Thank you Cricketbug. This is my favorite tincup, I have made others but this is the one I wear. The pearls are smallish for tahitians. When I bought a strand (my second from her accually the first one was a lot bigger even though they were described as the same size) of drop tahitians from Wenpearls and they were all tiny, I think maybe one was over 8 mm, I was a little dissapointed. The colors were lovely but not what I wanted for a project (have forgotten what the project was about), so I took the most colorful ones and wirewrapped them. And for me it's the perfect tincup (to rule the other tincups...), beautiful colors, not too long or short or too heavy. So me getting smaller pearls than expected was really good. The silver has not tarnished in a year and I mostly wear this when it's to hot for a strand but maybe the wire was rhodium plated (don't remember, might be). Some day you will have the perfect tincup for you to Cricketbug.