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The Power of Knowledge - Thanks for your help The Power of Knowledge - Thanks for your help Thank you Caitlin for all of your help on my Gold Australian Strand, I just talked with the owner of DisGO and he has issued me a credit for $550 - Now that is what I call customer service, and he has...

The Power of Knowledge - Thanks for your help The Power of Knowledge - Thanks for your help I want to thank everyone here for all their help in discussing my Gold Australian pearl strand. I just talked with the owner of Dis-GO! and he has issued me a $550 credit! Now, that's what I call...

Stringing on wire Stringing on wire Cailin; Thanks again for the reply, this looks hard to do! How someone has the patience to string beads on a tiny wire is beyond me! And it looks like it takes a long time - I visited that store site where I bought my pearls and saw his other jewelry - I...

Cultivated - Nucleated Shell Pearls Cultivated - Nucleated Shell Pearls Caitlin; Thanks again for this info, I'm going to see if the owner of that store knows this information. I did a quick search on nucleated shell pearls and found the following link: http://www.gem.org.au/pearl.htm It...

The Australian Gold Pearls The Australian Gold Pearls Caitlin; Thank you for the reply, Yes, the owner of the store did take the time to explain to me that these are not genuine and that they were not Akoya or Mikimoto quality - not did he try to persuade me that they were anything but a...

The Wire on Strands The Wire on Strands I had a guy in Chicago actually show me the wire that he uses to string his pearls. It was called Flei-Wire. It is a highly flexible steel cable coated in nylon and is very thin, he has pearls from Bynoe Harbour in Australia and restrings them on this...

Bynoe Harbour AU - Gold! Bynoe Harbour AU - Gold! I bought this strand for my wife from a store in Chicago IL. They are from Bynoe Harbour Australia and although not AAA quality (which would have cost me $25k) I did get them for under $800. The guy was very helpful and explained to me that due...

Re-Stringing those Pearls Re-Stringing those Pearls These have a really nice look! Not perfectly round but with much Character! I had a Graduated strand restrung last year with sterling silver seamless beads and done on something called Flei-Wire, which is a very thin steel cable that is...