{"id":52,"date":"2020-12-28T19:15:08","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T19:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/veryinterestingthings.com\/?page_id=52"},"modified":"2020-12-30T14:36:49","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T22:36:49","slug":"lapidary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/veryinterestingthings.com\/index.php\/making\/lapidary\/","title":{"rendered":"Lapidary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Lapidary&#8221; refers to the art of cutting gemstones other than diamond.\u00a0 The process involves grinding\/shaping and polishing to enhance their natural properties and making them suitable for mounting in jewelry. \u00a0Rough material is either cut into rounded &#8220;cabochons&#8221; or faceted to produce the classic brilliant-cut diamonds or other faceted gems like emeralds, sapphires or rubies. \u00a0The equipment required for each of these operations is quite different.<\/p>\n<p>My experience is primarily with cutting opal, which is a fascinating material that, in its rarest state, rivals the most precious gems in terms of value-per-carat weight. \u00a0Many years ago my father and I built our own custom-made machines for cutting and polishing cabochons, and these became the basis for learning about cutting opal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Lapidary&#8221; refers to the art of cutting gemstones other than diamond.\u00a0 The process involves grinding\/shaping and polishing to enhance their natural properties and making them suitable for mounting in jewelry. \u00a0Rough material is either cut into rounded &#8220;cabochons&#8221; or faceted to produce the classic brilliant-cut diamonds or other faceted gems like emeralds, sapphires or rubies&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":34,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-52","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/veryinterestingthings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/veryinterestingthings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/veryinterestingthings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veryinterestingthings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veryinterestingthings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/veryinterestingthings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217,"href":"https:\/\/veryinterestingthings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52\/revisions\/217"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veryinterestingthings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/veryinterestingthings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}