Stork Scissor Charm

Hand crafted from recycled piano keys and engraved with a line drawing of the stork scissor (drawn by the very talented illustrator Ethan Danieslon), these start life as the ivory coloured bits in front of the black notes on trashed pianos. I collected them from the piano bashing place, arranged for them to be washed and trimmed, then I set about sanding the corners before they went to my engraver.

You can attach the charm to scissors or your project case. I have even seen them as earrings! Supplied with a hand-crafted twisted cord, each charm varies slightly but measures around 2 x1in (5 x2.5cm).

Many years ago, Bill and I had visited a piano hospital in Sandwich in Kent. (Bill was considering becoming a piano tuner). I was shattered to see some of the old wrecks that were not going to survive. Sometime later, I was given a pendant decorated with hand-painted roses and I was told it was worked on old piano keys. The memory of the piano hospital came back to me, and I put two and two together! I started searching for sources of old piano keys and created these little treasures.