Thanks all,
I can do chain mail, but I only butt the rings, no riveting for this guy! Too darned much work. Unfortunately, 18B, I only make the stuff for myself. It takes so darned long to do and it's all fitted to my odd proportions (two heads, three feet, six fingers and two thumbs on each hand, you know typical art teacher stuff). Museum Replicas sells some pretty nice stuff as do many custom plate makers on the web. Just enter something like 'Medieval Armor Sales' or what ever into a search engine and all sorts of stuff like artorius' link will come up.
Ron
fightinjoe, I know what you mean, I have some students who are the same way! LOL. One student did go 'nosing' around while I was making those things and cut his finger on some of the decorative work on one of the finger lames. When he complained to me, I gave him all the sypmpathy I could muster: "Well, hmmm. Maybe now you'll keep your hands off of other people's work without asking permission."
I'm such a kind, caring, nurturing teacher sometimes.