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19th June 07, 05:48 PM
#1
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19th June 07, 06:38 PM
#2
you know I made a maille shirt one year for holloween. it was a 4-1 euro shirt out of 12gauge 1inch rings. took me about 4 hours to make the entire shirt.
big rings make it go much better. (I had also been mailling for 3 years at this time)
looking good though
~Casey
"It's the job thats never started that takes the longest to finish. Thats what my old Gaffer used to say." - Samwise Gamgie, J.R.R. Tolkein
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19th June 07, 09:14 PM
#3
Nice well when you use 12ga and 1 inch rings.... yah obiously my shirt is euro 4in1. 18ga wire 1/2" OD
As long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any condition be brought under English rule. It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for FREEDOM!- Declaration of Arbroath. April 6,1320.
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20th June 07, 08:14 AM
#4
18ga 1/2? what kind of wire? you sure that will hold up. I sometimes have trouble with 18ga 5/16.
~Casey
"It's the job thats never started that takes the longest to finish. Thats what my old Gaffer used to say." - Samwise Gamgie, J.R.R. Tolkein
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20th June 07, 08:17 AM
#5
 Originally Posted by ScottMacFreedom
along with that I normaly have a random bracelet just for the heck of it. like my new dual colour steel/copper one.
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This is really, really nice!
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20th June 07, 08:27 AM
#6
Originally Posted by ScottMacFreedom
In the past couple years of actually being proud of wearing a kilt in public I have made some crazy things to go with it. and there is more to come.
Last year in grade 11 I realize having a suit of chainmail finished for halloween was going to be impossible since I only had a week. So I went with the next best thing... Duct tape.
full size: http://s29.photobucket.com/albums/c2...ainmail/00.jpg
A year later with only 3 weeks till Halloween I realize that I swore in grade 9 that I would have a suit of chainmail done by grade 12 halloween... yah well 3 weeks is kinda really really really tight for a suit so I started working on it with... 1/4mile of wire, a pair of needle nose plyers and wire cutters. by the end of the 1st week my friend made me spend over $100 in new equiptment and wire. after another week of experimenting he managed to make all the wire into coils... I cut most of them into rings and I worked away for 4 days for about 12 hours a day and then the last 3 days with no sleep and only not working on it when I was in class. finaly on the last day at 6:45 I was done a big enough portion to wear it decently... and thats how I got into the whole chainmail thing but it went nicely with the outfit.
full: http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c2...nmail/DSC03050.
I noticed the second link did not work but I think it will now, the file extension was missing, this should work:
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c2...l/DSC03050.jpg
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- George Orwell, 1984, Book 1, Chapter 3
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20th June 07, 09:10 AM
#7
to Cwr: Yah I use standard galvanized steel 18ga 1/2" Outer Diameter.
to Splash: Thanks that is my first project containing 2 different metals and my 2nd attempt with copper.
to McMurdo: Thanks for that correction
As long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any condition be brought under English rule. It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for FREEDOM!- Declaration of Arbroath. April 6,1320.
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21st June 07, 07:36 PM
#8
A duck tape suit of armor! That's really cool Scott. Just goes to show the limitless creative possibilities of duct tape.
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21st June 07, 09:23 PM
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Pretty handy with the duct tape there . Too bad you missed the deadline for the scholarship: http://www.ducktapeclub.com/contests/prom/entries.asp
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Those that understand binary, and those that don't.
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21st June 07, 09:27 PM
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