I cut up some early Faceted Brass Pens into "bead" type objects. Cool keychain? Lanyard bead for flashlight or knife? whatever! Save it from the scrap pile! Comes as a bead only, no key chain or lanyard. 

These are not perfectly machined and have a rough look, but thats ok! Its a bead, my faceted pens are much cleaner than this. :)

Inner diameter is 8.6mm, some have fine threads inside them still, from being pens... 

If I end up making these as proper beads they will be more fancy and polished than these ones, but hey lets not get ahead of ourselves! 

Enjoy!