Ok. I deleted that awful mess I made. 

Before I try another method, I'd like to try this bone one again but with less links and a smaller scale to see if that makes a difference.

How do I do all of this again using just 2 links and then making it grow into 24 or more at the end?  And how do I start with smaller links so that one link doesn't take up my whole working window? 

Geez, if I ever get this chain made, and if I were a vendor at Turbosquid, based on their method of pricing (by time), my chain would sell for thousands of dollars!! I'd be rich!  :laugh:

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi