PLTbeads Natural Chips Stone Irregular 7-8mm Gemstone Beads 15 Multicolor with Box Set Value Pack for Loose Beads Jewelry Making

Painfully bad. Many of the stones are much smaller than advertised, about 4-5mm in size. A 2-3mm may not seem like a large difference but you're actually missing 30%-50% of the stone. Stones are drilled poorly, at odd angles, leading to fractures and breaks in the stones. Turquoise stones are fake, which at this price point might be okay if they advertised as such and dyed the stones after drilling instead of before. The imitation turquoise have very ugly white patches around the holes. At least make the fakes look good! Overall the non-turquoise stones are aesthetically pleasing but many of the stones lack any practical use for jewelry due to the smaller size and poor placement of the holes. The product would actually be all right if they didn't cut every corner possible. Smaller stones give very little tolerance to awful drilling angles, exposing the poorer qualities and origins of some of the stones. The things you will make will crack, break, or not look great.I've owned similar products before that I liked quite a lot. The stones were on average the advertised size with centered drilled holes, making it a great product for beginners. So if you are looking to get this for a beginner or beginning yourself, look for a similar product somewhere else. A slightly higher quality product will make working with stones go from eye-gougingly terrible to something fun and enjoyable.

I wonder which others rocks are now completely fake!? I wouldn’t call these GENUINE OR NATURAL. Discovered the green turquoise, even though dyed, is NOT turquoise! Some of them were broken in half from sudstandard drilling. I used a jewelers loupe to examine the green turquoise up close and all it is a complete white stone underneath. The drill holes are also white all the way through! All the others, bad drill holes, bad dye jobs and WAY smaller in size than what’s listed. Do not buy from here. Wasted my money.

An excellent set of stone chip beads! I'm very impressed with the color and quality,and for how low the price is for the quantity as well. Enough beads of each color to make complete projects. Makes great embellishment for Organite projects, many applications for using these. Haven't found any defective beads either. All have nice clean holes for beading. A great set for personal use, or for gifting. They look and feel like REAL natural gemstone chips, unlike some that are colored glass or resin chips, I'm pretty sure these are the real thing.

These gemstone beads are really nice. Wanted to give this as a gift since it came in its own container. However, the container was broken, with someone's thumb print breaking the lid by mishandling it. I'm probably one in a million that received this product like this...... sadly, couldnt be gifted. Not worth the price since it's stated as new. Disappointed and not worth returning during Covid-19 quarantine.

It's great for the most part, but there are quite a few that don't even have holes and I went out of my way to find ones with them to use for dreamcatchers. They also are a lot smaller holes than anticipated, It's hard to even get embroidery floss through the ones that actually have holes. Otherwise, the colors are great and the variety in shapes are nice.

Nice beads. Perfect for what I wanted, but the case came with a large hole, and a bead in a small bag to keep stones from falling out. Annoying and I don't have any way to know if I got all of the stones I was supposed to, but not upset enough I want to delay my project to ask for a replacement.

Love these natural stones that will be used in jewelry somehow. Don't have anything made with them yet. But have hopes they will be beautiful in bracelets and any jewelry you make. Love natural stones and things. Not expensive grade of Gems but very pretty additions you can be proud of your product you made.

Some stones not drilled all the way through