{"id":406,"date":"2011-08-22T20:04:18","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T00:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/?p=406"},"modified":"2011-08-22T20:04:18","modified_gmt":"2011-08-23T00:04:18","slug":"cabochons-and-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/2011\/08\/22\/cabochons-and-ring\/","title":{"rendered":"Cabochons and Ring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#006400\"><font size=\"4\"><font face=\"Verdana\">On a visit last week at my local little rock shop, I was given an offer that I could not refuse.&nbsp; They would give me a slab of Larimar and I could keep the rest after I cut them 3 oval cabochons.&nbsp; I cut five cabochons, two of which fell into multiple pieces.&nbsp; I salvaged one of the pieces and made a small half oval cab.&nbsp; The remainder was so fractured, I made it into a freeform cabochon:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s44.photobucket.com\/albums\/f8\/Gemlover7476\/?action=view&amp;current=LarimarCabochons82211.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"http:\/\/i44.photobucket.com\/albums\/f8\/Gemlover7476\/LarimarCabochons82211.jpg\" alt=\"Larimar Cabochons\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Before I made the cabochons (today), I had finished my commissioned ring for a geologist who works for an oil company that has many wells in Indonesia.&nbsp; This man got some rough diamonds from a mine there.&nbsp; I made him a bracelet featuring 7 of his diamonds.&nbsp; This is a ring with another of the rough diamonds in a bezel setting on top of a map of the area where the diamonds are found.&nbsp; The diamond actually is on top of the mine location.&nbsp; The colored map is visible through clear resin that holds the bezel in place.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s44.photobucket.com\/albums\/f8\/Gemlover7476\/?action=view&amp;current=MapRing2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"http:\/\/i44.photobucket.com\/albums\/f8\/Gemlover7476\/th_MapRing2.jpg\" alt=\"Dan Orange Ring 2\" border=\"0\"><\/a>&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/s44.photobucket.com\/albums\/f8\/Gemlover7476\/?action=view&amp;current=MapRing3.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"http:\/\/i44.photobucket.com\/albums\/f8\/Gemlover7476\/th_MapRing3.jpg\" alt=\"Dan Orange Ring 3\" border=\"0\"><\/a>&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/s44.photobucket.com\/albums\/f8\/Gemlover7476\/?action=view&amp;current=MapRing.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"http:\/\/i44.photobucket.com\/albums\/f8\/Gemlover7476\/th_MapRing.jpg\" alt=\"Dan Orange Ring\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>John<br \/><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a visit last week at my local little rock shop, I was given an offer that I could not refuse.&nbsp; They would give me a slab of Larimar and I could keep the rest after I cut them 3 oval cabochons.&nbsp; I cut five cabochons, two of which fell into multiple pieces.&nbsp; I salvaged [&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\/406"}],"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=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}