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<p>[QUOTE="Joan, post: 293277, member: 5398"]What I like best about your necklace are the brass fluted/petal bead caps (looks like you have about 72 of them). They have such delicate, well-defined fluting and deep cups. A lot of the newer bead caps are brass-plated, or are cheap-looking imports (like in the photo below). I've always soaked brass beads and bead caps in clear ammonia and buffed with a polishing cloth, but next time I'll try ketchup since it looks like it may do just as well, and isn't toxic (thank you Ownedbybear for the tip). [ATTACH=full]95148[/ATTACH] ,[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Joan, post: 293277, member: 5398"]What I like best about your necklace are the brass fluted/petal bead caps (looks like you have about 72 of them). They have such delicate, well-defined fluting and deep cups. A lot of the newer bead caps are brass-plated, or are cheap-looking imports (like in the photo below). I've always soaked brass beads and bead caps in clear ammonia and buffed with a polishing cloth, but next time I'll try ketchup since it looks like it may do just as well, and isn't toxic (thank you Ownedbybear for the tip). [ATTACH=full]95148[/ATTACH] ,[/QUOTE]
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