Sveinn inn kyrri Grimsson amateur Tinker
Here be the stuff I write about pewter casting…
Not the journal, but the real stuff… the findings, the research and well, the theories. All condensed from the organic blog style stuff I have written over the years.
Pewter casting is an amazingly simple hobby to get into, as realistically the tools you require to get started are common and most can be found around the house. Whilst soapstone is the medium of choice for casting large numbers of tokens and buttons, I’m a firm believer in the theory that other materials were used that are more common and less likely to survive the ravages of age. There have been finds of casting moulds being made from slate, chalk, clay and even marble however I also believe that wood was used to create some of the larger pieces.
I haven’t experimented with pewter for a long time now, however over the next few months I do plan to collate all of the articles I have previously written into an easily manageable Pewter Craft section here for all of you to access.
Commissions & Sales
Whilst I am no longer taking commissions I do have stuff for sale and will soon be developing a range of products to be sold at Markets and Events. I will also be selling Pewter crafting supplies such as hand made carving tools, pewter ingots and mould making supplies such as ready made indexed moulds. Look out for Sveinn’s Pewter stall at SCA events in the future.
Documents
PDF Documents that I have written. So far I have really only written one, however the collating of this collection of blog posts may encourage more to be written.
Projects
This is a list of the commissions and projects I have worked on. It’s meant to be kept up to date but I forget about it a lot and it really just gets updated in bursts.
Links
Soon to have links to good sites worth looking at.
Books
Soon to have a list of books with ISBN’s and possibly links to Amazon searches.
