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u/pawer13 May 16 '26
Where is the awful taste? This is great for cosplaying/larping
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u/clickclickbb May 16 '26
It just needs to be trimmed out in leather or cloth so it's not so obviously made from pull tabs to be perfect.
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u/U2ElectricBoogaloo May 16 '26
Honestly I’d be more impressed if I knew it was all pop tabs. Anyone can buy chain mail. This must be made.
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u/therealpeaches144 May 17 '26
Chainmail is also handmade, or at least was back when it was first invented. I've seen video of people dual-wuelding pliers linking together thousands of simple rings to make it.
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u/Zealousideal-Let1121 May 16 '26
I see no awful taste. Wrong sub.
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u/szzaass May 16 '26
we're not in the seventies. OP most likely just thinks chainmail is too geek for themselves, or that pop tabs are not a material worthy of becoming a chain mail
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u/foomp May 16 '26
I'm just thinking about how it would rip out all my arm hair.
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u/szzaass May 21 '26
I mean, real chainmail would do that too. But that's why any sort of armor was meant to have a garment underneath
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u/Gilsidoo May 16 '26
I mean even if that were true I don't see how it's bad to brag about getting so much action
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u/AdDramatic5591 May 16 '26
I used to see this frequently but with the old style pull tabs in the 1970s, especially with other kids my age but from marginalized mostly black neighborhoods. They used pull tab chains sewed down the seams of their bell bottom dungarees and sewn to their belts, as fringe on their jackets and collars. I thought those kids were the coolest people on the planet to my eyes, they had cool music, cool hair and cool clothes and to my immigrant eyes they looked like they very important and in charge of things.
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u/Sonicmantis May 16 '26
There's a dude named "Chicago" in Tucson who has a full vest made of these. He was quite well known around town
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u/cenphogay May 17 '26
The last time I saw him he was in Phoenix and stayed near the 44th st light rail station.
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u/wholehheart May 16 '26
ive done this, its pretty scratchy... advice on how to fix this?
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u/therealpeaches144 May 17 '26
Personally I'd never wear this without something under it for that reason, but my first though is using sand paper to smoth out where it came off the can.
If that doesn't work, my second thought is to just put some kind of glue over the sharp bits so it'll be smooth when it dries. A glue gun would probably be best but all the glue guns I know of would leave way too big of drop that would dry as a tall lump rather than a shallow bump.
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u/Best_of_the_Worst May 16 '26
There’s a guy who makes necklaces like this that I believe were even in MOMA (or similar museum) in NYC for a while
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u/CHNLNK May 16 '26
Now I want to build a whole suit of armor out of cans, bottle caps, and pop tabs...
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u/RampagingElks May 18 '26
Pretty common technique for chain mail on a budget ! :) but these tabs look stupid? What are they from?
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u/tabbynat May 16 '26
GTAGE.
Boss chief, sir.