Chainmail Alternatives for Cosplay! 

Here I am just lookin up chainmail alternatives from Grace and oh my gosh, a wild Maksy! Where the hecc is this Aragorn? If it happened, I need to find it immediately

LOL That's awesome! I've been meaning to try PVC too.

DemonWeasel1990 What diameter? what tool for cutting?

That is what they did for the LotR movies. The advantage is it looks superior to most other "fake" maille, but down side is that you use superglue to close the rings and you end up ruining your fingertips. @ Ivan Beals, This won't be exhaustive, but here is the short version. Just pick an inner/outer ratio close to what you would see in regular costume rings. 5/16th or 3/8ths of an inch inside diameter is probably good. Regarding cutting, there are two parts to it. First, you need to cut a line down the center to open the rings into butted rings. You can make a simple jig with a dremel with a thin cutoff wheel mounted at a right angle to another tube that the PVC then passes through. To make the rings a little easier to assemble, you can angle the dremel so that you get a cut that looks like this --> // as opposed to || into the wall of the PVC. Second, you need to cut the ring to thickness. The thickness should be about the same as the thickness of the PVC, maybe a little thinner so that it lies flatter. The best tool for this is a pneumatic cutter, but most people don't have access to something like this, so the next best is some sort of saw mounted that distance away from a guide so you can cut ring after ring to the set thickness. This could be a jigsaw, a bandsaw, a circular saw, whatever. The thing to remember is that a thicker blade will last longer and likely make a straighter cut, but a thinner blade will waste less PVC. The best balance is probably a small bandsaw with a quarter inch blade. The next thing you will want to do is debur the pieces. Cutting will leave some melted plastic at the edges and a small knife can remove this easily. My final bit of advice is that you only need to cut the lengthwise cut on every other piece of PVC because when making Euro 4-in-1, half the rings can be solid. This cuts down on the gluing and speeds things up significantly. >P.S. Sorry for the wall of text.

My2CentsWorth1 Most excellent, thank you!

Thats so cool!

Alyathaean Yea it's called string mail and it's used in lower budget films, particularly shot from a distance so that the armour can still resemble chain mail on screen.

To keep Acrylic paint from sticking to itself, once its dry, dust it with baby powder and that will take care of the stickiness.

Or get plastic netting and use plastic primer and silver paint

I was going to use spray paint! Thank you, you saved me from a lot of heartache!

i highly recommend if you want them to look like silver just silver coat them with real silver individually not sure how much does it cost in other countries but in my country it dosent cost that much :P what i mean is go to a silver smith/gold smith and ask how much does it cost to coat them with silver! ^^

oh lol xDDDD nvm i just woke up and read your comment has nothing to do with metal chainmail xD oh well :D

IT DOES

NICE!!!

That sounds awesome!

Hey hope im not too late... I too was looking for a long time. " Anti-slip rug pad" on Amazon or Ebay! Happy Cosplaying!~ :D

use rings to interlock them it works better.

This stuff just happened to come in brown. It comes in several colors.

a good idea, but expensive

Cloud Nucleus Like $100. On the plus side, it'll be something you can have for a while.

Ive seen that too!! It looks pretty cool.

Definitely wanna check out your rubber mesh idea however! Hope your channel keeps growing, keep it up dude:)

Ruffles Gaming can use silver to add battle damage

u ok

relatuonship???