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General Category => 3DHS => Topic started by: Lanya on March 08, 2008, 12:11:40 AM

Title: Chain mail
Post by: Lanya on March 08, 2008, 12:11:40 AM

http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Make_a_Suit_of_Chainmail_Armor_From_Soda_Can_Tabs

Title: Re: Chain mail
Post by: Stray Pooch on March 08, 2008, 05:34:54 AM

Quote from: Lanya on March 08, 2008, 12:11:40 AM

http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Make_a_Suit_of_Chainmail_Armor_From_Soda_Can_Tabs

Now pass this link on to ten other people you know.

DO NOT BREAK THE CHAIN. 

A person on MSN broke the chain and his mailbox got filled with ads for male enhancement aids.  A blogger broke the chain and got irrelevant replies to her posts.  A well-known news anchor broke the chain and got caught using questionable sources.  A chain-breaking professional baseball player was found to be using steroids.

Coincidence?  I think not.  DO NOT BREAK THE CHAIN! 

Title: Re: Chain mail
Post by: Amianthus on March 08, 2008, 07:57:06 AM

Why would you want to make one out of soda can tabs when it's just as easy to make a real one out of wire?

Title: Re: Chain mail
Post by: fatman on March 08, 2008, 12:51:47 PM

I have a friend who does that Ami, wickedly neat stuff he makes.  I've showed him how to heat it with an oxy/acetylene torch to give the rings different colors, some of the stuff he makes is amazing.

Title: Re: Chain mail
Post by: Lanya on March 08, 2008, 02:46:05 PM

 <<A blogger broke the chain and got irrelevant replies to her posts.  A well-known news anchor broke the chain and got caught using questionable sources.  A chain-breaking professional baseball player was found to be using steroids.

Coincidence?  I think not.  DO NOT BREAK THE CHAIN! >>

Wait...A blogger got irrevelant replies?? Dang I'm glad I didn't break the chain!
Too funny, Pooch.
Thanks for the laugh, I really needed it! 
I was trying to help my neighbor get unstuck.  Their car was in the middle of the street,  a street covered with about 8 inches of snow on top of an inch of ice.

Ami,
I would rather work with the plain wire, but I like the looks of this project.  Very nice looking garment.

Title: Re: Chain mail
Post by: Plane on March 11, 2008, 03:57:29 AM

the aluminum would be a lot lighter than steel.

I saw some products like this for sale at the Coca Cola Museum in Atlanta , but the method was simpler.

Crochet a garment ,every other row include a tab in every other stitch. try to overlap uniformly.

Title: Re: Chain mail
Post by: Plane on March 11, 2008, 05:15:41 AM

http://www.aluminouspublishing.com/