How to Make a ChainMail Coif (armor headpiece)
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- This is a tutorial on how to make a chainmail coif which is a piece of head armor.
It uses the 4 in 1 pattern. I show you the various pieces and how to put them together.
I also have a web based tutorial on how to make this. It includes a close look at how to make and assemble the pizza slices at the top:
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I just wanna know how people could dislike this... It's awesome
Because it is poor imitation of actual mail coif. There is no padding, no neck protection, no shoulders overlap and the mail itself is made incorectly. ...
For cosplay OK
As an armor it's trash which would shatter in single impact... and he would be dead.
not just that but for people actually trying to follow this tutorial, he doesn't mention the diameter of his links so pretty much every number he throws in is entirely useless. like the 9 link long pizza slice analogy he used for the skullcap? the links I use make it so that each individual 'slice' is about the size of a post-it note, so going by his instructions this coif would be about the right size for a 4 year old child. it's a pain in the ass.
@@manowartank8784 Well the video is just about a mail coif, not the padded coif that goes underneath
Also riveted mail wasn't the only kind of mail they made back then, butted mail was widely used because while less protective, it was far cheaper to make
@@joki1937 No butted maille was only widely used in the East, for Medieval Europe, maille was always riveted
Casually grabs a sword from his desk.
For sure, bro. Funny story:
I got a job at a textiles plant, working in the cutting department. While rooting through my supervisor's toolbox one day, I found a chain-mail glove. I asked:
"What's this for?"
"Put that away, Hide that!" He replied.
I did so. I eventually quit because I have asthma and the air there was constantly full of fibers.
But three months afterwards, I met his wife, and she told me that he lost his ring finger on the cutting machine he was training me to use. ^_^
Presumably you hid his glove too well? ^^
If you’re the kind of person that likes quick and easy, chain mail isn’t for you. It starts off simple. But you will get lost in a hurry. One row out of place and you have to back track till you find where you screwed up, then start over from there. All that said,it’s the most relaxing, and at the same time most frustrating, thing I do all day.
I've been working on my chainmail since around Christmas and I've completed a coif and I'm working on the body. I've had to go by trial and error, so it's not as far along as it could be, but I've completed the full length sleeves and I'm now working on extending the body. You tutorials have been really helpful and been really fun. (Although after working on it for several months straight it does get a bit tedious)
@Randy Rhoads : Thanks for the heads up; I was at five of six triangles complete when I saw your post and checked my work, lo and behold two of them were backwards! Now I'll have to unstitch the 4-in-1 rows that make them up, flip it and restitch it. Not a difficult fix, but time consuming.
great question. I will be posting a more extensive video to my website. Then I will put a link to that in this vid description.
You are awesome. Don't let anyone tell you you're not awesome. I love when people do things themselves. Thank you for taking the time out of your day to show us all how to put this together.
interesting question. Chainmail is great against slashing weapons. But no protection vs blunt objects like a bat or hammer or stuff like that. divers use chainmail to protect against shark bites.
You are very welcome. Not sure about more mail. Its a lot of work!
Awesome video!! Me and my friend have started a suit of chain mail using 14 gauge steel electric fence wire. Thanks for other chain mail tutorials.
- George
Hi c:
About 3 days after discovering how chainmail are made and watching this video, I began my own coiffe, without having any idea of how much time will it take for a newbie to make one (at least, around 300 hours, with low stuff as knitting needles to make the mails, and a big bolt cutter) I needed about 150 iron wire meters (1.8mm and 3.6 centimeters long per mail so about 1.15 centimeters (diameter) (I'm french, sorry for the "wrong" measuring units)) I added some kind of chainmail horns and scales and I'm proud of the result now c: Thank you for this video, It made most of my year awesome!
You are very welcome and grats on the coif!
I have began making a coif myself. I made the skirt part and I make the six sections. But I just can't seem to get the hang of connecting the dang sections! Or, well, I FINALLY did after a lot of puzzling over it!
Not finished yet, but so far I am about 10 hours into my fist piece. I imagine I will be about about 4-6. I did not pay close attention to how much material I was using, but something like 300 feet? That got me plenty of material. But 200 was nowhere near enough. So somewhere between 200-300 I guess is what I have used.
I am having a blast so far! Really encourages me to try and expand out on making armor and to try and go for something that looks really nice!
Thanks for your tutorials mans!
I have. Ballistic gel itself would be a fun and interesting project.
Great tutorial, straight to the point without any crap! I of course had to subscribe and I am about to try making one for myself.
A couple tips....
Make sure your triangles follow the same left right pattern. It's not like square 4-1 patterns that can be flipped to make them go the other way. It sucks making a bunch of triangles and finding out half wont go together.
Go ahead and make your triangles bottom row 11 long. Unless you are a midget the 9 across bottom wont even be close to your ears.
Thanks Damon, Thanks for sticking with my channel :). Have fun with the chainmail.. its a lot of links but just one link at a time!
Ihave done a few blacksmithing puzzles. They are fun. I should make one.
I went out and bought some aluminum colored wire. I couldn't find the steel one you suggested. . After making the rings I had to file them down carefully so as not to file off the color before I actually start getting into the production mode. I believe it will save time in the long run.. Thanks for putting out these tubes.
it is very battle worthy. You should solder the rings closed to make it even better.
because of your videos i'm teaching myself armor smithing and atm im making chain mail like in your tutorials as soon as i have something to show i'll send you the vid
Actually the smith would usually draw out a billet until the taper was the correct thickness, then wind the taper on a mandrel and cut them one at a time (often apprentice work) which is why the historical examples are often wildly varied in size, thickness, and style. this is also why the cross section of many historical pieces were square and not perfectly round like modern "drawn" wire versions.
when you add the normal band that stops the expansion that's when it turns into a round shape, the band that starts bringing the coif down your head is what i'm referring to as normal
yes, and I have a more in-depth tutorial on my website. Should help a lot.
I have been subscribed to you for about a month now, and I have seen your skill with metal, I believe you should do more blacksmithing. I(and surely others would also) would enjoy seeing you take this idea and combine it with a helm/helmet, and also to make actual armor or pieces of armor
Thanks for subbing. More blacksmithing coming!
Ya that'd be really cool!!
lol, I can't resist a good beatles quote.
Its all on the web based tutorial. The description of this vid has the link. Good luck and have fun!
im building one from aluminum or almelec wires im not sure what they are but they seem strong enough to hold their ring shape ..soo i already made the contour of the helmet ,was easy linking them in straight lines but i still need to know how to assemble the center peace of the head ,so tanks for this video man :) ..
thanks! Lots more stuff coming!
with normal steel it could be hardened and tempered in the forge but this steel has zinc in it so its not possible for this. Zinc gives off a toxic gas when heated.
is there any way that you can sho how to connect the pizza shapes together.....without the hands getting in the way....because when I do it it doesn't come out rite....
Did you ever figure this out?
Its not that hard, I just connected 3 slices without any problems. Just look at the chainmail pattern and continue it in the connections
I followed your tutorials and it's turned out great! I wanna thank you so much for your help!!
the hex shape is not an issue. It disappears very nicely.
thanks, great feedback. I will be doing a webpage tutorial. I will post a link in the description of this vid.
thank you kind sir. your time spent has been of great service to me
him & me both.. I'm 49, been making maille for 30 years. but, it's never too late to have a happy, fun fantasy life.
Hi master!awsome video...next level is a steel T-short!however a cool idea for blacksmithing is to realize gauntlets made with leather and steel
Great job!!!! You should extend the coif, so that it comes over the shoulders (like that Templar dude in Ironclad). Then show us how to make a hauberk...
I sometimes come back to this video for nostalgia purposes. Thanks Will
I'm making mine, but I actually like the work. It's humble stuff.
it straitened out with the skirt so I'm going to try adding one more row at the front of the cap, for the face, so it looks even. I'll try to get pics.
Wait... At 6:03, your skullcap still has the triangle-based shape. But at 6:21, it is fully circular. What did you do there, and how?
I have more about this, and the triangles on the web tutorial. There is a link in the description.
epicfantasy how much does it usually cost to make 1 of full set of chain mail
if you are going for a full shirt then about 45 dollar for the material, full pants then another 45 dollar and a coif extending down to the chest is about 15 dollars. This is what it cost me using 2mm galvanized steel fencing wire.
thats excellent, ill be waiting for that, actually i have some ideas about how to make one but i know nothing about melting metals.
Will, you're awesome, thank you. You give me so much inspiration to do my daily crafts.
I might do this.
I think I might do this.
The way I do mine, I usually make a belt, about 3-4 rings wide, and measure around my forehead, then up the column number to a divisible by 6.. (i.e. 82, would become 84..). this means I need to make triangles about 14-rings high at the wide end. Someone showed me how to make an expanded top, which is supposed to eliminate the triangle sections, but it still looked hexagonal.. The real fun, the mantle at the bottom.. so the whole coif weighs less on the head, putting it on the shoulders.
How do you count the chainmail? Is each ring one or is one set of four rings equal 1 count?
The neck part (the Mantle) you simply make the triangle pieces where you left off on the top pieces..Using an example I just posted, if the top pieces were 14-wide, you'd go 14, 15, 16....23, 24.. looking like \ /, and link them the same way as the top pieces.. \/ It would still be hexagonal in shape, but place the center of the back & front pieces centered on the chest & back.. / \ ...
This is a life saver,man....Thanks a lot for uploading this....
Technically its not done, if your going for a more historical looking coif it would cover more area under the neck and more of the shoulders. A chain mail shirt would not cover much of the shoulders leaving a finger length gap between the side of the neck and the mail on the shoulder. And even less coverage under the chin, about a full hand length, the coif was made to cover these "weak" spots as well as cover the head, so you would have countinue add links in a cricle all around the chin piece and all around. And of course most soldiers wearing a coif wore a leather coif underneath the mail coif for even more protection. But the one you made is good for a costume for a ren fair if your a visitor or even a persona costume for larpers, but for medieval reenactors that one is wrong. And mail shirts were also made much bigger then the person cause they wore a gambeson underneath. i like your tutorial videos on this subject it helps get you started. I havent made mail for years so when i got back into your videos helpe me remember how to do it. Now im making historically accurate pieces and making some extra money selling them to reenacters, larpers, and people who think their cool, along with jewelry pieces. And i just work on them in my spare time. Keep videos coming, maybe toss in some different patterns, i for one would love to learn how to attach mail to a leather jerkin, which woukd be horizontal lengths of the 4 in 1 patter some hiw sewn horizontaly to the jerking but not attached to other lenghts.
You are very welcome! Thanks for watching!
just finished chainmail vest in a week and a half!!!!!! awesome tutorial ill send u a pic later...IVE GOT BLISTERS ON ME FINGERS!!
Got the triangles fine, stitched them together fine, made the hexagon fine and filled in the middle. Then you magic the hexagon into a perfect circle with different patterns evident! Do I feed my hexagon into Premiere Pro or similar to edit the change? Or is it "here's one I made earlier which WILL work"? Do I have to undo all the triangles and make a circle from scratch? Still, it was good practice.
I think it will pull hair a bit. Good to wear a cloth cap under it.
You should try making one of these with the dragon Chain Mail design. I know you said the dragon chain mail is quite stiff so maybe just do the skirt and chin strap in dragon chain mail and a normal skullcap.
I've always wondered how to make something like this. Thank you for the how-to!
cool, thanks and have fun!
Love all your vids. Only thing I'd say is I wish you did the different color ring for the pizza part, but I think I could do this. I'm doing a lot of catch on vids as I didn't have internet for a long while
Also note: your triangle bottom row ring count may vary, depending on the size of the rings you are using. I'm using 1/4" ID rings and I'm trying 13 on the bottom row. Looks a little small when I size it up on my head, but the person I'm making it for has a smaller head than me so I think it will work out.
I know galvanized wire shouldn't meet a flame, but could I use an electric soldering iron to solder the rings together? (I'm asking now that I completed my coif!)
a lot
im making one now w some mates ans we havnt even put it together yet, we have a huge pile of 4 in 1s and were going to join them in the next day or 2
how much of the wire have you used from making all the chain mail
This is going to sound nuts but could you do a tutorial on a full length jacket of chainmail that I can lace through my own. with or without the coif?
Just a suggestion make the chain mail and coif slightly bigger because you want a padded shirt and cap beneath it (helps absorb blows and you won't get a free waxing every time you take the chain mail off :D )
Loving the tutorial... just started making chainmaille recently (I've done a good bit of bracelets, necklaces and keychains for friends and family) but wanted to start branching out and make something more robust. I've gotta get a nice supply of rings before I get into this project though. what size rings do you use, or would suggest ?
do you know something that I can built easily with some children? i made the spartan helmets and they really loved them:) thank you for your videos:); i also used this helmets for a little "movie" I ve made
grats on making two! Your fingers must be sore!! Not sure about a shirt. Will give it thought.
kind of amazing how it works. once you drape it on your head you see how it works.
I have made chain mail shirts and coifs before, and I have never had the rings open but I know of people such as yourself who have had this problem. What people do to fix this is rivet their mail which is historically correct but very time consuming, another alternative which is not historically correct but will hold the rings together is soldering or welding the joints I have herd of people doing this to their butted mail to increase its strength without spending a long time riveting their mail
lol! Lot of rings. I have a video that shows how to make them from wire.
Hi EF. Thanks for posting this video. It's a great place to start when learning how to mail. I seem to be the only one that works in a different fashion. I suspend my starter row of closed links on a piece of tensioned wire. Then, weaving 1 open link through 2 closed ones, I work my way across. When I get to the end I head back in the other direction. Doing this, I can weave 250 to 300 links per hour. Have you heard of this? I'll send you a pic if you like. Thanks again.
That doesn't exactly answer the question, which I had as well, so I am replying here. Please share your knowledge!
Did you add rows of straight 4-in-1s at the edge of the hexagon, leaving out the expansion ring to make it into a circle? Because expanding in this manner is infinite, it'll never turn into a circle on its own. I'm keen on finding out how you did the final step because drapping it over my styrofoam head help. Your vid is great up to the point where you go from hexagon to circle. :)
just a thought fora shirt, couldn't you do the first step for the skull cap for the shoulders and make the arms chest and legs the four ring style
Thank you for your film it was really helpful.
My choif is almost ready
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could you do a video on how to make chainmail bodyarmor,or legarmor?
Thanks so much for this video. I've been planning on making chain mail armor for a fair amount of time and this is a good start for me. Are you planning to make a tutorial on other chain mail pieces or just the coif? Thank you so much once again.
It's cool, but can you make Chain Mail gloves and how to make scales for scale mail ?
thanks man! I made the ring, spun them out using 14 gauge steel wire.
That is very cool, thank you for show us how to. Can you make a pair of gloves to go with that?
Thanks for the tutorial!. I didn't know how to do the "pizza" and you really helped me out. By the way, you are lucky you don't have hair!, I lose half of mine every time I put it on!....I need to do like a hoody or some sort of padding beause it really annoys.
To make chainmail, do i just make a bunch of four-in-one`s and patch them together, or do i need maybe a "three-in-one" anywhere?
I see that you use butted maille to make this coif. I think it would be a great video showing us how to make riveted maille, since you are into blacksmithing and mailling. It would be great! Nice coif by the way! Might try to make one when I finish my hauberk.
Also, you might look into getting a membership at mailleartisans (search it). There we have a nice sprawling community where we have patterns, projects and competitions where mailling is the focal point. I'd like to see you there!
not yet, but I have ordered steel for the helmet, it arrives tuesday. So,, pretty soon i start on the helmet.
So I got the slices all put together the other night and I put my project away for a few days. I came back to your video after looking at both my piece and yours and I just don't quite understand how you went about rounding it out. How exactly did you take it from a hexagonal pattern and make it into a full circular one?
Just follow his link to his home site in the description. Basically, 3 chains of 4 in 1s with different amounts, 3,4, and 5. Just follow the pics and you'll get there. It does take (loads of) patience! Enjoy!
How do you make the triangles? I've been staring at the paused picture but I can't make the triangles
Check the link in the description of this video. I have a web tutorial that will help.
can u show if hit with sword or spears...just to c how strong its is if make from steel...etc..
You have gained an extra subscriber! I may not be able to make this sort of stuff myself but its darn good fun to watch how.
You should do this with dragon scale because the patterns are different also you should make like full set of amour out of both types it would probably take like two or three videos
I've noticed alot of people using large rings, I'm currently working with 16g on a 1/4 dowel, What is the best gauge:Diameter for maille that preforms and looks good?
do you have a video on making the triangles for the chain mail coif
Yes, extending it around the neck would be great. And lol !
is it just me or does this guy look so good wearing the coif because like some people look weird wearing it
another awesome video, makes me wanna try blacksmithing and make some medieval stuff!
How are you measuring the rings per piece?
For the triangles, you measured in actual rings--9 across and 9 rows.
I appreciated that because for me it is the most effective way to build, personally.
But when you are discussing the other two main pieces I cannot determine what unit of measurement you're using. Inches?
If so, could you instead give me a count for how many rings long and high each of those rectangles are, as you did with the triangles?
Thank you!
Jeremiah Gabriel sets of 4 in 1 chain squares
I am working on the top piece and I have it to where it fit my head to the tip of my ears, but it looks like an octagon and in the video yours looks like a circle. Where did I go wrong?
what size are your rings and what is the size of the wire that you use to make them?
I know you aren't worried about this - but does this pull hair when you take it off? Is there any way to avoid that?