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	Making a New Pick and Whisk	-	Sun Nov 08 21:37:30 2009
	Making a new pick and whisk chain. Note that the links are about 1 and 3/4 inches long before bending. After bending into a figure eight the final links are just over 3/4 on an inch. At some point of riding around in the tall grass at Old Store Fort I broke my pick and whisk chain and managed to lost most of the chain and the whisk. Given that the chain was made of small gauge brass wire this was inevitable. Given that you really need to have one of these when you do battles, I decided to make a replacement, but with much heaver gauge wire - and not just any wire, gold plated wire! I figured that if it was gold, it would be one less item that I would need to polish before each event. It turns out that all you need to make a pick and whisk chain are wire, wire cutters, pliers with duct tape on the jaws to make a soft grip, a fork, and some spare time. I’ll write out the instructions for the process of making the chain and whisk another time. Suffice to say, the whole project turned out better than expected, though the tips of my fingers hurt for about a day afterward from all the wire bending. Final result of all that link bending. Later on I might solder the links closed to further reduce the risk of the chain breaking, but for now I’ll leave it as it is until I make sure the length is where it should be. Filed under: Rev War. No comments.