Hi all. I've been doing butted maille for a bit now, but i've never
completed anything of decent size...Anyhow, I'd like to start making riveted
maille...just...
I'm back with some questions although I'm not through all of the archives yet. Would it be possible to buy some examples of the rivetted rings in various...
Greetings All: First, my apologies to anyone who receives this post more than ounce. Our Shire will be hosting the March Warden Event this year in the Great...
Hi all, I have lurked and read all the messages here and one thing I am wondering. Do you overlap before or after you anneal? I am planning to heat them in a...
Hi Leland, I don't think that the main idea of overlap and no overlap should be based on the process. There are existing maille pieces which are very round or...
Here's the sequence that I use when assembling, others may do it differently, but this seems to make the most sense to me: Sping springs Cut (with overlap) ...
... You flatten before annealing??? Strange. Don't you have a lot of rings skipping and scrapped then? The idea of annealing BEFORE flattening is partly to...
Yep, I agree with Joris. When I make my maille I first normalize, then flatten, then pierce. It could have something to do that I learned making riveted from...
I don't anneal them before flattening because the metal is already soft enough to flatten and as for skipping, I have about a 10% failure rate of skipped...
Hi all. I am ready to purchase tools for making riveted maille . I need a punch tool (tongs) and a rivet tool (tongs). I already know how to spring (with...
For me it's an acceptable loss. For the amount of work in a shirt, the cost of the botched rings is neglegible, both in material and time because iron wire is...
Work hardening the rings by cutting hardens the tip. Since the tips are the ones to skip the harder they are, the morel likely the ring to produce "bunny...
I'm currently making a new pair of piercing tongs out of ACE slip-joint pliers. I am, however, experiencing great difficulties when trying to drill the hole to...
Hello, I'm new to this list, but have been spending my weekends and evenings trying to make a workable punch tool for my maille project also. My requirements...
The pliers are definitely stainless steel. I doubted it myself, but the evidence is compelling. Since I ground the other jaw (about a month ago) it didn't show...
I'm sure you are correct. I'm learning all this as I go. Its amazing how much knowledge is possessed by those out there who have already gone through this...
Really, I don't know that much. It simply that I've been hanging around folks that do, learning as much as I can and passing the knowledge forward. I'm holding...
Damn, no edit button. After some more thought, I decided to test whether the pliers are really stainless or not, as I am having a creeping suspicion that I've ...
any idea as to a technique/material so i can make wedge riveted rings without annealing and how to make those darn wedge rivets if anyone has any ideas that...
If you don't have a torch, you can use your stove-top burners to heat the rings. It won't get hot enough for hardening the piercing drift, but it will soften...
According to Joris's page, the tools cost 230 euros. I don't know how much that is in other currencies, but the euro is forth more than most other currencies,...
Hmm, could be chrome-vanadium. It doesn't help me much, since both steels are hard to drill. The problem with end-nipper is that you need to modify them a...
I second that. Every set of punch tongs I have ever seen were made out of linesman pliers. The hinge is a lot tighter. I would actually suggest buying a...
Well, I tried to find the page that had the instruction for making punch tongs and rivet set tools, but aparently the site isn't there anymore. Anyways, a...
So you basically grind the jaws of the pliers so that they are parallel before closing? Do put some pictures. All of the pictures here are of a pair of ...
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