Description
8mm Solid Rings: You get 1kg packs of solid chainmail rings punched from sheet metal. They can be used to make strong and lightweight meshes of chainmail. The solid rings can not be interlinked on their own. They need to be combined with riveted rings. Yet the resulting meshes are stronger, weigh less, and are faster to assemble than those of only riveted rings.
What weaves can you make? You can combine these with 8mm Round Rings, 8mm Flat Rings, or 8mm Flat Rings with Wedge Rivets. The resulting meshes are 8mm Round Riveted-Solid, 8mm Flat Riveted-Solid, or 8mm Flat with Wedge Rivets Riveted-Solid. 1kg contains about 2500 rings. For every kg of Solid rings, you will need one kg of riveted rings. That means for a short-sleeved shirt of mail weighing 10kg (22 pounds), you will need about 5kg of solid rings and another 5kg of riveted rings.
How is the quality? We’ll be honest with you: A varying share of about 8% of the punched rings are cut at the edge of the sheet and are thus not perfectly round. However, historic examples tend to be not perfectly round either. So you get the full benefit of working with these rings yourself: You get to determine which rings will be built in and which won’t.
What about historical accuracy? These rings match the dimensions and appearance of some famous historical examples of riveted solid mail. They match museum pieces like the Tofta-Coif from 13th-century Sweden and the Edinburgh Coif from 14th-century Scotland, as well as earlier and later finds. By analysis of the metal structure, it is known that these solid rings were not made from wire but from flattened bits of metal.
These solid rings also fit in size to the rings from the Chainmail Starter Kit.
