| My brother just returned from a mission trip to Dominica, a beautiful rain forest island northeast of Venezuela. He kindly brought me a lovely pearl bracelet. He knows I'll just use the pearls as raw materials in some other design so he always purchases things without clasps and cheaply strung. Well, I was tearing this bracelet apart (big, pretty, baroque freshwaters) and apparently the drill holes are of varying sizes. Not uncommon to find this. However, this was strung on fishing line and the line refuses to budge from some of the holes. I stuck a 22 ga. wire down the holes hoping to force it out, but all it did was pack it in and made the matter worse. I hate losing these pearls. The last 3 would make a very pretty pendant. Any ideas?
Here is one of his pictures.
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Pretty Panda pic by nlerner on her U.S. excursion last year, San Diego Zoo.[/size][/size]
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