I promise this will be the last piece I post for awhile -- this ain't QVC -- but some seem interested in metalwork processes.  My first hand cut cabochon. Why I decided to start with labradorite I will never know -- it is a bitch and a half to work with (1. It shears and 2. You have to kind of guess where the iridescence will pop up). PMC, cast and fabricated (only commercial element is the base chain -- even the pins and bezel were fabricated).