{"id":305,"date":"2011-02-03T00:13:26","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T05:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rasmussengems.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/?p=305"},"modified":"2011-02-03T00:13:26","modified_gmt":"2011-02-03T05:13:26","slug":"wifes-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/2011\/02\/03\/wifes-ring\/","title":{"rendered":"Wife&#8217;s Ring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#006400\"><font size=\"5\"><font face=\"Verdana\">For those new to the forum, Debbie is my wife and the inspiration for most of my artistry.&nbsp; She came into the shop a couple days ago and looked through the gem jars (several hundred) of the cabochons and faceted stones that are in our collection and my inventory and selected a triangular cabochon of rhodonite.&nbsp; She handed me the stone and asked if I could make a ring for her with the &#8220;trillion.&#8221;&nbsp; The cabochon is about 7 mm on each side.&nbsp; The basic ring was not a problem, but I did not want to use standard bezel wire to hold this stone in place.&nbsp; I decided to make a circle the diameter of the stone, so there would be a flap on each side.&nbsp; Folding up these flaps would act as the bezel and hold the stone in place.<\/p>\n<p>The ring was fused together in size 7 using 9 gauge half round half hard Sterling Silver wire.&nbsp; The bezel\/back combination was pierced from a sheet of 26 gauge Sterling Silver sheet, then filed to a circle.&nbsp; This was soldered to the ring, then the stone placed and the flaps bent up using my homemade bezel pusher.&nbsp; If you click on the thumbnails you can see a large picture.&nbsp; The lighting makes the metal look yellowish.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s44.photobucket.com\/albums\/f8\/Gemlover7476\/?action=view&amp;current=RhodoniteRing.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"http:\/\/i44.photobucket.com\/albums\/f8\/Gemlover7476\/th_RhodoniteRing.jpg\" alt=\"Rhodonite,Cabochon,Sterling Silver,Ring,Homemade,Unique\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s44.photobucket.com\/albums\/f8\/Gemlover7476\/?action=view&amp;current=RhodoniteRing2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"http:\/\/i44.photobucket.com\/albums\/f8\/Gemlover7476\/th_RhodoniteRing2.jpg\" alt=\"Rhodonite,Cabochon,Sterling Silver,Ring,Homemade,Unique\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>John<br \/><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those new to the forum, Debbie is my wife and the inspiration for most of my artistry.&nbsp; She came into the shop a couple days ago and looked through the gem jars (several hundred) of the cabochons and faceted stones that are in our collection and my inventory and selected a triangular cabochon of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}