VINTAGE SKULL RING and NEW SKULL RING

This week CRAZY PIG DESIGNS is  introducing
 two SKULL RINGS
 to our exrended range of jewellery.
The new CALAVERA /SKULL RING
as Blogged earlier on this week .
(Here's another view)

and another skull ring  "the JOKER".
"FROM THE VAULT" I pulled out
one of my  early design that I made in the mid 80's .
This ring  was discontinued years ago,
Some customers have shown interest
in some of these  early pieces and
asked me to reintroduce them,

So I recently recarved a brand new JOKER
SKULL RING based on my original 80's design.

This new JOKER skull ring will soon be availble
from our online store.
FROM THE VAULT section.

You might only neeed
THE ACE OF SPADES
but don't forget  THE JOKER!

ANTIQUE MEXICAN SKULL RING./ CALAVERA

HEY! HOMBRE!
Something new? Something old ?
For quite some time I wanted
to make a New DAY OF THE DEAD ring
but with a twist...
It had to  look completely different
from my usual style of designing and carving.
Years ago a similar situation arose
when  I made a ring fot a New York client that
had visited the British Museum and asked me to
make him a replica of a ancient Roman ring
on display there and if possible ,
to make it sing the same
ancient techniques of jewellery making of the period.
So this was the same basic  idea I had to make an
Antique Mexican Day of the Dead ring.
I had some pictures of ancient Mexican rings
but I decide to combines various ideas
from my favourites ones  and created
the CALAVERA SKULL RING!

CALAVERA is SKULL in Spanish.

It is purposely a "rough carving" with  uneven details.
Its a signet type ring with sacred hearst on both sides.
To achieve a reallistic ANTIQUE LOOK we left it very rough
and  avoided over polishing the ring.
So here it is.our NEW ANTIQUE SKULL RING!
Please note that it s currently only available to order
but should be in store and Online within a couple of weeks.

ABSINTHE SPOON with Skeleton and bone hand

The ritual of preparing an ABSINTHE drink is filled

with myth and legends.

In the  South of FRANCE

drinks like PERNOD, PASTIS. RICARD

51 and 45 have always being part of 

the lifestyle and every day social life.

However ABSINTHE is the real original drink.

I have seen many Absinthe spoons over the years

but I always thought that one day I would design my own!

My original idea was to cut a simple outline

of a skeleton hand at the end of a spoon handle. 

However this type of project is always on a backburner as

it is done for the pleasure and the fun of it.

There's always something more urgent to do.

I eventually started working  and it  slowly evolved into this piece.
It is balanced to fit on large glasses and the back of the skeleton
ankles has various ridges to accomodate different diameters.
To prepare your ABSINTHE drink
Pour one measure of Absinthe into the glass
place on sugar cube in the middle of the skeleton hand
Very slowly pour ice cold water onto the sugar cube
when the cube has dissolved your ABSINTHE is ready.
While drinking your first glass get another one ready
ideally with a slow drip Absinthe fountain.
After a few of these you'll be an ARTIST!

So far there's only  two have  ever made but by public demand

it will soon be available in our ONLINE store

For more on ABSINTHE 

Here's a foreword from the book

ABSINTHE by BARNABY CONRAD III

GOLD SKULL LOGO

Well! we ve been working for precious metals for over
20 years, and we thought it was time to splash out
some 18carat gold and platinum leaf on our SKULL MASCOT
to adorn our shop front door.

.

ULTIMATE SKULL RING

What else than a bit of HEAVY METAL 

to forget this cold January!

Introducing our classic LIMITED EDITION

SKULL RING but  with a twist.

When I say HEAVY METAL this beauty weights at 94 grams

of pure SOLID PLATINUM.

Imagine 10 of these would be almost ONE KILOGRAM in total.

Customised with HOT ROD style flames, "PAVE" set 

with yellow diamonds and rubies

This is gotta be one of the best SKULL RINGS we have ever made

Not for the faint hearted !

ENJOY!

CRAZY PIG "SKULL RING DESIGNER " JANUARY 13

Sorry for the lack of news but January is actually
terribly busy month at CRAZY PIG DESIGNS.

We still have a lot of customers spending their
Christmas bonuses or vouchers in store and we are also
completing orders that were simply " too late " for the
Christmas deadline.

January is the month were we decide on changes,
improvements and major reorganising all aspects
of our business.
DISCONTINUED:
We will be discontinuing some designs , not because
they do not sell but simly because we have too many
items to choose from.
So its clear up time!
Coming soon will be added pieces to our
FROM THE VAULT section
these will be old designs that we have made years
ago and have not been in production for a long time.
Best of all
NEW DESIGNS:
are curently in the pipeline as we speak...
These were started in 2012 but simply did not make it
in time for December, So we kept these for  the begining of
2013.
Must go! Busy , Busy , Busy

HAPPY NEW YEAR to all of our customers

Although we enjoyed our Christmas break
we are really looking forward to 2013
with loads of new projects in the pipeline.

There were quite a few new designs introduced
during 2012 but there were just as many that
were started and we will soon bring out
at the beginning of 2013.

Have a GREAT 2013