Snake Pendant, stainless steel
4.6 out of 5 from 1,846 ratings
$14.99
HZMAN official brand catalogue
HZMAN makes jewellery out of stainless steel, leather and stone for people who do not take it off. This is our own catalogue: 562 pieces in nine departments, with the metal, the length and the width printed on every page, and prices we update on a schedule.

Start here
Cross pendants on wheat chains, signet rings and braided leather. These are the shapes the HZMAN workshop keeps making, and the ones we would hand a friend who asked where to start.
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$15.70
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$17.99
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$17.99
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$15.99
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$12.99
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$15.99
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Nine departments
Each department page carries the whole bench for that shape, with the specification printed under every piece: metal, length, width and price.

The workshop
The first HZMAN piece was a steel cross on a wheat chain, made in 2013 for a friend who rode and kept snapping silver ones. Silver is soft. It stretches at the bail, the bail opens, and the pendant ends up on a garage floor. Steel does not do that.
That single order turned into a bench of crosses and dog tags, then skulls, then the norse knotwork that half the range carries now. We at HZMAN still work the same way: someone asks for a shape, we make it, and if it survives a year of daily wear it stays in the catalogue.
The Los Angeles studio is small. There is no showroom and no appointment book, because the work happens on a bench and ships in a box.
Faith line
Crosses, crucifixes, praying hands, saints and prayer plates. It is the oldest part of the HZMAN range and still the largest: the workshop started with a steel cross on a wheat chain, and the shapes here have grown out of that one piece.
4.6 out of 5 from 3,819 ratings
$15.70
4.6 out of 5 from 3,276 ratings
$17.99
4.5 out of 5 from 644 ratings
$15.99
4.5 out of 5 from 3,573 ratings
$17.99
4.7 out of 5 from 3,316 ratings
$17.99
4.6 out of 5 from 3,541 ratings
$16.99
4.7 out of 5 from 1,851 ratings
$13.99
4.6 out of 5 from 3,976 ratings
$14.99

Materials
Stainless steel holds an edge of detail that pewter and zinc alloy lose in the mould. A skull cast in steel still has eye sockets at arm's length. The same skull in soft alloy reads as a lump after a month in a pocket. Steel also shrugs off water, sweat and sunscreen, which is the whole point of jewellery you wear rather than store.
Leather is the opposite material and we keep it for that reason. A braided cuff darkens where your wrist touches it and softens into your own shape. It also hates the shower, so the HZMAN range keeps the two apart and says which is which on every page.
Stone and wood beads sit between them. They polish smooth with wear, they chip if you drop them on tile, and hand sanitiser dulls them faster than anything else people do to jewellery.
Gothic line
Skulls, reapers, claws, daggers and everything with a shadow in it. The detail is where these live or die: a cast skull with soft eye sockets looks like a toy, so the pieces we keep on the bench are the ones where the relief still reads at arm's length.
4.6 out of 5 from 1,846 ratings
$14.99
4.9 out of 5 from 21 ratings
$18.99
5.0 out of 5 from 4 ratings
$12.99
4.6 out of 5 from 688 ratings
$15.99
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$15.99
4.5 out of 5 from 477 ratings
$17.99
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$17.99
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$17.99
Five lines
The same pieces sorted by motif. Faith, gothic, norse, animals and the soft line of leather and beads.
Norse line
Hammers, valknuts, runes, wolves and knotwork. Norse motifs carry meaning for the people who wear them, and the HZMAN approach is to name the motif plainly and leave the meaning to the wearer.
4.3 out of 5 from 4 ratings
$7.99
4.4 out of 5 from 38 ratings
$10.99
4.6 out of 5 from 422 ratings
$12.99
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$12.99
5.0 out of 5 from 6 ratings
$6.49
4.4 out of 5 from 553 ratings
$7.49
4.3 out of 5 from 605 ratings
$25.59
5.0 out of 5 from 4 ratings
$14.99

How it wears
Plated gold wears. Every plated piece in the lineup is steel underneath, and on a ring the finish goes first at the knuckle side where the other hand grips it. On a pendant it goes on the back, against the shirt. Two pieces worn in rotation last roughly twice as long as one worn daily.
Steel runs cooler and harder than silver. It keeps a cast edge for years, it shrugs off water and sweat, and it cannot be resized once it leaves the workshop. Buy the size you measure rather than the size you hope for.
Leather goes the other way and improves. A braided cuff darkens where the wrist touches it and takes the shape of the arm inside a month, which is exactly why the HZMAN way is to keep both materials on the bench instead of choosing one.
Before you buy
Sizing, plating and skin. We read the primary sources, quote them word for word and print the date we read them.
The bench
All 562 pieces in one list, newest departments first.
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$11.99
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$14.99
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$9.99
4.6 out of 5 from 3,819 ratings
$15.70
4.6 out of 5 from 3,276 ratings
$17.99
4.5 out of 5 from 644 ratings
$15.99
4.4 out of 5 from 521 ratings
$11.99