Jens Pind Chain

So, I was walking through Home Depot and saw their rack with all the spools of wire on it. I was compelled by the maille gods to buy some (10 feet, at 62 cents a foot...ow!)of the 8awg copper grounding wire (rated for 40V) for making rings. I screwed up the first 5 feet or so of wire by using a bolt cutter to cut rings from the 3/8" ID coil. Luckily my brother was impatient and stupid enough to take them off my hands right at that moment to make something in trade for an equal amount of rings from some of the same wire that he was going to buy (He always has to copy what I do...) So, I took a hacksaw and cut the rest of the rings from my coil. The closures are fantastic. So, I tried to make several weaves using these rings (AR is somewhere around 2.9) and found that I could barely do a simple European 4-in-1. Somehow my brother managed to make a strand of byzantine from the bolt cutter-ed rings while I couldn't (I guess the "pinch" from bolt cutters really does affect the AR a lot) I tried hoodoo chain, since that is supposed to be done with rings just about that size. Apparently, the AR was slightly too small since I couldn't close the second unit on the chain. I managed to find this "weave," Jens Pind (Pronunciation???) however which worked beautifully with that AR.
This is a full necklace chain of that weave weighing a beastly 332.1 grams (Thats almost 3/4 of a pound). The hook to secure it is an improvised piece, hammered and filed from a small scrap of the wire. The metal in this picture was just cleaned with ketchup (It works wonders on copper...pour it on, let sit, and wash off) and will probably never be this shiny again. Rough calculations show that this necklace cost me $7.28 in wire not including what was lost during cutting, in a few screwed up rings, and the end "tabs" of coils. I really need a better source for heavy copper wire....