{"id":375,"date":"2011-05-21T06:40:37","date_gmt":"2011-05-21T10:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/?p=375"},"modified":"2011-05-21T06:40:37","modified_gmt":"2011-05-21T10:40:37","slug":"necklaces-necklaces-necklaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/2011\/05\/21\/necklaces-necklaces-necklaces\/","title":{"rendered":"Necklaces, Necklaces, Necklaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\">For the recent past, I have been almost exclusively making pendants and necklaces.&nbsp; The most recent have involved beading, silversmithing, stone setting, lapidary, design and several other techniques.&nbsp; This pendant was inspired by the rock crystal cabochon that is the focal spot of the pendant.&nbsp; It is internally flawless.&nbsp; Using sheet Sterling Silver, I sawed the back of the pendant in an outline of the tear shape of the cabochon.&nbsp; Then adding a 4 prong head for an accent stone, I set the cabochon with fine silver bezel wire.&nbsp; A 6 mm faceted Citrine was added as the accent stone at the top of the cabochon.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/s44.photobucket.com\/albums\/f8\/Gemlover7476\/?action=view&amp;current=QuartzCabochonwithCitrineAccent.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"http:\/\/i44.photobucket.com\/albums\/f8\/Gemlover7476\/th_QuartzCabochonwithCitrineAccent.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Citrine and Quartz\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\">The next two, the last finished this morning, were crafted from prismatic beads in the shop inventory.&nbsp; The first was made with copper goldstone beads and copper chain and findings.&nbsp; The second was crafted from specular hematite beads using brass plated steel wire and findings to complete the necklace. &nbsp;<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s44.photobucket.com\/albums\/f8\/Gemlover7476\/?action=view&amp;current=CopperGoldstone.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"http:\/\/i44.photobucket.com\/albums\/f8\/Gemlover7476\/th_CopperGoldstone.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Copper Goldstone\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/s44.photobucket.com\/albums\/f8\/Gemlover7476\/?action=view&amp;current=SpecularHematiteNecklace.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"http:\/\/i44.photobucket.com\/albums\/f8\/Gemlover7476\/th_SpecularHematiteNecklace.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Specular Hematite\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\"> <\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif\">Today, one of my friends will be coming over to the shop to begin his journey toward gems and jewelry.&nbsp; He is young and wants to begin learning.&nbsp; So today he will start learning about gems and their properties.&nbsp; With temperatures predicted in the 90s this weekend, I will enjoy staying inside to work in the shop at my bench.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the recent past, I have been almost exclusively making pendants and necklaces.&nbsp; The most recent have involved beading, silversmithing, stone setting, lapidary, design and several other techniques.&nbsp; This pendant was inspired by the rock crystal cabochon that is the focal spot of the pendant.&nbsp; It is internally flawless.&nbsp; Using sheet Sterling Silver, I sawed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,6,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375"}],"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=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}