{"id":11,"date":"2009-06-02T21:35:58","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T02:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brontotheroocity.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2009-06-02T21:35:58","modified_gmt":"2009-06-03T02:35:58","slug":"carving-chalcedony-is-a-blast","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/brontotheroocity\/carving-chalcedony-is-a-blast\/","title":{"rendered":"Carving Chalcedony is a blast!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wanting something new to get under my skin&#8212;-I was researching where to get supplies for carving gemstones for jewelry.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Lopacki has a little blurb about carving and I used his idea and photo to make my own rig. Using hardware store material and a nurse procured a syringe to meter out and direct the water coolant. Built an adjustable mast to hold the plumbing and hypo.<\/p>\n<p>A visit to Walmart provided a little insecticide sprayer I connected to the hypo nozzle. The small size gets under the sink for refills without having to go out or to the tub &amp; lasts several hours.<\/p>\n<p>Making a long R&amp;D short- I am pretty good. I was already a Lapidary instructor and have rocks everywhere. So I can pick something worthy and it will never be just a square of dome again&#8230;&#8230;Ahhh so nice.<\/p>\n<p>If and only If art jewelers will write wanting something mondo- I will sell some.<\/p>\n<p>If not&#8212;&#8211;I plan to get the torch out and vie for competition&#8230;&#8230; o\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wanting something new to get under my skin&#8212;-I was researching where to get supplies for carving gemstones for jewelry. Daniel Lopacki has a little blurb about carving and I used his idea and photo to make my own rig. Using hardware store material and a nurse procured a syringe to meter out and direct the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/brontotheroocity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/brontotheroocity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/brontotheroocity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/brontotheroocity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/brontotheroocity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/brontotheroocity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/brontotheroocity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/brontotheroocity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}