About Family Crest Delorean Jewellery

Family Crest Jewellery registered trading name " Handmade By Me " is an independant family business, husband and partner no staff to pay, working from an air conditioned log cabin workshop which is 9 ft x 6.5 ft nicknamed "The Tardis" . We do not have the constraints of a traditional business, we are a "Cottage Industry" no rent or business rates to pay, and as I am (Viv) semi retired mainly due to failing health I am no longer able to work 5 days per week or 8 hour days. As a result I have also de-registered from V.A.T so the only VAT you pay is what is included in the bullion or stones I buy, and as some of my gold products are made from recycled gold (old used jewellery) often there is no V.A.T included at all.

Signet ring manufacturing has been my passion since my last two years at school when one of the two metal work teachers introduced me to it , working in his lunch breaks making rings and pendants as a side line to sell on, or given to his friends and family as gifts. Watching him cast a  signet ring in cuttlefish bone facinated me .

Over 40 years hence and on a regular basis I often hear my metal work teacher Barry M..... (you know who you are) hollaring at the top of his voice "Foster use your initiative"  thanks you Barry, you got me through life, as a result I came out of school with one CSE in metalwork, little else except the ability to conjour up a solution or a technique all of my own to make, shape and design jewellery, & skills in engineering & woodwork.

Over the past years, I have owned a number of Jewellers shops, and a jewellery workshop in Middlesex, when my brother retired in 2012 the last shop was sold, I have carried on with the one product I most enjoy making in signet rings & the one product which has the most meaning wedding rings, both still well within my ability though I  now have Osteoarthritis. The introduction in 2014 of my New Galvo YAG fiber state of the art laser engraving machine has enabled me to introduce a range of laser engraved cufflinks and pendants , the machine doing most of the work

The trading name Deloreanjewellery comes from my early beginnings, copying what I learnt from watching my metalwork teacher and using my fathers glass blowing torch, and my brothers G.P.O tools in my parents garage I made my first gold signet ring at the age of 16 using cuttlefish bone  (old egyptian technique) and some old sentimental jewellery (borrowed from my Mum) which my brother proudly wore as his wedding ring, having first experimented and tried a dozen or more times using (wait for it) mums silver spoons, "SORRY MUM" we also made lots of ashtrays from her records and fruit bowls from her Beatles albums ( oop's )

If you remember the original Coca-Cola neon sign in Piccadilly, my father made most of it. He was a neon bender / glass blower

My early experiences were of making mainly silver signet rings in my fathers garage, now due to high gold prices I am once again producing silver signet rings along with 9ct & 18ct gold and my latest experience is learning and using futuristic laser engraving technology. No sonic screwdriver yet ! , 2018 after shattering my right shoulder blade I am 3D printing master patterns as well.

 
Hence I have gone "Back to the future" hence the Delorean name from the Delorean car in the films, now proudly part of my family emblem.

 I have continued casting one signet ring at a time therefore providing an option of using your own sentimental gold for signet rings hence oldsentimental.co.uk is another url you may have come across which is linked to a page within this website offering the service, also jewelleryhandmade.com

Joking aside, aged  63 , called Vivian & now having Arthritis my wife calls me Victor Meldrew, I tend to make light of things but I do take my work seriously! Thanks to technology I should be able to tavel to work after Christmas on my hover board as it is so close to home.

" I ONLY WORK WHEN THE SUN DON'T SHINE " Please note neither The Tardis nor the Delorean are operational, so allow adequate time !

Long gone are the days when I needed to work 6 days a week or 10 hour days, now semi retired " I work to live, I DO NOT live to work "