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.

More Earrings

I had some time today, so I made a few more pair of earrings. These were some beads I had hanging around, I don't really know what they are. I needed some ear wires so I made some based on this tutorial.



This is a simple set of 4, 6MM hematite beads.


These were hanging around, don't know what they are, but I really like these. I made these ear wires also. Once you get the hang of it, making ear wires is pretty simple.


A little different this time, two beads on opposite ends, lightly hammered to strengthen the curve, homemade ear wires.

New Earrings

These would be a new pair of earrings to go along with the bracelet I made. These are very simple to make. Each one consists of two 8MM hematite beads. To make the earring I cut a small piece of 1.0MM round wire about 40CM long. I heated the end of the wire to form a ball, then popped on the beads and made a loop with round nose pliers. Couldn't be any easier.

Bracelet Complete

Well, I did finish the bracelet. It came out OK, not as well as I had hoped. For the stone settings I used some prefab ones I had purchased from RioGrande. They were a bit stiff, and not exactly the correct size for the 8mm X 10 mm Hematite stones. Next time I will build my own bezels.

A New Bracelet

If I can get it together, this will be a new bracelelt for my wife. It's about 7.5 inches long and will contain 8 Hematite cabs.