chain maille obsession?
have been afk learning how 2 make chain maille. can't pronounce em worth a dayum, but the plan is 2 make a hauberk and coif (basically a long vest and helmet). wow.
last night we did a marathon weave session and got a quarter of the hauberk done. actually, the hardest part -- the middle of the front, including designing the v-neck cos it just looks kewler than a square neck or rounded neck, yanno? yeah chain maille stylin LOL
have learned a lot about this schtuff so far. this bitty town suxxors for supplies *sigh* after hitting every hardware place i could think of (walmart had the best supply) i ended up at farm supply places, in the (ready 4 this???) ELECTRICAL FENCING section OMG!!
hauled the schtuff home and guess what ... 14 gauge makes very kewl links but its harder than schitt to coil evenly by hand. 16 gauge looks okay, but it was difficult to find in 1 mile spools (yeah, electrical fencing saves the day??).
...and i can't lift a 1 mile coil of 14 gauge steel ... which is hilarious since that's about what one set will take (we estimate) ... of course, we could go wimpy and use aluminium i guess LOL
finally figured out how to rig some jigs for speed coiling the wire, and then cutting the coils in even loops. this part wasn't too expensive since we had lots of wood and power tools ... just had to find the steel rods in the right lengths (so NOT into breaking out welding supplies to cut and bend rods)
actually, this first set is using 4 in 1 (the most basic weave) ... and i can't wait to find a good source for brass and copper cos i want to do one in elfweave next. don't know anyone who'd want to actually WEAR elfweave ... if u think a mile of 16 gauge steel is heavy, u don't wanna consider what would work out to 1.75 miles of metal LOL
last night we did a marathon weave session and got a quarter of the hauberk done. actually, the hardest part -- the middle of the front, including designing the v-neck cos it just looks kewler than a square neck or rounded neck, yanno? yeah chain maille stylin LOL
have learned a lot about this schtuff so far. this bitty town suxxors for supplies *sigh* after hitting every hardware place i could think of (walmart had the best supply) i ended up at farm supply places, in the (ready 4 this???) ELECTRICAL FENCING section OMG!!
hauled the schtuff home and guess what ... 14 gauge makes very kewl links but its harder than schitt to coil evenly by hand. 16 gauge looks okay, but it was difficult to find in 1 mile spools (yeah, electrical fencing saves the day??).
...and i can't lift a 1 mile coil of 14 gauge steel ... which is hilarious since that's about what one set will take (we estimate) ... of course, we could go wimpy and use aluminium i guess LOL
finally figured out how to rig some jigs for speed coiling the wire, and then cutting the coils in even loops. this part wasn't too expensive since we had lots of wood and power tools ... just had to find the steel rods in the right lengths (so NOT into breaking out welding supplies to cut and bend rods)
actually, this first set is using 4 in 1 (the most basic weave) ... and i can't wait to find a good source for brass and copper cos i want to do one in elfweave next. don't know anyone who'd want to actually WEAR elfweave ... if u think a mile of 16 gauge steel is heavy, u don't wanna consider what would work out to 1.75 miles of metal LOL
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