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| Posted on Wed Oct 05, 2005 9:42 am |
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Just wondering how many of us make our own links and if you have more than one mandrel?
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crimsonchain
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| Posted on Wed Oct 05, 2005 10:52 am |
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I make my own rings and I have many mandrels, I even have more than one of each size of ring ID.
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| Posted on Wed Oct 05, 2005 11:08 am |
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Cool. By the way you really started something with the 'what if maille was illegal thread. 
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tipo mastr
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| Posted on Wed Oct 05, 2005 11:25 am |
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you should put "maybe" Because for almost all my 14 gauge projects, I make them. My jewelry projects are made of premade rings.
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Andrew
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| Posted on Wed Oct 05, 2005 11:46 am |
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You'er not blabbering, anyway I would'nt have asked if I was'nt interested! I have only recently made mandrels although my brother has one that makes springs 1meter long!!! Yes the whole family is mad. 
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Badfairy
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| Posted on Wed Oct 05, 2005 2:29 pm |
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i've been mailling for about 4 or 5 years now, and i've always cut my own rings. i make my own mandrells too and built my winding jig. and i think i'm into it now more than ever before.. and it's great because i get to maille all day at work, my boss even encourages it!! how about that for being a lucky chick? ahhh... somtimes life can be sweet! 
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mithrilmailler
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| Posted on Thu Oct 06, 2005 9:07 pm |
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i make all my rings from raw wire, altough i did make some rings from trampoline springs, so that's not really all handmade but its close.
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| Posted on Thu Oct 06, 2005 11:16 pm |
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How big are trampoline springs and what did you make with them? 
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norse_maille
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| Posted on Fri Oct 07, 2005 2:03 am |
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I make all of my own with a few exeptions, I buy my 1/8" ID anodized stuff pre cut, 'cause I'll only use saw cut that small, and I don't want to bother with all that efort, I also buy some preciouse metals in rings. And I have 7 different sized mandrels all between 1/8 and 3/8" diameter
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| Posted on Fri Oct 07, 2005 3:45 am |
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| Legba3 wrote: | | How big are trampoline springs and what did you make with them? |
they were 3/4" id with 10 gauge wire. i ended up making just a fivelet with them because it took to long to cut the links. i had to anneal the springs first in a fire then use a chisel, an anvil and hammer to cut them apart. so due to the nasty surface from the annealling proccess and the slow going on cutting i stopped making them.
edit: to correct wire gauge and insert pic
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| Posted on Fri Oct 07, 2005 7:49 am |
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You must be a glutton for punishment!
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| Posted on Fri Oct 07, 2005 1:58 pm |
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I coil and cut my own, and just recently made a jig stand thing to hold my wire and mandrel when I roll. I'm so glad I made that thing. I have 1/8, 3/16, 1/4, 5/16, 3/8, and 1/2 inch mandrels. All are simply cold rolled steel bars, that I have bent into shape. The 1/2 inch was fun to try and bend.
If I ever decide to work in sterling again, or I want more anodized aluminum, then I will order it. I don't feel comfortable yet with saw cutting, and don't really feel like trying it. Otherwise, ordering the premade rings is too expensive. Plus, cutting rings makes for a past-time when I can't maille
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| Posted on Fri Oct 07, 2005 1:59 pm || Last edited by dead_bodyman on Fri Oct 07, 2005 5:41 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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grr...stupid laggy connections at or server down messages...
Sorry
Latas
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. Actually a quick seach behind the computer reveals four spools of wire,actually six, three boxes of various types of metal cut into rings and a few finished jewellery pieces and some unfinished ... Oh and there are a few uncut coils at the other end of the desk including another square copper coil.
