Thursday 28 March 2013

CUSTOM MADE for KEITH RICHARDS


NOW ! FOR  SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT.
Some years ago I was working at my bench
in our Covent Garden workshop.
It was just a regular day, when a good friend
from New York popped in to say Hi!
I  ve known Pierre for many years.
We traded guitars and amps since the 80's.
Anyway , Pierre is looking at the iems on my bench
when he spots a knife that I had started
customising.
I had a plain black blade and had started to carve a
handle for it.
As it was just a piece I was "messing around" with
It was far from being finished.
Pierre said
" I know someone who would love this"
I knew who he meant of course!
I explain this was just a rough idea but I could
make a "proper" knife.
So I designed a blade and contacted Wilkinson swords
to make a custom  blade for me.

It took me about a year to carve the handle....
My idea was,,,
Life /Death
Man /Woman
Human/Animal
Plants/Flowers.
Eventually I collected the blade and box from Wilkinson swords
and spend a few more hours assembling the piece.

Approx knife length 40cm

                                                                      JOB DONE!






Thursday 21 March 2013

ALIEN FACE HUGGER RING

Here's a great shot of
OLI BROWN
( singer,songwriter and guitarist )
and a  regular at Crazy Pig Designs
OLI is wearing our FACE HUGGER ring.


http://www.crazypigdesigns.com/en/store/c-14/from-the-vault.php

A you can see althought its a fairly large ring
it is extremely confortable to wear, like all our designs.

In space no one can hear you scream!

Sunday 17 March 2013

NEW ANIMAL RINGS DESIGNS /CAT ring and DOG ring

It s raining cat's & dogs!

Back by public demand are two of my old designs
that had been unavailable for many years.
THE BOXER RING and THE CAT RING
BOXER RING 24mm tall X 22.5mm wide
CAT RING 17mm tall X 15.5 mm wide
 
Despite being reknown for as a skull ring designer
over the years I have made many animal rings.
From Rhinos , Elephants, Tigers, Wolves,
Snakes, Lions, Dolphins, Sharks,Gorillas,Goats.
Frogs. Pigs and many many more,
These two designs appeared to have been favourites
and I thought it was high time to reintroduce them
to our expended range of ANIMAL RINGS.

Like all our designs these are the original first
generation pieces, made from the original masters and
recarved in 2013 to get maximum  detail.
As always everyone of the original pieces has
the ZIG ZAG signature inside the ring
as seen unerneath our skull logos hown here.

Thursday 14 March 2013

DUSK UNTIL DAWN / DUSK TIL DAWN

Here's a a Custom one off ring we just
completed for a friend..
There was
No budget imformation
No specific design just the phrase
DUSK TIL DAWN
and worse of all
only 2 weeks to make it!
But One will do anything for a good friend!

Based on graffitti style lettering we cut these out
of a solid piece of 18 carat yellow gold.
The ring itself is sterling silver with a rough texture
To add effect and contrast we coated the ring with black rhodium.
The DUSK TIL DAWN words are actually
curved underneath and soldered on each of the corner
to the ring itself.
So you can actually look underneath the words all the way round.
LIKE IT!

Sunday 10 March 2013

ALVIN LEE of TEN YEARS AFTER

Very sad news this Sunday morning
ALVIN LEE guitarist, singer, songwriter
past away in Spain after a routine hospital operation.
Alvin Lee was the main reason I wanted to play guitar
After watching the movie Woodstock.
even though Jimi Hendrix was the main attraction
In my opinion ALVIN LEE stole the show
with his amazing version of
I'M GOING HOME
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW5M5xljdCI.

Even today, watching this footage
Alvin Lee will simply blow you away.

ALVIN LEE was and will always be a GUITAR  LEGEND
I will miss him .............

Thursday 7 March 2013

JIMI HENDRIX ,People Hell & Angels

Check out the latest copy of Classic Rock magazine
It comes with a CD of JIMI HENDIX called
People . Hell & Angels.
One of our earliest customers that became a great friend
was MITCH MITCHELL drummer with JH Experience.
Here he is on one early visit at CRAZY PIG DESIGNS
exchanging stories with Jeannette.


At the time I told Mitch that I had purchased a double Ludwig drum kit
and he asked me if I mind him coming around to my place
to have a practice.
Did I MIND??????????
So later on that evening he was bashing away at the kit in a room next to
my kitchen while Jeannette prepared dinner.
The crazy woman that lived next door kept on banging at the front door
complaing about the noise!
I told her..............
Its not NOISE it's MITCH MITCHELL



WILKO JOHNSON at KOKO

Best place to be in London
this Wednesday night
Camden Town KOKO's with the awesome

WILKO JOHNSON.


















I was there!

Monday 4 March 2013

SKULL RING DESIGNER 21st ANNIVERSARY

IT WAS TWENTY ONE YEARS AGO TODAY
THAT CRAZY PIG DESIGNS STARTED TO PLAY!
SO LET ME INTRODUCE TO YOU
THE ONE AND ONLY
CRAZY PIG DESIGNS CLUB BAND!
 

Sunday 3 March 2013

HEAVY CHAIN BRACELET

Here's a classic CRAZY PIG DESIGNS bracelet
we call it CLASSIC BELT BUCKLE bracelet
It works excacly like a regular belt buckle
It also hass a safety  clasp that folds over the buckle
once closed.
Each link is hand made and assembled one at a time
to form the main part of the chain.
The Buckle part has 4 separate hinges
to allow it to function as a buckle.
This item shown here was brought it last
week for a clean up. It was purchased
over ten years ago and still looks great
and works perfectly.
Quality simply LASTS!
To order this item follow the link below
http://www.crazypigdesigns.com/en/store/c-15_37/heavy-bracelets.php