Tuesday 11 May 2010

IGGY POP SKULL RING

When IGGY wants a SKULL RING
he only wants the best
Her's a picture taken from a TV
interview  showing IGGY 's wearing
our  SMALL EVIL SKULL
ring with saphire 's in the eyes
We also made another ring for him
with the phrase
I WANNA BE YOUR DOG
carved in old English text
IGGY and THE STOOGES played
last week in LONDON....
KILLER SHOW
PURE RAW POWER!

Sunday 9 May 2010

ABSINTHE SPOON from CRAZY PIG DESIGNS

Here's s picture of a sterling silver ABSINTHE spoon
that we have made recently.So far only two have been
created
This is a SPECIAL ORDER only item.
Absinthe is a very famous ( or infamous ) alchoolic dring
that many artist , painters, poets, and musician drank
on a regular basis , to loosen up their creative talents ( so to speak)
The french governenment banned Absinthe
with the clain that it would make drinkers  mad

the slogan ABSINTHE PERD NOS FILS
(abinthe kills our sons) was modified later on
and the name PERNOD became the official legal drink
( but without the herb that would drive you mad)
The ABSINTHE RITUAL.
The spoon is balanced above a glass, and a sugar cube is
placed on it
The Absinthe sits at the bottom of the glass.
Ice cold water is slowly poored over the sugar cube, that slowly
crumbles and falls into the Absinthe.
The sugar cube can be soaked in Absinthe and lit up
before pooring the cold water.
ABISINTHE related items have now become
collectors pieces.
To celebrate this most amazing drink
CRAZY PIG  proudly presents
our own ABSINTHE spoon..

Monday 3 May 2010

ICE MONKEY

Hand carved ICE MONKEY
using a TAGUA nut
The nut is a perfect subsitute
for Ivory,. it is just as hard
with a texture and colour
almost identical.
CRAZY PIG DESIGNS
NEVER USES REAL IVORY.

CRAZY PIG DESIGNS hand carvings

Nowadays a lot of people are using computer programs
to draw jewellery pieces and computerised  machines
 to carve three dimentional designs in wax to various
degrees ofsuccess,
Some jeweller's  catalogues not not show the actual
real piece itself but a computer generated image
of the jewellery you might be buying
A little bit like computer generated images in movies.
At CRAZY PIG DESIGNS we have the skill to
actually hand carve every single master and
what you see on our website is the actual piece
Here;s a couple of NETSUKE style pieces
hand carved by ARMAND SERRA, using
TAGUA NUTS, (sometimes called, vegetable ivory)
The HOODED SKULL id carved in the nut
leaving most of the actual nut intact.
The ICE MONKEY has been carved
in the centre of the nut. and will
be shown in the next blog

THE DESCENT 2

The DESCENT 2 ,

features the same feather pendant
seen in the first movie,
Crazy Pig Designs made a one off pendant
using a large silver feather, and a rough cut
turquoise stone hanging  on a leather cord.,
with  the  phrase
"LOVE EACH DAY"
engraved on the back
The feather pendant survived all the abuse from
all the battles, fights, gore and monsters from
both movies.
QUALITY TESTING AT HIS HIGHEST