post earrings

[jjwiskus]

I know that I have ask this before but here it goes again. I have a lot of customer ask for post earrings. How can I make earrings with lampwork beads into post. Show pic if you have any.
thanks

[shawnette]

Use these for dangle posts:
http://www.beadedimpressions.com/metal/ss_earpost.jpg

and these for regular posts:
http://www.ukge.co.uk/UKGEDATA/images_products/3438.jpg

For the glue posts, make your bead at the end of the mandrel, or off-mandrel and glue it to the pad. It's basically a mini cab.

[crystalflipz]

These were done on the dangle posts with pieces of bar chain
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c81/crystalflipz/barchainearrings1.jpg

[jjwiskus]

thank you for the great info, I will try the different ways!

[Sue in Maine]

Boy, when they say "the road to hell is paved with good intentions," they know what they're talking about! I've meant to take a picture of these for days now... here is one set I did on posts.

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Does this help?

Sue