How small does scrap have to be before you cannot make something?

[rbtdanforth]

@brokendrum

will force a visible air gap on the pieces (no give with plastic).

That design actually has a lot of “give” and I considered having them be just a hair narrow with a bit of a square area, matched by a square engrave on each side.

I know there is a lot of “give” as I have had these work in acrylic as well …

Making Bail

Making a lot of hanging things, earrings, pendants, light catchers, and other decorations, that might be hanging on jump rings but would like to have bails of the same material. I had played with wooden chain that was not a spectacular success but it suggested a way that such a bail might be made. This design is a bit extreme and every case might not survive, and the trick to making it work is in making it spiral rather than opening the gap in the same plane but it does work as seen here… [IMG…