Review on 🪶 Natural Sodalite Gemstone Round Tumbled Nugget Stone Beads - 10-13mm Loose Beads (~ 45 Inches Total Length) for Jewelry Crafting and Making - GZ4-5 by Amber Perez

Pretty Polished Stone Beads . The title and description is for a 15 inch skein, mine was just over 15 inches long and contained 27 beads packed in two small plastic ziplock bags. The photos in the listing show the beads with a mostly uniform round barrel shape. The beads I received were much more randomly shaped and had a very natural, unshaped/modified look. When I started threading the beads by hand, I couldn't mount the 1mm thick nylon cord on them. The cable goes through the hole but cannot thread it through and get to the other side. At first I thought they were just fancy, but when you look at all the beads it's clear the drill quality is lacking. Of the 27 beads, I lined up 3 successfully. The other 24 appeared to have been drilled with a smaller hole on one side to allow the cord to get stuck in the middle. One bead was double bored on one side and the other was drilled shallow enough that the bore path left a deep groove in the surface of the bead.