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Re: Help me! I'm looking for strong wire to string beads... -- shinji Post Reply Edit Forum Where am I?
Posted by: nishedha Mail author
07/22/2014, 02:18:02

One of my customers, an overactive Australian young man, keeps breaking necklaces and bracelets. One of the latter suddenly snapped during a flight Hong Kong-Athens, the beads were scattered all over the plain, and many were lost to the sweepers.
So, the string I used for the last project I made for him -- the bracelet with amazonites recently posted here -- was 1,5 mm thick Dyneema. It has a silky touch, ans is so strong I was unable to cut it with scissors, I had to use a Dremel rotating saw! Of course, this could be a problem in case the wearer would get hooked somewhere...
I dislike knots at the ends: alternatively I bend the string and bind it with a thread ad hoc, that I seal afterwords with the epoxy varnish sold for finishing fishing rods -- its surface shines when dry, but it can be made matte with a hard bristled brush.

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