I started making rosaries more than 10 years ago. My late father was the one who taught me and I ended up making lots of them for family and friends. I used glass and plastic beads, crystals and even pearls. The pearls are the hardest to make because I had to drill each pearl to make the hole bigger for the wire to go through! 59 pearls for a rosary!!! I used tiny fishing weights in between the decades! So if I see any rosary with fishing weights......I made them!! LOL