Lava Beads

Over the weekend I went to the local bead store I found these really cool lava beads. They are about the size of a quarter. I made a simple pair of earrings and am working on a necklace. The necklace will use 8 lava beads. The center 'bar with stone' is a piece of round silver wire. It's about 5mm in diameter. I forged one end to be square, then I files off the edges. The top has two rings and the bottom a stone mounted in a bezel. The stone is pink tourmaline. It's not quite finished as I need to drill a hole in the silver wire and I don't have a drill press.

Bench Addition

Last week or so I made quite a few ear wires. Each wire was measured and cut to length. I added this to my bench to help with the measuring. It's a simple plastic ruler taped to the bench with packing tape. Now I always know where my ruler is.