Day 499:
Making wire is annoying.
I gave up on it pretty fast.
Turns out a paste of red rock dust and just a pinch of clay works almost as well and does not involved me trying to roll thin bits of hot gold with a rolling pin.
Which as you imagine didn’t work out all that well.
But extruders are difficult to come by out here in the land of no power tools, and while I tried to get the duckens in my bedroom to yank on the two ends of a poorly-rolled chunk of gold, they were having none of it.
So electrical paste it is. Now I just have to figure out how to make it at scale without getting shocked to death.