{"id":187,"date":"2012-02-23T10:20:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T15:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.alonestarjewelry.com\/?p=187"},"modified":"2012-02-23T10:20:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T15:20:00","slug":"faux-bone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alonestarjewelry.com\/?p=187","title":{"rendered":"Faux Bone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-8DJC1f5tLUE\/T0ZcvggBKLI\/AAAAAAAAAck\/qcqL6gvrGNk\/s1600\/card%2Bcase%2Bweb_edited-1.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 191px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-8DJC1f5tLUE\/T0ZcvggBKLI\/AAAAAAAAAck\/qcqL6gvrGNk\/s320\/card%2Bcase%2Bweb_edited-1.jpg?w=960\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5712355148613888178\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Here is a photo of my first endeavor with faux bone. This material is a plastic&#8211;some on the net say (with disdain?) that it is a pvc material&#8211;that I found easy to carve once I got down to the detail. I have not carved actual bone so can&#8217;t compare the two. The most difficult part about cutting this plate was grinding down the level surrounding our star with swirl logo, to create relief. A variety of small burs and my Foredom made the rest a pleasurable experience, even getting into that swirled line, once I got a feel for the density of the material. The color consists of a layer of black acrylic paint covered with brown shoe polish. The corners gave me the opportunity to practice putting in rivets: you can see Robert Dancik demo this at the embedded link&#8211;this is the first in about 3 videos that explain a simple process for rivets. I used silver, but copper would look very nice as it tarnishes. A simple expoxy job and voila&#8211;my card case for my Alone Star Jewelry business cards renewed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a photo of my first endeavor with faux bone. This material is a plastic&#8211;some on the net say (with disdain?) that it is a pvc material&#8211;that I found easy to carve once I got down to the detail. I have not carved actual bone so can&#8217;t compare the two. The most difficult part about cutting this plate was grinding down the level surrounding our star with swirl logo, to create relief. A variety of small burs and my Foredom made the rest a pleasurable experience, even getting into that swirled line, once I got a feel for the density of the material. The color consists of a layer of black acrylic paint covered with brown shoe polish. The corners gave me the opportunity to practice putting in rivets: you can see Robert Dancik demo this at the embedded link&#8211;this is the first in about 3 videos that explain a simple process for rivets. I used silver, but copper would look very nice as it tarnishes. A simple expoxy job and voila&#8211;my card case for my Alone Star Jewelry business cards renewed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jewelry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alonestarjewelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alonestarjewelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alonestarjewelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alonestarjewelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alonestarjewelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alonestarjewelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alonestarjewelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alonestarjewelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alonestarjewelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}