Poor Frank Raw
@poorfrankraw.co.uk
Hand carved, often sweary, lettering on stone. Brace yourself.
Retired silversmith. Recovering geek. Nobody gets out of here alive.
www.poorfrankraw.co.uk/shop
Retired silversmith. Recovering geek. Nobody gets out of here alive.
www.poorfrankraw.co.uk/shop
FECK is in the shop: www.poorfrankraw.co.uk/shop/index.h...
£125 UK delivered. I won't be repeating this style - bit of a mare to carve - though there may be more fecks in the fecking future.
£125 UK delivered. I won't be repeating this style - bit of a mare to carve - though there may be more fecks in the fecking future.
November 11, 2025 at 2:22 PM
FECK is in the shop: www.poorfrankraw.co.uk/shop/index.h...
£125 UK delivered. I won't be repeating this style - bit of a mare to carve - though there may be more fecks in the fecking future.
£125 UK delivered. I won't be repeating this style - bit of a mare to carve - though there may be more fecks in the fecking future.
Carving Birra Lambic (www.commarts.com/project/3371...) is proving challenging. The thicks are very thick, the thins have teeny weeny triangular terminals and the curves are very tight. Looks good but I'm glad I picked a short swear 😬
November 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Carving Birra Lambic (www.commarts.com/project/3371...) is proving challenging. The thicks are very thick, the thins have teeny weeny triangular terminals and the curves are very tight. Looks good but I'm glad I picked a short swear 😬
Not the finest thing I ever made but he was happy.
November 7, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Not the finest thing I ever made but he was happy.
Thank you! And of course auto translate refers to those famous French pastries, "lightning bolts"!
November 7, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Thank you! And of course auto translate refers to those famous French pastries, "lightning bolts"!
Autumn is still rocking hereabouts:
November 6, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Autumn is still rocking hereabouts:
Thank you :) The silver trade here was deeply segmented so there were specialist e.g. spoon makers who did nothing else. I was a general silversmith so would make everything from a spoon to a coffee pot (via a garden swing, replica printing press, cream churn...).
November 5, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Thank you :) The silver trade here was deeply segmented so there were specialist e.g. spoon makers who did nothing else. I was a general silversmith so would make everything from a spoon to a coffee pot (via a garden swing, replica printing press, cream churn...).
Finished polishing the family silver (not a euphemism); boxed up all the polishing equipment; tomorrow I'll dismantle the polishing booth in the corner of the workshop. The collected dirt, grease, fluff and polishing compound of a decade of silver polishing is f.i.l.t.h.y.
November 5, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Finished polishing the family silver (not a euphemism); boxed up all the polishing equipment; tomorrow I'll dismantle the polishing booth in the corner of the workshop. The collected dirt, grease, fluff and polishing compound of a decade of silver polishing is f.i.l.t.h.y.
The facts are inescapable.
November 3, 2025 at 9:45 AM
The facts are inescapable.
Well strangely I just sold that pair of round bottomed tumblers to a visiting Australian friend 😲 I did regild them since I was in that mode. Hallmarked Sheffield 2003 and 2004, sterling #silver.
November 1, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Well strangely I just sold that pair of round bottomed tumblers to a visiting Australian friend 😲 I did regild them since I was in that mode. Hallmarked Sheffield 2003 and 2004, sterling #silver.
While I was regilding the chalice I gold plated a few of the EPNS spoons from the kitchen drawer :) I'm THAT fancy.
October 31, 2025 at 12:40 PM
While I was regilding the chalice I gold plated a few of the EPNS spoons from the kitchen drawer :) I'm THAT fancy.
It was just like the old days today, polishing silverware. I need to re-gild the inside of the chalice.
October 30, 2025 at 11:14 PM
It was just like the old days today, polishing silverware. I need to re-gild the inside of the chalice.
Tom's new wood (planted 30 years ago) looks lovely at this time of year:
#autumn #fallfoliage #autumnfoliage #foliage
#autumn #fallfoliage #autumnfoliage #foliage
October 29, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Tom's new wood (planted 30 years ago) looks lovely at this time of year:
#autumn #fallfoliage #autumnfoliage #foliage
#autumn #fallfoliage #autumnfoliage #foliage
My Myford ML7 is cleaned, refixed to the stand and ready for reassembling and photos. It is going to make someone very happy for another 1000 years.
October 26, 2025 at 8:52 PM
My Myford ML7 is cleaned, refixed to the stand and ready for reassembling and photos. It is going to make someone very happy for another 1000 years.
Those little curls are a bit of a nightmare to carve :/
October 26, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Those little curls are a bit of a nightmare to carve :/
I built a Lombardic font based on the letters carved in the outside wall of the Duomo in Florence...
October 26, 2025 at 10:33 AM
I built a Lombardic font based on the letters carved in the outside wall of the Duomo in Florence...