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Published: 2007-09-30 07:49:15 +0000 UTC; Views: 2975; Favourites: 38; Downloads: 34
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just a little dohicky. about one inch per side, byzantine weavewords of advice on prettier closures are very welcome- i know a couple i just got lazy on... otherwise, is it just cause i got machine cut rings? i don't mind the look, but if it's technique, i wanna get better
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whimper........ wow my hands hurt just looking at that....
what gauge did you use for that.......
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18ga 5/32" ID, aluminum
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this is amazing! i made a chainmail vest for myself but never dreamed about making something such complicated as this one
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hehe, it wasn't too complicated, really. i'm pretty sure there are "better" ways of making byzantine sheet, but i like the flexibility of the way i did it. it's just 16 little sections of two units of byzantine all linked together with single rings
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i've never tried byzantine. but you really ecouraged me 
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LOL with some tinkering, yep. if you get into it and realize it's not intuitive how to put them all together, i can try and get some pictures of the assembly
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haha, you have no idea. i made one for a friend of mine's birthday
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Nothing would give me more pleasure than your enthusiastic reply to my comment after visiting this [link]
She is also a multi-talented artist!
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i'd be interested to see what you come up with!
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from the first glance i thought these are maggot !!
Turns out to be nice mettalic chain aint it
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hehehe, yep, chainmaille. little rings of aluminium
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I love love love it! My fiance does chainlink stuff, too. ^_^
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Wow! Nice job, I don't think I would have thought to make a ....hacky sack, I mean cube. I like it!
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hahah, it's small enough.... it's now a keychain. an utterly ridiculous one, but a keychain nonetheless!
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Since you have to open the rings a little to start with any way. You could file the two ends with a barrett needle file. After a while it becomes very quick and the ends should meet flush.
What metal did you use?
Cool project.
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ahhh, and i have jewellers files at home, huzzah. that's clever
's etched aluminum, though after banging it around in the bottom of my bag for a while, it's now shiny, hehe
and thank you
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That looks pretty hard to do not to mention time consuming. Nice work.
~V
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's great, huh? 'cause once you get the hang of it, 's actually easy as. time consuming for sure, though, heheheh
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nice work ^^
as for closing the rings on things like this (ornaments) you could just cheat and slide the rings around so the joins are hidden on the inside of the cube
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thanks! i was so considering that, but forgot before i took the picture. heehee
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hahaha, don't think i haven't used it as that...
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Uh ... cut on the bias? Would that make the gaps easier to close?
It's very cubicle.
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well, that's the thing... saw cut rings don't have the |< type close, 's more ||. but i bought my rings in bulk, pre machine cut...so i'm wondering if there are any tricks to make the closure prettier without having to pay more for better cuts...
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i think you're probably correct. i have only used saw cut rings once or twice, and they were wonderful
your best bet would be to try the saw cut rings :/
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yeppers, i've had a lot more success with saw-cut since
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i <3 your byzantine cube btw! it's wonderful
^_^
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Oh. I ... wouldn't know about that, either. Heh. Sorry.
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