New shipment of riveted maille just arrived!

Steve S. · Post by **Steve S.** » Fri Oct 19, 2001 8:55 am

Hi folks!

[img]http://www.forth-armoury.com/Product_Catalog/shirts/hauberk5.jpg[/img]

I just got another shipment of riveted maille shirts in yesterday - it looks <u>excellent</u>. They really seem to have the riveting down well.

These shirts contain nearly 25,000 rings, each of them riveted with wedge rivets in the European style. They are made of fully flattened 18GA mild steel wire, with a 3/8" ID. The shirts weigh a mere 18 pounds!

These are "large" shirts - they have a stretched-tight torso circumferance of ~70", which fits a man with a 50" chest wearing a gambeson just fine. I can tailor them smaller if you like.

I'm selling these shirts for $1195, plus shipping.

For more information, plus ordering info, please see:
http://www.forth-armoury.com/Product_Catalog/riveted_maille_armour.htm

Steve

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Forth Armoury
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Post by JT » Fri Oct 19, 2001 9:55 am

This should be in the Classified/WantAds forum....

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Prince Of Darkmoor · Post by **Prince Of Darkmoor** » Fri Oct 19, 2001 11:00 am

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">These are "large" shirts - they have a stretched-tight torso circumferance of ~70", which fits a man with a 50" chest wearing a gambeson just fine. I can tailor them smaller if you like.</font>

Whoa! Damn, I gotta start pinching my pennies. The shirt I am working on is 63" around the chest and its fits me superbly. The 70"er would be even better.

I've got my own riveted maille tools, but the temptation to just buy some isn't helping my checkbook any...

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Vladimir · Post by **Vladimir** » Fri Oct 19, 2001 4:06 pm

I saw one at pennsic. They look great. I just wish I had 1200 to spare. But then even if I did I need to get a new car first.

Steve S. · Post by **Steve S.** » Mon Oct 22, 2001 2:23 pm

I'm very pleased with this shipment. They are striking the rivets very securely. In fact, I washed to shirts last night, and on the first shirt I only found 3 rivets in the rinse bin. That's less than .01% of the 24,000+ rings. On the second shirt there were no rivets in the rinse bucket. You do find the occassional ring in the shirt that is in "backwards" (the rivet point points inwards instead of outwards) but I will cut those out and replace them before shipping to customers.

These shirts are very good - they look like pictures from museum catalogs!

I'm very pleased.

Steve

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Forth Armoury
The Riveted Maille Website!

Shamey · Post by **Shamey** » Mon Oct 22, 2001 8:15 pm

*drool*