Are you planning to wear the finished chain as jewelery or do something else with them?
Making actual chain mail is far too advanced for a beginner like me. I'm doing the beginner stuff: making fancy chains. Which will be turned into jewellery, yes.
Do you have to make your own links when doing something like this?
Some people do, but it's far quicker and easier to buy them. The technical term for the links are "jump rings", and they're used in normal jewellery too, it's just that normal jewellery would use half-a-dozen jump rings at the very most, while chain maille uses hundreds(*). So it makes sense to buy from someone selling them for chain maille, because they sell them in suitably large lots. Also, they're of better quality, because it's more important for chain maille rings to join seamlessly.
(*) to give an example, my first box chain is so far about an inch long, and that used 20 rings.
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Making actual chain mail is far too advanced for a beginner like me. I'm doing the beginner stuff: making fancy chains. Which will be turned into jewellery, yes.
Do you have to make your own links when doing something like this?
Some people do, but it's far quicker and easier to buy them. The technical term for the links are "jump rings", and they're used in normal jewellery too, it's just that normal jewellery would use half-a-dozen jump rings at the very most, while chain maille uses hundreds(*). So it makes sense to buy from someone selling them for chain maille, because they sell them in suitably large lots. Also, they're of better quality, because it's more important for chain maille rings to join seamlessly.
(*) to give an example, my first box chain is so far about an inch long, and that used 20 rings.