A Bee Collar Bar for the Big Day

We just finished another exciting commission for one of our London customers. He’s a tailor with a great fashion sense and loves wearing his shirts with collar bars. Over the last couple of years, we made a scull bar and a bar with diamond set balls for him.

Now he’s getting married to his girlfriend “Bee” and asked us to create a bumble bee collar bar for his wedding. I love wax carving and was very excited about getting to make such a great piece. I started carving the bee’s body which I then had moulded and cast in 9ct gold.

Once I received the castings back, I pierced out the wings from gold sheet and soldered them to be bees' bodies. Finally Ross engraved fine lines into the wings, cut the thread and polished the piece. I somehow always manage to avoid getting my hands dirty on the polishing motor :)