Giant Edison Pearls are Here
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Oh sweet Lord! Those are just fantastic!
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Maybe I should mention, there was a recent harvest last last yr to earlier this year. Production of these are super lightweight compared to traditional bead nucleation. My sources told me that the inside is plastic nucleus (something that farmers were trying, and succeeded). As far as durability, we yet to know. 2 companies bought most of the harvest in 19-22mm sizes, asking some crazy 5 figures on the wholesale level.
What Jeremy posted would be considered one of the better strands. I saw these in person in HK.
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To my knowledge and what I've seen, there's at least 15kg. Someone in Zhuji offered me a 8kg lot, which price made absolutely no sense. Many of them are sending individual pcs to Guild for lab certs and selling them by the pc.
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Now that's really shot down the market for dye cast or 3D bead prints from shell powder (from another thread).
Next the beads will be hollow. Ping-pong pearlomacy, anyone?
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What exactly are the labs being asked (or told) to certify?
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It all adds up too. *palms forehead* Works for mabes why not the nuke? 20-23mm is some serious tunnelling though, no less with mussels. That is a lot of expansion! They lean to purple colour which usually dictates the pearl sac is at or near minimum thickness. It takes time to expand tissue, no less to the extreme. It can't be a one step process. Routine regrafting comes to mind, but at what interval?
That's a real bonus, after all had they been shell bead nuclei the weight would have been exponentially high.
The same question came to mind. Thicker nacre makes for a larger pearl. All very enlightening info, thank you.
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You crack me up @SteveM
In the truest D&D fashion you came up with Pearlomancy
And yes @Lagoon Island Pearls : I agree with you that this is a multi-step process of re-seeding/re-grafting, as it is with Edisons and Ikechos right now. What bothers me is the plastic nuclei...why not use an organic nuclei made out of cellulose or gel? Plastic just cheapens it.
I do get the need to have some "lighter" pearls...I mean, with those sizes the pearl earrings would be so heavy that daily use would cause earlobes to eventually touch the wearer's shoulders..elbows...knees!
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Truly thick nacre! There's serious quality there.
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Clearly dating myself.You crack me up @SteveM
In the truest D&D fashion you came up with Pearlomancy
But it bounces much better.
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China consumers want certificate for everything they buy.
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Hmmmmm….I could certainly see the attraction for a pendant…or perhaps a giant octopus head! Curious, Jeremy, since you cut one in half - is the nucleus in fact plastic?
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Taking nothing away from the technological achievement, this is size for its own sake, like American cars in the mid-20th century before the oil crisis. Will fins be next?
