Sometimes it all goes badly wrong.
When I was experimenting with chains, and working my way doggedly through Jean Stark's book Classical Loop in Loop chains, (Which is excellent).
I got to the section on CentreBallSingle chains, - which basically involves fusing a link, pinching it at one end into a sort of exclamation mark shape, and then melting the 'dot part' of the exclamation mark into a ball by further heating with the torch.
I had a brainwave . . Aha! . . I said to myself, . . why don't I 'improve' the ball in the middle by setting a CZ in the middle of each ball. It will make it all sparkly.
Nooooo ! It was a pig to do one, - never mind a whole bracelet's worth,
This short length of chain is my reminder never to do it again.
Some you win . . Nothing ventured . . etc . .
Everyone makes mistakes . . As the Dalek said, climbing off the dustbin.
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