Chained Love

[Bigwol]

Can't beat a bit of chain.

Most made a while ago, when I had time on my hands.

[Emerald]

lovely Bigwol keep rolling them out x

[Lindyloo]

Very nice, BigWol. Love your composition there.

[mizgeorge]

Nice chains I always like seeing lots of chains together for some reason

I like the endcaps on that Viking knit too - did you make those too?

And the box clasp?

[caroleallen]

Lovely work. Really like them.

[Petal]

Absolutely gorgeous work

[MuranoSilver]

Oooh nice love the viking knit

[Bigwol]

Nice chains I always like seeing lots of chains together for some reason

I like the endcaps on that Viking knit too - did you make those too?

And the box clasp?

In my textbook (Stark - Classical loop-in-loop chains) the Viking Knit is called Two-way double loop-in-loop, made by fusing loops, and dogbone shapes then passing one through the previous loop.

The Endcaps were fused from a fine silver coil (no solder) with a fine silver cap, finished with a sterling (for strength) jump ring soldered to the cap.

The box clasp was scratch built from 1mm sheet metal, the tongue was made from hard solder - hammered for springiness (is springiness a word??)



This is a variant on the end cap with a sisterhook hand made from sheet with a handmade tube rivet.



Chain pictures taken with my faithful Asahi Pentax Takumar 50mm F1.4 manual lens (from about 1965) on a Canon EOS 350D digital camera.

[bustagasket]

I am stunned, i am just getting into chains, and am going to be working my way thru my new books as fast as i can, yous are wonderful bigwol, loce the square one, very different

[snow_imp]

That's the kind of work I aspire to.