Singapore NN Awards 5th Destination : Experienced Being A Pewter Smith in Royal Selangor

After photo shoot in Raffles Hotel,

we boarded the bus

heading Royal Selangor

at

Clark Quay

Here are some products from Royal Selangor

* Pewter Chess *

* Pewter Wine Holder *

* Photo credit to Jackie *

* Zach posing with pewter tree *

We blogger's are given chance to experience firsthand the different pewter production processes. From casting, filing, polishing, soldering, hammering to engraving, we were shown every step.

Casting process

Polishing process

Hammering process

Do you think their job is easy? If you think so, Prove you wrong later on!

* Small Pewter Tree *

Big thanks to Royal Selangor,

We were also given an opportunity to try out the hammering part of the process, which proved to be a truly difficult task!

Spot the ‘School of Hard Knocks’ wordings in the picture above?

The ‘School of Hard Knocks’ is an entertaining workshop open to visitors to try their hand at pewter-smith-ing.

In Malaysia, you just have to pay RM50 only for this indulge experience :)

* Piece of pewter *

Our mission!

To create our very own pewter dish using traditional tools and methods.

* Friendly Royal Selangor stuff demonstrate the hammering process to Diese *

* Mike Yip taking his easy time *

* Robb trying very hard *

* XIANGCOOL art piece *

* Behind part of the Dish *

* Proud Robb with his Pewter Dish done *

* Xiangcool Pewter Dish done as well ^^ *

* Edvinn and Kristine washing their dish after hammering *

* Zach and Robb *

*Sidney and Stephen with the Certificate *

Yupz, we are given certification upon completion of this workshop!


Yeah!

We GRADUATED from School of Hard Knocks!

*Sorry for the quality of the photo as I messed up with CS3 :(*