It's going to be inaccurate because the wire is larger than they'd use in period, and I don't have the equipment to do rivits. Sadly, such is life--there's nagging little things like rent and food that keep eating up all my income.
Not to say that this is a bad shirt, or that I'm going to do this half-assed; just outlining the parameters of my request here, and letting you know that I'm okay with "It'll work, but it's not 100% Period". Once I get the equipment for rivited maille I'll probably make a new shirt that IS Period, using what I've learned. I like making hauberks. 
The links were cut with bolt cutters, so they have a pinch-cut. Fortunately, the pinch-cut is at a low angle and the ends like up remarkably well; any sewing I do will come out of a few of them, but not all of them by a long shot. And if I use a thick enough thread I doubt any will come out.
That gets to my question. I understand how to make a hauberk. I understand how to make a gambeson, and a tunic. What I don't understand is how to put these three components together in a way that 1) is at least somewhat Period, 2) holds up to use (not necessarily fighting, though I will of course try it on a list field to see how it works; this is mostly just me challenging myself because I have the opportunity), and 3) looks good. Right now my idea is to sew the gambeson and tunic a bit big, put the hauberk between them, and stitch the two cloth bits together around the edges (it'll probably be more, stitching around the edges to a certain point, putting the hauberk in, and turning the whole thing inside out, but you get the idea). Once the edges are sewn in, I can go back and stitch every other link on every other row so it attaches to the padding and the tunic. I can probably think of some decrative and suitably Period way to hide the stitches--some button or something. Alternatively, I can simply whip-stitch every row or every other row onto the padding and tunic (again, with a suitable way to hide it--probably some sort of brokade or ribbon). Or I can let the hauberk float (though this runs the risk of the hauberk floating in bad directions at inopportune times, which knights have a remarkable ability to see and take advantage of).
Has anyone here made one of these? Got any advice for how to do it? I understand it's going to be a lot of work. And I'm okay with that--anything worth doing is worth taking the time to do well.
