07-22-2014, 03:03 AM
Quote:Jeffrey Crean post=357463 Wrote:I made this hamata several years ago. It has alternating butted steel rings and punched steel rings. It has 35,238 rings, including the shoulder doubling, and took about 55 hours. I spun the butted rings from 16 gauge wire on a 6mm steel dowel, and individually cut each one. I had the 6mm punched rings custom made. It now just sits in the corner, looking cool.That is what I'm talking about. It looks a hell of a lot closer to Roman mail than any of the riveted stuff you can buy from India.
If I wanted to make genuine Roman riveted rings myself in order to construct the real Lorica Hamata where would I start?
Dan