This is a Thor's hammer necklace I made a while back. It's of my own design, but was influenced by various findings of the Viking age. Sand cast, fabricated, textured and oxidized sterling silver.

Silver wire pendant with purple glass bead

This was a most difficult forging for me because it's stainless but mostly because it takes so much concentration and patience.

Forged stainless steel with a glass bead setting.

Glass bead set in stainless steel.
Tear drop is also made of (fabricated)stainless steel.
As with my other stone and glass settings these are directly ARC WELDED into a pre-formed bezel without destroying the stone or glass bead.I've engineered a simple but effective "trick" to keep the heat of the instant weld of the MIG machine from ever reaching the fragile stone piece or glass bead...