How To Make Your Own Chainmail

A shirt of chainmail will require about 1 2 mile 0 8km of wire.

How to make your own chainmail.

How to make a chainmail shirt. This article is a guide for making chainmail armor from start simple wire to finish a finished chainmail shirt. If you re making a shirt you ll probably need at least 7 rows if not more. Add new rows until your chainmail is as thick as you want it to be.

Keep adding rows of chainmail until you ve got enough of them to make your project. The only material that you need to make basic chainmail is metal wire. There are several sections to this guide. 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.

Materials making the rings weaving the rings and making the shirt. This is the weave that you usually see in movies. Chainmail armor is typically made from steel wire with a thickness between 18 gauge and 14 gauge. The kind of wire that you need depends on the specific application.

Chainmail jewelry can be achieved by any average person with a few tools time and materials. I ve had these knipex mini bolt cutters for 8 years now recommend them more than ever. Taking the time to cut my own rings has brought me more satisfactory feeling about my finishes products. So you might now how to put chainmail links together but making a shirt is an entirely different thing.

We will be using the european 4 in 1 weave as this is the most common weave.