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.

Materials making the rings weaving the rings and making the shirt. Get my blacksmithing ebook and start the adventure today. The only material that you need to make basic chainmail is metal wire. How to make a chainmail shirt.

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. So you might now how to put chainmail links together but making a shirt is an entirely different thing. Chainmail armor is typically made from steel wire with a thickness between 18 gauge and 14 gauge. I ve had these knipex mini bolt cutters for 8 years now recommend them more than ever.

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. There are several sections to this guide. Chainmail jewelry can be achieved by any average person with a few tools time and materials.

If you re going for jewelry 1 or 2 rows might be enough. Taking the time to cut my own rings has brought me more satisfactory feeling about my finishes products. A tutorial on making cosplay butted mail. A shirt of chainmail will require about 1 2 mile 0 8km of wire.

If you re making a shirt you ll probably need at least 7 rows if not more.