{"id":137,"date":"2009-05-22T09:03:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T14:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taogem.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/uncategorized\/my-lesson-in-purchasing-silver-ring-blank-with-bezel-prong-gemstone-setting\/"},"modified":"2009-05-22T09:03:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-22T14:03:00","slug":"my-lesson-in-purchasing-silver-ring-blank-with-bezel-prong-gemstone-setting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/taogem\/2009\/05\/22\/my-lesson-in-purchasing-silver-ring-blank-with-bezel-prong-gemstone-setting\/","title":{"rendered":"My Lesson in Purchasing Silver Ring Blank with Bezel \/ Prong Gemstone Setting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was the first time I had purchased a ring blank to set a stone in. When I saw it in the magazine it appeared to have a bezel type setting with four prongs. I thought was simply going to be able and push the floral looking bezel and prongs up against the gemstone.<\/p>\n<p>After it arrived, I quickly realized after trying to push the floral like bezel and prongs that nothing was going to budge!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gemstone.smfforfree4.com\/index.php\/topic,1824.0.html\">After some discussion<\/a> and another attempt at pushing it was obvious that at least the floral like bezel setting was too thick to move. It was a bit hard to believe that at least the prongs would not budge.<\/p>\n<p>Well as things turned out, I was pretty disappointed as it became apparent that there was no way around having to glue the darn stone into the setting. I sure would not have purchased it if I had known.<\/p>\n<p>My next purchase I will sure be paying closer attention.. This was a lesson learned.. Glad it was not too expensive and that I did not purchase all three that I will need during this first purchase.<\/p>\n<p>If I can&#8217;t find a blank with a push type bezel setting then will buy the blank with a flat top and solder my own bezel setting.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/taogem.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/c31ef_a_ring.jpg\" alt=\"Photobucket\" border=\"0\" width=\"346\" height=\"304\" \/> <img src=\"http:\/\/taogem.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/b3159_a_ring1.jpg\" alt=\"Photobucket\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was the first time I had purchased a ring blank to set a stone in. When I saw it in the magazine it appeared to have a bezel type setting with four prongs. I thought was simply going to be able and push the floral looking bezel and prongs up against the gemstone. After [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/taogem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/taogem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/taogem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/taogem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/taogem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/taogem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/taogem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/taogem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/taogem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}