{"id":45,"date":"2012-08-07T03:41:59","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T07:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/gerrylewy\/?p=45"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:50:34","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T21:50:34","slug":"bead-dazzled-modifying-burnishers-for-safer-bead-setting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/gerrylewy\/2012\/08\/07\/bead-dazzled-modifying-burnishers-for-safer-bead-setting\/","title":{"rendered":"Bead Dazzled – Modifying Burnishers for Safer Bead Setting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Instead of reaching for the calamine lotion, reach for a bead burnisher that is slightly larger than the bead itself. If you use a bead burnisher that is exactly the same size as the bead, you will find an unsightly little cup or rim around the top of the bead.<\/p>\n

And to make the bead burnisher safer to use around fragile stones, give it a slight modification. Lay the tip of the burnisher on an oilstone at a 45 degree angle and draw it across the stone two to three times to create a little facet just at the tip of the tool. Originally the burnisher should have had a complete circle at the rim. If you look at the tool point with a 10x loupe after making the modification, you will see that it has only 75 percent of a circle. Now, with the faceted tool edge almost resting\u00a0against the gemstone, you can avoid damaging the facets of the stone while burnishing bead tips. You can even hold the burnisher at a vertical angle without any qualms about breakage, allowing you to safely burnish bead tips to your heart’s content.<\/p>\n

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Does the thought of burnishing bead tips that are right up against a fragile gemstone make you break out in hives? It’s perfectly normal for your heart to stop for a moment while you contemplate the scenario of crunching the crown or girdle facets of that expensive stone. What do you do to get those […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/gerrylewy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/gerrylewy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/gerrylewy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/gerrylewy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/gerrylewy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/gerrylewy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":410,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/gerrylewy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/gerrylewy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/gerrylewy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/gerrylewy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}