A cool side-project

[[NH]Shadow]

Sup,
Thought I'd show y'all a little bit about what I do for fun...
I build chain maille armor, and other chain maille objects. (And my apologies, the purpose of this topic is not to try to sell my crap, it's for educational purposes only)
This is my current project: a chain maille bullwhip. It's currently just under 3 feet long, and I just started it (and learned the weave [pattern] yesterday)

Sorry for the relatively low quality of the image....
I'm building it in three parts: the body, the end of the whip, and the handle. The whip will not be crack-able, since, to cause the whip to crack, the end must have a cracker (sorry, that's a technical term, not trying to sound racist ), and the whip (and the cracker) must travel past the speed of sound. The rings in the whip, which are 3/8 inch 14 gauge aluminum, cannot handle the stress of rapid acceleration/deceleration, and would fly apart rather quickly. This is a close-up of the rings:

"+1" if you think it's cool.

[haasd0gg]

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[[NH]Shadow]

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Lol, sorry. Those images are already outdated. I've added about 3 feet since then:

[[NH]Mr.Yankovic]

Sup,
Thought I'd show y'all a little bit about what I do for fun...
I build chain maille armor, and other chain maille objects. (And my apologies, the purpose of this topic is not to try to sell my crap, it's for educational purposes only)
This is my current project: a chain maille bullwhip. It's currently just under 3 feet long, and I just started it (and learned the weave [pattern] yesterday)

Sorry for the relatively low quality of the image....
I'm building it in three parts: the body, the end of the whip, and the handle. The whip will not be crack-able, since, to cause the whip to crack, the end must have a cracker (sorry, that's a technical term, not trying to sound racist ), and the whip (and the cracker) must travel past the speed of sound. The rings in the whip, which are 3/8 inch 14 gauge aluminum, cannot handle the stress of rapid acceleration/deceleration, and would fly apart rather quickly. This is a close-up of the rings:

"+1" if you think it's cool.

Shadow, You wants some leather strips to make crackers?

[[NH]Shadow]

I'm not maing a cracker for it. The rings won't be able to handle the acceleration/deceleration of cracking.

[CommanderOtto]

wow...

do you know how to smith swords too? I think that if you could add images of that, that would be awesome I love the format of Rapiers because they are so thin and elegant. If i'm correct, they were invented by the spanish as Espada de Ropa and then it became popular throughout europe.

that reminds me so much of the original series El Zorro. Very old program that is very popular in south america.

[[NH]Shadow]

wow...

do you know how to smith swords too? I think that if you could add images of that, that would be awesome I love the format of Rapiers because they are so thin and elegant. If i'm correct, they were invented by the spanish as Espada de Ropa and then it became popular throughout europe.

that reminds me so much of the original series El Zorro. Very old program that is very popular in south america.

I don't know how to smith swords yet, but that is something that I'm interested in learning...one of the chain maille shirts that I made had a brass cross on the front, it's pretty cool...I'll post pics of it later.
300th post

[mrjamwin]

Can you make a chain mail g-string for me? It's going to be a Christmas gift for Haas. Don't tell him ok!

[[NH]Shadow]

Can you make a chain mail g-string for me? It's going to be a Christmas gift for Haas. Don't tell him ok!

[haasd0gg]

I got a drawer full already