[Jewelry making - Article 00061] - Re: [Orchid] Cable necklaces and alternatives

[Carrie Nunes]

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    Thank you all for your postings concerning this catch traveling
    phenomena. I don't know why it comforts me to know this is a common
    problem, but somehow it does. Although I still need to find a
    solution. 

    James, your comment that the pendant and bail contribute to the
    movement of the cable around the neck, I think is right on. As I was
    wearing mine, the bail being made of a small piece of tubing, the
    pendant seemed to rock and rachet its way along the cable. I believe
    the pendant really pulled the catch around. The cable has a ribbed
    texture from the wire coiled around it and the tubing just rocked its
    way along the cable. 

    So I like the look of my tubing bail but maybe I should experiment
    with larger or smaller tubing and see if that makes any difference. 
    My only creative solution I have come up with to the traveling catch
    problem is to make the pendant itself the catch. Now this would
    anchor the pendant in place and not allow it to freely move along the
    cable. And you would also have to decoratively address the caps on
    the ends of the cable. But you could, in theory, remove the catch
    that the cable comes with and you are left with two loop ends. Then
    you can attach one of these loop ends permanantly, and have one loop
    end that can be undone, at the top of or on the back of your pendant.
     Not sure if I am explaing that clearly. But it could be a whole new
    way to use cable. I would probably miss the pendant being able to
    float back and forth on the cable but would not miss the traveling
    catch problem. You might also have less of the graceful curve of the
    cable and more of a soft V shape. Worth an experiment I think.

    So I am gathering that snake chains give people the same trouble
    too? Thanks for all the input as I find my way down this road of
    using chain or cable for the first time that I did not make myself.
    Whatever I choose has gotta hold up. 

Carrie Nunes 

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