[Jewelry making - Article 00044] - Re: [Orchid] Chain mail - to solder or not to solder

[Zen Sojourner]

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>         The general concensus seems to be that all links should always
>     be soldered, all speed ahead and damn the torpedos. 

    Actually I think it was about evenly split.  There was a flush of "I
    never"s and then a spate of "thou musteth always!"s.  About 50/50,
    all told, roughly. 

    My feeling is that if you haven't had a problem with snagging or
    chains falling apart, not to worry about it. 

    I'm going to go ahead and make some chains that aren't soldered and
    see how they turn out.  Since most of the chains I find interesting
    are multiply-looped (e.g. not a single, flat chain mail "weave") I
    expect it won't make much difference, but we'll see. 

    So what's your experience been?  Any snags?  <VBG> 

Sojourner

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