Almost There!

And now he's a little brown monkey and has an eye. Things got a little interesting in the studio when I pulled him out of the kiln to find a big grunty piece of ugly black something that had to be drilled out. The hole then had to be scrubbed with a fiberglass brush, and the piece had to be re-fired before any more glass could be laid.
The repair well well, however, and if I hadn't just told you I'd had to do it, you wouldn't ever have known, because you can't see it at all.
While I hate doing repairs, I like it when the repairs are successful.

The bezel below is what a stone will be set in.
What stone? We don't know yet. We're working on it.

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