Recent content by FireballFan

Thank you so much @CortezPearls and @jshepherd. Do you ever use citric acid to clean pearls?

Hi everyone, if a freshwater pearl comes out of a clam with a hole that has some dirt in it, is there any solution to clean or brighten it? How does one clean out or polish out rot holes or spots? Thank you.

Yes bead-nucleated and natural colour. :-)

Does anyone know what kind of freshwater pearl these are? They’re off-round with a mainly copper body colour but are multicoloured… very interesting in my opinion

Thank you for the detailed answers guys, I really appreciate it. Love the technical answers!

I received this baroque where the shiny part of the pearl fades quite abruptly, as can be seen around the top edge. Is this a likely example of coating?

What is used to coat pearls if I may ask?

Do you have a picture or maybe more detail about what you mean dust in a straight line? Oh ok, I trust this seller then as I’ve soaked one of their pearls in acetone and the pearl didn’t warp nor did the color change apart from slight dulling.

How can you tell if it’s coated or not? What does it look like if the nacre is penetrated?

Example of said scratch

Jeremy, thank you for the information. It is hard to take pictures of the scratches as they need to be held against lighting and do not appear very visible in pictures. I am aware that some pearls have growth marks on the surface or a ‘texture’, which protrude. The said scratches, having...

Some of my freshwater pearls appear to have scratches. I’m just curious how they form. When I tried to scratch pearls myself, they didn’t seem easy to scratch. I also had one seller who custom drilled 3 baroques for me and cracked or fractured all of them in the process. I was just curious...

Beautiful necklace @jshepherd. This one just arrived for me

Thank you for sharing!

I’ve also ordered fireball rings, pendants and bracelets but for the really nice ones I’m reluctant to risk drilling them. I do want to get a fireball pendant using a fireball pearl of the colouring as pictured though! Think they look much better on me than the typical pastel coloured ones...