... colour/look of. As for the mala. The only thing you need to fix it is some yarn. If somebody gives me a mala and I find the string is too flimsy I restring it BEFORE it breaks and I lose half the beads. I find the best string (for beads with a large holes) is the nylon yarn builders use to mark ...

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... is a must to have certain number of knots in a mala or wrist mala. 2. Leave it as it is, again same problem above applies 3. Get it redone or restring. But i heard from some souces that no one beside urself, family and ur teachers/ guru/s can touch ur mala because bad energies may be introduce, ...

Ok, so I pulled the guru bead off. Do I need the tassel? I can just restring it with fishing line and knot it. You will be restringing it again this weekend if you put fishing line in there. Really? I thought that would be strong. Ok I have more string. for ...

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Konchog1 wrote:Ok, so I pulled the guru bead off. Do I need the tassel? I can just restring it with fishing line and knot it.

You will be restringing it again this weekend if you put fishing line in there.

Really? I thought that would be strong. Ok I have more string.

Konchog1 wrote:Ok, so I pulled the guru bead off. Do I need the tassel? I can just restring it with fishing line and knot it.

You will be restringing it again this weekend if you put fishing line in there.

Ok, so I pulled the guru bead off. Do I need the tassel? I can just restring it with fishing line and knot it.

... They're strong, abrasion/stretch resistant and easy to work with. People make the mistake of trying to fix an over-stretched mala rather than restringing it. What I don't like about knotted malas is that even though the owner may not have lost any beads because of the knotting, it takes much ...

... spaced knots) is breached and brittled. Weakened malas snap due to sharp stones usually. New malas, shouldn't. You could take your mala apart, restring it knotted if you ever wanted... they're not hard to fix. Many a ham-fisted Buddhist has repaired their own beads simply. :namaste: D. Ogyen

... despite the awful load of bitmaps to wade through, is because I have an interest in prayer beads generally and malas in particular. I make and restring malas myself (although without the altruism OG excercises) and I have a keen interest in the work of other mala-makers as well. I'm also a ...

... Whatever donations come in go to making someone else's malas. I do not profit from it personally. People so far have sent me materials, items to restring, sometimes small donations which I then use to find someone else their perfect mala, etc. Sometimes, I have a couple people who have multiple ...