A Father's Rosary

I have never made any jewelry item before, so I took about 5.5 hrs doing this project. It was all learning. I used antique finished fastenings (made from brass I think) and stone beads. I also used a 3 connector fastening instead of a center piece and do not have any thing at the end of the drop chain. As I got used to the motions, I got much quicker and was doing a decade every 8 minutes or so...but pinning the beads took almost an hour for 25 beads....beginner's lack of skill. XP

My needle-nose pliers did damage the eye pins because I didn't have them coated with anything (I know there's a dip you can apply to your pliers to turn them into "jeweler's tools"...just don't have any) but it worked well for my antique look anyways.

Stones used: 8mm Tigers Eye, 6mm Poppy (Red Brecciated) Jasper, 6mm Red Jasper.

Instructions followed: [link]

EDIT 12 APR 10: [link]
I have also made a coordinating auto rosary/single decade/bracelet using the same batch of stones and findings. Doing eye-pins, cutting chain, and assembly only took 47 minutes. Still need the focals to arrive in snail-mail and need now to get another St. Joseph for the smaller piece.

EDIT 15 APR 10: Finished now-key pendant arrived from [link] and installed.