{"id":1057,"date":"2012-01-09T13:10:02","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T18:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/?p=1057"},"modified":"2012-05-29T14:14:44","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T19:14:44","slug":"new-restoration-piece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/?p=1057","title":{"rendered":"New Restoration Piece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am currently restoring a Gr\u00f6den nutcracker for a collector.\u00a0 Here are a few pictures of the piece in it&#8217;s original condition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Groden Nutcracker\" src=\"http:\/\/brandonetto.com\/Pictures\/ebay1.jpg\" alt=\"Groden Nutcracker\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Groden Nutcracker\" src=\"http:\/\/brandonetto.com\/Pictures\/ebay2.jpg\" alt=\"Groden Nutcracker\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Groden Nutcracker\" src=\"http:\/\/brandonetto.com\/Pictures\/ebay3.jpg\" alt=\"Groden Nutcracker\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As you can see this fellow has a few areas that need to be addressed.\u00a0 The base needs to be reconstructed along with the boots.\u00a0 The area under the mouth also needs repaired.\u00a0 The hat looks as if it needs repaired but after closer inspection it appears to be correct the way it is.<\/p>\n<p>I sculpted a model of the base and boots in clay to get the owner&#8217;s approval of the design.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"groden nutcracker\" src=\"http:\/\/brandonetto.com\/Pictures\/IMG_0943.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"groden nutcracker\" src=\"http:\/\/brandonetto.com\/Pictures\/IMG_0945.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"groden nutcracker\" src=\"http:\/\/brandonetto.com\/Pictures\/IMG_0946.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now that the clay model has been approved it is time to get carving.\u00a0 When the carving is complete I will match the newly carved areas to it&#8217;s aged finish and patina.<\/p>\n<p>Check back shortly to see the completed restoration.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; I am currently restoring a Gr\u00f6den nutcracker for a collector.\u00a0 Here are a few pictures of the piece in it&#8217;s original condition. As you can see this fellow has a few areas that need to be addressed.\u00a0 The base needs to be reconstructed along with the boots.\u00a0 The area under the mouth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,79],"tags":[310,103,306,98],"class_list":["post-1057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home","category-restorations","tag-carving","tag-groden-nutcracker","tag-restoration","tag-vintage-nutcracker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1057"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1106,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions\/1106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}