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Thanks everyone for your replies. I am planning to get the pearl drilled fully lengthways because it is an odd shape which would look better on its side. I just can't decide if I'd rather have it moving around on the chain, or should I get it wire-wrapped in place? Would the chain wear out...

Bump (literally)... I dropped a SS pearl that I bought recently, I was going to get it made into a pendant. I was looking at it closely on the kitchen bench and suddenly it dropped out of my hands, onto the hard benchtop and then onto the hard floor! I don't notice anything wrong with it, it's a...

And viewers' comments on the ABC 'Four Corners Open Letters' website: http://www2b.abc.net.au/tmb/Client/Message.aspx?b=37&t=1&ps=50&dm=1&pd=2&am=16771

Interesting articles about Paspaley removing negative online comments after the ABC Four Corners broadcast about the diver's death, from an Australian media news website: Paspaley after Four Corners Facebook backlash: sorry for ‘inadvertently’ deleting comments...

Thanks R&B for the tips. I believe my SS pearls have a good lustre and are evenly coloured. All of mine were already set in pendants, but have small caps apart from one. My round (as far as I can see) pearl has a large domed cap (acorn-like) covering part of the top of the pearl, but the...

Thanks everybody for your responses, and to R&B and Mikeyy for their human analogies! R&B, when you talk about rolling a pearl around to check for no colour changes, meaning a good amount of nacre, do you mean I need to look for changes in the surface colour of the pearl? What is the...

Hi there, I'm new to this forum and decided to join after constant Google research kept on returning me here! I have a couple of South Sea pearl pendants, mainly drop shapes and one round. I bought them from reputable jewellery stores in person. How do you know the size of the pearl nuclei...