The PewterScribe

18/12/2025

As the festive season approaches, all of us at The PewterScribe would like to thank you for your continued support throughout the year.

We wish all our wonderful customers a very Happy Christmas and a peaceful, prosperous New Year.

✨ Last orders: 22nd December
🎄 We will be closed from: 23rd December – 5th January

We look forward to welcoming you again in the New Year.

05/12/2025

New item just posted in the webshop. https://thepewterscribe.sumupstore.com/product/I-am-a-cider-drinker-hand-made-belt-buckle.

A hand made buckle in Brass or Stainless steell with an coloured enamel front plate "I am a Cider Drinker". The buckle is made to fit a 1.5 (38mm) belt, which can be purchased separately

01/12/2025

The Lipizzan Celtic Style Handbag

£140.00

This Beautiful
Traditionally made Saddle style handbag is fully handmade, from the cutting of the individual pieces to the final stitch. The exquisite hand carving is the perfect example of this traditional skill, taking our Craftsman in excess of 6 hours to complete. The process requires an ability to focus on a small area for long periods. While this saddle bag is one of the standard pieces we make, we happy to discuss the same style handbag with a your bespoke design. Natural water based stains are used to achieve the colour and the piece is finished with beeswax. The saddle bag is approximately 7" (17.5cm) across and 6" (15cm) high, the depth is 2.5" (6.2cm), and the strap is 50" (125cm) long with 6" (15cm) of adjustment, so suitable to be worn across the body. The closing mechanism is a "tenax" fitting, which is normally found on high end sports cars.

29/11/2025

This pin badge has been around for a while but remains popular, here you can see it cast in two different metals, one is pewter, and 1 is bronze. We have also upon request made it in silver.

23/11/2025

Wow was this really 9 years ago? The best workshop we have ever had convenient with plenty of space, we would still be there if it had not been for the environment agency compulsory purchasing the building as part of the flood defence schem.

OMG what a morning just had a phone call from the landlord at the workshop to tell us that the entire complex has been broken into! on our way to see what the what the damage is.

31/10/2025

This is a tankard, Colin engraved 4 years ago at Bedford Beer and Cider Festival and we thought we would share it with you. Don't ask us what it said because we don't know, but the customer was very pleased, even though It had to be spellchecked, by a good friend of ours at The Rookery Craft Mead.!

27/10/2025

This beautiful 6 oz kidney flask was commissioned by a customer as a gift. He wanted some artwork done in the style of the 1940/50s pinup art. You may have seen the style on, some of the American war planes and was featured in the film , the Memphis Belle features such artwork. The other very famous character at this time is Betty Boop. We understand some people don't like this style of artwork. Personally, we think it's absolutely stunning and we're very pleased to be able to do it for the customer.

25/10/2025

Sometimes Colin gets bored decides to have a play this piece is a perfect example. He had some time to kill waiting to finish another job and decided to pick up a piece of scrap metal in the workshop and see what he come up with. The piece of Metal is mild steel, approximately one inch across.

23/10/2025

A few years ago a friend asked me to make a belt buckle for his partner, The brief was "she's a computer engineer". The backplate is a piece of an old motherboard, carefully sawn out with a cast pewter Adjustable Spanner, Surrounded by a twisted copper ring. The copper ring was used to allow me to cast clear resin over the motherboard to protect from damage.

22/10/2025

It is with the deepest regret. We have to inform you that thepewterscribe will not be at land of hops and glory beer festival this year. Colin , unfortunately , contracting a sickness bug that is proving difficult to shift. As I'm sure you can all appreciate, it wouldn't be appropriate for us to attend and potentially spread this about. We hope everybody has great time at the festival and wishes the organising committee every success. Fingers crossed , we will be back next year

16/10/2025

Today is national album day, we love listening to music at the pewterscribe. Depending on what we put on often can change our mood, for example if we need to motivate ourselves we might put some classic rock that will get us fired up 🔥 but if we need to contemplate a problem of how to make something we might put something like The Alan Parsons Project that's more thought provoking. Our current go to band is When Rivers Meet an independent Blues Rock band ( well worth checking out if you have not heard them) .
So do you use music to change your mood, who do you listen to, any recommendations?