How To Make Your Own Chainmail

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

How to make your own chainmail. It includes hours of work and a lot of mistake making but the finished product can last a lifetime and looks pretty gnarly if you ask me. Add new rows until your chainmail is as thick as you want it to be. Chainmail armor is typically made from steel wire with a thickness between 18 gauge and 14 gauge. Get my blacksmithing ebook and start the adventure today.

Keep adding rows of chainmail until you ve got enough of them to make your project. If you re going for jewelry 1 or 2 rows might be enough. I ve had these knipex mini bolt cutters for 8 years now recommend them more than ever. Chainmail jewelry can be achieved by any average person with a few tools time and materials.

Taking the time to cut my own rings has brought me more satisfactory feeling about my finishes products. A shirt of chainmail will require about 1 2 mile 0 8km of wire. Materials making the rings weaving the rings and making the shirt. This is the weave that you usually see in movies.

How to make a chainmail shirt. A tutorial on making cosplay butted mail. We will be using the european 4 in 1 weave as this is the most common weave. The kind of wire that you need depends on the specific application.

So you might now how to put chainmail links together but making a shirt is an entirely different thing.