After a break, smallstuffstudio is back on track! I had to move our studio and all the stuff i need for doing art & toys was packed up in big boxes for a few weeks. Now we’ve settled down near the beautiful Zurich lake and i’ve started with new toy projects right on!

We have a lot of fancy new things ready for you, so let’s start with some shots of the PANGAPANGA CREW! The PANGAPANGABLOCKS you might know allready, but now PANGABOSS is here to keep an eye on them! They will be available soon at my shop, just be sure to sign up for our newsletter and get all the news ahead of the others! (pssst… you can even win one of these guys!)

4″ PANGABOSS with his 2.5″ PANGAPANGABLOCKS by pepe

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Hell hell hell…. No nut stays uncracked when he comes!!!

walnut wood & brass eyes / high-gloss finish
handcrafted, iron-branding signed & numbered by pepe

available next month in our SHOP!

panga-panga wood & alder wood / high-gloss finish
numbered & iron-branding signed (No. 01-05)
designed & handcrafted by pepe

…soon available in our SMALLSTUFFSHOP

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4″ Wood Designer Toy by pepe
(pear- and maplewood, high-gloss finish)

Besides pushing my resin AncientCritters to get them ready for shipping, i felt like i should do another Wooden Toy for the Collection. The idea for this tiny giraffe came little by little while cutting and sanding the pet out of a rough wooden sheet and somehow i finally bring up to a round figure. There was no concept drawings or sketches for this design. I used pearwood for the body and maplewood for the smaller parts, then finished the piece with a high-gloss varnish to get all these sweet highlights.

PEARGIR will be soon available in our shop, follow me on twitter to get to know when he’s up for you!

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The first bunch of XMAS PEARBLOCK Angels are gone for Christmas and
few more waiting for their new owners. Happy Hollidays to all!

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Ok i’m late as usual

…so i’ve worked today on my small series of XMAS PEARBLOCKS.
I droped the arms because they where to small for my taste, i’m fine with
only the two wings on the back of the body.

All the pieces are now finished with semigloss varnish. Still have to
assemble them and have to find a nice giftpackage solution…no idea
about this, very simple i think. For iron branding it will be too late
…grrr no time. (and srry for the blurry mobilepics i’ll update you
with better pic’s of this series PEARBLOCKS when Christmas is over)

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Last month I had so much work to do in the model building studio and nighttimes i was more on the painting-some-stuff-wave. Finally I’m ready again to work on my Toys and I’m really enjoying it to work with wood. It’s such a wonderfull material and it offers so many ways to cut, drill, mill and carving some nice toys out of it.

For the time beeing I’m working on a first small series of my PEARBLOCK Wooden Designer Toy. Have some ideas for these first 15 pieces. I want to spend them two angel wings out of bright wood (maybe maple), but I’m not shure if it fits well…any suggestions? I planed to give most of them away as Chrismas presents. Check the WIP pictures of the process so far…well, still lot to do till x-mas! …and if you be in luck, maybe Santa won’t give away all of them and you can get even one of these guys in my shop, stay tuned

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PEARBLOCK and PEARDEER (3 inch/ 2.5 inch Wooden Designer Toys)

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I’m a huge fan of brass, it’s really easy to work with it and it’s perfect for my next small experiment: branding my wooden toy hordes!

I used the CNC milling cutter to get me some small brass stamps with my name engraved (first attempt was a miss, because i forgot to mirror inverted the letters…urgh ). With a soldering iron and some patience with the sightly goatish PEARBLOCK guys, i got the result I’m looking for!

Check also the pictures with the new fellow, i call him the PEAR DEER. I gave him a nice and shiny semi gloss finish, hope you like him…

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I’m really having a rush with these wooden toys…it’s getting more and more like an addiction. Everyday coming home from work with a new tiny toy in my pockets. As you can see, my proto-PEARBLOCK has met some fellas to hang out at the woods

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The little Wodden PEARBLOCK is made out of pear and oak wood finished and coated with natural linseed oil

Today was fun, had to work during the morning at the model workshop. I was really bleary-eyed from last nights page template customizing, so on the side of lazy working i made me a quick wooden toy. Had no sketches for this little guy, it was just cutting and sanding into the blue. The design has only two joints for the arms, so it’s kind of simple and not rich detailed, just a rough protoype … kind of like him and want to define some details a bit more (proportions, face, painting) …and maybe i’ll try out some silly ideas (how about to drill him the whole head away… hey, just a thougt