Original Message:   New Beads

I decided to give myself a challenge and produce long stone beads this year. I have gone back to batch production which entails making a few hundred bead preforms then pausing to drill them all and when that is completed the finishing begins. I cheat and drill and finish a few that I find interesting. Here are three. Yellow jacket jasper bead, Washington. 62 mm long, 2.5 mm hole Long bead of a mix of grossular garnet, diopside, and idocrase. 56 mm long (2.5 inches), 2.5 mm hole These two are rough from local to me stones. Copyright 2024 All rights reserved by Bead Collector Network and its users

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