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Shoulder Armorby ~Mannik

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My first armor, made of a mix of large scales and 14 gauge 3/8" rings in the European Four in One weave. I wanted to make it mostly scale, but I ran out real quick, and decided to do the rest in European 4-1. This piece, which took me three days to finish, ended up exhausting my stores of both aluminum scales, and 14 gauge bright aluminum wire. I need more scales and wire now...

~BronyMuffin Sep 10, 2011 Hobbyist General Artist

Sweet!!

~Tarnum872 May 5, 2011

now that is cool

*the-mirror-melts May 11, 2010 Hobbyist Artisan Crafter

very cool.

~Mannik May 11, 2010

Thank ye kindly.

~Gwendolena Apr 29, 2010

Nice piece of armor! I'm also doing chainmail but not in aluminium, in steel. Reeeaalllyyy like those scales!Where did you get them?Shop?Handmade?

~Mannik Apr 29, 2010

Thank ye kindly. I'm mainly working in aluminum because it's just for show, so it being nice and light is a plus, and it's nice an' shiny too.

They sell them at [link]
They have a lot of various maille-crafting stuff there, from wire, coils, and cut rings to clasps, different varieties of scales, and so on. A great store. I usually go to them for materials.

~redfoxgreeneyes13 Apr 11, 2010 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

thats AMAZING you actually made armor and it looks really good. it only took you three days? i bet it would take me for ever to make it im so lazy.

~Mannik Apr 11, 2010

Heh heh. Thanks. It was an intense three days. A whole lot of work went into it each day for those three days. I'm unsure how many hours it took total, but I'm sure it was a while.

*lady-yuna7 Mar 21, 2010

That's so awesome! What metal did you use?

~Mannik Mar 21, 2010

Thank ye kindly. The scales are plain aluminum, the rings are all bright aluminum. Nice and shiny and lightweight, with a lot less of that black rub-off regular aluminum gives off at times. Easy to work, too. I'm not sure how many rings there are in total, but I'm sure it's in the several hundreds.

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