{"id":326,"date":"2011-04-22T20:54:29","date_gmt":"2011-04-23T01:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rasmussengems.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/?p=326"},"modified":"2011-04-22T20:54:29","modified_gmt":"2011-04-23T01:54:29","slug":"diamond-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/2011\/04\/22\/diamond-ring\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamond Ring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#006400\"><\/font><font size=\"4\"><\/font><font face=\"Verdana\">A friend (and now a customer) asked me to make him a ring with 9 diamonds (2 mm diameter) that were in another ring that he had worn through the metal in the shank.&nbsp; He wanted them channel set.&nbsp; I contacted the company where I buy castings and got three three stone channel settings and a shank that would go with them.&nbsp; Taking the three channels, I soldered them together with hard silver solder; then after pickling and cleaning soldered them into the ring shank with medium silver solder.&nbsp; Pickled and polished the ring.&nbsp; Hand polished to a very high shine.&nbsp; The stones were then placed in the channels and with my parallel jaw pliers the channels were narrowed to secure the stones in the setting.&nbsp; The ring is then finished.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s44.photobucket.com\/albums\/f8\/Gemlover7476\/?action=view&amp;current=DiamondRingRedodirectfront.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"http:\/\/i44.photobucket.com\/albums\/f8\/Gemlover7476\/DiamondRingRedodirectfront.jpg\" alt=\"Diamond Ring\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a lot of fun to make these.&nbsp; Working on another with six stones for the same customer.&nbsp; This will be more artisan as I will make all the components myself (no casting to be done).<\/p>\n<p>John<br \/><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend (and now a customer) asked me to make him a ring with 9 diamonds (2 mm diameter) that were in another ring that he had worn through the metal in the shank.&nbsp; He wanted them channel set.&nbsp; I contacted the company where I buy castings and got three three stone channel settings and [&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\/326"}],"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=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}