What ring do you use for chainmail?

Using 1/4 inch inner diameter rings made out of 16 gauge wire will hold up well for a chainmail shirt.

How many rings do you need to make a chainmail shirt?

Depending on what you choose, your chainmail shirt could take anywhere from 5,000 rings to 40,000 (or even more) rings to make.

Is Mild steel good for chainmail?

Most of our chainmail is steel chainmail. It can come as mild steel or high tensile steel. High tensile steel has a greater tensile strength than mild steel. This means that high tensile rings are more resistant to being stretched or pulled apart.

What metal was used for chainmail?

Both were commonly made of wrought iron, but some later pieces were made of heat-treated steel. Wire for the riveted rings was formed by either of two methods. One was to hammer out wrought iron into plates and cut or slit the plates.

What gauge should chainmail be?

Chainmail armor is typically made with 16 gauge wire with rings that are about 3/8 of an inch.

How big should chainmail rings be?

More about what aspect ratio is and how chainmaillers use it in the other answers in this section. If you’re a beginner, we suggest starting off with rings that have an inner diameter of at least size H (3/16″, 4.8mm). Any smaller, and you may become frustrated, unless you’re used to working with tiny things!

How do you make chain mail rings?

With these 8 steps, you make riveted chainmail rings:

1. Coiling wire into a spiral. Take iron wire and wind it around a metal rod.
2. Cutting rings off the spiral. Cut off rings with an overlap.
3. First annealing.
4. Flattening by hammer.
5. Second Annealing.
6. Punching a hole for the rivet.
7. Cutting rivets.
8. Setting a rivet.

How do you make a chainmail ring?

To make chainmail, start by making small metal rings by wrapping wire around a metal rod, and snipping off circles with a wire cutter. Then, thread 4 rings onto a red ring before closing all the rings with pliers.

What does AR mean in Chainmaille?

Aspect Ratio (AR) One of the terms dealing with chainmail that you will run across a lot is Aspect Ratio. It may seem intimidating, but it really isn’t that complicated. All it entails is dividing the Inner Diameter by the Wire Diameter.

What size rings for chainmail?

What is the weakness of chainmail?

Weaknesses: Although chainmail can do well at protecting against slashing, it has other weaknesses which have been exploited throughout history. First and foremost, chainmail does not stand up well to impacts from very pointy objects, like tips of swords.