have any of you ever made chain mail can you give me tips or websites?
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First off, try to hook up with someone from the Society for Creative Anachronism:
They are heavily involved in putting on renaisance fairs, jousting tournaments, and other forms of medieval re-enactments. There are a great number of top-notch craftsmen of the old arts amongst them who would doubtless be glad to help give you a lot of very practical experience-based advice.
Here are a couple more good places to start:
My good friend Mike used to roll, cut, and weave rings into chainmail while we sat around watching TV or engaged in various discussions about all sorts of things — I helped him a bit though due to my work wasn’t able to do so that often. But it was definitely fun and educational!
We began with simple butted rings, just because they were easy. But rather predictably they were also prone to coming unravelled after some use, so he eventually switched to the overlapped form where the ends of each ring are hammered flat and a pin driven into them to hold the ring closed. I understand the rings of commercially made chainmail are actually spot-welded closed for even greater reliability, but I can’t think of any good way to do that at home.