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Nice! And the baby clam shell does come in handy. If you hadn't said so I'd have thought it was at least 7-8mm!

Now you've made me want a loupe ... And of course, I forgot to congratulate the happy couple and the lucky MIL!

I think it does depend on the overtones. I like yellow gold with the obviously peacock/greens, but white gold with the aquas/greys. I think either would work with this particular strand, so go for it!

Well, in summary, Akoyas are bead-nucleated, and stay in the water for nacre deposition typically 2 years or, in many cases, much less time. The nacre thickness for top of the line Akoyas, known as Hanadamas is only slightly above 0.4mm. They are shiny because of the shell variety, and post...

I got ahead of myself and read "Newbie in search of girlfriend" ... ok, I'm hallucinating. Another vote for freshadama, hands down. I started with those and never looked back, and you'd be hardpressed to find someone as picky as I am. Any of the gem lines from the vendors here would be fabulous...

Tahitian baroques ... the orient pops in the pictures even after muting (standard PP procedure), and you get the exact strand.

How big are the keshis?

I do prefer BINs, though you get better prices sniping (sometimes). Even with sniping I generally don't chase bids, so I don't tend to fall prey to shills. I dislike it when some sellers make all their sales private, so I don't actually have an idea of what to bid for the maximum.

Nice tool! Thanks for that!

Definitely not on my fav seller's list. In terms of recommendation, I generally prefer to buy from vendors PGers approve off. Of course, there are so many pearl vendors on ebay it's impossible, but eventually one makes it above the rest of the crowd and comes up with relatively consistent...

They must have a lot of time on their hands to check out every person who's bought pearls ... what will they think of next! Nope, not going to risk it just because they were dishonest about me buying from them previously. It's the principle ... if they can be dishonest about that who knows what...

I don't know if it's spam, but I got sent a message randomly from this ebay store, don't remember ever buying from them to be honest. http://stores.ebay.com/hailunblue99 Some of the pearls look good, but I have been burnt too many times on ebay to actually want to risk it.

It gets frustrating with the matching. I bought a lot of pearls off ebay, and was contemplating making something like that. They're all supposed to be the same size, but for some reason, only 8-9mm peachy pink pearls were closer to the stated size, the others were all smaller. If I have the...

Great. That makes two of us. Maybe I will have to make a trip to Broome one of these days.

I think you started with the hard bit! Wire wrapping would be more difficult than knotting/stringing, so you wouldn't have a problem at all! Excellent work, lovely pieces.

Cool, Amrita! Is that you? I liked your polite but no nonsense attitude. So what if it's market standard? It's Chinese market standard ... not international. This just frustrates buyers across the board!

I bought some ultrafine stainless steel ones, but I think they're going to be too flexible. I think they're about 3".

Can I come visit?

Yes, pink Shox, pink nano, pink skin, pink everything. Will post pics in a couple days ... they're downsized so not too happy about it. Working two night shifts so that doesn't help on the grumpiness scale.

Too far gone. I hate wearing watches and the only pink accelerometer I like is a watch-type thingie. I'm getting the Nike Shox, then an Ipod Nano, then a sports kit, and finally the armband thingie ... Cutting back on pearl purchases this month. I did get a nice lot off ebay in the mail today...