Some wooden chains that I've made. From top to bottom. Cherry wood from 1.5"x 1.5" x 12" piece of wood, Zebra Wood from 1.5" sq. x 12" piece. Rest of chains are from 1" square by 12" long pieces except bottom chain which was made from a 2' long piece of wood. From top to bottom - tulipwood, kingwood, ziricote, cocobolo and black & white ebony. I cheated on most of these. Only about 40% done by hand the rest involved my router, drill press, dremel tool and belt sander/grinder. I did my first couple entirely by hand but then realized that I don't have patience or enough bandaids to do them all by hand! Besides that ebony is some hard wood - I did one out of ebony by hand (12" long one that I gave away).