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<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Just finished repairing a great really old (1700’s) Boxwood piece. This came in with most of the face missing and a pretty big chunk missing from the front of the lever. Here are a couple pictures when it came in: Here’s a photo of it in process of being […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,26,11,15,99,79],"tags":[258,194,199,232,229,127,310,58,219,71,98,309],"class_list":["post-3016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-carving","category-figural-nutcracker","category-restoration","category-restoration-work","category-restorations","tag-1700s","tag-anri-nutcracker","tag-antique-repair","tag-black-forest","tag-boxwood","tag-carved-wood-nutcracker","tag-carving","tag-leavenworth-nutcracker-museum","tag-nut-cracker","tag-nutcracker-restoration","tag-vintage-nutcracker","tag-wood-carving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016","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=3016"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3029,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016\/revisions\/3029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\nHere’s a photo of it in process of being repaired.<\/h4>\n
New Boxwood has been attached, carved, and is waiting to be stained and blended.<\/h4>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nHere are a couple photos of the piece done:<\/h4>\n
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I want to thank Arlene Wagner from the Leavenworth Nutcracker Museum<\/span><\/span><\/a> for sending me reference photos of pieces she has from this time period so I could make sure the details I needed to add were authentic to the piece.<\/h4>\n
—– Brandon<\/h4>\n