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Post by tsmspace on Nov 17, 2019 20:19:20 GMT
in historical times,,, how did smiths produce the wires used for maille??
did they actually produce a spool of wire, or did they hammer individual rings out of ingots, or something else altogether???
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Post by Timo Nieminen on Nov 17, 2019 20:45:31 GMT
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Post by tsmspace on Nov 17, 2019 22:42:23 GMT
I thought that drawing wire was to make strings,,, like guitar strings,, which are not the same as ordinary wire. (they are floppy and stringy). I guess that would make sense, though, because drawing the wire would change its "temper" if I'm not mistaken.
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Post by Timo Nieminen on Nov 17, 2019 22:50:38 GMT
Mechanised, it's the standard modern process for wire-making:
Thin guitar strings are floppy because they're thin. Thick guitar strings are floppy because they have a thin straight core (which is floppy because it's thin) and are made thicker by a spiral winding which doesn't add much to the stiffness.
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