Where might I find sterling silver spheres (undrilled beads)?
What you would be looking for is called shot and a jeweler can make it. Look around where you live for a jeweler who does a type of work called granulation. There are three common ways the shot can be made and it is solid not hollow. I have never seen a solid sphere that was hollow out of sterling but there may be some out there. I will do a little research when I get home tomorrow and see if I can find a source for you that would do mail or Internet orders. You may also be able to find it as a form of casting grain from a jewelry supply house but I have never seen it offered as spheres. Good luck and I will see what I can come up with for you tomorrow. Spunk makes a good suggestion but she is missing a little bit of the process. You need a good charcoal block to prevent the shot from being covered in fire scale. Fire scale is a dense hard to remove black coating that forms when silver oxidizes during the melting process. In commercial jewelry production casting is done in a vacuum to
