150% shipping?!

[Naaman]

If I were to buy metal rings for making chainmail froma very good site that sells them, it'd cost me $55 to get it in 8-15 buisness days, or $15 and 8 to 12 weeks, and that's the cost for just 1lb of stuff (the 1lb of stuff itself is something like $2.75, so now I'm going the long way and buying wire and handcoiling and cutting it myself. Oh the woes of living far away from the people that do stuff you want to buy

Don't you have a decent hardware store near you?

We used to buy ask them to buy boxes (approx. 5000) of sprung steel split ring washers - with a suitable deposit of course for us then spend a few boring weekends weeks at home with the big stack of DVDs

[RayvenQ]

Don't you have a decent hardware store near you?

We used to buy ask them to buy boxes (approx. 5000) of sprung steel split ring washers - with a suitable deposit of course for us then spend a few boring weekends weeks at home with the big stack of DVDs

The thing about where I wanted to order them from is that, it's kinda their buisness and what they do, making rings to be used in chainmail, and boy do they have some really nice stuff.

Nice idea with the washers, but not really what I'm after. I'm fine doing it the longer way, my dad works in metal work so I can get help and advice for him, I think he's planning on building me some sort of hand roller for the wire.

I'm currently practising using large, plastic curtain rings, just to get the weaving pattern down, which is quite fun to do

[Naaman]

The thing about where I wanted to order them from is that, it's kinda their buisness and what they do, making rings to be used in chainmail, and boy do they have some really nice stuff.

Nice idea with the washers, but not really what I'm after. I'm fine doing it the longer way, my dad works in metal work so I can get help and advice for him, I think he's planning on building me some sort of hand roller for the wire.

A winder is normally just a low geared drill with a stick .

A metal rod is better purely for robustness and you can drill a hole to poke one end of the wire through. So you going the full traditional method? Flattened and riveted?

I'm currently practising using large, plastic curtain rings, just to get the weaving pattern down, which is quite fun to do

It all seems fun when you're only dealing with a few hundred rings, when you've got ten's of thousands of the buggers it's a different matter

I'm glad I moved to 15th Century, the armour is less hassle

[RayvenQ]

A winder is normally just a low geared drill with a stick .

A metal rod is better purely for robustness and you can drill a hole to poke one end of the wire through. So you going the full traditional method? Flattened and riveted?


It all seems fun when you're only dealing with a few hundred rings, when you've got ten's of thousands of the buggers it's a different matter

I'm glad I moved to 15th Century, the armour is less hassle

I'm going to be hand winding it, lengthy I know, but meh I'm prepared to do that and I'll be doing butted mail.

And yeah, the stick inmy case will be a metal rod, in this case, a long bolt, with a hole in one end. I'm sticking to a 4 in one weave as that's the simplest and have also seen a really good method for it.

[Gravekeeper]

Third impression: The whole thing strikes me as being akin drop-shipping a dogsled loaded with pink camo (excuse me, camoo) pants into the barren, frozen wasteland that is Nunavut...

Except that only costs $40. ><

Just shipping my Cintiq from Seattle to Vancouver cost me $100 ( It weighs about 13lbs in box ) if I wanted it in less then two weeks. I went with 3 day shipping in the end....and it took a week anyway because UPS sucks so much ass its not even funny anymore. I've never had a single thing I've shipped with them arrive remotely on time.

But my only other option for International shipping is DHL and they somehow suck even more then UPS.

Meh. =p