Making the Sacred Stone Baronial coronets involved a number of iterative design and creation steps. For the completed project, see the Sacred Stone Baronial Coronets post.

I came up with the overall design for the coronets. This included a double headed phoenix centerpiece, and metal plates set with stones.

The first image is my initial drawing, with much vague scribbles.

Next is a photo of a very much unfinished section. The nickel silver is as yet unhammered, the bronze plate is assembled but the stone is not set and the plate is not riveted into place. At this stage, I knew how I wanted it all to go, but was a very long way from finishing.

The third photo shows one of the coronets laid out on the leather band I eventually used. At this point, all the tedious work of texture has been completed. All the assembley rivets have been placed, it’s basically ready for final assembly. Every one of those 12 plates got four rivets to attach them on the leather bands.

The last two photos are of whichever one of the coronets on the worktable in the studio. I have no idea now which one it is.

The fun part of this was that I was building these things in the same studio where the Baron and Baroness were also preparing for Crown Tourney. I finished the first one very late on Monday night before the event, and buried it in the bottom of a box of fabric scraps. By the time I had the second one half done, sometime on Wednesday, I was tired and forgot to hide the thing, so our Baroness spotted it and thought that there was no way it would be completed. She also thought it was the first one.

Regardless, I finished both coronets at some point that same evening, and let the two of them try them on. Zoe got to add linings. We set things up for presentation in court, and this was done.