Riveted Maille

[Neuraleanus]

but, definitely doable. I've been working on a shirt for about a year now and I have just the upper section done. In a nother year or two I may have a complete shirt of hamata.

I haven't seen the steel wire from Home Depot, I bought my wire from the Ring Lord:

http://www.theringlord.com/

Wedge rivets and other tools may be purchased from Forth Armory:

http://www.forth-armoury.com/Product_Ca ... pplies.htm

One rule, though, never attempt to use galvanized wire. You need to anneal the rings prior to flattening and the zinc flumes are poisonous. I've written a Word doc on how I make riveted maille. It may be found in the file section at the Legio XXX Yahoo group:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/legio30cohort2/

Solid rings, aka washers, may be purchased in bulk quantities from Seastrom:

http://www.seastrom-mfg.com/

caiustarquitius,

From where did you get your iformation on the shpe of roman maille rivets? I haven't before heard this bit. Most of the photos of roman maille that I've seen are big, or more likely small, chumps of rust. Details of the rings are usually very hard to see. I'm making riveted maille using wedge rivets, just because this follows the instructions that I was able to find on the web, but I had always thought that the romans, like those of the early medieval period, used round rivets. Perhaps my maille is more accurate after all. To see an example, go to:

http://66.66.131.145/roman/maille_rivetedandsolid3.jpg