{"product_id":"heavy-barrel-x-3leaf-customs-collab-paperweight","title":"Heavy Barrel x 3Leaf Customs Collab Paperweight","description":"\u003cp\u003e  Steve \"Heavy Barrel\" and I met on Instagram back in 2020. At that time, he was solely working with wood, creating and engraving a multitude of items. He has since taken that creative skill and moved forward with various projects; one of them being \"paperweights\". Steve had begun casting and came up with his \"Relic\", a large tag that he cast in brass. He was cool enough to send me a few of those, as well as some custom cast paperweights that bore a resemblance of my logo.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e  Out of those three paperweights, I've already completed two, auctioned and sent off some time ago. It's been 3 years since I've worked on one, and this is the LAST!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e  Cast by Heavy Barrel of solid brass. The finger stalls are ever so slightly larger than the 1\" industry standard. This piece came with a ton of overcast points on the logo, and an overall rough appearance... But, that's what makes this one even more unique.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e  I started by cleaning up the \"3\" and clover on the front face; I am by no means a carver, but I slowly ground away any extra casting, carved some details onto and around each, giving the logo a ton more character. Each of the \"mortar joints\" have been deepened by hand, and many of the details such as the \"plaster\", have been sharpened.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e  When working on the pieces previous to this, I pretty much left the finger stalls alone, or lightly touched them up. But these were pretty rough after the casting process. There wasn't much of a \"fillet\" (contouring) around the stalls, so I hand filed each one, adding not only a full contouring, but a bit of a border around them, separating the rough character of the faces from that of the stalls.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e  As with the rest of the piece, the outer borders and edges had a bunch of impressions and rough areas from casting. These were hand filed as well, slightly rounding over the edges, and also creating a clearly seen border from that of the faces. The filing also added a whole other level of character to this as I did it in such a way that it left fine file marks, and a very cool swirl pattern.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e  This paperweight was given a special wash, deeply blackened, and then hand rubbed to a distressed look. After setting in the Florida humidity, Odie's Oil was applied and allowed to set. Hope you enjoy!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLast of the Heavy Barrel x 3Leaf Customs collab paperweights\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e100% hand cast and handmade in the USA\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVeteran and Firefighter made\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUnique \"Brick \u0026amp; Mortar\" design\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHand filed to add contouring and additional detail\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"3Leaf Customs","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46246404980970,"sku":null,"price":1500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0604\/9539\/7098\/files\/IMG_0481.jpg?v=1788807545","url":"https:\/\/3leafcustoms.com\/products\/heavy-barrel-x-3leaf-customs-collab-paperweight","provider":"3Leaf Customs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}