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LOL Patty, you're right, I shouldn't be so harsh on them! I looked at the small beads under the loupe and there are flecks of black in them..? I was thinking about taking the pendant off of this chain and just putting it on a metal chain but I'd have to cut it off since the caps on the end of...

Hey guys This was sold to me as a laboradorite, I thought it was a tahitian or at least a dyed fwp. Setting is 925, it's on a FUGLY necklace and it passes the tooth test. What are your thoughts?

I hadn't thought about rondelles!! Well I have a bunch of OK looking ssps from Pearl_Society coming, so hopefully I can figure something out. Otherwise I'll make a bunch of pendants and flip em or something. Also I was on mobile before but the necklace I have been OBSESSED over is here...

I'm trying to make a bracelet. :/ I love the ssp graduated color necklace at mikimoto, so I'm trying to do a low class version of that. :p

I edited it because I totally thought patty answered :D but you guys are both super awesome!! :)

Wow those look great!! What products did you use? I am thinking about taking the plunge myself. Isn't this site great??!! :)

You are amazing. Thanks for your quickness!!! So you can't just like file it? What would happen if you did?

MOP shell is definitely something I wouldn't have thought of. :). Thanks a lot!!! If anyone else has opinions please share!! :)

Hey all This is the dumbest question ever. If a pearl has like, an "appendage" can you grind that down or would it look like garbage? Just wondering. :) Thank you!!!!

Would agate still be gritty like that though?

Well I have another one for you guys! Missed these on my first sort of the box I got at the estate sale, but on closer inspection the hoops are 14k (yay! And double yay for cheap chinese loupes off of Amazon cause I never would have seen that with my own eyes! haha!) and these, which I...

Yay I'm getting better at this! Good tip. Thanks a lot!! Now for a more technical follow-up question: How are these "made"? Are they tissue or bead nucleated? I noticed they have rather well defined "edges," how does that happen? Thank you again! :)

Hello again! These are called coin pearls right? They actually have the exact same type of 585 clasp as the estate find post from today, with the CN (I thought it looked like a GN) and everything! But these are called Coin Pearls right? Freshwater from China? I'm just listing these on eBay...

Oh yeah I'm not mad about it! Just wondering what the heck they were. :) I basically look at it like I donated 20 bucks to the kid. People in Belize are SO poor, I'm happy to see the ones that are out there hustling like that. :)

Hi again, I was cleaning out my purse and totally forgot that I had bought these from a little boy in San Pedro Belize. In my defense I had had a few rum and cokes at the Palapa Bar, so my judgement wasn't the best. Haha. I paid 20 US for these. These are just like terrible quality cfw...

Grr that stinks. Well I was thinking about learning to restring anyway. :)

Hello! I don't know if this is the right forum, sorry if I messed that up :D I stupidly was wearing my akoya bracelet last night while we were moving in a new couch (DUH RIGHT?!?!) and of course, it got smooshed between the wall and my arm and this happened Can I fix this myself? Or do I...

If I can add to this, I just got a really sad looking strand from a thrift store of all places, and I took it to Pearl and Clasp in Manhattan and they charged $2/inch. I think they cleaned them too but the guy didn't know for sure (?) he said "the restringer might have," but looking at my...

That's true. Ugh I was hoping y'all would tell me these were bogus for one reason or another. I had literally submitted a 160 dollar bid when I hit the dead zone. 😭

Yeah this was like two days ago but I'm still kind of stewing about it, thought I'd ask you guys if I should feel better or worse! :)