{"id":301,"date":"2011-01-15T22:53:31","date_gmt":"2011-01-16T03:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rasmussengems.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/?p=301"},"modified":"2011-01-15T22:53:31","modified_gmt":"2011-01-16T03:53:31","slug":"large-bead-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/2011\/01\/15\/large-bead-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Large Bead Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#006400\"><font size=\"5\"><font face=\"Verdana\">A bit ago, I read in Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist about a method to take a slab of material and form a large bead.&nbsp; I selected a nice looking slab of agate and laid out the four slabs that would be combined to form the large bead.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s44.photobucket.com\/albums\/f8\/Gemlover7476\/?action=view&amp;current=LargeBeadSlab.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"http:\/\/i44.photobucket.com\/albums\/f8\/Gemlover7476\/LargeBeadSlab.jpg\" alt=\"Large Bead Slab\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After bonding the four slabs together (super glue) to form a rectangular solid, I started cutting the bead on my lap.&nbsp; At this point the bead is round and measures 29 mm long and 14 mm in diameter.&nbsp; Still need to dress up the ends and I am going to add domed copper bead caps.&nbsp; Will post again with more progress.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s44.photobucket.com\/albums\/f8\/Gemlover7476\/?action=view&amp;current=LargeBeadPartWay.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"http:\/\/i44.photobucket.com\/albums\/f8\/Gemlover7476\/LargeBeadPartWay.jpg\" alt=\"Large Bead Rough\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>John<br \/><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bit ago, I read in Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist about a method to take a slab of material and form a large bead.&nbsp; I selected a nice looking slab of agate and laid out the four slabs that would be combined to form the large bead. After bonding the four slabs together (super glue) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}