{"id":3049,"date":"2013-10-19T10:09:27","date_gmt":"2013-10-19T15:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=3049"},"modified":"2013-10-19T10:09:54","modified_gmt":"2013-10-19T15:09:54","slug":"3049","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=3049","title":{"rendered":"The Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I said I would post the photo of the finished silver work I have been creating. Here it is.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<p>The class sessions are almost over so I am going to have to find a way to get more casting done. The end goal is to do it myself, but I want to build a backlog of quality finished waxes before I commit to the necessary investment in machinery.<\/p>\n<p>What I have proved so far is that my old hands are still capable of doing this work. I use the power tools like the Foredom as much as possible, but the results (although still very simple in these examples) are satisfying. There is still a huge amount of hand work that is required both in the wax carving and the silver finishing.<\/p>\n<p>The treble cleft received a lot more finish polishing since this photo and it shines like a mirror. All the scratches have been removed. It&#8217;s an anniversary (45th) present to my wife. I&#8217;ll post an in situ photo after the chain I ordered arrives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I said I would post the photo of the finished silver work I have been creating. Here it is. The class sessions are almost over so I am going to have to find a way to get more casting done. The end goal is to do it myself, but I want to build a backlog of quality finished waxes before I commit to the necessary investment in machinery. What I have proved so far is&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[15,154,155],"class_list":["post-3049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hobbies","tag-carving","tag-silver","tag-wax-carving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}