{"id":394,"date":"2011-07-08T01:05:37","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T05:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/?p=394"},"modified":"2011-07-08T01:06:09","modified_gmt":"2011-07-08T05:06:09","slug":"394","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/2011\/07\/08\/394\/","title":{"rendered":"Saga of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\">In the continuing saga of making jewelry for my wife (she does get first chance at anything done), she chose two stones to be turned into cabochons the then jewelry.&nbsp; The smaller tourmilated quartz was to be a ring, and the Peruvian blue opal to make a necklace.&nbsp; After the lapidary work, the opal was drilled to make it a pendant, strung on black leather and add a steel chain and lobster claw clasp and we have a necklace.<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s44.photobucket.com\/albums\/f8\/Gemlover7476\/?action=view&amp;current=BlueOpalStone.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"http:\/\/i44.photobucket.com\/albums\/f8\/Gemlover7476\/th_BlueOpalStone.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Blue Opal Necklace\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/s44.photobucket.com\/albums\/f8\/Gemlover7476\/?action=view&amp;current=BlueOpalNecklace.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"http:\/\/i44.photobucket.com\/albums\/f8\/Gemlover7476\/th_BlueOpalNecklace.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Blue Opal Necklace\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\">The ring of course was a bit more difficult.&nbsp; In this case, I bought the ring shank and the head from a casting company.&nbsp; Then I had to size the shank, solder the head in place, pickle the piece, then polish it.&nbsp; Unlike a lot of artisan jewelers, I do not own a tumbler, so I hand polish all my pieces.&nbsp; Final polishing is done with Dremel and red rouge.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s44.photobucket.com\/albums\/f8\/Gemlover7476\/?action=view&amp;current=TourmilatedQuartzRingOblique.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"http:\/\/i44.photobucket.com\/albums\/f8\/Gemlover7476\/th_TourmilatedQuartzRingOblique.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/s44.photobucket.com\/albums\/f8\/Gemlover7476\/?action=view&amp;current=TourmilatedQuartzRing.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"http:\/\/i44.photobucket.com\/albums\/f8\/Gemlover7476\/th_TourmilatedQuartzRing.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Tourmilated Quartz Ring\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\">This is so much fun, sometimes I forget that I have other things to do (like sleep). <\/span><\/span>Everyone, have a great summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the continuing saga of making jewelry for my wife (she does get first chance at anything done), she chose two stones to be turned into cabochons the then jewelry.&nbsp; The smaller tourmilated quartz was to be a ring, and the Peruvian blue opal to make a necklace.&nbsp; After the lapidary work, the opal was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394"}],"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=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}