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Sterling
silver cone ends with hook and loop. | Juanita
Skeets, Navajo $351 plus s/h | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
8 mm smooth bench beads.
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What are Bench Beads?Bench beads are partially manufactured and partially hand made. Usually the halves are machine cut and the silversmith solders the two halves together. Sometimes bench beads are left with a protruding seam but in other cases the seam is sanded down and polished smooth. Then the beads are strung by hand. |
About Silver100% solid silver won't tarnish but it is too soft to use for making jewelry - it could easily be scratched, dented and bent. Sterling silver has a small amount of one or more other metals usually copper, added to the silver. To be called sterling silver, the alloy must contain at least 92.5% pure silver. Sterling silver alloy is harder than pure silver but the added metals also can cause discoloration or tarnish. |
