I’m pretty new at beads so not sure that I’m a good judge. These are pretty, lovely cobalt blue color, not 100 percent consistent in size and color. For instance, I would have preferred all of the beads the same dark blue color rather than light blue ones scattered in. There are just of few on the string I’ll discard because the rounded edges are too thin. They seem solid. The test will be how they wear once I make a necklace out of them.