Post subject: Re: can you recommend a supplier for pearl settings and cage
Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2018 8:14 am
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Hi Ted, Cookson Gold (in the UK) has some nice findings. Be careful about putting pearls in rings though, rings get a lot of hammer and pearls are soft.
Post subject: Re: can you recommend a supplier for pearl settings and cage
Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2018 8:17 am
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Yes, a necklace is a perfect way to use pearls, particularly now there is a fashion for assorted colours in the same necklace (a big time pearl dealer of my acquaintance tells me that, in the days of matched pearls for a necklace, he might have to examine 2,000 or 3,000 pearls before finding enough for a necklace), and that, he says, is with a staff of girls who can grade pearls as fast as they can pick them up and put them down. He also said that fully 1/3 of the cost of a necklace was in the grading.
Post subject: Re: can you recommend a supplier for pearl settings and cage
Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2018 1:28 pm
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Yes, these are good, I have one myself, but they are slow if you have a lot to drill. I noticed an excellent looking machine on the Banggood site, worth a look. Things to remember, always string your pearls on silk, it gives an incomparable feel and hang to your pearls, and always put a knot between each one, firstly it stops them rubbing together and abrading, for they are amongst the softest of gems and also, should you have the misfortune to have a string break, you are only searching for one pearl.
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