Who's Lou?
How It Started
I'm Lou. I make jewellery by hand in Adelaide.
I started when I was seventeen. I'd been bending old spoons into rings in a shed behind my parents' house. Most of them were terrible. Some of them were alright. I couldn't stop making them.
I saved up about twenty grand, bought proper equipment, and set up in that same shed. No customers, no website, no idea what I was doing really. Just a bench, a torch, and a lot of silver.
That was five years ago.
What We Make
Since then we've made over a thousand pieces. Rings, signets, chains, bracelets, pendants, cuffs. Solid sterling silver, or 24ct gold plate over solid sterling silver. We tell you exactly what it is.
Every piece gets a free engraving. I press it into the wax mold before casting, so it becomes part of the metal itself. Most people go with a date or a name. I've done coordinates, inside jokes, song lyrics, things I'll never understand and don't need to. The engraving is the part nobody sees. It's usually the part that matters most.
How We Work
I've got a workshop now. A proper one. And a team around me. But the approach is the same. Every piece goes through the same ten steps it always has. Measure, cut, form, solder, file, sand, polish, engrave, inspect, ship. If something's not right, it doesn't leave the bench.
I still check every solder joint. I still answer my own emails. The wait is about four weeks because that's how long it takes to make something properly.
I'm not a jewellery brand in the way most people think of jewellery brands. I'm a guy who makes things. The business grew up around that, not the other way around.
If you've got questions, just message me. I'm pretty easy to get hold of.
Lou
