Make Your Own Chainmail Rings

This article is a guide for making chainmail armor from start simple wire to finish a finished chainmail shirt.

Make your own chainmail rings.

Materials making the rings weaving the rings and making the shirt. A shirt of chainmail will require about 1 2 mile 0 8km of wire. We will be using the european 4 in 1 weave as this is the most common weave. Chainmail armor is typically made from steel wire with a thickness between 18 gauge and 14 gauge.

How to make chainmail jump rings chainmail jewelry can be achieved by any average person with a few tools time and materials. Making a chain mail shirt is quite an amazing feat and i commend everyone that is able to finish one. There are several sections to this guide. But his triumph is also testimony to his skill at making chainmail.

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. Taking the time to cut my own rings has brought me more satisfactory feeling about my finishes products. This is the weave that you usually see in movies. And now i m going to teach you what he taught me.

Thank you for reading my instructable. To start your box chain make a strip of chainmail in the european 4 in 1 style just slightly longer than you d like your box chain weave to be. As shown in earlier pictures my shirt has a cross made out o 14 gauge copper 1 4 rings. The only material that you need to make basic chainmail is metal wire.

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.