I'm wanting to make an oxidised necklace for a beach found piece of pottery with bar links (eye pin ends) that are 1mm to 1.5mm in thickness, 1.5" long. I want a slightly industrial look. Either I go for steel wire or silver. I've never worked in steel, my worry would be that it would be incredibly difficult to work but on the other hand it's cheap in comparison to silver. I could get the wire from Wires.co.uk What do you think?