Ever tried making chain mail?

[syntonic-comma.livejournal.com]

Want to? I took a couple of chain-mail classes at Pennsic last year so I am just a beginner myself, but I plan to bring a pile of rings and pliers to Baitcon and share what I know. I'm trying to get some idea how much interest there is before I make photocopies and divide the rings into packets. I'll probably ask for a dollar or two to cover the cost of the rings, and I hope I'll have enough rings for everyone who's interested. We'll work with aluminum, so if you have some smooth-jawed pliers at home, bring them along. (I've got some I can share, but maybe not enough for everybody.)

There's tons of info on the web about making maille. Wikipedia is a good place to start for background, and the end of the entry has some good links for more info. You really could teach yourself, but it helps to have a hands-on to start out.

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[keyne.livejournal.com]

I'd be interested, and I bet my nine-year-old would too.

[syntonic-comma.livejournal.com]

(http://www.netsnapshot.com/pcw/buildalbum-cgi?ACCOUNT=11584&KEY=74)I thought I'd hear from more people. Well, we'll just have a fine time on our own. My order of rings arrived Monday, so we'll have lots to play with, and I'll bring some printouts of webpages with explanations that might be better than mine. If there's more-experienced people there who can show us some things, that'll be great too.