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Sooner or later, my scientist/geek nature gets mixed up in my creative endeavors. At the moment, I have the urge to find or construct a balance accurate enough to let me construct an asymmetric necklace that hangs naturally where it's intended to, by weighing the already-constructed part and adding beads to the other side until it matches. I don't think my fifteen-year-old digital kitchen scale is up to the job; the postal scale in the employee lounge at work might be, but that would mean taking in a selection of loose beads, which is a lot of messing about ...