How To Make Your Own Chainmail

Now that i have several chainmaille project videos up on my channel i think it s finally time to make a video all about making your own chainmaille links.

How to make your own chainmail. This is the weave that you usually see in movies. The kind of wire that you need depends on the specific application. Make a more finely detail chain. With just a few basic patterns you ll have all the knowledge you need to fashion a helmet shirt belt coin purse and even a full hauberk.

Probably around 100 hours to make a chainmail. Chain mail hauberk butted high tensile 144 95 aud 119 95 aud sale loose chain mail rings 9mm 18g flat ring. This article is a guide for making chainmail armor from start simple wire to finish a finished chainmail shirt. A shirt of chainmail will require about 1 2 mile 0 8km of wire.

I am talking a lot of hours. Steel wire if you want to make real chainmail that has some weight and durability to it you should go with steel. This chain when stretched out should reach approximately 4 inches past were you want your sleeves to end. Make a long chain that runs from left to right.

December 18 2012 10 42 pm pst. It s not like i should have made this. Includes wedge rivets out of stock aventail flat ring round riveted 17g 9mm 114 95 aud coif chain mail high tensile wire butted 9mm 16g rings out of stock coif chainmail butted 10mm 16g rings 29 95 aud. Coif chainmail butted 10mm 16g blackened 29 95 aud chainmail chausse leggings flat riveted out of stock chain mail hauberk.

And now i m going to teach you what he taught me. Flat ring wedge riveted rings 9mm 17g from 779 95 aud aventail flat ring round riveted 10mm 16g blackened rings out of stock joined long sleeve and voiders mail from 324 95 aud roman lorica hamata flat ring wedge riveted rings 7mm 18g blackened 1 345 95 aud 446 95. 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. For example if you want your sleeves to go to your elbows this chain should reach from 4 inches past one elbow to 4 inches past the other elbow.

There are several sections to this guide. Chainmail armor is typically made from steel wire with a thickness between 18 gauge and 14 gauge. The only material that you need to make basic chainmail is metal wire. We will be using the european 4 in 1 weave as this is the most common weave.

I will be posting pictures of that variation. The downfall is that it takes a lot of work and a lot of hand labor.