The products.

For the more refined pewter pieces, I pre-pierced the general shape of the pendants before fly pressing. 

I am drawn towards the finished pewter pieces with the broken but distinct borders which just frame the words so nicely. The little nuances in the contour of the piece give it this authentic kind of feeling. 

For this piece I used a visually strong silver, oval jump ring on a piece of tea-stained lace.

I chose this lace in particular because it is made of thick strong material with texture to it. It does not feel like the new, flat materials often used now days.

It also added a touch of the feminine to an otherwise quite masculine pendant.

 For the piece below I letter punched sugar&spice on one side and all words which one associates with "all things nice" on the other side. Only the border was fly pressed.

 I put this piece on some old cotton fabric which I stained and stripped and knotted.

 With some of the metal components of the Sugar and Spice sandwich I made labels for ornamental bottles of "sugar," "spice" and "all things nice"

Cast and pressed

Below are the cast bronze stamps. 

 My first attempts were using a wax impression of ceramic words which were then cast into bronze.

 The Rhino cut bronze blocks produced much clearer letters. I made the pewter pieces by fly pressing a sandwich of bronze-copper-pewter-copper-bronze.

 This resulted in a double sided pewter piece and two pressed copper pieces.
I tried out some letter punching to use in combination with the pressed words. I managed to get a hold of some typewriter font punches as opposed to the sans-serif fonts.

Sugar and Spice: a new recipe

I made some wax "sugar" and "spice" blocks by designing and cutting with Rhino CAD. These were cast into bronze to be used as stamps for pressing pewter and copper. I made a few variations with some writing in relief, some recessed, some forwards and some backwards such that the copper pressed with them can be used as the front or back depending on the stamp. I tried to incorporate some variations of borders so that the pressed product would be delicately framed.