I just got in a nice little pile of 8mm x 10mm lapis lazuli cabochon. I bought these specifically to go with some 8×10 silver bezel cups that I’ve had in my jewelry tool box for a long time. Late night I went to the bench and came up with this simple triangular necklace. Nothing particularly fancy, but on the plus side, it won’t be too expensive either… about $60 including the chain.

The most difficult part was setting the stone. These stones aren’t calibrated- you can see in the first photo that there’s extra space around the edge of the stone- and initially the fir was quite loose in the bezel cup. This meant lots of burnishing, pushing, cussing and persuasion to get the edges of the bezel to lay down properly. After a longer than expected amount of time, I got a good, solid fit on the bezel.