Post: Post Reply: Thanks, it's a group thing, by Joyce

Original Message: Thanks, it's a group thing,

could not have done it alone, of course! The beads themselves sort of "told me" where they needed to be, on the basis of a # of factors....size, shape, material, color, weight, hollow or solid, relationship to neighboring beads.
It was a joy and a pleasure to do. Happy thoughts of every single person came to me as I strung their bead.
It was a bit of a trial and error for an evening arriving at stringing material and "bumper beads" that functioned well. I used black artificial sinew, it's a heavily waxed polyester. The finish knot is between the BCN bead and the light agate cylinder, singed.
For in-betweens, spacer, or "bumper" beads, first I tried 2 or 3 ostrich eggshell discs. Didn't take long for a couple of them to crumple right off. I used black vulcanite discs in 2 sizes on the necklace. It serves more than meets the eye......about 1/3 of the beads have really large holes, and I "stuffed" them by winding the cord with additional cord, and "stuffing" it into the bead. The vulcanite at the ends serves as a sort of cap, or "lid" concealing the stuff inside, and protecting these beads, sort of like little packages unto themselves. Another thing I like about the vulcanite material between beads is the fact that it literally keeps glass from grinding against glass. A couple of the beads are moving freely with vulcanite beads inside them their whole length. The big Bodom bead right next to the big polymer bead is moving freely on the vulcanite - I didn't have any vulcanite big enough for it's end, but it's bumping only against the big polymer bead when worn and the free movement is kind of neat.
The knots between each vulcanite/ bead unit are just double overhand knots. I pre-stretched the sinew, and tried to snug down each knot just right, so it's tight without imposing pressure on the bead. The knot, with the protective vulcanite discs, prevents each bead from having to support the weight of all the beads above it when worn.
Copyright 2024
All rights reserved by Bead Collector Network and its users

Original Message: Thanks, it's a group thing,
could not have done it alone, of course! The beads themselves sort of "told me" where they needed to be, on the basis of a # of factors....size, shape, material, color, weight, hollow or solid, relationship to neighboring beads. It was a joy and a pleasure to do. Happy thoughts of every single person came to me as I strung their bead. It was a bit of a trial and error for an evening arriving at stringing material and "bumper beads" that functioned well. I used black artificial sinew, it's a heavily waxed polyester. The finish knot is between the BCN bead and the light agate cylinder, singed. For in-betweens, spacer, or "bumper" beads, first I tried 2 or 3 ostrich eggshell discs. Didn't take long for a couple of them to crumple right off. I used black vulcanite discs in 2 sizes on the necklace. It serves more than meets the eye......about 1/3 of the beads have really large holes, and I "stuffed" them by winding the cord with additional cord, and "stuffing" it into the bead. The vulcanite at the ends serves as a sort of cap, or "lid" concealing the stuff inside, and protecting these beads, sort of like little packages unto themselves. Another thing I like about the vulcanite material between beads is the fact that it literally keeps glass from grinding against glass. A couple of the beads are moving freely with vulcanite beads inside them their whole length. The big Bodom bead right next to the big polymer bead is moving freely on the vulcanite - I didn't have any vulcanite big enough for it's end, but it's bumping only against the big polymer bead when worn and the free movement is kind of neat. The knots between each vulcanite/ bead unit are just double overhand knots. I pre-stretched the sinew, and tried to snug down each knot just right, so it's tight without imposing pressure on the bead. The knot, with the protective vulcanite discs, prevents each bead from having to support the weight of all the beads above it when worn. Copyright 2024 All rights reserved by Bead Collector Network and its users

Back Post Reply

Name
  Register

Password

E-Mail

Subject

Private Reply   Make all replies private

Message
HTML tags allowed in message body. Browser view     Display HTML as text.

Link URL

Link Title

Image URL

Attachment file (<256 kb)

Attachment file (<256 kb)