I try to:) I get a steady-ish stream of requests for custom pieces that make money. Mostly the stuff I randomly build because the mood strikes me I end up giving away or trading. And thank you for the compliments btw:) It's fun no matter what.

I have an uncle who is a blacksmith/armorsmith, has been for years. While visiting one time he showed me a piece of chainmail he'd made (only piece he ever made) and we discussed it for a while. I was fascinated and a few years later (6 or 7 years ago now) I decided to try my hand at it, minus the drawing my own wire part like he did. I've made full size clothing pieces all the way down to rings for your finger out of everything from stainless steel to titanium to silver to niobium to neoprene. This has over time branched into a bit of wire weaving, some casting, anodizing of titanium and niobium, etc....

It's all alot of fun, and the actually chain weaving is almost medatative.

It did in fact take a while for the large necklace, about 40 total hours if I remember right. Each link was turned by hand from spools of surgical stainless and titanium wire. Then the whole thing was hand woven, something to the tune of 5800 rings or thereabout.

I have a few pieces up on www.deviantart.com if you do a search for the same username as above (fliberdygibits). It's very much a work in progress with not much chain clothing right now.... however I am JUST breaking in a new camera and will soon start to post more photos of past works.

:)

I had a pair of these which I loved. They sounded great, but the cloth covering is terrible about holding kinks near the plastic fittings and causing shorts in the wire. I' had to get my pair replaced once for that and it was ALSO the reason I quit using the replacements.

[Edited at May 15, 2008 15:10:05 PM.]