{"id":3551,"date":"2014-12-11T13:09:06","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T19:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=3551"},"modified":"2014-12-11T13:09:45","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T19:09:45","slug":"3551","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=3551","title":{"rendered":"Silver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ramblindan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC05056.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3550\" src=\"http:\/\/ramblindan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC05056-200x133.jpg\" alt=\"Dan's Silverwork\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC05056-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC05056-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC05056-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC05056-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DSC05056-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>I\u00a0gathered my silver casting work\u00a0I still have around, and put it together on my work bench lamp\u00a0base. So here is a\u00a0group picture. It&#8217;s all 100% Sterling and 100% made in the USA (even the raw silver is from the USA)<\/p>\n<p>I am doing the wax work and the casting (lost wax process) and having a load of fun being creative. Silver price has been dropping so the investment in what is shown is not very high. Under $150\u00a0the amount\u00a0shown. The personal value is well more than the raw cost of silver, but it is always worth no less than the current silver market, perhaps less a traders discount.<\/p>\n<p>The chains for example are worth more than the silver from which they are made. There are a lot of companies and silversmiths and jewelers working with silver. The craft is very old, but difficult enough to make it a challenge. The only thing worthwhile for me to make in silver are special custom items that have a personal worth. I want to do some more rings as they are always popular.<\/p>\n<p>Solid gold\u00a0casting\u00a0is far out of my reach for now,\u00a0but I never say never. One day when I get really good at this, someone may ask\u00a0me to cast a gold item and if they supply the gold, well&#8230; why not?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00a0gathered my silver casting work\u00a0I still have around, and put it together on my work bench lamp\u00a0base. So here is a\u00a0group picture. It&#8217;s all 100% Sterling and 100% made in the USA (even the raw silver is from the USA) I am doing the wax work and the casting (lost wax process) and having a load of fun being creative. Silver price has been dropping so the investment in what is shown is not very&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[157,154],"class_list":["post-3551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hobbies","tag-lost-wax-casting","tag-silver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3551","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=3551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}