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[silverskull39]

same here, if I try the sections thing I tend to lose track of where I'm at somehow because it'll get flipped around if I'm not careful. I can do it, but it's just easier to go in rows or collumns, I think.

[MadocComadrin]

I made some scale maille a few weeks back:

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It's an absolute bastard to make lie flat.

That is really nice.

[Girlinhat]

In other news, I'm thinking about getting a belt to carry my pliers and certain rings in conveniently.  First thought is something like this, which looks fair, but I'd adore something more like this here, except that it's on Etsy for like $80 including shipping.  Though it would do fantastic things to my butt, I don't think I can swing that exactly.  I also thought that I might steal mandate my mother's sewing machine and a bolt of denim and see what horror I could stitch together.  Mainly though I'm looking for open, slender pockets, not pouches.

Thoughts?

[Thief^]

The one from etsy looks fantastic!...

[silverskull39]

I just carry my shit around in an empty coffee can, but I'm horribly disorganized. All the rings are in separate baggies, though, so they don't get all mixed together. The lid makes a nice, albeit small, work area that's plenty big enough for bracelets and some necklaces as long as I don't go over the top. Doesn't really matter since I work at home camped in front of the tv more often than not.

[kisame12794]

I got a little tupperware container for my rings, shove it and my pliers into my pocket, and the thing i'm working on in the other pocket. Thats for everyday, waiting in line sorta thing. If im going away, I pack my rings, coils and pliers in tacklebox, and the project in a box.

[MadocComadrin]

Thoughts?

Well, my first one was that the girl marketing the pouch in the first link has on more of a jacket than a shirt (;3).
But all in all, the latter looks better and better-made.

[Girlinhat]

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Turns out there's not a lot of info on the "Byzantine Chain Sheet" (which sounds like a paradox, it's a chain AND a sheet!)  I call it Byzantine Interwoven Sheet because there's also a way that you could do something similar without having it interwoven.

At core, this is two strings of byzantine put together, but they share rings down the center, and thus are interwoven.  This has a very curious effect, as normally Byzantine is a very tight-AR weave, requiring something around 3-3.5 AR to work correctly, but this is using like 5.3 AR and could actually use greater.  I think 5.5 or 5.7 would give slightly different results, due to the way the rings sometimes touch, which would change if the rings were a different size.  When I made the starting chain for this, I was using 3 connector rings, but once built up, 1 connector works fine because the whole thing changes.  It's less about the ring AR and more about the weave shape.  The pure structure of the weave keeps its shape, so larger rings can work more easily due to the different tension that the sheet-style imposes.

End result?  Very thin rings, loose design, a bit more delicate appearance, but still fairly strong.  This makes for a thoroughly glorious weave and I love it.

OH, and this is a work in progress.  It's currently 2 rows wide, but I intend to make it 3.

[Thief^]

That's cool!

[Aklyon]

Byzantine doesn't require a 3ish AR, I've got 5ish aluminum rings that work fine for it. Looks basically like that, but noninterwoven.

[Blargityblarg]

Hell, I've got 6.9-7 AR rings I can Byzantine. Just needs a little bit of tension so it doesn't flip out.

[kisame12794]

..... I see what you did there.

[Ricky]

With a little inspiration from this thread and boredom, I decided to make a curtain or maille out of soda pop tabs. Its been coming along nicely. I may post the finished product later on. It's just too bad the aluminium tabs are pretty flimsy.

[Girlinhat]

You can work with like 6 AR on byzantine, but at ~3 it gives a gloriously tight weave that has zero flop, it looks fantastic.  At 4+ AR you get a lot of flopping and may need to nudge rings into position.

[forsaken1111]

Just posting this here because people have been discussing scale work off and on. I just saw this on Etsy: http://www.etsy.com/listing/80883852/dungeons-and-dragons-dnd-vanguard

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It looks nice, if a bit gaudy. I can't imagine it costs that much to make for someone used to scale work. I wonder if they get the bags already woven.