Three Candles kilt Pewter Kilt Pin for the Holidays

[O'Neille]

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?