{"id":44,"date":"2008-12-29T12:34:53","date_gmt":"2008-12-29T17:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coralnut.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/?p=42"},"modified":"2008-12-29T12:34:53","modified_gmt":"2008-12-29T17:34:53","slug":"black-coral-revisited-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/coralnut\/2008\/12\/29\/black-coral-revisited-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Coral Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gail asked if\u00a0the original black coral article talks about using water to soften the coral to bend it.\u00a0 Unlike the Antipatharian (deep trench) black coral, it is not necessary to boil it in order to bend.\u00a0 Simple cool water will do.\u00a0 Since writing the original article, I have also perfected using heat from a simple heat gun (hair dryers just don&#8217;t seem to do the job) but a torch or alcohol flame can be used as well tho it takes a loooot of practice to keep from burning it.\u00a0I have also found that the Antipatharian corals will bend to some degree with heat but it is more difficult.\u00a0 There are also black corals (for example; Sea Plume and Dead Man&#8217;s Fingers) that are not black but\u00a0beautiful brown in color.\u00a0 These will not bend with water but will bend with heat also.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The original article may be a bit difficult to find.\u00a0 If that is the case, please let me know and I will post it here.<\/p>\n<p>Anne:\u00a0 Yes, and the workshop is coming up pretty soon.\u00a0 As\u00a0I can only take 10 in the shop&#8230;.don&#8217;t wait to sign up!!\u00a0 Cheers, Coralnut<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gail asked if\u00a0the original black coral article talks about using water to soften the coral to bend it.\u00a0 Unlike the Antipatharian (deep trench) black coral, it is not necessary to boil it in order to bend.\u00a0 Simple cool water will do.\u00a0 Since writing the original article, I have also perfected using heat from a simple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/coralnut\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/coralnut\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/coralnut\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/coralnut\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/coralnut\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/coralnut\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/coralnut\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/coralnut\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/coralnut\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}