{"id":642,"date":"2010-07-25T13:08:29","date_gmt":"2010-07-25T18:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ardoria.com\/?p=642"},"modified":"2012-09-02T09:30:25","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T14:30:25","slug":"more-restorations-fox-whip-holder-and-bull-nutcracker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/?p=642","title":{"rendered":"More Restorations:  Fox Whip Holder and Bull Nutcracker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally!\u00a0 Our heat wave is letting up a bit and Brandon is back to working on a few restoration projects.\u00a0 He is working on this whip holder&#8230;..<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_643\" style=\"width: 110px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ardoria.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/IMG_6381.JPG\" rel=\"lightbox[642]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-643\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-643\" title=\"IMG_6381\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.ardoria.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/IMG_6381-100x300.jpg\" alt=\"Whip Holder\" width=\"100\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-643\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Whip Holder<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_644\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ardoria.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/IMG_6370.JPG\" rel=\"lightbox[642]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-644\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-644\" title=\"IMG_6370\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.ardoria.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/IMG_6370-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Whip Holder\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-644\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Whip Holder<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Fox Whip Holder is missing his foot and he needs to have his finish put back to his original color and get rid of the white washed finish.\u00a0 The fox is extremely detailed but it is really hard to see the details with the light finish.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a couple pics of the current carved foot&#8230;.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_650\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ardoria.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/IMG_7153.JPG\" rel=\"lightbox[642]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-650\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-650\" title=\"IMG_7153\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.ardoria.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/IMG_7153-290x300.jpg\" alt=\"Fox Whip Holder With New Carved Foot\" width=\"290\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-650\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fox Whip Holder With New Carved Foot<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_651\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ardoria.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/IMG_7152.JPG\" rel=\"lightbox[642]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-651\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-651\" title=\"IMG_7152\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.ardoria.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/IMG_7152-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Fox Whip Holder With New Carved Foot\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-651\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fox Whip Holder With New Carved Foot<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The foot will have to be attached and the fur carved to match then will be the finish!<\/p>\n<p>He is also working on this bull nutcracker&#8230;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_645\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ardoria.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/bull_nutcracker.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[642]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-645\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-645\" title=\"bull_nutcracker\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.ardoria.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/bull_nutcracker-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Bull Nutcracker\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-645\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bull Nutcracker<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Bull Nutcracker needs to have his horns replaced.\u00a0 This is the bull with a clay mock up of his horns&#8230;.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_655\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ardoria.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/IMG_7158.JPG\" rel=\"lightbox[642]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-655\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-655\" title=\"IMG_7158\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.ardoria.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/IMG_7158-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Bull Nutcracker with Clay Horns\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-655\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bull Nutcracker with Clay Horns<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Brandon and the owner of the nutcracker had been searching for pre-ban ivory or an artificial ivory to carve the horns.\u00a0 They have decided on carving the horns out of tagua nuts.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve said it before but each project I learn something new.\u00a0 I never knew that there are nuts that look like ivory and as hard as ivory!<\/p>\n<p>This is how the nuts looked when we received them&#8230;..<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_653\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ardoria.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/IMG_7145.JPG\" rel=\"lightbox[642]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-653\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-653\" title=\"IMG_7145\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.ardoria.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/IMG_7145-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Whole Tagua Nut\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-653\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Whole Tagua Nut<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This is the inside of the nut&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_654\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ardoria.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/IMG_7148.JPG\" rel=\"lightbox[642]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-654\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-654\" title=\"IMG_7148\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.ardoria.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/IMG_7148-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Cross Section of Tagua Nut\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-654\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cross Section of Tagua Nut<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Check back soon to see the finished restorations!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally!\u00a0 Our heat wave is letting up a bit and Brandon is back to working on a few restoration projects.\u00a0 He is working on this whip holder&#8230;.. The Fox Whip Holder is missing his foot and he needs to have his finish put back to his original color and get rid of the white washed [&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":[24,310,44,311,85],"class_list":["post-642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home","category-restorations","tag-bull-nutcracker","tag-carving","tag-fox-whip-holder","tag-restorations","tag-tagua-nuts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642","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=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1321,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions\/1321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}