What to do with a few thousand soda can tabs...

[cheerful_deviant]

Alternate Thread Title: What to do at night when you're all alone and there's nothing on TV.

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Make a Suit of Chainmail Armor From Soda Can Tabs
From Wired How-To Wiki


Make your friends jealous with a suit of custom-fit chainmailHere's a strategy that's sure to help you stand out at your next live action role-playing game, cosplay event or upscale wine tasting -- show up wearing a custom-built suit of armor.

Real armor costs thousands of dollars. But if you want to be the envy of your friends without shelling out big bucks, you can still build your own armor using free (or almost free) materials scavenged from your recycling bin. Specifically, you can build a nimble suit of chainmail using discarded aluminum soda can tabs. You'll need a lot of them, but the results will look tremendously impressive.

Unfortunately, your armor will be for show only -- it may stop gawkers dead in their tracks, but it won't stop arrows.

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[English Lady]

Oooh, very pretty.

 

[only_more_so]

Oooh, very pretty.

Are you talking about the girl or the chainmail? Cuz she's delicious.

 

[glynndah]

I made one of those with the fold-over kind of pop tops when I was in high school.

 

[tickledkitty]

I wonder if you could wear it without the sweater underneath.

 

[3113]

I wonder if you could wear it without the sweater underneath.

Chainmail bikini, just what I was thinking...

http://www.spydacreations.com/images/redtourn3.jpg

 

[English Lady]

Are you talking about the girl or the chainmail? Cuz she's delicious.

Chainmail, I don't fancy girlies

 

[damppanties]

I like. I want one.

 

[oggbashan]

You can buy real chainmail for re-enactments that is better than chainmail worn in medieval times e.g. made from HT steel.


Here

Og

 

[Just-Legal]

Chainmail bikini, just what I was thinking...

http://www.spydacreations.com/images/redtourn3.jpg

For a second I thought that was Kari Byron...

 

[LoquaciousLady]

I knew a guy in college that actually made a full set of "chainmail" armor out of soda tabs. And now you know what pre-seminary students do on weekends.

 

[human_male]

You should hang on to tabs if you've got some. They'll be used for money in the future.

 

[R. Richard]

Real armor costs thousands of dollars. But if you want to be the envy of your friends without shelling out big bucks, you can still build your own armor using free (or almost free) materials scavenged from your recycling bin. Specifically, you can build a nimble suit of chainmail using discarded aluminum soda can tabs. You'll need a lot of them, but the results will look tremendously impressive.

Unfortunately, your armor will be for show only -- it may stop gawkers dead in their tracks, but it won't stop arrows. [/i]

OK, they won't stop arrows. How about slings? They speak of the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. If they will stop slings, we have a partial solution.

 

[only_more_so]

Chainmail bikini, just what I was thinking...

http://www.spydacreations.com/images/redtourn3.jpg

Actually that would be more like scale mail than chain mail. A series of plates connected to a backing rather than a set of interlocking links.

Now this is more like a chain mail bikini. See how it has interlocking links. Of course, it isn't going to be quite as comfy.

http://www.geocities.com/warriorjewelry/0b3c8b50.jpg

BTW they actually still use chainmail these days. They make shark suits from the stuff. The links are small enough that the shark teeth can't penetrate. So rather than having your arm bitten off it just gets crushed.

 

[LoquaciousLady]

Actually that would be more like scale mail than chain mail. A series of plates connected to a backing rather than a set of interlocking links.

Now this is more like a chain mail bikini. See how it has interlocking links. Of course, it isn't going to be quite as comfy.

Thank you for not making me be the geek to say it.

 

[only_more_so]

Thank you for not making me be the geek to say it.

Yeah. I couldn't help it.