It is time for me to finally at long, long last, reveal my ancient secret of making solderless wire link chains.

First of all, these are the same chains we made 7,000 years ago in the Tigris-Euphrates river junctions, but with modern copper instead of other stuff we found in the ground.

Bronze was common, pure copper was not. There was a stone age, then a bronze age and then after a while, an iron age, when you didn’t have to hunt up strange meteorites to bang into really sharp and unbreakable blades.

So chain links have been around a long, long time. I have some very rusted excavated chains from a Roman lady who remained where she was. The chain is exactly the link I’m offering here today, free of charge and welcome to all. Continue reading →