{"id":378,"date":"2011-05-24T08:12:15","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T12:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/?p=378"},"modified":"2011-05-24T08:12:15","modified_gmt":"2011-05-24T12:12:15","slug":"lapis-lazuli-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/2011\/05\/24\/lapis-lazuli-ring\/","title":{"rendered":"Lapis Lazuli Ring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I started this project with a slab of Lapis Lazuli sent to me from Kandahar, Afghanistan.&nbsp; From this rough slab, I cut an 18 x 13 mm oval cabochon.&nbsp; This is one of the &#8220;calibrated&#8221; sizes for gemstones.&nbsp; Thus I purchased from casting company the other two components the head and shank to make a ring.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s44.photobucket.com\/albums\/f8\/Gemlover7476\/?action=view&amp;current=DenimBlue2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"http:\/\/i44.photobucket.com\/albums\/f8\/Gemlover7476\/DenimBlue2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Denim Blue Ring\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These three items were combined to make the ring.&nbsp; The cabochon was cut in the lapidary in a low dome style.&nbsp; This process actually took several hours as I could not give all my attention to cutting the stone.&nbsp; At the same time, I was cutting two other stones the same size, one in lapis lazuli and the other in Peruvian blue opal.&nbsp; These other two have been made into pendants for necklaces.&nbsp; The ring cabochon was of course cut on progressively finer grits and was polished with 14000 grit diamond wheel.&nbsp; The cabochon resulting was very beautiful.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s44.photobucket.com\/albums\/f8\/Gemlover7476\/?action=view&amp;current=DenimBlue3.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"http:\/\/i44.photobucket.com\/albums\/f8\/Gemlover7476\/DenimBlue3.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Lapis Lazuli,Cabochon,Ring,Sterling Silver,handmade,artisan,one of a kind,unique\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The head and shank of the ring setting were soldered together with silver solder, then pickled and polished.&nbsp; Setting the stone into the head produced a beautiful blue ring.&nbsp; This ring is available in my Artfire <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gemlover.artfire.com\/\">shop<\/a> online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started this project with a slab of Lapis Lazuli sent to me from Kandahar, Afghanistan.&nbsp; From this rough slab, I cut an 18 x 13 mm oval cabochon.&nbsp; This is one of the &#8220;calibrated&#8221; sizes for gemstones.&nbsp; Thus I purchased from casting company the other two components the head and shank to make a [&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\/378"}],"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=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/rasmussengems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}