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I might have got Chatty Cathy occasionally, mostly Mum called me Kate, Dad called my Catherine very loudly when I was in trouble and the boys in high school called me a rude variation of my surname which was Whitehouse :o)

Owww my wrinkles will show lol

Yes, I have dark hair (it would be grey if I let it!!). I just happened to have put on a navy blue dress this morning and Koi looked lovely with it.

Mister Koi has arrived and he's beautiful, thank you Pattye! I'm wearing him right now :o) Cathy

They are bead nucleated chinese freshwater pearls. 10-11mm. The lustre is different from Tissue Nucleated, sort of softer. They haven't got them quite round yet (from the ones I've bought anyway) but they come not only in white but also lavender shades and pinks. Mostly they seem to be drop...

I hammered a baroque similar to yours.. nacre all through.

He hasn't arrived yet.. I rather like the name he has though "Do Be Koi" I'll need some red shoes now!! And red earrings!!

I promise to look after him very well and not wear him in sweaty weather!!

I don't know what sort of shell they use; theres probably a whole industry just making shell bead nucleii. I hammered two sizes of these with a bead nucleus.. one was 10-11mm, the other about 9mm, both had 6mm nucleii. Maybe the size of harvested pearl is purely on time in the mussel.

It looked and felt like shell. One was all white, no striations, the other had faint, light striations.

Slightly better photo.

I just hope in all my scrambling I didn't flash my knickers! lol

Nerida, all I can give an opinion on are the ones I have. Some of the whites are super metallic, most have a softer lustre. I hope it doesn't eventually come to having to smash a bead in every strand to see which type they are. It WAS fun though! lol. They were unbelievably hard, and I had to...

It surprised me how thick the nacre was. From trying to look through the drill hole I guessed at 1mm but it was double that.

Or you can always smash it with a hammer LOL

they don't seem to be any lighter (didn't weigh them though). The only visible difference is they seem to have a softer more mellow lustre next to regular cfwp.. Some are very hard to tell though.

Reading about smashing a pearl with hammer got me going lol. I have some 10-11mm white freshwater pearls which I'd been told had a bead nucleus. Their lustre is different from my others, softer somehow. Shapes are from almost round to teardrop shaped to plump baroque. Most have very good listre...

They might be buying them pre-strung drom China.

Mine turns itself off automatically after a little while (maybe a minute of no use), it's plastic (won't scratch pearls) and was about 20 dollars. The stainless steel one was a lot more. I've had mine about 6 months or so and I've just replaced the battery for the first time.

I love them ALL!!!