Three Candles kilt Pewter Kilt Pin for the Holidays

**O'Neille** · 1st December 07, 11:15 PM

After I finished the sgian and pin I decided to get something completed for Christmas gifts. I wanted something with an old time (primitive) feel that could be used as a Holiday kilt pin and would symbolize many different things to different beliefs etc... It needed to have some deep meaning to me and be unisex in design. Here is what I came up with.

I wanted texture. So I made the prototype in.... wait for it... leather. I made the candles anthropomorphic for a reason (Christmas and all) yet they are still candles even though there is some look of flowing robes and flames that may be heads.

I then made a quick mold using the leather piece I had just tooled. It went amazingly smooth so I must have been doing something right.

Here's one hot out of the mold

I got a couple filed and polished. Soldered some pins and here they are.

And a close up. The flash kind of ruins the dimensionality of them. I'm going to experiment a little with some coloring of the background and see if I like the results. Maybe post another pic later.

What do you all think? Did I capture the season?

**O'Neille** · 1st December 07, 11:37 PM

Here is one with artificial aging and no flash. It photographs better but I like the bright finish in person

The finished pieces are 1 7/8" by 1 3/8" and weigh in at .9 oz.

**turpin** · 2nd December 07, 08:56 AM

That looks really good, O'Neille. I like the artificially aged version. How do you do that? I have some bright gold-colored metal triskel buttons I'd like to tone down for sporran buttons.

**O'Neille** · 2nd December 07, 09:00 AM

Originally Posted by turpin

That looks really good, O'Neille. I like the artificially aged version. How do you do that? I have some bright gold-colored metal triskel buttons I'd like to tone down for sporran buttons.

Very secret method....black BBQ and Stove paint. Spray them and wipe them off immediately.