{"id":2655,"date":"2017-02-14T23:08:42","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T07:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/?p=2655"},"modified":"2017-02-14T23:08:42","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T07:08:42","slug":"chain-mail-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/?p=2655","title":{"rendered":"Chain Mail Experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Medieval armor is an interesting subject, and while I don&#8217;t have much interest in acquiring any or joining in for any re-enactments, I was curious about how it is made, and what it behaves like.<\/p>\n<p>With a bit of scrap galvanized wire I had laying around, I took a bit of time one evening to wrap it into a spring on my lathe, cut it into rings, and then form the rings into a small chunk of chain mail.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_4848.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2656\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_4848-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_4848-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_4848-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_4848-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_4849.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2657\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_4849-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_4849-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_4849-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_4849-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty pleased with the results. It&#8217;s a neat bit of material that came out, albeit very time consuming to produce.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_4850.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2658\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_4850-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_4850-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_4850-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_4850-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_4851.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2659\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_4851-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_4851-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_4851-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_4851-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/IMG_4851-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medieval armor is an interesting subject, and while I don&#8217;t have much interest in acquiring any or joining in for any re-enactments, I was curious about how it is made, and what it behaves like. With a bit of scrap &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/?p=2655\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2660,"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655\/revisions\/2660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}