New finished piece & a couple of stringing questions

I will scan my latest piece tomorrow so you can see it. It's pretty big. While I was in the throes of designing this one, I had an idea to use a technique I saw on the cover of Beadwork July/August 2000, called Blocks and Bars. When you see the amulet bag, you won't recognize the stitch. I messed around with it. The neckcord is based on this technique. I saw a complaint about something on the cover of a mag one other time that had thread showing along the edge of the piece. It was unavoidable, in the technique that was used on that piece, as it would be on this. My piece has thread that more closely matches the beads and because it is square stitch in part, seeing the thread really becomes a part of it. Personally, I don;t care if it shows. It is a necessary part of the work. I consider this, all of the beading I do to be weaving, anyway. I don;t just consider it the glue that holds the beads together, so to speak. I think it is an integral part of it. I have experimented with a numer of thread related things, including using colored thread inside of transparent beads for added color or stitching back thru beads with metallic threads, That is awesome ! Purposefully using BLACK thread to do RAW with white beads. I look at what I do as a no holds barred creativity fest, where "rules" don't apply. The piece I finished tonight is one example .... It just ain't usual. I made a test piece of the Blocks and Bars, too, that I might scan to show ... I stitched strands of them together with RAW. I was thinking if i stitched the strips together with RAW it would look similar to filet crochet. The thread would be VERY apparent. My personal taste is to use something other than the cover article, not the white thread that was chosen. Very interesting, also. I got curious about how people feel about the thread issue. Some of the crazy things I do, would never be achieved without it showing in part. I have also found thread on gigantic spools for commercial purposes that is beyond interesting. I am using it alot. I don;t think the public cares. They don;t know the finer technical points of beading and as long as it is pretty and well made, that's as far as they ever look. I have heard that for competitions that this is an issue. If that is true, most of my articles would get passed over if they were not explained or uderstood. Also, what is this Fireline. I looked at it at Wal-Mart, and found it pricey, but i am interested in it's stiffness for certain things. How are you all finishing the ends ? Crimps, .... what ? Like all stringing materials that dont break, i have this all consuming fear of someone being in a car accident and being decapitated by the necklace I sold them, because it wouldn't break and their famiy sues me ? I know that's far fetched .. but it could happen .... Rainbow