I had a disaster! I was stringing a necklace that I had made, one that I was particularly pleased with. (I make glass beads.) And as I was stringing it something horrible happened. One of the beads split into three pieces. It had taken quite a long time to make. Rather than manufacture a replacement, unstringing all of the beads ahead of it and then stringing a replacement plus all of the beads I had needed to unstring...well, I took a risk. I brought out my high-tech equipment...generic crazy glue gel. The stuff is awesome. And I glued the bead back together. Then I painted it so that the damage did not show. It looks great, and I give it 50-50 odds of holding together for the next five years if you store it carefully. Banging around loose is much likelier to break that fragile bead than having the necklace being worn. Of course, a successful crazy glue bond being what it is (never use the liquid, always use the gel!) this bead might be the only thing in Massachusetts that survives the nuclear bombardment of early WW III. The fragile bead is one of the four big Jovian Moons, the ones that Gallileo could see with his telescope orbiting Jupiter back in 1610, four hundred and five years ago. In this case it is Callisto, a dark, icy little world cratered with meteor strikes that are bright, having revealed the clean ice beneath the surface. There is also a bead for bluish Europa, Io, complete with sulfur-crusted volcanoes, (those were *not* easy to make) and Ganymede, an ashen little world with irregular dark patches like continents. Framed by these moons is the planet Jupiter complete with its Red Spot, a vast storm 9,000 by 17,000 miles in area. It is commonly described as being the right size to drop three planet Earths into. (Jupiter is *much* bigger that these moons in reality, although my beads suggests that the planet is just a bit bigger. Well, artistic interpretation.) This necklace is about a foot long, and strung onto beading wire. The ends are crimped and each has a lobster claw closure for easy opening or closing. Apart from my five home-made glass beads, there are pewter colored glass seed beads and over-sized gold seed beads from a store. Two store-bought rhinestone beads flanking Jupiter serve to accent the planet. I cannot in good conscience sell this necklace for anything remotely like what I had planned to. (BUMMER!) Gannymede might outlive me, Gammymede might fall apart next week. There is no way to tell. So this necklace is for sale AS IS. If you are interested PLEASE EXPRESS YOUR INTEREST IN A PRIVATE MESSAGE. I am asking $30.00 and I promise you, thats a huge come down from what it would have been. . https://youtube/watch?v=Gu77Vtja30c
Posted on: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 04:45:13 +0000
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