Hall Glass Studios – Guitar Pick Jewelry

Now that’s pretty, eh? Paul received an email from Angel Hall, owner of Hall Glass Studios. Angel is an artist in the area of stained glass. Like most artists, she dabbles in other areas. One of her interests is jewelry and she has come up with her own line of Guitar Pick necklaces.

Intrigued, Paul asked me to send her one of my GuitarNoise guitar picks. And here is the result. Let me describe this in Angel’s own words: “For the GuitarNoise pick, it has a frosted “tooth” for a good grip on its surface and this reminded me of etched glass. I chose the aqua frosted iridized (beads) to pick up the base color of the pick, and white furnace glass beads to reinforce the logo print color. To lend a masculine feel, silver spacers and accent beads were added.”

As you see, Angel takes great care to give each pick a proper setting, one that compliments the guitar pick without overwhelming it. She uses only sterling silver findings (clasps, crimps, wire and beads) The GuitarNoise necklace has leather cording, but she also uses cotton at the customer’s request. Many of the glass beads she makes herself (you can find these on her website as well) either on a torch or in a glass furnace. For some special projects she may buy beads or also use natural gems or stones.

Angel’s Guitar Pick necklaces boast a special “closed circuit” technique. The silver wire is wrapped around itself again on each end, creating a closed pulse of beads. This ensures that the beads cannot fall off unless the wire is cut or the beads are abused to the point where they break apart.

Angel tells me, “I am into jewelry that works as hard as I do,” and judging from her description of day to day life, I totally believe her. I don’t know many women who both make jewelry and play hockey while being an artist and mother at the same time!

Much of the Guitar Pick jewelry work she does is special order – many clients send her picks they have gotten at concerts and want to save in some special way. Apparently some people also buy “blank” picks in order to have something special to present when getting an autograph from one’s favorite musician. That’s a pretty cool idea.

If you are a band that has its own custom picks (as many bands do these days), you might consider this a new step to take in marketing yourself. If you’re looking for something different to give to that musician who already has more stuff than you can keep track of, Angel’s Guitar Pick Jewelry might do the trick.

Be sure to check out the rest of Angel’s Guitar Pick Jewelry at http://www.stainedglasshall.com/Store/Guitar.shtml

And also make certain to look at the wonderful work she does with stained glass: http://www.stainedglasshall.com/index.shtml

I think you’ll be impressed.