A stroll down Pendant Lane.....

[Raymond Richard]

These are what I've been working on the last couple weeks. Don't look like much but the punches and other tools that I made to make these were pretty time consumming. I used copper, brass, wrought iron, and damascus to make these out of.....

[Chuck Burrows]

Cool!

BTW If you want a source for chains to hang these on let me know.

[Phillip Jones]

Nice work, Ray!

Those are cool!

[Raymond Richard]

Chuck, Let me know. Right now I'm using round black leather and black waxed linen. I'm hoping my wife does some braids with the linen. I did one with the leather but my hands crap up on me. Never had the hair to practice with.....

Thanks, Phil....

[cactusforge]

Those are great and I bet thay will sell. Gib

[MaxTheKnife]

Ray, I swear! First hawk envy. Then hammer envy. Now pendant envy. You're pushing it man! You are one fine Oregonian pendant making peckerwood and that's for sure. Your hammers and hawks ain't bad neither.

[Raymond Richard]

Max, Peckerwood, now I'm not sure what your meaning by that. Not sure if thats a native tree here in the Northwest. Peckerwood, I just looked in the Webster and it says peckerwood is native to Arkansas, that theres a patch in Paris. Know anyone out that way?????

[Chuck Burrows]

Ray-
I'll send you an email tomorrow. Linda had a tooth pulled so I'm playing nurse tonight - of course I'm more like Nurse Ratchet, than Florence Nightingale. :evil

[Lawrence Kemp]

Hey Ray, nice pendants! I'll bet they sell too! We got Peckerwoods here in Tennessee too!

[Gene Chapman]

bet they sell.

[Gene Chapman]

Ray, went garage sailing yesterday with the boss, got a small ball pein hammer and my favorite hot stamp stock, a auto lug wrench. It's easy to forge and files, saws, drills, etc. easy when annealed and holds up well when stamping red hot and above iron or annealed copper.

What you using for punch and stamps??

I have a theory on small forged work and trinkets, if you have several on the table, it promotes some interest, but if you have a fairly large assortment of different stuff it seems to generate more interest. My recent addition of uglie keyring/bottle openers are selling, I think the dual function thing is a plus Over the years at Mt Man shows I had less knives on the table and more affordable forged iron on display.

Just rambling here before breakfast.

[Dana Acker]

Hey Ray, those are very cool. Hows about letting us see the punches you made--they sound cool too.

[mark]

i like those a lot! as a relative newbie who hasn't a clue how to make those, i'd love to get some details on how that's done...

[Dana Acker]

Hey Mark, welcome to the forum. Glad you dropped by. I'd like to see how Ray did them too. Those pendants are really cool.

[Raymond Richard]

Gene,
Most of my punches I've been making have mostly been made out of high carbon steel although I did do one out of fairly mild steel and it works fine on copper and brass. I've still got a long way to go on the punches but the ideas keep comming to me and the results are getting better all the time. Alot of trial and error so far.

Remember you posting some of your touch marks awhile back. If you wouldn't mind posting them again on this thread that would be cool. I'll put some pictures of the ones I've been making later today.

I had one customer Saturday that just loved what I had but the weather kept alot away. I feel like trinkets are the way to go on this type of venue. I'm going to try a different way to display the pendants this next Saturday. Thinking along the lines of a small sandwich board.....