presented by the Cork City Council and the Cork County Council on 13th May 2009. The medals are all cut by hand including the logos which are cut out by hand and then soldered on to the medal.

When the piece has been soldered and cleaned in acid they are then hand polished using a lathe.





They are then hand engraved on both sides to represent the County Council and the City Council.





The finished solid silver piece measures 50mm in diametre and is 2mm thick.