Tailoring my maille.

[Ian]

There's still plenty of elbow room in there if you want to taper the elbow and upper arm a little bit.  You can still taper the upper arm and avoid the armpit area if you're worried about that.  Also, don't worry about your biceps becoming too big for that hauberk.  You'd quite literally need to have world-class biceps and triceps (triceps actually make up 2/3 of the mass of your arms) that are Mr. Olympia worthy for you not to fit in that.  And if you want to become an IFBB pro body builder, you're many years, and many steroid injections away from worrying about not fitting in your hauberk sleeves   With the elbow, bend your arm all the way, is it pulling tight at the elbow?  If there's still room in there, you've got room to taper, which I suspect you do.

Even with the tapering you've done, it looks a thousand times better than the standard tube sleeves.  It looks really good with the helm and mace as well!

[Sir James A]

Yep, looking good so far.

[Sir Ulrich]

Finished the right arm today, quite frankly the easiest way to tailor maille is to add the rings WHILE you cut them and seal up the seam as you go along. I just used riveted links that I cut butted together for now, I eventually plan to add riveted links which I bought from KOA. I kept the elbow a little baggy for mobility and it looks a lot better than it did previously. I am surprised I got this all done in an hour, I must have a talent for speed weaving maille.

[SirNathanQ]

Looks good, keep it up, and your hauberk will be in good shape soon!

[Ian]

Really nice job. I'm glad you decided to taper the upper arm too, it looks very good!

[Sir Brian]

That is coming along very nicely! Halfway there!

[Lord Dane]

Looks good.

[Sir Ulrich]

Worked on the other arm, it's not fully done the same way as the other one on the top cause I left a little extra to make sure I still had mobility, I might remove some extra on the left arm to make it more even. Needless to say I worked on this from 6PM to 1AM from scratch and I sealed all the seams of the rings with the rings I cut. When I first put it on there was a butted link I cut that got caught in it and I thought I actually BROKE it for a second by weaving it the wrong way, needless to say I just took pliers and stuck them to my arm and PULLED out the stray ring which was causing it to bunch up. My brother was watching me the whole time and he said it reminded him of the T-800 when he was doing the arm surgery scene in the first terminator film which gave me a good laugh. Still how much should I remove from the left arm now? I know it isnt even enough for me to be satisfied with my extreme OCD, of course the right arm looks smaller than it is due to the lighting.

[Lord Dane]

You might have to do my maille legs. That looks great!!!

[Sir Edward]

It's looking great! Good job so far!

[Ian]

Sir Ulrich, it took a long time to convince you to do this, and I hope you see now that it was well worth it, because your hauberk looks a thousand times better, and I bet it feels a thousand times better as well.

[Sir Wolf]

very nice man. can't wait to see that and your new coat of plates over it

[Sir Ulrich]

Finished tailoring it today

It feels a lot better on me not like a liposuction patient anymore. Now I still have to replace the butted links with riveted ones once my tool with more leverage comes cause my old one doesnt have enough to rivet the rather thick links I got. Now just to somehow attach my chausses to my C belt, as I wont be getting my pourpoint in time for the faire to meet my friend. Prolly will have it by Days of Knights 2.0 though.

[Sir James A]

Now just to somehow attach my chausses to my C belt, as I wont be getting my pourpoint in time for the faire to meet my friend. Prolly will have it by Days of Knights 2.0 though.

Leather tab and some simple lace, have a pic of it here, last picture:

http://james-anderson-iii.com/tutorials/pages/pointing-leg-armor/

You can also do an "X" lace, but the two-hole works fine (same way as done with plate legs)

[Sir Ulrich]

I got tie in the back ones which are a bit harder to put on, I usually just lace the leather between the rings and let it hang that way.
I am still debating on if I should cut a horseman's slit in my hauberk, I mean I am skinny enough to the point where I can sit down FINE without one but I want to look period so I'm thinking of cutting one...