testing chain maille
Jan 2, 2020 2:30:33 GMT
Post by tsmspace on Jan 2, 2020 2:30:33 GMT
ok, so I have a simple sword, it's a stabbing sword of moderate to low quality, it's a double edged sword from shinwa that's labelled as a straight katana. However, it's a pretty basic shape and I stabbed bottles and the ground with it and it stabs nice. it goes into bottles like they aren't even there. It went into the ground a few inches, but fair enough the ground is full of rocks. If I had a softer target it would go really deep.
I also have some patches of chainmaille I made from reasonably hard wire. It's definately harder than the wire I've seen on some chainmaille, but I don't know how hard the wire is for the various chainmaille in testing done by youtubers, they never talk about it. Mostly, it looks better than the picture hanging wire you can buy at home depot, but not as good as can be purchased for industrial purposes like welded wire mesh. Sure, hard rolled wire for industrial purposes rusts pretty quick, but it's really hard and that seems important for armor.
I haven't tested the 4 in 1 maille pictured yet, because I've just done the epoxy today, but I DID go outside with my "busted link" 6 in 1 test patch. When I make the rings I end up with ruddy and uneven rings, so I put all of those together into a "busted link" patch.
I am making butted maille, because it's not really to be armor, it's just for fun and I plan to use it maybe as a weight for exercise, and perhaps costumes. I wanted to figure out how to make harder rings in my humble bedroom environment, so I looked up jewelry welders and riveting kits, but I decided that both of those are interesting but also would be interesting is if I could use high impact epoxy. There are a few epoxies on the market that are super expensive, one of them is 3M DPS420 , which is used to lift a shipping container in a test video. DPS420 is not at home depot, and is 30$ or more for a small quantity. I decided after watching a few more videos that it would be cheap and easy enough to test some JB Weld original formula. I only made a small patch of JB weld, and will try to stab it with my sword and maybe some other implements in the different places, and will also just try to force the rings open with regular tools to get a more hands-on feel of the exact breaking point. Because I couldn't wait to try stabbing, I took out a little patch of my 6in1 nasty link maille, and stabbed that. I put it on a rock, with a piece of foam insulation underneath it to pad it up from the rock, and I stabbed downward with moderate force, and to my surprise, the butted rings did not open or take visible damage for all but one of the stabs, which landed on a particularly large uneven ring, and caused it to open about 2 millimeters, but the sword did not penetrate the maille because with 6 in 1 maille, you need to break at least 2 rings to penetrate. No matter where you stab there are always at least 2 rings to go through.
here's a picture.
drive.google.com/file/d/0BzM9lmwyZzVDb1pNQWNlN0N1UHoxSE11MU9Dd2NQZXdLRnpR/view?usp=sharing
drive.google.com/file/d/0BzM9lmwyZzVDVE1DTzhzOTZ3SjVITU55NEtqcWkzVkZqN1hv/view?usp=sharing
I also have some patches of chainmaille I made from reasonably hard wire. It's definately harder than the wire I've seen on some chainmaille, but I don't know how hard the wire is for the various chainmaille in testing done by youtubers, they never talk about it. Mostly, it looks better than the picture hanging wire you can buy at home depot, but not as good as can be purchased for industrial purposes like welded wire mesh. Sure, hard rolled wire for industrial purposes rusts pretty quick, but it's really hard and that seems important for armor.
I haven't tested the 4 in 1 maille pictured yet, because I've just done the epoxy today, but I DID go outside with my "busted link" 6 in 1 test patch. When I make the rings I end up with ruddy and uneven rings, so I put all of those together into a "busted link" patch.
I am making butted maille, because it's not really to be armor, it's just for fun and I plan to use it maybe as a weight for exercise, and perhaps costumes. I wanted to figure out how to make harder rings in my humble bedroom environment, so I looked up jewelry welders and riveting kits, but I decided that both of those are interesting but also would be interesting is if I could use high impact epoxy. There are a few epoxies on the market that are super expensive, one of them is 3M DPS420 , which is used to lift a shipping container in a test video. DPS420 is not at home depot, and is 30$ or more for a small quantity. I decided after watching a few more videos that it would be cheap and easy enough to test some JB Weld original formula. I only made a small patch of JB weld, and will try to stab it with my sword and maybe some other implements in the different places, and will also just try to force the rings open with regular tools to get a more hands-on feel of the exact breaking point. Because I couldn't wait to try stabbing, I took out a little patch of my 6in1 nasty link maille, and stabbed that. I put it on a rock, with a piece of foam insulation underneath it to pad it up from the rock, and I stabbed downward with moderate force, and to my surprise, the butted rings did not open or take visible damage for all but one of the stabs, which landed on a particularly large uneven ring, and caused it to open about 2 millimeters, but the sword did not penetrate the maille because with 6 in 1 maille, you need to break at least 2 rings to penetrate. No matter where you stab there are always at least 2 rings to go through.
here's a picture.
drive.google.com/file/d/0BzM9lmwyZzVDb1pNQWNlN0N1UHoxSE11MU9Dd2NQZXdLRnpR/view?usp=sharing
drive.google.com/file/d/0BzM9lmwyZzVDVE1DTzhzOTZ3SjVITU55NEtqcWkzVkZqN1hv/view?usp=sharing