About Our Finishes
Our two finishes:
Aged (shown above in the 2 photos on the right):
antiqued with a semi-matte quality; also has a bit of gleam which highlights the design
Polished (shown in the 2 photos on the left): classic, clean look and quite shiny
A Note on Our Finish: Please expect slight variances in the shade of the Aged Finish from batch to batch, although the photos are a close representation. What this means for you is, if you purchased charms from us more than once, certain of your charms may have a slightly lighter or darker shade from your previous order. Or within one order, you may have charm designs that were finished at different times, so one pair may be lighter or darker from the other. But, each piece within one pair will always match in shade.
We developed our Aged Finish through years of experimentation and many iterations of it along the way to get it as consistent as we could. Our finishes are done in small batches using a low-tech, and traditional tumbling method. As much as we’d love to have every batch look the same as the last, it’s impossible, and we’ve come to look at it as the intrinsic nature and beauty of the handmade process. Our Polished Finish, however, is quite straightforward and is the more consistent finish.
We design all the pieces you see on this website, unless otherwise stated in a product description. Our raw pewter is made liquid and then poured into molds to become what you see. Once in a while we offer ‘handpainted by us’ brass or copper pieces that were made by someone else.
Original Designs Made from Scratch
A Bit About Our Design Process
We create what’s called a ‘master’ piece, usually from sculptable materials like metal clay or stoneware clay. Vincent likes to experiment using wood or metal materials as his master. Nooma is partial to clay, and fires her master pieces in a kiln. Once we have a good number of new designs or master pieces, Vincent uses a machine called a vulcanizer to create the mold of our latest creations. He then uses a process called spincasting to cast pewter into the mold, and finally, cleans up the pieces by clipping and filing, so they can get ‘blackened’ with an oxidizer and go into a tumbler.
