{"id":78,"date":"2010-09-20T15:28:42","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T20:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jewelryartsinstitute.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/?p=78"},"modified":"2010-09-20T15:28:42","modified_gmt":"2010-09-20T20:28:42","slug":"student-of-the-week-alice-finklestein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jewelryartsinstitute\/2010\/09\/20\/student-of-the-week-alice-finklestein\/","title":{"rendered":"Student of the Week-Alice Finklestein"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Congratulations to our latest Student of the Week-Alice Finklestein.\u00a0 She did a beautiful job on her ring. To create her shank we used fine silver wire , twisted and straight. Here is what she did.<\/p>\n

We took two three foot lengths of 22 gauge fine silver. We took them separately and doubled them over. We took the two loose ends and clamped them in a vise. One of the lengths we twisted clockwise and the other counterclockwise.\u00a0 When placed next to each other the twisted wires will give a braided effect.\u00a0 Once our wires were twisted tightly and evenly , we cut them. We make three\u00a0 groups six inch long,\u00a0 three wires each. A clockwise twisted, a straight 20 gauge fine silver wire and a counterclockwise twisted. We blob a little solder\u00a0 at the end of each group of three to stabilize them. We then put them side by side in a vise and braid them. Left over the middle, right over the middle.\u00a0 It’s very important to keep the braid flat so we braid one wire at a time and keep pressing it flat with a dowel.\u00a0\u00a0 When we are done braiding, we anneal and CAREFULLY use a leather mallet to tamp it a bit. Fine silver would normally be too soft for a ring shank but we find the braided ones hold up very well.\u00a0 Here’s to Alice,\u00a0 she did a beautiful job here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Congratulations to our latest Student of the Week-Alice Finklestein.\u00a0 She did a beautiful job on her ring. To create her shank we used fine silver wire , twisted and straight. Here is what she did. We took two three foot lengths of 22 gauge fine silver. We took them separately and doubled them over. We […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":149,"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\/jewelryartsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jewelryartsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jewelryartsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jewelryartsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/149"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jewelryartsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jewelryartsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jewelryartsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/81"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jewelryartsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jewelryartsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/jewelryartsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}