Pewter Key Ring
Step by step on how to make pewter keyring, presented by Joan Launspach
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Joan Launspach offers personalised pewter craft classes. In this step by step tutorial Joan shows you how to make a pewter keyring.
What you need to make pewter keyring:
- Heart (wooden blank)
- Silver craft acrylic paint
- Lead free pewter
- Masking tape
- Embossing tool
- Felt
- Pewter patina
- Brasso
- Soft cloth
- Small piece of batting
- Pewter glue
- Scissors
Read through all the instructions first before starting this craft.
Step 1
Stick paper pattern to pewter using masking tape. Trace pattern onto pewter using a small embossing tool. Press on a piece of felt or thin batting. The pressure of your tracing should be just a little harder than you would normally write with a pen.
Step 2
Remove paper pattern from pewter.Step 3
Wearing a pair of gloves, put a little pewter patina onto batting and rub gently over pewter very quickly. Do not use too much patina and do not rub the pewter too hard.
Step 4
Immediately polish pewter with a piece of batting dipped in Brasso. The Brasso removes the black patina and eventually exposes the silver pewter again, leaving the recesses dark with raised areas silver.
Step 5
Once you have removed the black patina from the pewter, polish well with a very soft cloth until the pewter shines. Carefully cut out pewter heart with a fine pair of scissors.
Step 6
Paint the wooden heart silver with craft paint and a paintbrush.
Step 7
When the paint is dry, glue pewter onto heart using pewter glue to complete your pewter heart keyring.