Make Your Own Chainmail Rings

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

Make your own chainmail rings.

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

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. 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. You can make whatever symbols shapes you want but more than likely you will have to make up the designs on your own. But his triumph is also testimony to his skill at making chainmail.

And now i m going to teach you what he taught me. Materials making the rings weaving the rings and making the shirt. How to make your own chainmail. There are several sections to this guide.

Chainmail armor is typically made from steel wire with a thickness between 18 gauge and 14 gauge. 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. How to make chainmail jump rings chainmail jewelry can be achieved by any average person with a few tools time and materials. The kind of wire that you need depends on the specific application.

This is the weave that you usually see in movies.