{"id":3742,"date":"2022-06-12T07:36:54","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T12:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/?p=3742"},"modified":"2022-06-12T08:04:18","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T13:04:18","slug":"alsace-nutcracker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/?p=3742","title":{"rendered":"Alsace Nutcracker"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here’s a great boxwood antique nutcracker from the Alsace region of France.<\/h4>\n

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I keep a secret stash of boxwood on hand specifically for these great older boxwood nutcracker restorations.<\/h4>\n

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This one came into the shop missing a nose.<\/h4>\n

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Here’s a quick picture of it on the bench with the new boxwood in place and the reference photos I was using:<\/h4>\n

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Finally, here it is fully restored with the new nose carved and blended to seamlessly match the original:<\/h4>\n

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I love getting the opportunity to work on these great old boxwood pieces.<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Here’s a great boxwood antique nutcracker from the Alsace region of France.   I keep a secret stash of boxwood on hand specifically for these great older boxwood nutcracker restorations.   This one came into the shop missing a nose.         Here’s a quick picture of it on the bench with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,79],"tags":[409,411,182,208,199,229,303,410,58,219,68,69,305,71,98,309],"class_list":["post-3742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-restorations","tag-alsace","tag-alsace-region","tag-antique","tag-antique-nutcracker","tag-antique-repair","tag-boxwood","tag-figural-nutcracker","tag-french","tag-leavenworth-nutcracker-museum","tag-nut-cracker","tag-nutcracker","tag-nutcracker-collection","tag-nutcracker-collectors-club","tag-nutcracker-restoration","tag-vintage-nutcracker","tag-wood-carving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3742","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=3742"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3755,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3742\/revisions\/3755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}