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Here is a picture of a friend and co-worker wearing one of my necklaces made of Knotted Chain Mail. The details of the necklace: 58 grams of fine silver wire, 0.030" in diameter, tied in 90 separate knots of three distinct sizes, all soldered closed after interlinking. (Here's another one, just finished in early 2005.)
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I've been asked to put up a little more detail on the necklace, specifically the clasp I used in back. Here it is:
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The same pattern can be worn as a choker, as shown in this picture. The model attended DragonCon 2004, and makes a lovely Princess Leia.
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I just finished a pair of earrings to go with the above necklace. You might notice that the knots are mirror images -- that's just an aspect of my particular form of madness, where I like to put in things that don't matter to anyone other than me. Left handed knots, right handed knots, left earring, right earring. I just like doing stuff like this.
The smaller knots need to be made with thicker wire, I think.
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When I'm at a convention and don't have other things on my mind, I sometimes let someone play with my tools -- I let this girl use the Knotted Chain-mail fixture and tools to create a pair of earrings for herself, and then I took this picture to show them off:
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