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

Thu Sep 11 22:11:00 2003

Then again, there was the titanium welded link shire Master Knut let me try 
on.... Awesome. And way too much work!
At 09:29 AM 9/11/2003 -0400, you wrote:

>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....
>
>
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