how wonderfulHere’s s my very humble Tahitian necklace.
I do have some old pearl jewelry from my mother and grandmother, rings, necklaces, a couple bracelets….After seeing all your beautiful pearl photos, I am inspired to
wear more pearls….and, purchase a few more
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Hi Daisys and Diamonds!how wonderful
pearls do like to be worn
also i love that brooch (details please
I show this off all the time. My circle Tahitians from CMW.
Guess what I just got!?!? Finally!! After two full years searching!!!!
And it’s brand new!!!!
@yssie Must be an awesome book. Would love to have it myself, where did you order it from? I did a quick search and it is only available in German, but yours is an English edition
I’m about halfway through. It’s so informative. A little science, a little story. It feels like I’m finally reading the “textbook”.I was just this side of drooling
https://www.goldschmiedebedarf.de/product_info.php?products_id=23865
They’ll send you an offer by email a couple days after you submit your purchase request, and you can pay with PayPal. The shipping is the pricey part, but my total was still very reasonable (~100 euro) and even moreso considering the absolute impossibility of finding this thing!
We should start a thread somewhere for bling coffee table books!! I love them too
@diamondyes My preloved thread was closed but wanted to follow up!
So when I string I like to only have one strand end to finish - once is painful enough, who wants to deal with finishing a strand on both ends!? I also like to have as much of the drill hole “filled up” with thread as possible - I try to use enough thread that there’s juuuust enough space to double back through the end pearls. (These days I ream the end pearls out a bit, too, but can’t do that with other materials).
But… With the drill holes almost full with thread… The doubling back to finish the strand was a complete PITA every time. Couldn’t ever get that needle *back* through a nearly-filled, knotted-on-one-side pearl to actually double back - I broke so many strands right at the end. So I’ve actually started using beading needles to avoid having to re-thread those end pearls at all.
No idea if this is helpful but here’s what I do! There's a million billion ways. This is just what I've found works for me. I’m also kinda savage on needles so ignore the not-straight-ness
And then glue, and then cut the tails off. I don't bother knotting the tails again, just makes those knots look huge and the tails are going to get cut off right there so any knots couldn't be load-bearing anyway.
I restrung that coral strand that I just rehomed for the new owner last night - cut the tails off at the pink arrows -
@yssie this was my first attempt I mentioned. Double knotted, no glue. Was scared to cut too short.
Your knots through the rest of it are super neat!!
Yeah, the nice thing about doubling the thread back is when you get to this point (however you get there LOL) the load-bearing knot is in the middle, circled, so you can cut the tails as close to beads as you want and not worry about the knot coming undone. In theory I would really only need glue on the knot circled, but in practice I glue at all three arrows - and cut the tails off once the glue dries. (Cuticle cutters are handy to get in really tight!)
I use either this stuff or epoxy - whichever I’ve got on hand. Doesn’t seem to make any difference.
GS Supplies G-S Hypo Cement, Transparent https://a.co/d/7ggIC3o
It seriously took me probably hundreds of tries to get my knots even along the rest of the strand as neat as yours. Forget finishing. But I sort of had to learn, the local jewellers string horribly and shipping things out was getting so insanely expensive. Such a relief to be able to just take care of #whatever myself now. I can’t say I enjoy it though, I’m definitely not the sort who finds beading relaxing or meditative
Just came by to say that my copy is shipping! I don't 100% know what I bought but if @yssie has been looking for it for years and it is < $100 (can there possibly be anything else in this Venn diagram intersection?), it's a can't-miss, right?
And: since I blundered into the (post-book) stringing part of this thread, @yssie does an amazing job of stringing -- we have one of her "B" strand bracelet hand-me-downs with teal thread and spouse just loves it!
Thanks for posting this link. You made my day! I completely gave up trying to find this book.I was just this side of drooling
https://www.goldschmiedebedarf.de/product_info.php?products_id=23865
They’ll send you an offer by email a couple days after you submit your purchase request, and you can pay with PayPal. The shipping is the pricey part, but my total was still very reasonable (~100 euro) and even moreso considering the absolute impossibility of finding this thing!
@diamondyes My preloved thread was closed but wanted to follow up!
So when I string I like to only have one strand end to finish - once is painful enough, who wants to deal with finishing a strand on both ends!? I also like to have as much of the drill hole “filled up” with thread as possible - I try to use enough thread that there’s juuuust enough space to double back through the end pearls. (These days I ream the end pearls out a bit, too, but can’t do that with other materials).
But… With the drill holes almost full with thread… The doubling back to finish the strand was a complete PITA every time. Couldn’t ever get that needle *back* through a nearly-filled, knotted-on-one-side pearl to actually double back - I broke so many strands right at the end. So I’ve actually started using beading needles to avoid having to re-thread those end pearls at all.
No idea if this is helpful but here’s what I do! There's a million billion ways. This is just what I've found works for me. I’m also kinda savage on needles so ignore the not-straight-ness
And then glue, and then cut the tails off. I don't bother knotting the tails again, just makes those knots look huge and the tails are going to get cut off right there so any knots couldn't be load-bearing anyway.
I restrung that coral strand that I just rehomed for the new owner last night - cut the tails off at the pink arrows -
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