{"id":325,"date":"2013-03-07T21:39:31","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T02:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/risacher.org\/jfdi\/?p=325"},"modified":"2013-04-12T09:28:57","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T13:28:57","slug":"open-source-rings-update-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/risacher.org\/jfdi\/2013\/03\/open-source-rings-update-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Source Rings (update 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_320\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/risacher.org\/jfdi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/P1000695.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-320\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-320 \" alt=\"Unfinished castings\" src=\"https:\/\/risacher.org\/jfdi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/P1000695-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/risacher.org\/jfdi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/P1000695-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/risacher.org\/jfdi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/P1000695-624x468.jpg 624w, https:\/\/risacher.org\/jfdi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/P1000695.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-320\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Unfinished castings<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The castings of my <a title=\"Open Source Wedding Rings\" href=\"https:\/\/risacher.org\/jfdi\/2013\/02\/open-source-wedding-rings\/\">10th anniversary wedding bands<\/a> arrived today. I had them made by <a title=\"Techform Casting\" href=\"http:\/\/www.techformcasting.com\/\">Techform Casting<\/a>. They came out well.\u00a0 As they advised me, there are small pads that they added for the casting process &#8211; presumably they are residual sprues, although the casting folks didn&#8217;t call them that.<\/p>\n<p>I had a lot of angst about the size of the rings.\u00a0\u00a0 We measured our fingers with sizing rings, but they were narrow, and these rings are almost 10mm wide.\u00a0 Also, the metal shrinks during casting, which either makes the ring smaller or larger, depending on who you believe.<\/p>\n<p>My ring came out fine, but Zette&#8217;s came out too small.\u00a0 I had tried to err on the small side, on the theory that it&#8217;s easier to stretch rings than to shrink them.<\/p>\n<p>I plan to finish the rings myself, but I&#8217;m anxious about that too.\u00a0 Tempting to just get a jeweler to do it, but then they wouldn&#8217;t be quite as personal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The castings of my 10th anniversary wedding bands arrived today. I had them made by Techform Casting. They came out well.\u00a0 As they advised me, there are small pads that they added for the casting process &#8211; presumably they are residual sprues, although the casting folks didn&#8217;t call them that. I had a lot of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/risacher.org\/jfdi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/risacher.org\/jfdi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/risacher.org\/jfdi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risacher.org\/jfdi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risacher.org\/jfdi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/risacher.org\/jfdi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334,"href":"https:\/\/risacher.org\/jfdi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions\/334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/risacher.org\/jfdi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risacher.org\/jfdi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risacher.org\/jfdi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}