{"id":384,"date":"2016-05-03T20:22:57","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T01:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/?p=384"},"modified":"2020-11-08T16:18:48","modified_gmt":"2020-11-08T22:18:48","slug":"sterling-silver-and-opal-pear-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/?p=384","title":{"rendered":"Sterling Silver and Opal &#8220;Pear&#8221; Ring"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This one kind of dates me, as this is the opal ring I made for Kathy back in the 80&#8217;s that I&#8217;ve talked about elsewhere on the site, when I lived in a studio apartment in West Texas (though it could actually also use a touch-up or two and some re-polishing!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"843\" height=\"770\" src=\"http:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ring-opal_pear.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ring-opal_pear.jpg 843w, https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ring-opal_pear-300x274.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ring-opal_pear-768x701.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Sterling silver and Opal &#8220;Pear&#8221; ring made in the 80&#8217;s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Made entirely of some scrap sterling sheet I still had in my toolbox at the time and a few hand-tools, this is the piece that resulted in a request by my mother-in-law for a pair of opal earrings back then which took me close to three decades to finally make. :-\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not having anything in the apartment to attach my bench pin to, and using a portable torch set-up with disposable propane and oxygen bottles for soldering proved to be a little challenging in some ways, but I was determined to get it done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I thought the free-form opal cabochon looked a little like a pear, and as the style of jewelry I was so accustomed to making at the time was southwestern in form, I thought a design incorporating a serrated leaf, serrated bezel and a split-shank band (all very popular in southwestern jewelry at the time) would go good with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one kind of dates me, as this is the opal ring I made for Kathy back in the 80&#8217;s that I&#8217;ve talked about elsewhere on the site, when I lived in a studio apartment in West Texas (though it could actually also use a touch-up or two and some re-polishing!). Made entirely of some &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/?p=384\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sterling Silver and Opal &#8220;Pear&#8221; Ring&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rings-womens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":814,"href":"https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions\/814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silverdimensions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}