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In an effort to speed up the production of chainmail at home I have designed a winding assisting block. While this was originally designed to be used on a hand crank jig with some minor modifications I can make a three foot coil in less than a minute.

The basic idea is to have the wire feed in thru the top, the rod goes in one end and the exit port is drilled to the exterior diameter of the coil.

The rod is straight with a notch cut into the end to receive the wire. The reason I use a notch instead of a single hole is to make it easy to remove the coil after finishing.
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Mood: Wow! *KazBarEzz Jan 26, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
Thank you thank you thank you what a great share :#1:
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~LTgoatRoper Jan 27, 2013  Hobbyist Artisan Crafter
No problem, have you tried using something like this to make the rings for your jewelry?
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*KazBarEzz Jan 31, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
No I haven't been game to think about rings but now that you have shared this I will give it a go. Thanks again
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~kedoken May 26, 2012
hmm, i just use a glove and roughly a 3 foot rod with a drill and go to town...however i can highly respect the safety of your process over the way i go about it dig the rig man
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~LTgoatRoper May 26, 2012  Hobbyist Artisan Crafter
Definitely can’t beat the safety of this rig but the reliability needs some work. I ended up coiling ¾ mile of 14 gage steel and ½ mile of 14ga aluminum last Saturday on a rig that I still need to post pictures of. It uses the same concept for the rod but doesn’t use the control block.
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~Thorrsman May 4, 2012
Well, I just used a power drill in a stand with a 1/4 inch steel rod. The end of the wire goes into the the chuck on the drill. It does require care "goosing" the drill and heavy leather gloves are recommended.
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~dalentalas Apr 1, 2012  Hobbyist Artisan Crafter
Great idea.
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~LTgoatRoper May 26, 2012  Hobbyist Artisan Crafter
Definitely can’t beat the safety of this rig but the reliability needs some work.
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~dracomancer-gui Feb 19, 2012  Student Traditional Artist
This is Brilliant!
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~LTgoatRoper Feb 19, 2012  Hobbyist Artisan Crafter
It isn’t without its flaws but I was able to make 7 meters of coils before it gave out. The next one I am going to make will be out of either Teflon or aluminum.
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