Darkening aluminum chainmaille

Ulrich Halfdan Ulfsson · Sat Oct 02, 2010 6:57 pm

Does anyone know a way to take some of the brightness out of aluminum chain? Love the weight, not crazy about the "hit me here" brightness.

phycowelder · Post by **phycowelder** » Sat Oct 02, 2010 7:05 pm

shake it in a bucket of sand. dulls up really fast.

Angusm0628 · Post by **Angusm0628** » Sat Oct 02, 2010 8:05 pm

Powder coating...It's what I did with mine. Fairly inexpensive too. I got a Haubergeon done for $26 and an aventail for $16.. Just plain ole Black magic which is a flat black .

Ulrich Halfdan Ulfsson · Sat Oct 02, 2010 8:37 pm

Angus, could I see a pic of yours?

Angusm0628 · Post by **Angusm0628** » Sat Oct 02, 2010 8:59 pm

This is about the best pic of all my mail being worn... http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?op=2& ... =502414763

Konstantin the Red · Post by **Konstantin the Red** » Sat Oct 02, 2010 11:50 pm

Link no goodie, Angus. Perhaps you might gank it as a jpg and Img it here?

Angusm0628 · Post by **Angusm0628** » Sun Oct 03, 2010 12:12 am

fixed the link...

chris19d · Post by **chris19d** » Sun Oct 03, 2010 1:17 am

link not fixed.

Mega Zenjirou Yoshi · Post by **Mega Zenjirou Yoshi** » Sun Oct 03, 2010 1:49 am

chris19d wrote:link not fixed.

wanna see!

Sveyn · Post by **Sveyn** » Sun Oct 03, 2010 2:23 am

Link may be good, but privacy setting on facebook too high... instead of taking link from address window of your browser, you must copy the "Share this photo with anyone by sending them this public link:" link at the bottom of the facebook page containing the photo, I think.

Angusm0628 · Post by **Angusm0628** » Sun Oct 03, 2010 6:45 am

Try this one...

http://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.php?pi ... =fbx_album

Sveyn · Post by **Sveyn** » Sun Oct 03, 2010 2:51 pm

that worked as cut n paste (not clickable).. nice looking chain

Ulrich Halfdan Ulfsson · Mon Oct 04, 2010 6:31 am

How does the powdercoating hold up in combat? Do you ever have to get it redone?

Angusm0628 · Post by **Angusm0628** » Mon Oct 04, 2010 6:34 am

Alric of Wiard wrote:How does the powdercoating hold up in combat? Do you ever have to get it redone?

So far it's been doing very well.. Have a couple very small bits where it's rubbed off.. A quick shot of flat black spray paint fixed it... But all in all it has held up better than I actually anticipated..