Video Demonstrations

Pewter should be cleaned and polished once a year. This video gives you some simple time saving tips on how to keep your pewter looking great so that future generations can enjoy it too. It's a long video, but worth watching if you own some pewter pieces. If you know someone who has pewter, feel free to share. Enjoy!

Hand metal spinning the top of my Martini Goblet. Starting with a 5.5" x .064" pewter disc and shaping the piece over an aluminum mandrel/chuck. Tricky spinning because of the narrow base. Thanks for watching!

Metal spinning a pewter Pen & Pencil Holder. Starting with a 7" x .064" pewter disc, shaping, burnishing, trimming lip & incising 2 decorative lines.

The Pen & Pencil Holder is a practical gift. I have two of these on my check out counter in my shop. Today we have more than pens and pencils on our desktop. Markers, rulers, and a host of other accessories will fit is this large vessel. Also of potential interest, they hold a pint of ice cream!

I'm hand metal spinning a 5" x .060" pewter disc (1,300 rpm's), and forming the body of a baby cup, burnishing, trimming, and rolling the top lip.

The Tall Baby Cup is another popular design for those folks who want a little more volume coupled with a decorative scroll handle.

Metalspinning the base to a Sonoma Wine Goblet. It is a very difficult metal spinning project. It takes 3 chucks to get to the final form.

The Sonoma Goblet is a beautiful new piece which incorporates the cup from the Leddell Chalice and the taller version of the Stem Goblet base. Here again, I’ve used existing forms and molds to come up with a new design. The Sonoma Goblet has wonderful lines and feels great in the hand. A pair of these would be a wonderful gift!