Silver II: Inlay I (Beginning) - Chuck Bruce

Silver II: Inlay I (Beginning) - Chuck Bruce

Class | FULL

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9/28/2025-10/3/2025
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Silver II: Inlay I (Beginning) - Chuck Bruce

Class | FULL

SILVER II: BEGINNING INLAY

INSTRUCTOR: CHUCK BRUCE

Construct an inlay box pendant (Project 1), a box ring (Project 2) and student choice after, usually an inlay cuff. Students can bring basic silver tools, pocketknives or scribes, but we will have most tools needed. Students need to bring or purchase 2-3 slabs of rock that are similar hardness and can be combined for inlay. Pattern stones do very well with plain colored stone. Expect waste rock. Students can also inlay with wood, fossil ivory, bone, and Fordite. The class fee includes Sterling Silver for Project 1 & 2, all banding silver, titanium solder pick, scribe, 1 inch steel block, pripps flux, silver hard & medium wire solder, saw blades, glues for inlay, stabilizer glues, dust masks, 3M and black craytec wheels on dremel points, green scrubby, pencil and disposable goods. Does include some banding stones and wood. Other materials are available for purchase depending on the projects chosen.

 

Class Fee: $250

Est Material Fee: $100-$300

Prerequisites: Cabochons (Calibration and Shapes), Silver 1 or Silver 2

 

Bruce, Chuck B
Chuck B Bruce

With a background in interior design and fashion merchandising, Chuck turned his passion to jewelry.  He is faculty at various schools across the county, a regional artist for 20 years and is knowledgeable in cabochons, advanced chain making, chasing & repousse, cold connections, design, fold forming, gold, granulation, lost wax casting, mokume-gane, opals, inlay, intarsia, silver I & II, spool knitting and steel tools.  www.chuckbrucedesigns.com

Lori Hart

Lori’s journey into silversmithing began with a simple New Year’s challenge: “Try 12 new

things.” After a lifetime of engineering, artistic pursuits seemed to come out of nowhere, but silver and jewelry-making proved to be the perfect amalgam of “how” and “why.” Between taking a wide variety of classes and meeting the right mentors, Lori’s love of teaching made it natural for her to become an instructor. Once retired and able to devote more time and passion to the pursuit, a class at William Holland and chance encounter with Chuck Bruce was all that was needed to make the next steps clear. Lori graduated from MIT with a Mechanical Engineering degree, and lives in Michigan. She is a member of the Michigan Silversmiths Guild and Livingston Gem and Mineral Society. Her work –almost a pure by-product of curiosity and process - has been displayed and received awards at various Michigan venues.

 

“It is an uncommon joy to find that everything you’ve done in life leads up to the current

moment, and being in exactly the right place at the right time.”