{"id":12,"date":"2008-11-05T10:37:43","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T11:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alastairmc.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/?p=12"},"modified":"2008-11-05T10:37:43","modified_gmt":"2008-11-05T11:37:43","slug":"trilliants-in-channel-surround-settings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/alastairmc\/2008\/11\/05\/trilliants-in-channel-surround-settings\/","title":{"rendered":"Trilliants in channel surround settings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 300px\">\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/alastairmc\/files\/2008\/11\/rowanpic1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13 \" src=\"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/alastairmc\/files\/2008\/11\/rowanpic1-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/alastairmc\/files\/2008\/11\/rowanpic1-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/alastairmc\/files\/2008\/11\/rowanpic1-1024x771.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/alastairmc\/files\/2008\/11\/rowanpic1.jpg 1720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">5mm Trilliant cut Tanzanites in 9ct channel surrounds, purchased ear hooks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The channel was made by drawing a strip of gold through a round drawplate along with a piece of piano wire. The resulting channel was curved to a radius slightly larger\u00a0\u00a0than the sides of the stones so that the corners of the stones will be free-floating. The mitres for the two lower corners were filed about\u00a0one third\u00a0through, and\u00a0the channels\u00a0bent into triangles. The lower mitres\u00a0are not soldered. The top of the channel is open and an open eye was soldered on\u00a0leaving a common\u00a0opening.<\/p>\n<p>The eye is\u00a0prised open, the stone inserted, and the eye pinched closed to trap the stone in the channel. The unsoldered\u00a0mitres allow the channel to bend open and closed without distortion. A jump ring is crimped around the waist to lock the channel tight around the stone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The channel was made by drawing a strip of gold through a round drawplate along with a piece of piano wire. The resulting channel was curved to a radius slightly larger\u00a0\u00a0than the sides of the stones so that the corners of the stones will be free-floating. The mitres for the two lower corners were filed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/alastairmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/alastairmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/alastairmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/alastairmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/alastairmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/alastairmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/alastairmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/alastairmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/alastairmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}