Make Your Own Chainmail Rings

How to make your own chainmail.

Make your own chainmail rings.

As shown in earlier pictures my shirt has a cross made out o 14 gauge copper 1 4 rings. 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. Making a chain mail shirt is quite an amazing feat and i commend everyone that is able to finish one. This article is a guide for making chainmail armor from start simple wire to finish a finished chainmail shirt.

You can make whatever symbols shapes you want but more than likely you will have to make up the designs on your own. 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. Materials making the rings weaving the rings and making the shirt. 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. How to make chainmail jump rings chainmail jewelry can be achieved by any average person with a few tools time and materials. This is the weave that you usually see in movies. Taking the time to cut my own rings has brought me more satisfactory feeling about my finishes products.

We will be using the european 4 in 1 weave as this is the most common weave. Thank you for reading my instructable. And now i m going to teach you what he taught me. A shirt of chainmail will require about 1 2 mile 0 8km of wire.

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.