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.

How to make your own chainmail.

The kind of wire that you need depends on the specific application. The only material that you need to make basic chainmail is metal wire. I ve had these knipex mini bolt cutters for 8 years now recommend them more than ever. Materials making the rings weaving the rings and making the shirt.

So you might now how to put chainmail links together but making a shirt is an entirely different thing. 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. There are several sections to this guide.

How to make a chainmail shirt. If you re going for jewelry 1 or 2 rows might be enough. 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.

A tutorial on making cosplay butted mail. Keep adding rows of chainmail until you ve got enough of them to make your project. A shirt of chainmail will require about 1 2 mile 0 8km of wire. We will be using the european 4 in 1 weave as this is the most common weave.

This is the weave that you usually see in movies.