1952 GIBSON Les Paul UPDATE

Hey ! All you guitar nuts and gearheads
The first hand made batch of
TRAPEAZE SOLUTION for 1952 Gold tops is
almost completely SOLD OUT

Between the guys at CHICAGO MUSIC EXCHANGE
TUNDRA MUSIC, RICK NIELSEN , BILLY GIBBONS
and everyone else that showed interest in my
guitar bridge , I am  basically almost out of stock.

Here's an updated article from CHICAGO MUSIC EXCHANGE
http://www.chicagomusicexchange.net/blog/2012/01/17/rick-nielsen-stops-by-to-show-us-his-amazing-find/

As I am really busy with designing jewllery and making new  items
for  our Christmas stock  , I am not sure I ll have
the time to get more TRAPEAZE SOLUTION bridge/ tailpiece made this
side of Christmas.
But Fear not,
I ll get back to it as soon as possible...
If you have waited 60 years for a replacement
a few weeks might not be too much an issue.

BUCKCHERRY / KEITH NELSON

Here's the cover of the latest issue of BURRN !
magazine featuring BUCKCHERRY on the front cover.

The band came in at CRAZY PIG DESIGNS some months ago
and basically raided all the cool stuff,
Wallet chains, skull rings, sacred hearts and bracelets
Guitarist KEITH NELSON spend quite some time with Armand
talking about vintage guitars and purchased the super cool
LARGE HANDCUFF BRACELET
shown here on the cover of
BURRNNNNNNN!!!!!!

NEW SKULL RINGS.at CRAZY PIG DESIGNS

Another week at CRAZY PIG DESIGNS
Well what's up?
We have now finalized the NEW BLACK finishes for our SKULL RINGs
actually we can apply this technique to any our our designs.
Here's a couple of pictures of the LARGE EVIL SKULL ring

and PSYCHO KILLER in matt black or shiny black

We have a custom order item being made for USA television celebrity.
He will be another name to add to our VIP list of customers,
All I can tell you is that he is that  cool that he's been caricatured in SOUTHPARK

The guys from TUNDRA MUSIC in TORONTO CANADA
popped in on Saturday.
They share the similar clientele with us, like KEITH RICHARDS
BILLY GIBBONS, RICK NIELSEN,  among others.
So we talked Rock & Roll, Guitars. and Jewellerry
They were very exited about my
TRAPEAZE SOLUTION for the 1952 GIBSON LES PAUL
and purchased a small batch for they store.
I have now only one left in store and about six more for he ONLINE STORE
www.1952lespaul-trapeaze.com

Design wise we have new T Shirts on the way,
These have taken a very long time to design and finalise,
We should have the first ones in store within 3 weeks approximatly.

We have so many cool items in store that sometimes customers looking
to buy a present are overwhelmed, One solution is our new
GIFT VOUCHER.
You can spend as little or as much as you want
it will be the perfect gift, leaving the lucky recipient the option to
chose for him or herself.
Specially useful as CHRISTMAS is approaching.

Expect new items in store way before Christams
I have a list of things to make , and its all
looking good!

ROCK & ROLL JEWELLERY

I ve beeen making what is now called
ROCK & ROLL JEWELLERY
for many years now, and my designs have been copied
by many unscrupulous people for just as long.
It a way it is flatering but not fair
Specially to customers who pay good money for an item
that turns out to be a  copy.
Heres some picture of a workshop in China
that makes thousands of items of jewellery every day
and sell them worldwide in stores and
on the internet under different
" Rock and Roll or Biker names"

Don't be fool these are sweatshops
The workers getrexpoloited, the customers get ripped off
and so are the real jewellery designer.

Is this what you want to wear?

THREE WISE SKULLS /Skull ring

As you all know I ve been drawing, designing and carving
skulls since I was a kid at school.
I always been into comix books and fantasy artwork.
My all time favourite being FRANK FRAZETTA
I even got in touch with the man himself
to see if we collaborate on a project. but so far
nothing has happened
However  I digress
The classic SKULL RING
See no Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak no Evil
was the basic idea behing the
THREE WISE SKULLS ring
I figured,How hard can it be
3 Skulls on a ring
So I embarked on carving the skulls and soon realised.
Oh Oh! I need to carve 3 pairs of skeleton hands!
that's 30 fingers!!!!!!How many bones??? too many.
With time and perseverance I got it done

This design is now anotherCLASSIC
CRAZY PIG DESIGNS SKULL RING

But be aware they are bad copies out there!
SHOWN HERE BELOW IS THE FAKE /MADE IN CHINA
With accompanying text!

Fabulously unique skull ring with skeletal hands representing the centuries old saying "See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil". Sides of the shank are decorated with bones.

SEPTEMBER updates

Well the days are getting shorter but not in working hours.

If we had not posted more blogs during the earlier part
of September is simply because we have been too busy
at CRAZY PIG DESIGNS Central.

In brief
We have a USA TV celebrity that wants a CUSTOM MADE
ring, but cannot say much more that that at present.
Another client lost a one off wedding ring that we made 10 years ago
Of course he was gutted! but no worries
we keep records of everything and we retraced his original order
and a replacement ring will be made exactly the same as
the original one.
TV and press have shown great interest and there should
be more coverage about CRAZY PIG DESIGNS very soon.
Other important  projects are also well on target
Plus a great idea that will be revealed towards the
end of October that should please all our customers

It seems all TOP SECRET
All well worth the wait, Promised!

SKULL & CROSSED BONES ring

The great majority of my designs have a story
of how I came about designing and finalizing into jewellery.
This is the case for example of this quite simple
but classic SKULL and crossed bones ring.
I was  driving around the English country side with
a group of friends and  stopped at an small village
with a really ancient church on top of a hill.
It was surounded by an overgrown cemetery.
As I was trying to read one of the headstones
I realized I was standing over a bump.
I got a wooden stick and proceeded to clear
the soil over it and slowly revealed
a stone carving of a  skull and cross bones
at a three quarter angle.
It was simple but beautiful.
This was how this design came to life again after
being buried in the ground for many years..

So here it is an ancient stone carving turned into
another classic  CRAZY PIG DESIGNS skull ring.
I hope that the person that carved the stone in the first place
although long gone, is  happy that his design
lives on.

CREATIVITY and DESIGN

Over the last 30 years or so I ve accumulated a lot
of articles, press cuttings, magazines , photos
interviews etc, relating to all the things that I ve designed
in the past.
To tell you the truth , I never look at these,
they are just stored in crates in my personal workshop studio.
Sometimes ago I had to make space, so I dug out
old folders and files and see what was worth keeping.
I rediscovered many things that I completely forgotten about
So here's one of them
It is a scan of the front page of a magazine called
DIRECTION dedicated to
CREATVITY IN ADVERTISING and DESIGN
published in the late 80's
As you can see they chose six of my designs
to adornated the hand on the cover.
LUCIFER bracelet, DEATH FROM ABOVE skull ring
RHINO ring, BEADED EYE ring.WOLF ring and
LARGE EVIL SKULL RING.
Interesting read,