In article ,
Roger Mills wrote:
I've also used screws for the staff beads. Couldn't think of a similar
way to fix the parting beads, though.


My parting beads don't use any fixings. They are an interference fit in
their grooves, and have to be tapped in with a block of wood and a
hammer.

That may have been the case here 150 years ago. ;-) The old ones had long
panel pins, though.

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