{"id":136,"date":"2014-05-23T11:01:19","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T17:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fredkaems.com\/?p=136"},"modified":"2014-05-23T11:38:58","modified_gmt":"2014-05-23T17:38:58","slug":"casting-a-ring-shank-out-of-silver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fredkaems.com\/?p=136","title":{"rendered":"Casting a ring shank out of silver"},"content":{"rendered":"

The blue stuff is wax that I carved into the form of the ring. Once I have it cast in silver and cleaned up I will be attaching a wooden component to the top to complete the project.\"Ring<\/a>\"ring<\/a> \"ring<\/a> \"ring<\/a> \"ring<\/a>\"ring<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The blue stuff is wax that I carved into the form of the ring. Once I have it cast in silver and cleaned up I will be attaching a wooden component to the top to complete the project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qvRk-2c","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":144,"url":"https:\/\/fredkaems.com\/?p=144","url_meta":{"origin":136,"position":0},"title":"Ranges- wood and silver ring","author":"Fred","date":"May 23, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Here is the finished piece. 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