Show me your Pearls!

[yssie]

@yssie love love your GSS bracelets. May you share how you got them made with different sizes? If you can share modeling pictures, that would be awesome!

Thank you!! And yes of course!

I originally bought a single btacelet with the larger 10-12mm pearls from Hisano, but I found myself never reaching for it, it just felt too formal! And I knew that having pearls with overtone differences next to each other is very very very normal with GSS strands, and that's when I learnt that that's something my eyes are especially sensitive to. But I also knew that switching pearls out wasn't a realistic option - just in terms of being able to find replacements without spending a fortune mailing samples out!

A few months later @MakingTheGrade made a bubble akoya bracelet that I loved, so I asked Pearl Paradise if they had any deep smallers, and within a few weeks my rep reached back out saying they had a new batch of 7-9mm... She picked out a handful, and a couple more from other size brackets, and sent the lot out to choose what I wanted. It worked out really well for me, being flexible with size let me keep depth of colour and luster and also graduate overtone with more nuance - and I actually wear them now!

Pearl Paradise strung them originally but I've since redone them probably a dozen times

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

I don't wear it as a lariat-style necklace as I don't like it.

The basket clasp is only suitable for (I believe) 8mm pearls which are the ones in the last 2in of the necklace.

This allows me to wear it as an 18in necklace which is the norm for a collared shirt/blouse, or extended to 20in if I were to wear it with a top with a deeper neckline.

Larger basket clasps are available from the likes of Bella Findings I believe.

DK

thanks anyway DK

 

[Prettybunny]

I purchased a pair of Supearl quality pearl, and they just glow. I'm soooooo glad I purchased from their store. Their shipping time was a bit slow but they are honest, fair , won't bubble the price and even deduct tax for shipping outside of Japan.

The quality Is for die for and I purchased from many super popular vendors here including mikimoto in past. They aren't too pink, they just glow.

 

[concun]

@Prettybunny they are so reflective and remind me of Xmas ornaments. In a course of few days, I heard of gem, grandpearl and now suppearl… Pls share the vendor if you are ok with it. Thanks.

 

[clockworkreader]

I purchased a pair of Supearl quality pearl, and they just glow. I'm soooooo glad I purchased from their store. Their shipping time was a bit slow but they are honest, fair , won't bubble the price and even deduct tax for shipping outside of Japan.

The quality Is for die for and I purchased from many super popular vendors here including mikimoto in past. They aren't too pink, they just glow.

Gorgeous! Ear pics please!

 

[yssie]

Absolutely stunning @Prettybunny! What size are they?

If I may request clarification, you mention "supearl quality" - did this pair actually come with a supearl cert? Or did you mean vendor-assessed quality match? (As far as I'm aware PEPCA doesn't grade pairs - I would love to learn if this has changed!)

 

[lovedogs]

Absolutely stunning @Prettybunny! What size are they?

If I may request clarification, you mention "supearl quality" - did this pair actually come with a supearl cert? Or did you mean vendor-assessed quality match? (As far as I'm aware PEPCA doesn't grade pairs - I would love to learn if this has changed!)

I think prettybunny was asking previously about choices from General pearl, and think that GP said these were supearl quality luster (but potentially more blemishes, or smaller size, etc). At least that's my best guess given my experience with GP.

 

[yssie]

I think prettybunny was asking previously about choices from General pearl, and think that GP said these were supearl quality luster (but potentially more blemishes, or smaller size, etc). At least that's my best guess given my experience with GP.

I kinda figured but not gonna lie I was hoping for a PEPCA update...

 

[Prettybunny]

@Prettybunny they are so reflective and remind me of Xmas ornaments. In a course of few days, I heard of gem, grandpearl and now suppearl… Pls share the vendor if you are ok with it. Thanks.

Thanks! I purchased from General pearl!

 

[Prettybunny]

Absolutely stunning @Prettybunny! What size are they?

If I may request clarification, you mention "supearl quality" - did this pair actually come with a supearl cert? Or did you mean vendor-assessed quality match? (As far as I'm aware PEPCA doesn't grade pairs - I would love to learn if this has changed!)

Thank you :] they are 8.8mm . And yes they aren't exactly Supearl, but they have small blemish on a backside to get the cost down .

 

[Prettybunny]

I think prettybunny was asking previously about choices from General pearl, and think that GP said these were supearl quality luster (but potentially more blemishes, or smaller size, etc). At least that's my best guess given my experience with GP.

I think prettybunny was asking previously about choices from General pearl, and think that GP said these were supearl quality luster (but potentially more blemishes, or smaller size, etc). At least that's my best guess given my experience with GP.

YES

 

[clockworkreader]

I purchased a pair of Supearl quality pearl, and they just glow. I'm soooooo glad I purchased from their store. Their shipping time was a bit slow but they are honest, fair , won't bubble the price and even deduct tax for shipping outside of Japan.

The quality Is for die for and I purchased from many super popular vendors here including mikimoto in past. They aren't too pink, they just glow.

Is this the pair that featured in your thread? If so, they worked out SUPER well (pun intended )

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

I purchased a pair of Supearl quality pearl, and they just glow. I'm soooooo glad I purchased from their store. Their shipping time was a bit slow but they are honest, fair , won't bubble the price and even deduct tax for shipping outside of Japan.

The quality Is for die for and I purchased from many super popular vendors here including mikimoto in past. They aren't too pink, they just glow.

Wow !

 

[katbran]

Absolute stunning !!

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

the other day they (the lying bas*ards at the met service) said it was going to rain so i felt like wearing my micheal hill (again lowering the tome at PS) pink multi strand i had so much trouble with getting restrung last year

but my short sussage fingers could not get them done up two days in a row
so i guess they will be going in to the other jeweller to see what he can do without having to have them completly restrung

 

[uwodahikamama]

I purchased a pair of Supearl quality pearl, and they just glow. I'm soooooo glad I purchased from their store. Their shipping time was a bit slow but they are honest, fair , won't bubble the price and even deduct tax for shipping outside of Japan.

The quality Is for die for and I purchased from many super popular vendors here including mikimoto in past. They aren't too pink, they just glow.

Those are really nice, congrats!

 

[uwodahikamama]

New pearl jewellery box and some updated collection pics

And I'm done buying pearls. Like, really. Really!!





No concrete plans for any of these yet. They're all round - it's the phone camera! Left greenie is a PSL graded Tahitian from Takahashi, middle is a PSL graded south sea from Takahashi, and right is a SOC - spare from my bracelet.






A closeup of the clasp on that top yellow - I harvested this from a vintage akoya strand I got on the cheap, the old wonky rose cuts are just the most charming little darlings in-person




Bunches o' coral and some sleeping beauty

Girl you have one heck of a collection!!

 

[uwodahikamama]

Ok I just have to share my excitement somewhere.
I’m buying this strand from Andrew (Moline). It’s 7.5-8mm and the earrings are 8-8.5mm
For comparisons sake the last 2 pictures are my strand next to a MM AAA strand (mine is the bigger, MM is the smaller)

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

Ok I just have to share my excitement somewhere.
I’m buying this strand from Andrew (Moline). It’s 7.5-8mm and the earrings are 8-8.5mm
For comparisons sake the last 2 pictures are my strand next to a MM AAA strand (mine is the bigger, MM is the smaller)

major swoon

 

[clockworkreader]

Ok I just have to share my excitement somewhere.
I’m buying this strand from Andrew (Moline). It’s 7.5-8mm and the earrings are 8-8.5mm
For comparisons sake the last 2 pictures are my strand next to a MM AAA strand (mine is the bigger, MM is the smaller)

I'm DROOLING

That luster!!! Absolutely flawless. It clearly and consistently beats the Miki AAA strand too, which as we know is already very nice. And those smoooooth skins! And almost completely clean surfaces!

I'd be curious to know how Andrew describes this strand — I assume it's a Gem quality strand, but I wonder if it's an especially "high" Gem?

 

[newtojewels]

Ok I just have to share my excitement somewhere.
I’m buying this strand from Andrew (Moline). It’s 7.5-8mm and the earrings are 8-8.5mm
For comparisons sake the last 2 pictures are my strand next to a MM AAA strand (mine is the bigger, MM is the smaller)

STUNNING. Nothing else I can say.

 

[uwodahikamama]

I'm DROOLING

That luster!!! Absolutely flawless. It clearly and consistently beats the Miki AAA strand too, which as we know is already very nice. And those smoooooth skins! And almost completely clean surfaces!

I'd be curious to know how Andrew describes this strand — I assume it's a Gem quality strand, but I wonder if it's an especially "high" Gem?

He said it was gem quality and one of the best he’s seen, so naturally I had to have it!

 

[clockworkreader]

He said it was gem quality and one of the best he’s seen, so naturally I had to have it!

It really is special! I think this baby deserves a thread of its own, where you should post a ton more pics when it arrives

 

[uwodahikamama]

It really is special! I think this baby deserves a thread of its own, where you should post a ton more pics when it arrives

I definitely will!!

 

[concun]

Newly acquired Tennyo strands and studs from TAKAHASHI.
1. Tennyo strand 9.0-9.5 in rosy overtone comparing to my mom’s gifted me strand 7.5-8mm silver overtone.
2. Gem 9.74-9.81 rosy overtone studs comparing to my 9.8 silver overtone studs.

How do you think of these 2 set comparisons? Please tell me what I should look for because honestly, I can’t tell with my untrained eyes the quality difference. If there is, Tennyo is a touch more luster. The pictures are taken in bathroom lighting by unskilled me and had tried my best to avoid my shadow. From the angle, it may appears as some are not round but I can assure you both strands are perfectly round.