Graduated Boxchain Bracelet
An interesting
piece...kind of just an experiment, to see what I could
do. I wound the different sizes on a set of drill bits that I
borrowed (and haven't yet given back, hehe) from my dad's wood shop.
They worked really perfectly for this, though. A
whole set of them, from 1/16" right up to 1/4", graduated by increments
of 1/64". It was just the thing I needed.
Bit of a funny story concerning this bracelet: I was putting it together in several different sizes, trying to work out how to do the progressions, and I grabbed what I *thought* was a 1/4" coil from my ring box. Well, it was actually 3/16", which, if you do the math, is appreciably smaller. So when I wove it in, I realized that the contrast with the preceding ring size was nowhere near big enough. Well, what do you do? You hunt for the next increment to make it bigger. So I did...but that nice set of drill bits only went so high as 1/4", and the only thing bigger that I could find was 5/16", which was way too big. It took me nearly a half-hour of hunting for mandrels, checking the calipers, thinking the calipers were faulty, referencing size charts...all kinds of chaos, before I figured out my mistake. At which point I tried an *actual* 1/4" ring, and found that it worked perfectly. D'oh!
Bit of a funny story concerning this bracelet: I was putting it together in several different sizes, trying to work out how to do the progressions, and I grabbed what I *thought* was a 1/4" coil from my ring box. Well, it was actually 3/16", which, if you do the math, is appreciably smaller. So when I wove it in, I realized that the contrast with the preceding ring size was nowhere near big enough. Well, what do you do? You hunt for the next increment to make it bigger. So I did...but that nice set of drill bits only went so high as 1/4", and the only thing bigger that I could find was 5/16", which was way too big. It took me nearly a half-hour of hunting for mandrels, checking the calipers, thinking the calipers were faulty, referencing size charts...all kinds of chaos, before I figured out my mistake. At which point I tried an *actual* 1/4" ring, and found that it worked perfectly. D'oh!
Rings:
20 ga 5/32", 18 ga
3/16", 16 ga 3/16" and 1/4"
Sterling Silver
In the Boxchain weave.
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Sterling Silver
In the Boxchain weave.
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