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Author:  SidTheSloth [ Thu Sep 20, 2012 1:29 pm ]
Post subject:  home made chainmail

hi all
Just thought i'd show you all my home made chainmail that i am working on:


Image


(the galadrim is for scale)

C&C welcome (?)

Author:  tomogui [ Thu Sep 20, 2012 4:20 pm ]
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Wow, that's really impressive!

I know there are a couple of different methods for closing the links—including drilling a tiny hole and then hammering a pin in each link, which sounds crazy to me— but how do you do it?

Author:  SidTheSloth [ Thu Sep 20, 2012 4:24 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: home made chainmail

thanks!

to be honest i was just lazy so i didnt actually attach the ends. i just bent them together with pliers untill the two ends met

It'll probaly fall apart in a few years :shock: :lol:

Author:  Ukfreddybear [ Thu Sep 20, 2012 6:21 pm ]
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Cool! Must have taken ages.

Author:  aqan [ Thu Sep 20, 2012 6:31 pm ]
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Looks interesting.

I hope you do a bit every now and then, otherwise it will drive you insane. What's the idea, btw, just a piece of chainmail, a complete hauberk, or something else?
What are you useing for this, thick wire?

Good luck and looking forward to seeing more.

Author:  Ukfreddybear [ Thu Sep 20, 2012 6:41 pm ]
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That looks so repetetively boring to do though. Must be a bit like painting hundreds of the same orcs over and over.

Author:  Dead Marsh Spectre [ Thu Sep 20, 2012 6:50 pm ]
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ukfreddybear wrote:
That looks so repetetively boring to do though. Must be a bit like painting hundreds of the same orcs over and over.

I'd take the chainmail anyday :)

Author:  SidTheSloth [ Thu Sep 20, 2012 7:05 pm ]
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ukfreddybear wrote:
Cool! Must have taken ages.


aqan wrote:
Looks interesting.

I hope you do a bit every now and then, otherwise it will drive you insane.



I've done a few full days solid of it and now I've ran out of wire. :shock: :lol: :?


@aquan: im planning on making either a hauberk or a headpiece depending on how long it takes before it drives me mad 8) :?

@ DMS: I'd take the orcs anyday! :?

Author:  John Wayne [ Thu Sep 20, 2012 7:21 pm ]
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Chainmail curtains lol. One must do as mistress commands i supose. Lol :roll:

Author:  aqan [ Thu Sep 20, 2012 7:27 pm ]
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Quote:
DMS wrote: I'd take the chainmail anyday
Sid the sloth wrote: I'd take the orcs anyday!


Seems like you two have a deal then. :wink:

A Hauberk is a lot more work, but a coif is far more difficult from what I've heard. (never tried it myself though)

Author:  Sticky Fingersss [ Sat Sep 22, 2012 4:16 am ]
Post subject:  Re: home made chainmail

Cool, how big will you make it?

Author:  SidTheSloth [ Sat Sep 22, 2012 7:43 am ]
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[quote="SidTheSloth"] @aquan: im planning on making either a hauberk or a headpiece depending on how long it takes before it drives me mad 8) :?

quote]

Untill it fits me 8) :-D

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