WEBSITE FIXED!!! Well it has been a pretty crazy few months and I meant to say that, thanks to a very clever and dedicated chap, Gary yates of https://www.tinpeas.co.uk/ , my website has been recovered and with a bit of TLC looks amazing! Thank you Gary!

I have been very busy with "Life" so much to sort out and think about. I am taking my business on a slightly different journey. I will update next year (which BTW, is just around the corner).

If you haven't already, please subscribe to my YouTube channel, like and share my videos, it make such a difference to me and helps me create more. I regularly release old videos from my teaching channel so there is always more to watch.  https://www.youtube.com/@glassengraver

If you are interested in keeping more up to date with my videos and wish to ask questions and discuss your work, please visit my Patreon Teaching Channel. https://www.patreon.com/c/glassengraving

This is a recent video I have uploaded to my teaching channel. To watch, you either join my channel or purchase the viewing of this video. https://www.patreon.com/posts/laser-and-drill-114306649 There are so many videos to watch, if you join, and there are several that are for sale.

Happy engraving!!!

Main website down and videos for sale

 My main website is still down and will be for some time ( www.lesleypyke.com ) so it is now redirecting you to my old blog.

I found an expert who has helped my tremendously and is a volume of IT knowledge, pop along to his website. 

This blog is presently replacing my website for now, so I am quickly adding some content!

Oh and by the way... Patreon (where I have my glass engraving teaching channel) have enabled a new "thing"....creators can sell a post. So for example, this video is now available for sale, so join as a free member and you can choose to buy a post if you see the "For Sale" note, bottom right! $3 is all I am charging at the moment! Click HERE  (bare in mind I release most of my video after at least 7 months, to my youTube channel.) If you see a recent video that you fancy and is not For Sale, ask me to make it so!

 

Engraving on a cruise for Bacardi

My most recent engraving event was for Bacardi on the brand new Cunard Queen Anne, cruising from Southampton around the Norwegian Fjords and back. Contact me if you require my engraving services, on bottles of alcohol or perfume, on water or dry land.... lespyke@live.co.uk

It has been a while!! ...and my website is down again!

 Well life has zoomed by and I am now revisiting my blog simply because I am so tired of the troubles and costs of a website. It is down at the moment as the host has migrated or something along those lines....and I have some gobbldegook instructions of what I am supposed to do, which I do NOT understand.

How important is a website these day I wonder?

Anyway, my Patreon teaching channel is still going strong and I make and post 3 videos every month. It is hard graft but I really enjoy it.  Patreon have added a new feature now and that is to be able to sell a post. SO...my first trial of this is to offer the two videos below. They are subjects that stump lots of new engravers. They are $3 each. Of course if you wait for 7+ months I may release them to the public on my YouTube channel  as I do most of my engraving videos. Your choice.

I took a break last week to go on our annual golf tour with several friends donw in Devon, Ashbury Manor. Absolutely wonderful as always!

This year I was delighted  and honoured to once again be asked to engrave the trophies for the Heveningham Concours. A wonderful event with a spread of spectacular cars and planes.

 

 

I have had several teaching sessions of the most basic form of glass engraving to people who have never engraved glass before. Within an hour each had successfully engraved a small coaster or drinking glass. So much fun!! 

Let me know if you would like me to come and entertain your guests! email lespyke@live.co.uk

 

Lots of the usual types of engraving orders simple sandblasting and also the more complex hand engraving.

 

I have also been laser engraving this year (NOT GLASS!!!!!!!!!) It has been a lot of fun experimenting on various materials, wood, leather, slate and even denim!

I was sent the XTOOL M1   in exchange for a couple of videos. 

Contact me if you have a creative gadget you would like me to review. email lespyke@live.co.uk