"Ken Matassa" <kma### [at] pacbellnet> wrote in message
news:3A7### [at] pacbellnet...
> 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.

    Yep, much faster to make, but more due to the fact that links can now be
made simply by bent wire.  :-)

    As far as stronger, heck no.  The alloys and the such used in the making
of the wire traditionaly used for making the links is put there to make the
wire maleable.  Thats bad when you want it to take a blow, becouse the force
cannot be distributed accross the links, but instead is absorbed by a few
links, usually breaking them..  :-(

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