PARKER BEAD THREAD SIZE

[Pat Dugan]

I came across an e mail from Oscar Gaddy giving me the thread size of the original brass and German Silver Parker beads. He said that it is 2-64. This is a very small thread size and I guess this is why no one sells replacement Parker beads. He told me if I wanted to put an Ivory bead on to get one with the larger shaft and file it down with a fingernail file and glue it in the original hole. Don't make the hole bigger because later you could get the soft Ivory out and put a brass bead back in if you wanted to. Does anyone have a source and price of a replacement brass bead that looks like the original?


PDD