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owetre18 wrote:

That sounds cool!

Maybe it's something I can try...

It's pretty easy, just bend wire around something metal and round (don't use wood, it will dent and you will get dodgy rings) then cut them up and close the rings. There's probably loads of tutorials online.

Just sat there since 9pm to 6am making chain armour with my dad, he's now going to sleep on the sofa to try wake up earlier. We turned 8m of copper wire from an eletrical wire into links then made the start of a chain vest, pictures are coming soon. Although it took a while and we were both duel wielding pliers at times due to the delicacy of each link and how if you screw up one you need to do quite a lot to get it undone it was pretty fun and we could see this vest take form, right now we have the start of the back panel done with the start of the shoulder stap on, we ran out of wire you see.

A chain jacket? Those are still fashionable? Plus I have a PG Tips monkey. As I drink tea.

cheddargirl wrote:

I attempted it once, I kinda stopped after making and testing with 20 jump rings or so - I realized the gauge was too small (size 24) to hold up and the metal was too weak (it was copper).

I'll probably attempt it again when I get a thicker gauge wire made with a better metal alloy.

I'm using 2.5mm thick copper wire from some old wire laying around in my dad's workshop, we stripped it and wrapped it round a 1cm thick pole by hand then cut them into 800 rings and started linking them together.

I have some pictures on my ipod at the moment, but being technology it's not actually connecting properly to the computer.

This sounds scrumptiously time consuming

But it also appears to require work so I don't know if I'd like it

Nexstudent wrote:

When such things are created, are they tight, or are they loose like normal chains? I'm wondering if they would make a suitable helmet.

They're loose like normal chains.

They don't make a suitable helmet, but they can be used to make something similar like this chainmaille coif.

Chainmail is cool.

Also, where did you get that jacket because I WANT ONE RIGHT NOW so I can use it as sleepwear.

my-chemical-romance wrote:

I was wondering if there were any chainsmiths in the Scratch community, as I've got myself interested in it.

After buying a chain jacket a few months ago for £90 I wondered why it was so expensive and if chainsmithing was amazingly hard. I started off with an idea in my head of bending wire around a metal pole to make rings then linking them together to make a chain link. I've been doing it for 4 hours now and I've already started to produce a big piece of chain link and I see why the jacket was so expensive, it is repetitive and pretty boring at times but what you get from it is pretty cool. I've started to make a chain jacket for a toy chimp from PG tips, it gets very confusing at times and sometimes you end up with a big pile of linked rings which confuses you, but once you get what you're doing it's pretty easy. I'm currently doing the 4 in 1 link with a rod of 4.5mm thickness, I urge people to try it as it's a very cool hobby and what you get from it is pretty good.

Cool! I want to try that!