Hi, I knocked this up today and thought as i was posting it here i would add a little personal CrystalXP touch to it

I'm still learning photoshop and i'm sure there was a lot more i could have done to this, but any advice or just comments about what you think would be really appriciated.

Welcome to CrXP DPS9682

That's an awesome icon , the metal effect around is perfectly done giving a realistic look , you can always post such icons in Iconbox but the only requirement is that the icon should be in 256*256 px in size and should have a transparent background (PNG format)

Have a nice stay

Thank you, I also made it an icon as you mentioned.
256x256 Icon Version

That is an awesome icon!!
I like it very, very much! Can you post this big version without the glow and black background, please?

Welcome to CrystalXP

Great !!!  

Thanks guys, glad you like it.

Here are the bigger versions without bg and glow, with and without reflection.

Click to enlarge (only the thumbnails have black bg's, for some reason it's how imageshack show thumbnails )

 Very nice and well done

Really very nice icon. I always use different icons everyday. If you don't want to use the photoshop then there are some other software available with which you can make such a nice illustration.