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Riveted Maille from Scratch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Related Instructables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
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1. rivet setting tongs
2. ring flattener
3. knock off Whitney punch with a 1/16" bit.
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1. just a little hole ground out. took me about 30 seconds with a rotary tool
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1. jaws are ground flat, and there is a tiny little divot.
2. ignore this, it's for setting wedge rivets and need not concern you for this
instructable.
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1. hunk o steel with appropriately sized hole
2. huge ass brake caliper. the duct tape is just to make it fit a little more snug in
the hole. less wiggle=better
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1. i never make much more than this at a time, after all, they still need to be
flattened and punched.
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1. look at that overlap, beautiful.
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1. look at that overlap, and a bit of black crud on my fingers
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1. one coils worth of rings
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1. start threading....
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1. keep going
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1. hook the ends together
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1. and my stove is WAY to slow
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1. now were talking
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1. and lastly, make sure you put them on something that wont burn so they can
cool off.
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1. Place the ring in the hole
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1. TA DA!! now take it out and repeat as necessary.
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1. you can flatten rings on your thigh, but it stings a bit and you lose a lot of the
hammers force. Instead i recommend putting the anvil on something solid, like a
sturdy workbench, or a ground level floor. just dont hammer on your downstairs
neighbors ceiling late at night. it will most likely piss them off.
2. hold the piston in place and bash it a few times with the hammer
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1. all ready to be punched
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1. ready for assembly
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1. by camera refused to focus. this was the best of the lot
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1. one rivet next to a ring
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1. now were ready to make some maille.
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1. not so centered, but it's in the hole.
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1. grab the rivet with the tongs....
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1. and smoothly squeeze it to peen the rivet
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1. it sould leave a nice dome on one side, this will be the outside of whatever you
choose to make.
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1. and a smooth flat bump on the inside of whatever you're making.
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1. repeat as necessary and you get Maille!
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Comments
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seabee890 says:
armourkris says:
Grolm says:
Rozarius says:
Grolm says:
Awesome thanks for the help i'll definitely start looking into it. ^^
Could you make an instructable for wedge rivets? I checked and there don't seem to be any
armourkris says:
Blacklance says:
AWESOME! What material was the "rivet wire" made out of though? Steel or something softer?
armourkris says:
webenmopher says:
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armourkris says:
I will, I already tried modifying a pair of linesman pliers but that didn't work out too well
Greasetattoo says:
Wow...
GREAT stuff.
You must have a lot of patience...
GREAT job!
JamesTB13 says:
I would like to know why you're trying to make riveted french mustard?
armourkris says:
because it's way better than the non riveted mustard. the rivets add extra iron, and that makes it more healthy, right?
JamesTB13 says:
spenfisher12 says:
i have an old wood stove evry winter i heat the house with it that might make me able to heat over 500 rings at once
Also, the way I put holes in it is actually cheaper then with a punch, i use a scratch awl and a ball pean hammer
armourkris says:
armourkris says:
I dont see any reason why you couldnt, youw ould probably want to use a smaller diameter ring than I;m using here though.
In historic Japanese maille the rings arent actually riveted, they are more like keychain rings, only about 1/4" is or smaller. theringlord.com sells split rings
that would be pretty much perfect for japanese maille and a lot less work than making riveted rings as well if your interested in going that way.
armourkris says:
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okay thanks
PKTraceur says:
Cool!
What is the advantage of using riveted maille over regular maille?
-PKT
armourkris says:
PKTraceur says:
How long would it last against full force wooden sword blows? (My wood is harder than steel, it seems...
armourkris says:
i couldnt give you an exact length of time, but I'll go with a long time.
since i started swapping out my maille over to the riveted rings i haven't had to do any repairs on the new rings in about a year. the ones that did
fail were some of the crappy ones i made when i first started making the stuff.
jimjamaroo says:
does it matter if you use tie wire instead of galvanized steel wire.
armourkris says:
jimjamaroo says:
armourkris says:
Ok, this would be easier to draw, or better yet, show in person, but here goes.
punching a ring removes a small circle of metal, much like a hole punch does on a piece of paper, the punch even works pretty much the same. where as
using a piercing drift would be more like grabbing a nail and using it to poke a hole in the paper. so instead of removing metal it pokes a hole in it and
pushes the extra up around like a bit of a lip. then when you rivet it it all gets compressed into the head of the rivet causing everything to be even more
firmly held together.
jimjamaroo says:
armourkris says:
servion says:
How much does the 1/16 punch costs?
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armourkris says:
The canadian distributor had a $30 minimum order so I spent $33 and got 2 punches and 2 dies shipped to my door.
thats a sweet avatar. you do PK?
servion says:
Speedmite says:
Uggg..... Do you think there is a cheaper way? I really dont want to spend 30 bucks to punch such a small hole...
Drill press?Get a diamond 1/16" bit...Idk...
How long does it take to make an accurate punch?
armourkris says:
Speedmite says:
armourkris says:
Speedmite says:
sgps says:
armourkris says:
skimmo says:
armourkris says:
yep. the riveted rings are about 10x as strong and half the weight.
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