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Working as a creative has its challenges
Hello to you all, I hope you are getting through the extreme hot weather. It’s February and birthday time for two members of my family. I wish them both a very Happy Birthday – my sister Meredith and my granddaughter Mia, and as it happens they both share the same day! At PIKE Jewellers so…
Read MoreDream designs
As we start 2017, I wanted to share some of my dream designs. I have always loved designing artistic, out-of-the-box jewellery pieces, which I was reminded of when I was tidying up all of my old drawings recently. I was re-inspired seeing some of my older designs and have started spending time really letting my…
Read MoreA three stone diamond ring with a difference
This month, we’re sharing a very different diamond ring. It features three larger round diamonds, as well as some tapered baguette diamonds, which can be challenging to design with. Here, we show you all of the steps of Matthew’s hand making process: If you have one piece of jewellery you aren’t wearing, or even a…
Read MoreHappy New Year
HAPPY NEW YEAR! Here we go – 2017. Recently so many of our television channels showed events representing 2016 and focused on so many awful and heart wrenching stories. I am certainly aware these are terrible things that have happened and possibly by showing these stories the journalists and presenters hope that the impact of…
Read MoreNew beginnings
Welcome to our first remodelling story of 2017. This commission started when our customer came to Nicholas with some rings that she wasn’t wearing anymore: And the brief was that she wanted a beautiful ring that would be easy to wear and that she could wear every day. So Nicholas designed a wide, two-tone…
Read MoreFrom Burnside Village to Highgate
Can you believe it’s December again? PIKE Jewellers is celebrating its third Christmas in the new location at Highgate. Wow the time has flown! It seems like it was only yesterday that we celebrated our last Christmas at Glenside, and in May of the following year everything was being packed up at the Burnside Village…
Read MorePersonalising the 2016 PIKE Christmas Collection
Nicholas has had lots of enquiries about the 2016 PIKE Christmas Collection and how it can be personalised, so we’re sharing some of his suggestions of how it can be done – if you see anything you would love to have, call Nicholas on 8338 3109 and he will gladly design something especially for you!…
Read MoreLive window displays and the Million Dollar Hat
I cannot believe it is only five weeks to Christmas, it seems only a few months ago that I was writing my blog leading to the festive season of 2015. So, back to my story of the many changes we experienced in the late 1990s. As I mentioned in my October blog, with Nicholas Pike…
Read MoreHow did Nicholas design and make the 2016 Christmas Collection?
This year, he tried something a bit different. He was interested in getting some input from some of a range of PIKE customers, and invited them to a series of design workshops: What came out of these workshops were some strong themes; Nicholas explains more in the video below: After finalising the three pendant designs…
Read MoreLost wax technique: Nicholas explains how it works.
Working in Wax For centuries a method of producing jewellery called lost wax has been used. It is a process that begins with a model made from wax and ends up with the model being cast in metal. I have always loved using the process – I use it a lot when making some of…
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