How to Fix A Byzantine Chainmail Bracelet

ID: 219718

Description: A Byzantine chain might be confusing to repair...

Steps:

1. Using your bent nose pliers, pick up a closed jump ring.
2. Using your needle nose pliers, bend one end of the ring towards yourself.
3. Repeat above steps until you have 2-3 open jump rings.

4. Arrange the two ends of the broken bracelet to face each other.
5. Make sure both sides of the bracelet have the same ring orientation.

6. Using your left hand, hold one end of the broken bracelet.
7. Fold the first pair of rings back, one ring laying on each side of the second pair of rings.
8. This allows you to move the second pair of rings for the next step.
9. Reference slide #2 and #3 for multiple perspectives of the first pair of rings folded back on the second pair.

10. Spread the second pair of rings apart and push the first pair of rings up, opening a gap (as shown in slide #2).

11. Using your pliers, take an open ring and place it through the gap.
12. The open ring should pass through two closed rings on the broken bracelet.

13. Take the second broken bracelet end and open in the same way as the first.
14. Using the same open jump ring currently threaded through one the first bracelet end, thread it through the same open rings on the second bracelet end.
15. The open jump ring is now threaded through four closed jump rings, two from each bracelet end.

16. Using both pliers, close the open jump ring.

17. Using your pliers, grab a second open jump ring and thread it parallel to the previous jump ring.
18. Close the jump ring.
19. The two bracelets ends are now connected by two closed jump rings.

20. Congratulations! You fixed your byzantine chainmail bracelet!