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I've looked at quality issues of this nature for many years and find that this approach (trashing something faulty) is far more a matter of choice and a concern for image (hard to tell about this) than a virtue. If one discloses the fault(s) and then sells an item at a price reflecting it's...

Thanks Rob, I'll check it out. Marc http://www.flyrodjewelry.com/home.html

Well, yes, Jeremy. That is an important point. My thinking was that in the case where we used it, since we were already introducing a glue into the pearl to secure it to the post it would be a moot point. The use of glue to afix a pearl to jewelry seems to be simply assumed as obvious, if...

The post by Sleight under Tahitian Pearls--Stinky Pearl Dilemma-- reminded me of something I found a solution to when I was assembling the crab bolo with the tahitian pearl tips. I was half-drilling one of the tahitians when--wouldn't you know it--the drill hit a loose nucleus (fortunately...

:eek:Coming to the end?!?!?! Oh! What will we do now?!?!:eek: Thank you so much! This has been so entertaining and educational. I'm sure we'll all miss it. ...and your english is excellent--far better than my french!:D Marc

Here's one that I finished this morning. It's strictly a J. Marcus production. I couldn't figure out just what to make from it for a while but the pendant Jeremy made from the Natural Abalone pearl set it's course. It's such a unique mabe'. I've never obtained another that would finish out very...

Sheryl--Drilled pearls are, in the right designs, the easiest pearls to set while still exposing the greatest surface area to view. If a mounting is made so that there is a back that hides the side you don't like and also keeps the pearl from turning around, and if it is made with elements of...

I have very slowly been attempting to put together a grading system that would allow for at least some objectivity in the evaluation of naturally formed Abalone pearls, specifically mabe's. (I've been using a simple formula to calculate the height to width dome ratio, for instance.) If anyone...

Aw-w-w Shucks--What a complimentary bunch to be found here!:D Thanks for all the kind words! (Do you think I should tell Bill and Alan? It might give them swelled heads. . .:p of course--I'm immune to such tawdry reactions. . .:cool: ) Marc http://www.flyrodjewelry.com/home.html

Caitlin: Absolutely, that is true. See my post above on the double attached solids. They are almost dead center on top of an old blister that was eaten away on the outside until the toredo clam fell out and was being covered from the inside when it was harvested. I see this phonemenon all the...

Bill Lynch of Fairhaven Gold in Bellingham just loves crabbing! The crabbing he does on Puget Sound involves the Dungeness variety. (...to differentiate it from the crabbing he does in the shop. . .) After thinking about it for a lo-o-o-ng time, he finally commissioned a spectacular wax carving...

Now that's terrific!!!!!! Marc http://www.flyrodjewelry.com/home.html

That was a very good interview, Jeremy! I though that it was a good job and long enough for people to notice. Couldn't miss that abalone pearl! Thanks, Steve, for the link. 4:30 on the west coast? Isn't that about 7:30 on the east coast? The Rand McNally demographic atlas tells us the eastern...

Very nice! Marc

Jeremy--I hope things go well with your interview! Marc

Ah! Caught it just in time! Just as it was about to slip away to page 2! There was a ridge, about 62mm long, in one of my shells. It looks as though the abalone squeezed together part of the inside of the shell and it formed a protruding fold. (Pix 1, 2 % 3) I thought that it might be somehow...

By Laurenb: "I also strongly doubt mollusks have memory, and I contend memory is a semantic and physiological requirement for suffering because one must compare a present state to a past one to suffer." Excellent point! There must be a context for comparison and without memory, where is the...

From Cliclasp: I wish I could have the windows opened for me, but it was not possible, so sometimes the quality is not there I understand--and would not want to do anything to discourage you from what you are doing on this thread. It's quite fun!:D Marc

Barbie, You make some interesting statements and ask some intriguing questions here. I hesitate to try to carry this further because we are beginning to go into levels of speculation here that we have no objective ways of knowing about. So--I will answer one question with another question. by...

I'm sorry to say that the quality of these pictures and the one of the dog collar above are such that, at least on my monitor, I just can't see enough detail to tell very much about them. They are too blurry and the contrast seems to be too high. Marc