[TheForge] : [TheForge]Help need chain mail directions

[Phlip]

Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...

> Looked at the sites.  Is this how the old timers did it? I always figured
> the links would have been welded or hard soldered.
> Randy Mundt

It kinda depends on the specific when/where. Early in the usage of chain
mail, the links were butted, but as the technology developed, they were
either forge-welded or riveted. Keeping in mind, the great difficulty of
making wire, and the tremendous expense of iron/steel itself, the actual
labor to make a piece of chain mail made it an item reserved for the very
wealthy, as, indeed, was any type of steel/iron armor.

Even today, trying to purchase a piece from those who make it is beyond most
folk's readily disposable income, and today, the metal involved is the least
of the expense.. Most modern chain mail is butted because the makers don't
have time to close the links, the exception being some of the stainless
chain mail gloves currently made and used as protective gear for people who
use knives in different commercial applications.

Saint Phlip,
CoDoLDS

"When in doubt, heat it up and hit it with a hammer."
 Blacksmith's credo.

 If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably not a
cat.

Never a horse that cain't be rode,
And never a rider who cain't be throwed....