Chainmail Armour and Jewelry by Patrick Ober

Little Tree Frogs!!!!

2008-07-08T12:14:00.002-04:00

New Titanium work for Summer 2008

2008-05-22T09:12:00.005-04:00

Two veiws of a flat Titanium chain.

This chain can be made with a variety of widths, 2 rings wide is just about 1/2 wide,

more rows more width at appox. $40 a row.

Titanium and Fused fine silver Knuckle chain:
Titanium and Fused fine silver single strand bracelet:
All Titanium Byzantine chain:

Ti and soldered sterling silver Byzantine Chain:
European 6in1 all Titanium with Punched rings on the outside:

Large Ti Knuckle Chain:

Monster Two Way Double!!!

2008-05-02T07:15:00.005-04:00

This is the Monster chain, its made from 14 gauge fused fine silver wire,

and should be the largest version of this chain that I ever offer.

Its pretty tough to work with.

This chains total weight is just around 80 grams, or about 2.25 ounces

depending on the total length of the chain.

Doggies in the Snow

2008-03-07T08:20:00.002-05:00

More Fish, More Fish, More Fish

2008-03-07T08:09:00.003-05:00

Things you dont expect to find in Baltimore City....

2008-02-29T08:32:00.003-05:00

This little guy is an American Woodcock. He seems to

have bounced off a window in Downtown Baltimore.

I cought him around 9 am, and took it out to Baltimore

county where it was realesed later the same day.

Neat little bird, about the size of a wiffle ball. From what I've

been told its an upland game bird that is rarly seen.

New Fish, New Fish, New Fish

2007-12-17T12:24:00.000-05:00

The are Black Royal Emperor Tetra's
This is a Whip Tail Cat (pleco)

My Torch Handle

2007-12-07T11:56:00.001-05:00

Here are some images of my acetylene torch handle that I've added some mods to.

The handle material is a low temp jet set. You just soak the little platic beads

in hot water and form the peice into shape and let it cool or run cold water

over it. I've had it on my torch handle for about 2 or so years.

Fusing Fine Silver Rings Post #1

2007-11-26T12:31:00.001-05:00

Here is a mostly assembled all fused bracelet,

just before the fusing of the next set of rings.

During the fusing of the next set of rings, the almost bright

orange color of the silver just before it melts.

This image is just after fusing the ring to the left, a nice bright

orange color....it even melted correctly.

This last image is the ring being streched, something that cannot be done with soldered rings, the solder joint will crack when streched.

Fusing Fine Silver post Number 2

2007-11-26T12:25:00.001-05:00

This is how I lay out my rings before

fusing when I am doing a large batch.

The ring heating up before it melts.
Rings during fusing and just after fusing.

More rings being fused

Here are some images of Fusing Fine Silver!

2007-11-26T12:18:00.000-05:00

Some for fish from my tank and some from my wifes 120 gallon.....

2007-11-26T12:11:00.001-05:00

Here are some images of a few more fish in my tank and some from my wifes 120 gallon cichlid tank.

I got a new 40 gallon Breeder Fish Tank!

2007-11-26T11:59:00.000-05:00

Not so great front veiw of the 40 gallon tank.

I'm pretty sure this is a Red Exclamation point

(some sort of very small Rasbora) .

And my last new fish: a Bumble Bee Goby.

I'm not sure how long it'll last since I can't make my water truely brackish...

I can hope though.

Over Thanks Giving week I purchased a 40 gallon breeder tank to replace my 20 gallon tank as my main playpen for a planted tank. It pretty much has all of the fish from the 20 gallon except for the blue ram who didn't survive the transition and one wee baby Endler.

It was Halloween......and the wee Devil dogs where let out........

2007-11-01T14:57:00.001-04:00

Poor Thea, one of our welsh Corgies.....not a real devil dog, but she needed the horns.

The true devil dog, who thought 4.5 lbs could be full of such

a power full growl.....he should be waring this out fit all the time.

This time it's a walking stick.......

2007-10-05T12:10:00.000-04:00

I walked out of the house and there is it was, hanging out on the shutter next to the door. Most of the time I find ones that are and inch or so long. This one was about 6 inches plus another 3 with its antenna.

New Fish Tank....

2007-09-20T19:01:00.000-04:00

Endler's live bearers, Male; Black Neon; Cherry Barb
Blue Ram, Replaced the two Bolivian rams, much better collors +

a much calmer fish

The two male Endlers

Just about everyone else

So far these are the fish I've been able to take pictures of:

Rubber Lip Pleco

Bolivian Ram

Little Otocinclus (Small algae eatter)

This one is a Feather Fin Synodontis (?) and just about 4 inches long.

Puppies #3

2007-09-10T07:10:00.000-04:00

Puppies #2

2007-09-10T07:04:00.001-04:00

Puppies #1

2007-09-10T06:52:00.000-04:00

Fisrt Gold Bracelet........

2007-08-03T07:23:00.000-04:00

The owner picked it up without me being able to take anymore images, as I am still cameraless. This should change soon, I just have to sell more jewelry.

I Finished my first gold bracelet!!!!!!!

2007-07-25T06:57:00.000-04:00

I finished the bugger last night! Now all I have to do is polish it some more and take some pictures, because this will be a usless post with out some images. Hopefully later today!!!!

The House of Giant Bugs

2007-07-14T21:31:00.001-04:00

I'm not sure why but we seem to have alot of very large bugs at our house in southern PA.

Usually its just very large wolf spiders but this time its the attack of the giant beetle.

My wife's foot is a size 6.

If any one knows what kind of beetle this is please let me know.

Volume #3 My First Gold Bracelet

2007-07-13T07:08:00.001-04:00

Truing up the rings after soldering by hitting them with the plastic mallet onto the original mandrel, so each ring will be uniform in size and shape.

Post soldering and truing up, they look pretty nice all discolored and and yellowish. They looked pretty much like bras rings at this point, but weighted a bit more.

The rings have been soldered, then pickled (mild acid bath to take off the flux).

Here is the coil of round rings that will be used in the bracelet befor they are cut.

After cutting and cleaning.

Volume #2 My First Gold Bracelet

2007-07-13T07:00:00.001-04:00

Annealing the cut oval rings. Its pretty tough to take a picture while trying not to melt gold wire.

After annealing trying to get the cut ends to line up for soldering.

More squishing and bending to get the ends to line up.

I soldered them one at a time so if one melted, I wouldn't panic and melt more. ( its really tough to take a picture wile holding a torch)

Cutting the 18k solder with a pair of metal shears.

Volume #1 My First Gold bracelet

2007-07-13T06:54:00.001-04:00

Here's the unassuming start to a bracelet. Just 6.5 feet of gold wire.

Wraping the large oval rings, the gold felt like steel wire.

Trying to anneal the wire, didn't work out too well. I was to chicken to pour on the heat.

The rings have been cut off the oval dowel. Then promptly spread apart, so I had to anneal them enough for easy bending then soldering.

A new freind I found......

2007-07-02T07:00:00.000-04:00

Now for the fun....a new freind I found in my work shop. He/she was hanging out on a vertical serface where I solder. She fit very nicely into one of the larger of the smaller mason jars. Just hung out when I took her outside into my wife's garden. Didn't try to get away, no fear of myself or the camera.

Well, since I can't delete this I'll try to add to it.....

2007-06-29T12:23:00.000-04:00

Havn't played with this in some time but since I can't figure out how to delete it I'll start posting some more things here. I the next few days I'll try to post some one of a kind jewerly that I have sitting around so people besided myself can see it.

Thinking about using Etsy.com......

2006-09-06T12:56:00.000-04:00

Chances are, after much thought, I will be setting up an account with Etsy.com to create a good way for people to purchase things from my site over the net. Since I do not have a way to create a useful available list with my current site, I'm going to set one up that will only list available pieces.

This will most likely cover the full range of my work: earrings to necklaces, at one time or another this will make it easier for folks to get stuff from me.

I will be trying to set it up in the next week. So check it out!

Patrick

Somebodys Looking at my work..thank God!

2006-07-27T10:47:00.000-04:00

Well it proves that people read their email and look at links. Its nice to know and hear from parties out in the wide world.

First post......

2006-07-26T09:57:00.000-04:00

Here's something new. Going to see if anyone will post after looking thru my web site.

Should be interesting