"Jamie Davison" <jam### [at] dh70qdu-netcom> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 20:52:09 -0800, Ken Matassa wrote...
> > Looks like standard SCA type cut-from-springs mail. The real stuff was
> > typicaly flatended at both ends of each link, then drilled and rivited
> > together. The SCA stuff is a lot faster to make, and probubly much
> > stronger than the iron wire used in the Middle Ages.
> I found somewhere (I've lost the link) online a page comparing riveted
> versus twisted link mail.  I think they hit a dummy wearing the two types
> with a sword of some description.  With the riveted mail, some of the
> links bent a bit, but the structure stayed together, but with the twisted
> link mail, several links just sprung open, and left big holes in the
> mesh.
> I found the page a few years ago when I was looking for basic directions
> on knitting mail so it may or may not still be out there.

    Several dozen sites out there, both for riveted and cut chain.  :-)
I've made some, and your right.  The problem is, with nonriveted mail, there
can be no transference of force accross the links.  The force cannot
disapate accross the links, and hence, a few links take full force.  :-)

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