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I have a Chamilia necklace and this is perfect for it. It was very inexpensive and looked great for the purpose I purchased it for. I ordered several at a time and had a problem with one but it was easily fixed.

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Very nice bead. Only thing a person might not like is that although it fits on a Pandora bracelet it does not thread on.

If people just spent a little more time internet surfing, they would find glass artists, probably even local ones, that make beautiful pandora style beads. Most studio's are artist owned and operated and you are buying from the person who made the bead. Lampwork Artists take pride in selling quality beads that will last a lifetime. The price per bead is more than affordable as well, especially for a one of a kind original.

This is the basic Murano style glass bead. The green is very pretty, The color is slightly transparent and coordinates with a number of shades of green is one was matching beads to apparel.

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I received this as a Christmas present, along with a half-inch Beadlock Pro Accessory kit (from Rockler), and four packages of 1/2'' BeadLOCK Tenon Stock, 12'' Pieces, 3 Pack, or twelve feet of tenon stock. I used the Beadlock kit to build an interior door which had two stiles, two wide rails, two narrow rails, and three center stiles. Each wide rail had three Beadlock tenons at each end; each narrow rail had two, and each center stile had one. This required cutting 26 tenons, each 4" long, and drilling 52 Beadlock mortises. Centering the jig and drilling each mortise was straightforward. The really hard part was aligning the mortises in the rails with those in the stiles. The Beadlock jig has engraved lines on the black aluminum jig filled with white paint. The idea is to align these white lines on the jig with the pencil marks that you've scribed on the wooden stock to be drilled. I ended up making three little wooden templates for drawing the 52 skinny pencil lines identifying the side of each mortise. Each of the 52 times I clamped the jig, I carefully sighted down the pencil line to reduce any parallax error in aligning it with the white line on the jig. This was extremely tedious. In the end, the door went together, but part of that was due to the soft wood (cedar) and strong bar clamps. There is no question that I now have a strong door, but using the jig didn't exactly leave me with a feeling of satisfaction in a job well done or pride in craftsmanship. I don't feel that I can do the next job any better than I did this one using this jig. Part of the problem may be that I am a klutz, but I don't think that it's completely sour grapes to expect that a jig that costs well north of one hundred bucks to have some positive mechanism for making alignment simple and accurate.