Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-31507215-20171018184514/@comment-31507215-20171023225833

Minecraftmage113 wrote: Kickratgames wrote: Minecraftmage113 wrote: Sir Lazuli wrote: That is what I was thinking. Solid metal and items with metal tips (spears, swords) but not chain mail would need to be heated. Isn't it best to forge the rings of chainmail together? No, I personally have watched chainmail making. Forging it together would make a welded mess of iron. You make chain by taking rings like key rings and locking them together. K, I just remember that they welded the ends of the rings together in eragon for making it. (essentially there are ringlets that are a length of steel/iron wire wrapped into a ring shape, they would heat the ends, slip it onto the mail so far, and hammer the ends of the ring together) I looked into this, and it appears that this can be done through welding, but there was no mention of doing it in such a fashion in ancient times. I would imagine that that would be much more like soldering than how you would forge any other kind of armor.