{"id":34,"date":"2013-11-28T04:45:26","date_gmt":"2013-11-28T04:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/kavitha\/?p=34"},"modified":"2013-11-28T04:45:26","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T04:45:26","slug":"goldsilver-melting-traditional-method-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/kavitha\/2013\/11\/28\/goldsilver-melting-traditional-method-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold\/Silver melting &#8211; Traditional method in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though there are kilns and furnaces in all shapes and sizes to melt metal, I found this method very interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier times they used to have the husk of rice, topped it with charcoal and then these crucibles. Then they used to blow with a pipe. And the fire surrounded the crucible with the metal in it. And in very few minutes they removed the molten metal and poured it.<\/p>\n<p>Now instead of blowing manually they use a motor.<\/p>\n<p>I have also done melting in furnaces, but this is really amazing. No hassles, just 2 minutes!<\/p>\n<p>I requested one of the goldsmiths to allow me to shoot it, and he agreed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1oDvItIUVDY\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1oDvItIUVDY<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though there are kilns and furnaces in all shapes and sizes to melt metal, I found this method very interesting. Earlier times they used to have the husk of rice, topped it with charcoal and then these crucibles. Then they used to blow with a pipe. And the fire surrounded the crucible with the metal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"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\/kavitha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/kavitha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/kavitha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/kavitha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/kavitha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/kavitha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/kavitha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/kavitha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/kavitha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/kavitha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}