Last year, much was made of the fact that a company at the Electric Park show was selling Chinese star canes for making chevron beads. I had intended to buy some, but passed until this year. These guys also had Chinese chevron beads, some of which I did acquire last year and this time.

Art Seymour also bought them last year, and has made some beads from the canes—performing his usual excellent job of cutting, shaping, and polishing. Oddly, while I was selecting the four canes I decided to buy, someone came up behind me and said "are you planning to cut some chevron beads?" And I replied, "I don't think so—I'm not Art Seymour." And it WAS Art Seymour....

So here are those four lengths of cane, being blue, green, black, and red on their exteriors, followed by a close-up.

JDA.