With these 8 steps you make riveted chainmail rings.
Making riveted chainmail rings.
To rivet your rings shut the first thing you ll need are rivets.
It is useful to have a modified pair of pliers for this.
You can build a rack as in the picture or use your hands.
They are then hammers flat.
Make riveted chain mail there are scads of tutorials flushing through the tubes that will show you how to twirl old wire coat hangers into rings cut them up and link them together with pliers to make the ubiquitous butted chain mail in which the individual rings are either unjoined soldered or glued together.
Then a small piece of wire is inserted into the hole and hammered so that the ends flatten and lock it in place.
Coiling wire into a spiral.
A hole is punched in the overlapping section.
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I would recommend practicing with an all riveted piece to get a feel for weaving and making the rings.
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To make rivets just grab a foot or so of wire and cut it down into bits about 1 8 long.
We offer riveted chainmail for a wide variety of activities including medieval and renaissance re enactment larp adventures theatre television and film production and props fancy dress handfasting wedding and templar ceremonies as presents and for display.
I couldn t find any videos on how to make some riveted maille with the crudest of tools so starting up took a while for me to figure out.
Cut off rings with an overlap.
Now you have your rivets.
To make riveted rings the rings are cut so that the two ends overlap.
Most shirts up to and including the 15th century were made with half riveted and half solid rings.
Wire happens to be 1 16 in diameter so it fits in the holes we punched perfectly.
How to make riveted chainmail at home with medieval methods.
Cutting rings off the spiral.