Make Your Own Chainmail Rings

Materials making the rings weaving the rings and making the shirt.

Make your own chainmail rings.

But his triumph is also testimony to his skill at making chainmail. There are several sections to this guide. 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.

You can make whatever symbols shapes you want but more than likely you will have to make up the designs on your own. The kind of wire that you need depends on the specific application. Taking the time to cut my own rings has brought me more satisfactory feeling about my finishes products. And now i m going to teach you what he taught me.

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

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. 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. The only material that you need to make basic chainmail is metal wire.

This is the weave that you usually see in movies.