How-To: Make riveted chain mail

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How-To:  Make riveted chain mail
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There are scads of tutorials flushing through the tubes that will show you how to twirl old wire coat hangers into rings, cut them up, and link them together with pliers to make the ubiquitous “butted” chain mail, in which the individual rings are either unjoined, soldered, or glued together. But this recent Instructable from armourkris, for the truly dedicated, shows you how to make a much more serious–and to my amateur eye, authentic–mail, in which each ring is flattened, punched, linked, and then riveted closed.

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2 thoughts on “How-To: Make riveted chain mail

  1. mlaminen says:

    here is my video on how to make it

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jmghXUu7ZM

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