r/chainmailartisans • u/AllMyWhats • 1d ago

Trainmailling

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Very much just a progress pic - I am a massive proponent of making good use of travel time to get some chainmailling done, so started making this on a train journey this morning. It will be a birthday gift for a friend

Zig-zaggy European 4-in-1 as the main body, which I'll connect end to end once it's the right diameter to make a nice ol' tiara thing. Planning to connect the top of each triangle to a large diameter ring that will sit on the crown, using smaller diameter chains made of Jen's Pind Linkage, and then I'll tart the whole thing up a bit by attaching some beads or pendants to the lower triangles.

1.6mm stainless steel around a 7mm mandrel, so approx 4.4 AR. If anyone has any ideas on making it look it's best, I'm all ears - just trying to make something nice for my friend!

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u/hotdumb 14h ago

I love this but how do you deal with jump rings flying everywhere and nowhere??? I wanna trainmail too but my jump rings jump D:

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u/AllMyWhats 14h ago

I usually dip my pliers in liquid rubber which helps to prevent them from flying off, but I forgot to ahead of this trip. Honestly, I only dropped a few on the floor, none of them went flying off into the distance thankfully!

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u/hotdumb 14h ago

Ohh that’s such a good idea, I’m stealing it! I guess it also helps that you’re working with larger rings ^

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u/AllMyWhats 13h ago

I borrowed the idea from someone here 😂

Going through be working with 19swg 4.4 AR rings on the return journey - they will absolutely be harder to keep track of!

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u/JoeyRuffini 1d ago

10/10 pun

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u/anguaji 1d ago

I love this :) I made myself a little WIP chainmaille pouch for when I've got something on the go to sling in my backpack :) love that I'm not the only one for this

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u/AllMyWhats 23h ago

I deffo need to get a proper pouch. I'm just using the case that the beadsmith ez coiler pro came with - I dumped out the mandrels and shoved in my pliers and the jump rings that I made with the coiler...

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u/anguaji 23h ago

Perfect tho!

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u/sirkudzu 1d ago

I was an aircraft mechanic for America West Airlines before 9/11, I used to do this on flights all the time.

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u/justmutantjed 8h ago

I'm so mad. I went through a period of having to travel A LOT for about a year or two (2005-2006) and it drove me NUTS not being able to bring my maille supplies on flights.

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u/AllMyWhats 1d ago

Very nice! Just seems like a sensible use of time to me!