cool it almost looks like it was knitted together lol. looks like chain mail to me,
awesome work with it though

It's chainmail, one of countless patterns.

Making chainmail's much like knitting, but with pliers.

lol id rather go with plate mail cause chain mainly protects from slash and stab type thing,plate is smash and other resistence. so almost beating a tin can-man kinda

plate is also restrictive.

yes true, what about exo-skeleton? when i get my metal working tools during summer im going to make my own set of armor(Exo-Skeleton)

hm? how will that work? id be interested to see. im working on making my tools.

or some kind of tactical plating such as scales, or a skin type metal armor
(sometimes hard to make right without restrictions of any kind and durable with reliability) or its just hard to find right materials i think

that and Dragonskin tactical armor is made out of overlaping CERAMIC disks and can stop 5.56mm assualt rounds

Plate mail is nice, but chainmail is more flexible, and I can make it with hand tools and materials I can take with me, pretty much anywhere.

ok true that, and i would say it would be quite durable for armor...it also depends on if you can maintain it before it starts falling apart, i would say that you should get a small piece, hit with a few attacks (hammer,pickaxe, or knife, etc.) or somethin

heres a tip: after heating metal letting cool very slowly so that it natrually hardens

ok back on topic, i think u should try to slash the chains a few times or stab(see if it`s durable), and if so make a full mail

that will withstand a lot. if its made of the right wire.

I've tested the rings in a different weave, this is fit for real armor.

I'm thinking of making bracers out of this.

awesome, *lol see if you can shoot it with 9mm* just have too keep the right patters in the rings and it can stand quite a bit

hm... sounds like you need this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamellar_armour

looks kinda week to me,look like a rouge will sneak up on you and backstab u for MAssIVE DAMAGE!

oh god i can just tell by wearing that i would get Effed* up pretty bad...still going with plate + 6ft Zweihander + platemail(Or scale)= me berserking my enimies while treding through their corpses on the battlefield...

you do it in steel

that or aluminum steel,1024 gauge carbon steel. but it depends on price and quality most of the time.

or anything lighter, stronger, or depending on what type of thing you are looking for

i think we need to make armor and fight each other lol

agreed, im planning on making a 3 1/2 inch wide(on shortest end),6 3/4ft blade, and half an inch thick,so your light armo will not best my crushing razor blade.

the pure force of this blade is how long it is, durability, and weight (alone the weight will just kill yea)if you swing it right.

heh you sound pretty confidant. you know its not the tools you use but how you use them. that sword would be useless in close range.

oh yea? its the length that gives you defense ( carry dagger then ) the thickness is how long it can hold up a good defense, the weight of it is by your own control (but the weight can add massive hacking damage) a 1ft handle for control is good enough to me though.

agenst that heavy sword and armor id need only 3 things a sword a shield and a mace.

OMG... one of us aint gonna give up until one of us spills the last blood...how abput this...we have a battle,

1>draw your character
2>specify what it has
3> we let Fur_and_steel decide


anyone interested?

well i cant draw worth shit and even if i could we would never resolve it through art
perhaps if we actually make them and meet in battle then we could tell who is right.

bludgeon to the death :D coolio all i need is my dragonslayer zweihander

got to youtube look up Berserk, find out what the dragonslayer is (Guts blade that weighs more than +80 pounds alone),????,then we have profit

.....I am. :3

Nice-looking stuff, but I like my maille best.

*nods* sorry for hijacking your thread

BAck on topic*

i would say you should hit it with simultaneous thing till you see what its weak force is then fix it

I see and I like. :3

Glad you like it.

this whole thread....myface + + =

Nice work!

Is there any chance I could commission a pair of chainmail shoes? /being a dumbass

Not taking commissions, but if you find me a good pattern, I'd probly get to it eventually.

Whoa, there are actual chainmail shoes? Shows you what I know lol. :P

Haha. There's boots with maille coverings. Would be good for keeping someone from stabbing you in the foot.

One thing I'd like eventually is a jacket with a maille vest inside of it. How hard is it to make maille? It looks like it mostly takes a significant amount of time and patience.

Also: I really like your avatar.

Maille's easy to make, just very tedious.
Hmm, that could be done. I don't sew, though, and not sure how I'd secure the maille inside the fabric. Best bet would be to buy a vest and find someone who makes clothing by hand.


It's a Freak Out icon.  Lostlove makes them for a few bucks. ^^

I might try my hand at maille someday. As to securing it to the fabric... could probably get some heavy sail thread or something similar and use that.

That's cool. It doesn't look too hard to do. I think I'ma throw some random .gifs of my characters around my future website eventually. Oh, I came up with a name for my new comics series: "Unrestricted Comics" Chose that because I refuse to censor myself if the comic works out better that way. :D

Cool. Can't wait to see it.

I found mention of this weave! You say in the comment there to say if you've seen if before, and I saw it the other day and remembered you, though the concept it was working on is the opposite of your concept here. Here you're taking Snake Skin and adding to it, whereas this other concept is taking King's Scale and subtracting from it (Since King's Scale has every spot a ring would be in Euro 4-1 doubled up in this fashion). They called it Poor King's Scale ( http://www.mailleartisans.org/weave.....hp?oldkey=2928 ). I'm not much for King's Scale myself. It's usually done in small gauges (Eighteen seems pretty common, but sixteen works) yet up to about the same ring sizes you're using here, so I've never regarded it as anything more than some fancy but not all that difficult ornamental weave.

Yup, that's it. Thanks for finding this.

Hehe, I'm sort of disappointed that I'm not the only one who's invented this weave. Oh well, guess I can't expect to make something really original, after centuries of predecessors.

Still, I found it from you, so this piece is getting listed as shieldmaille. I like the name better anyway. I'll probably be listing you as the weave inspiration once I finish it and put up pictures.

Hehe, thanks.

ZOMGZOMG ZOMG CHAINMAIL! *dies* i love it!

Hehe. It's fun stuff. ^^

>///< i had a gypsy belt and bra made from it with blue satin underneath! was AWESOME

Nice. Pics?

Sold it years ago to help me move cross country. Hard as hell to do but a must is a must. Never been much of a picture person but I'll look

Alright. If you haven't been to http://www.furaffinity.net/user/furandsteel yet, go there. ^^