I’m not a jeweller, but since I started casting pewter I’ve been tempted to try to make some wearable art. This week I spent some time casting pewter paint tube pendants as it was the kind of artist’s gift I’d love to own myself.

Because most of my sculpture is designed in the round, this week it was time to try vacuum forming 2-part moulds with my tiny, ugly vacuum former.

This week I was obsessed with building a tiny vacuum former to recycle milk bottles. Reader, I made it – possibly the world’s ugliest DIY vacuum former.

As the good weather continued, we got the furnace going again and put the small cope and drag to use, this time casting an aluminium coin.

Making a casting flask had to be high up on this week’s jobs list, because when the sun finally shines in Lancashire, you’ve got to melt some metal.