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thank you for the comment and the watch! though if I ever make something like that again... I'm buying pre-manufactured jumprings 
I started out with some galvanized steel wire from hardware store as well as those think coils you can sometimes buy at 99c store and I used various pens, pencils and other round stick objects to coil it (knitting needles and some chopstics make great mandrels) and then I just experimented a good gauge for a ring diameter is the one that is slightly difficult, but not impossible to close and you cannot open it with your fingers/nails. and with various weaves, I would make a small sample trying out a few sizes, untill I found the one that worked - not the best way to do things, but since I've been doing it for fun.. I have a ton of unfinished projects laying around... you should visit 
- they have a bunch of tutorials listed that might help you! chainmail is really not difficult, it just requiers a lot of patience 
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