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We're starting with We wanted to do something special for our 18th which is today so Gary and I scanned and cropped and uploaded until we had all of our long out of At least for now, precious metals in the jewelry industry are still based mostly on the spot price and buying an ounce of pure silver wire is less expensive than We don't have a tutorial for Spiral 6-in-1, but you can find one at M.

It will make more sense if you're already familiar with Double Spiral 4-in-1, so I've Vortex Medallion is the name of our version of this beautiful and much loved design by Norwegian mailler, Kenth Kutschera. My only real caution is that you'll want to make sure that your ring closures are as good as they can be because the weave is so very tight, it's Every person who's seen this ring has wanted one.

People who don't wear jewelry, even manly construction guys who do not wear rings at all, have Scott uses four-inch lengths; you could go six, ten, or even twenty inches, depending on the size and kind of jewelry you usually make. For quick identification of separate jeweler's files while working, Scott has color-coded the handles of his files with electrical tape handles.

He uses yellow tape for the file reserved for gold, white tape for the file reserved for sterling or fine silver, and red tape for the file he uses with base metals, copper, or bronze.

When making your own jump rings, you can use a variety of items for mandrels to wrap the wire on. Scott uses metal knitting needles, which come in a variety of sizes you can mark them with tape on the ends. For larger jump rings, he uses a length of gas pipe with a hole drilled in the end to hold the wire's tail. Digital calipers are perfect for measuring the exact diameter of knitting needles in millimeters or inches.

They can measure knitting needles exactly to the hundredths of a millimeter; that depth of precision and exactness is very important for chain making. Always straighten your wire after you cut a length off the spool. Hold one end of your wire with your nondominant hand and hold the other end of the wire in a cloth or bandana in your other hand and pull the cloth firmly over the wire, straight toward you, a few times to straighten the wire.

This will also make the wire a little more malleable or "springy" as well as smooth out any little bumps in it. When tumbling jump rings, instead of using steel shot, Scott uses what he calls a "silver flower," which is simply three gauge silver hoops connected together, with the usual water and soap. I am still learning and barely got done doing my very first chain mail. It is a Euro 4-in-1 weave. I am looking for other weaves and this is very detailed and explains a lot.

I know I will be looking at this instructable for a long time. Thank you. Introduction: Chainmaille Weaves a Plenty. More by the author:. About: Hello, Maxumx here, 30yo jack of all trades and truly master of none as the saying gose.

I'm primarily a 3d artist and chaimaille maniac. One: Tools, You will need pliers to open and close rings Two: The Color Key, this key is used throught this instructable Red: The ring s to weave thru. Thats all there is to it.

Step Two: Weave on 4 AR 3. Step seven: Repeat the above in mirror for the top. Step Eight: Repeat repeat. Love this weave easy Byz variation and good looking to boot. I'm not going to give AR for this one as with this many ring sizes it makes it a little harder to work out Ring size for this weave you will need three ring sizes each smaller then the next.

Flip the section and do the same to the back side. Flip and repeat. Now that you have the idea, run out a few more section. Dissconnect your starter adn you are done. ARs 4. Start with a pice of Helm chain, now you need some AR 4 rings. Weave the rings in a 1 pattern ware the 2 is in the single ring of the helm pattern. Next fold in one ring from each of the bi-rings and link them together with a new ring.

Again the amount of rige sizes make ARs difficult so none are given. Lets get weaving. Daisy Chain Some times call Chrysanthemum. Go ahead and make it from AR 4 this will make it nice and thick, and this weave looks best thick Now that you have that done lets change it over to the new weave Step one: Turn the weave 90 degrees. No it not the game! Now grab another 2in1 chain and aline it like so. Now we go back to step 2 but don't skip the first eye, use it.

And again.. Finish out the chain. Participated in the Jewelry Contest View Contest. Did you make this project? Share it with us! I Made It! ThomasC43 6 years ago on Introduction. Reply Upvote. I really appreciate the level of detail you went into here. Thanks for being so thorough. XofHope 7 years ago on Step JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.

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