Make Your Own Chainmail Rings

You can make whatever symbols shapes you want but more than likely you will have to make up the designs on your own.

Make your own chainmail rings.

Materials making the rings weaving the rings and making the shirt. Henrik has been fashioning chainmail of every description for the past four decades from beautiful sterling silver belts to a 50 pound battle hauberk a knee length shirt. How to make your own chainmail. And now i m going to teach you what he taught me.

This is the weave that you usually see in movies. This article is a guide for making chainmail armor from start simple wire to finish a finished chainmail shirt. How to make chainmail jump rings chainmail jewelry can be achieved by any average person with a few tools time and materials. X research source this means that you ll need to wind the wire and use wire cutters to create loops then attach them together 3 rings at a time.

The kind of wire that you need depends on the specific application. There are several sections to this guide. Taking the time to cut my own rings has brought me more satisfactory feeling about my finishes products. As shown in earlier pictures my shirt has a cross made out o 14 gauge copper 1 4 rings.

A shirt of chainmail will require about 1 2 mile 0 8km of wire. Making a chain mail shirt is quite an amazing feat and i commend everyone that is able to finish one. But his triumph is also testimony to his skill at making chainmail. Chainmail armor is typically made from steel wire with a thickness between 18 gauge and 14 gauge.

We will be using the european 4 in 1 weave as this is the most common weave.