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Update: only took one try but many hours!! I held my breath nearly the whole time lol Thank you @BWeaves your advice helped me sooooo much. ❤️❤️❤️ I have been putting this off for months. Lol necklace was 14” and now it is long enough for someone to wear.

Freshwater pearls

Not a pearl?

Okay it is not my design I am only restringing an older strand. One of them I wanted to add length too so I found more pearls that match.

Yes I do :) I just got one recently.

I only know how to start from the clasp but this does answer my question as far as waiting to string the end clasp and last pearls… this seems very difficult I do hope to succeed.. but I suppose I’ll be back at the trial and error stage of stringing 😅

I would be sceptical of these. Never seen the clasp before and the pearls don’t scream “Mikimoto” lol I have been seeing a lot of “Mikimoto” pearls on eBay that are not at all Mikimoto, and I think that if they are you won’t have to question it as the pearls are that beautiful ;) To clarify...

I’ve become familiar with stringing pearls as a single strand but I have a couple of double strands that I would like to redo. Is the concept still the same or would I need to try a new approach?

Correct. Yes I am certain.

They just don’t pop the way akoyas do. I strung them and definitely notice a difference from akoyas which I am use to dealing with. I appreciate your time and input.

8-8.5mm

Just double checking

Good point :) But these aren’t mikimoto 🧐

These are very fake. The “solid” sterling clasp is the giveaway aside from the lack of grittiness. A nice strand of pearls will generally have a gold clasp, 14k or 18k, but not silver.

The hello kitty thing appears to be 100% costume jewelry, as the pearl is not cultured. It is fake. The necklace looks like it could be good quality pearls but it’s hard to tell for sure… the stringing job is not good, they need to be restrung. In the condition it’s in the necklace is worth...