How To Make Your Own Chainmail

A tutorial on making cosplay butted mail.

How to make your own chainmail.

If you re making a shirt you ll probably need at least 7 rows if not more. Taking the time to cut my own rings has brought me more satisfactory feeling about my finishes products. Add new rows until your chainmail is as thick as you want it to be. 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.

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. There are several sections to this guide. Materials making the rings weaving the rings and making the shirt.

If you re going for jewelry 1 or 2 rows might be enough. A shirt of chainmail will require about 1 2 mile 0 8km of wire. How to make a chainmail shirt. This is the weave that you usually see in movies.

Get my blacksmithing ebook and start the adventure today. The kind of wire that you need depends on the specific application. Keep adding rows of chainmail until you ve got enough of them to make your project. We will be using the european 4 in 1 weave as this is the most common weave.

The only material that you need to make basic chainmail is metal wire.