Make A Silver Trinket Box (Advanced Silver Course)

Learn to make a beautiful nesting lid silver trinket box. Great for Developing your Silverwork Skills

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Learn how to design and make your own silver trinket box in this advanced level course

If you're a jeweller looking to extend your skills in jewellery design, making and soldering then this course is for you! Taught in a series of bite-sized videos by expert jeweller, Hayley Kruger, in this courses you will learn how to create your own silver trinket box with a nesting lid.

You will learn how to:

  • Design
  • Construct
  • Measure
  • Solder
  • Pierce
  • File
  • Polish and finish your bespoke silver trinket box with nesting lid to a professional standard

All of these techniques take time and practice and in this in-depth video course we have 9 lessons to guide you through the process which you can re-watch as many times as you like to perfect the skills and master the techniques.

This is an advanced level class that will help you develop your confidence in all areas of metal work as well as being a lovely project to make and sell

Make a silver trinket box online workshop with Jewellers Academy

What Will You Get?

  • Lifetime access to comprehensive video lessons, guiding you through all the techniques, tips and tricks to perfecting your stone setting
  • Advice and guidance from an experienced jeweller on how to manage commissions and working with clients
  • Downloadable course notes to work alongside the videos
  • Access to our supportive community of jewellers and tutors to help you at every stage of the process
  • Access to the videos 24/7 - you can stop, pause, rewind and replay as much as you like
  • Excellent close-up shots to see what is happening in each step so you don't miss a thing
Make a silver trinket box online workshop with Jewellers Academy

Your Instructor


Hayley Kruger
Hayley Kruger
Hayley Kruger is a jewellery designer and jewellery industry professional who has worked in many aspects of the trade since 2002. With a BA Honours in Jewellery and Silversmithing, Hayley went onto work as a designer for many of the UK's most recognisable retailers such as Top Shop, Marks & Spencer, River Island, Next, Lola Rose, Orelia, Morgan and many more.
She taught for many years at the London Jewellery School and has been a mentor for the Jewellers Academy Diploma courses since the beginning, currently mentoring on the Advanced Jewellery Diploma.


Hayley was invited to show her work at the Victoria and Albert Museum, has been published in Vogue, Stylist and Marie Claire to name a few. And she was invited to be an ambassador for Triumph Lingerie's Women in Making campaigns 2013 and 2014.


Using the experience she gained, Hayley now works from her studio in Cirencester on private commissions including engagement rings and shares her knowledge on various aspects of the jewellery industry.


Who better to learn from than an experienced goldsmith?

Course Curriculum


  Make a Silver Box with Hayley Kruger
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  Diploma in Silver Jewellery - Online, One Year Course
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This is an advanced level course suitable for jewellers who have experience of working with sheet silver metal and are competent at soldering and basic stone setting.

If you are new to working with silver but would like to give it a try take a look at our beginners course The Silver Jewellery Workshop, the Soldering Masterclass and Stone Setting in Silver first.

Tools and Materials

Tools

  • Bench peg
  • Piercing saw and blade/s
  • Wax to lubricate saw blade
  • Ruler
  • Fine permanent marker e.g. sharpie
  • Flat file
  • Needle file set
  • Steel block
  • Tweezers
  • Rawhide mallet
  • Ring mandrel or doming punch
  • Pliers set - flat nosed, round nosed and D shaped
  • Parallel pliers
  • D shaped pliers
  • Doming block and doming punch
  • Sandbag
  • Sandpaper - coarse, 800 - 1000
  • Emery sticks
  • Propane/butane torch (we used the GoSystem torch)
  • Jewellers charcoal block
  • Firing/soldering bricks
  • Binding wire
  • Bowl for quenching
  • Flux and paint brush (borax is recommended for larger pieces like the box)
  • Safety glasses
  • Jewellers pickle
  • Optional: Pendant motor/Dremel/Foredom with flex shaft attachment
  • Important: ensure you read the instructions and safety guidelines before using and always wear safely glasses when using a pendant motor
  • Your choice of polishing mops

Materials

  • 2 x silver strip. Each strip is 85mm or 8.5cm long, 8mm deep, 0.8mm thick (these are for the side of the box and the side of the lid)
  • 2 x square piece of silver 3.5cm x 3.5cm for the base of the box and lid. Thickness is your choice, the thicker the piece,
  • the more heat you'll need to solder it. Hayley used 0.5mm thickness in this example
  • 1 x silver strip. 85mm or 8.5cm x 5mm - 0.5mm thick. This is for the inner rim of the box
  • Embellishment of your choice for the top of the box (see the course for more info)
  • Hard solder and easy solder

Suppliers

To source your tools and materials, take a look at our list of worldwide jewellery suppliers https://www.jewellersacademy.com/jewellery-supplie...


We look forward to welcoming you on the course and seeing your new creations soon

Student Work...

Here are some beautiful boxes made using this course

Made by (left to right) Sue Chapman and Lynne Glazzard

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