11-13-2012, 06:18 PM
When I look at most scale armour I find that the scales appear to have been punched out in a mass production fashion with them all the same size and shape, and as Sutoris maentions the flat strips for putting them together may have been cut from the sheet metal of the scales.
I have a punch that I made many years ago that not only cuts the scales to shape along with the holes punched all in one go but also cuts the flat strips to link them together at the same time, then all I need to do is take a pair of pliers and make these strips into the shape of a paper clip to go through the holes in the scales.
I have a punch that I made many years ago that not only cuts the scales to shape along with the holes punched all in one go but also cuts the flat strips to link them together at the same time, then all I need to do is take a pair of pliers and make these strips into the shape of a paper clip to go through the holes in the scales.
Brian Stobbs