Lodge St Barchan: Engraved Tankards for Installation

This commission involved producing six engraved glass tankards for an installation event.

Each piece was prepared with the lodge crest on the front and a personalised inscription on the reverse.

Reference and Preparation

The crest was supplied as a colour image and redrawn as engraving artwork.

Linework and spacing were refined to ensure clarity at tankard scale, with the full design prepared in a form suitable for sandblasting. The reverse inscriptions were set individually, but aligned to consistent measurements across all six pieces.

Layout and Consistency

Maintaining uniformity across the set was central to the preparation.

Although the front crest remained identical on each tankard, every reverse inscription differed, with individual names and office roles requiring separate layouts.

Reference measurements and registration marks were incorporated into the stencil preparation process, allowing each engraving to be positioned consistently from piece to piece. This ensured the crest on the front and the inscription on the reverse aligned correctly throughout the set, regardless of variations in wording.

The objective was that all six tankards would read as a coordinated group when displayed together, rather than six individual commissions prepared independently.

Engraving

Once approved, the artwork was transferred to stencil and applied to each piece.

The tankards were sandblasted individually, producing a consistent etched finish across the full set.

Outcome

The completed pieces form a matched group of engraved tankards, each carrying the same crest and aligned inscriptions.

Prepared as a set for formal presentation.