{"id":291,"date":"2009-10-17T07:28:10","date_gmt":"2009-10-17T12:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ardoria.com\/?p=291"},"modified":"2012-05-29T14:41:20","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T19:41:20","slug":"the-restoration-goes-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/?p=291","title":{"rendered":"The Restoration Goes On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The design for the nutcracker has been agreed upon and Brandon is now on to the carving phase of the restoration. \u00a0\u00a0 The first step was to add the wood to the original piece being very cautious due to the age of the piece.\u00a0 Then it was on to the carving.\u00a0 Brandon is quite meticulous when working.\u00a0 When I go out to the shop I find him wearing his jeweler&#8217;s visor (a.k.a. cheaters) and using another magnifying glass getting things just right.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ardoria.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/wood_leg_2a3.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[291]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-317\" title=\"wood_leg_2a\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.ardoria.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/wood_leg_2a3-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"wood_leg_2a\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ardoria.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/wood_leg_2b3.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[291]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-319\" title=\"wood_leg_2b\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.ardoria.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/wood_leg_2b3-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"wood_leg_2b\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ardoria.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/wood_leg_1a2.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[291]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-320\" title=\"wood_leg_1a\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.ardoria.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/wood_leg_1a2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"wood_leg_1a\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ardoria.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/wood_leg_1b3.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[291]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-321\" title=\"wood_leg_1b\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.ardoria.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/wood_leg_1b3-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"wood_leg_1b\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>The restoration is coming along nicely.\u00a0 Now it is about getting the transition to the new wood and the overall &#8220;look&#8221; of the piece just right.<\/p>\n<p>This past week Brandon had some company in the old shop.\u00a0 Someone decided to abandon their kitten around our house.\u00a0 Probably because there is a farm close by.\u00a0 Instead of it going to the farm it adopted us.\u00a0 Clinging onto the screen doors crying to come in.\u00a0 We hoped to find him a nice home or we thought we would have to take him to the APL.\u00a0 The weather turned for the worse and Brandon allowed him to stay in the shop out of the rain. We all decided he is a sweet kitten.\u00a0 Needless to say we now have an addition to our family&#8230;&#8230;.<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ardoria.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/IMG_4494.JPG\" rel=\"lightbox[291]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-322\" title=\"IMG_4494\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.ardoria.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/IMG_4494-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4494\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We have all kind of resolved ourselves that we are meant for each other.\u00a0 It would be nice if our two other cats would feel the same way&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The design for the nutcracker has been agreed upon and Brandon is now on to the carving phase of the restoration. \u00a0\u00a0 The first step was to add the wood to the original piece being very cautious due to the age of the piece.\u00a0 Then it was on to the carving.\u00a0 Brandon is quite meticulous [&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":[42,306,309],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home","category-restorations","tag-figural-nutcraker","tag-restoration","tag-wood-carving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","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=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1153,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions\/1153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}