[Jewelry making - Article 00438] - Re: [Orchid] Balling wire at each Pearl end

[Kimberly Starbard]

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Hi Judy:

    From previous discussions on Orchid, what you're doing seems a bit
    difficult. Glue has been suggested as a way to hold the wire inside
    the pearl. You would ball the ends of 2 wires before inserting into
    the pearl at opposing ends. Another very neat sounding idea was
    talked of a while back. I don't remember all, but I believe it had a
    reference to "victorian". Two separate wires' ends were drawn into a
    ball. One wire was split down the middle a tiny bit with a jeweler's
    saw. Then the wires were inserted at opposing ends until they met.
    They were then tapped slightly with a hammer. The split wire would
    open just enough to envelop the end of the other wire and hold both
    inside the pearl. In your case, you were trying to work with a heat
    sink. Is this "sand bed" maybe taking too much heat away? Have you
    considered trying any of the commercially available heat sinks? Here
    is a discussion on a medieval technique. 

    http://www.ganoksin.com/orchid/archive/200512/msg01148.htm 

    I couldn't find anything on the "split wire" technique I described
    above. Am I misremembering this thread? 

Good Luck
Kim Starbard
Cove Beads

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