[Jewelry making - Article 00456] - [Orchid] Retro-fitting earwire to thick earring

[Lin Lahlum]

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    How would you handle this? I sold a pair of sterling silver earrings
    to a customer. She returned them afterward saying the post was too
    big to go in her earlobe. It is a .030 SS post: I used a thick one
    because the earrings are large and kind of heavy. She still wants
    them so I need to fix them. She is a good customer so I want to
    please her. 

    There are pearls bezel set on the front. She asked to have it made
    into a dangle earring on an earwire. But I'm not sure how to go about
    this. There is no room in the right spot to drill a hole and put in a
    jump ring. Because of the pearls I can't solder a loop on the top
    edge. I don't know how to describe this in words: the earrings are
    not flat but kind of boxy in form: thicker from front to back. But it
    is also sloped with a curve or beveled so not a surface that lends
    itself to sparkie a ring or something onto the top edge. I could
    sparkie a rivet onto the back, right near the top edge, and rivet on
    some kind of finding (what kind, I don't know: something with a loop
    at top for the earwire and at bottom for the rivet) and then put on
    an earwire. But because the earring is thick I'm sure it will tilt
    forward because the point of suspension would be too far back. I
    thought of bending some kind of offset angle shape into this finding
    so the top loop would be more forward and in t he right place to
    prevent tilting. 

    Am I overlooking an easier solution? This issue has come up before
    so I'd like to have a better solution for it available in the
    future. 

    I don't want to make a new pair. I can't get those kind of pearls
    again, plus it was too expensive to make; also this was an older
    pair of earrings and I was happy that someone finally bought them. 

Thanks in advance,
Lin Lahlum
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