The Soldersmith

27/08/2026

Halfway through a meeting you don’t want to be in, you’ll notice your hand has gone to it. Thumb tracing coastlines while somebody talks about Q4.

This is Gaia.

Silver landmasses over green-blue ocean, edges torn where the metal decided them, not where I did.

Peruvian Amazonite set from behind so you only get glimpses of its depth.

A whole world, and it fits in your palm.

Long sterling silver ball chain, because this doesn’t sit gently at your collarbone. It wants orbit.

One of one. There is no second Earth.

Sterling silver, 100% recycled, hallmarked.

Because ordinary is everywhere.
Be Everyday Brave.

25/08/2026

You’ll feel her before anyone says a word.

Her name is Ananke, the ancient Greek force of necessity and inevitability, the one who binds. Some things just have to be.

You don’t wear her to blend in.

You wear her the day you walk into the meeting you weren’t sure you’d earned.

The day you sit at your first “table for one” that you booked on purpose.

The day you say no and don’t explain yourself.

And she’s built to mean it.

Sterling silver, drilled, hand-textured front to back, a bright half and a dark half, bound by six filled-gold rings. Made by me, one of one, no repeat.

Meet her in the flesh Craft Fair Organiser at Hever Castle, this September.

Because ordinary is everywhere.
Be Everyday Brave.

18/08/2026

A big oval of Jasper, all swirling rose, smoke and cream, set deep in a hand-formed bezel of sterling silver.

One of one.

Meet Tiamat. Named for the Mesopotamian goddess of the sea and the chaos of those swirling waters that came before the world existed. The old stories say everything was shaped from her body. Look into the stone and you can see why she got the name.

Anti-dainty.

Unapologetic.

Made for a hand with things to do.

Adjustable shank too, so she’ll settle onto whichever finger you fancy.

Because ordinary is everywhere.
Be Everyday Brave.

10/08/2026

Some rings you plan. This one I just let happen.

Every mark of making is still on it.

The fire.
The flux.
The solder.
The drill.
The hammer.

Nothing sanded back into beige.

Nothing polished into run-of-the-mill-dom.

It came off the bench looking like something dredged up from the seabed. Crusted, weathered, a bit barnacled.

The kind of thing that’s been down in the dark a while and come back with a story.

Sterling silver. One of one, because I couldn’t make this happen twice if I tried.

Meet the Seabed ring.

04/08/2026

31/07/2026

Star Rubies. Riveted hinges. No shortcuts.

A recent commission that fought me a little and was all the better for it.

Sterling silver hoops with tiny hand-riveted hinges, because I refuse to buy in a finding when I can make the whole thing myself. Hung with two beautiful Star Rubies, each one cut to catch the light and throw that little slip of a star across the surface.

Made for one person, exactly to her brief. A proper one of one (or two of two if Mrs Pedantic is in the room).

This is what “handmade” means. Not assembled. Made. Every hinge, every rivet, every bezel setting.

Because ordinary is everywhere.
Be Everyday Brave.

29/07/2026

Nobody arrives at my bench knowing what they’re doing. That’s the point.

Half-day workshops if you want to make one thing properly and wear it home.

Ten-week courses if you want to learn the craft rather than just visit it.

Private sessions if you’d rather not share.

No experience needed. No special talent. No design skills. Just a willingness to pick up a hammer.

Autumn term starts the week of 28th September.

Three of the four morning classes are already full. Afternoons and Monday evenings have a handful of spaces.

There are no courses after these until January.

Five people per class. Not a marketing tactic, just how many benches I have.

Because ordinary is everywhere.
Be Everyday Brave.

learnsomethingnew

25/07/2026

Why buy from me? Honestly, don’t. Not if you want something safe. But if you want silver with a pulse, made by one person who argues with metal for a living, swipe through 🖤

Everything handmade in Kent from 100% recycled sterling, hallmarked at the London Assay Office, stamped ALF.