Chainmail/scale dice bag complete (also showing my chainmail w/ partial scale shirt)

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WOOH! Awright, I got pics of halfway through and the completed scale dice bag. Man, I must have taken apart and put that entire thing together about 3 or 4 times over the course of creating it, trying to find a good method to make it look like not crap :p

In either case, the pics:


The inside of the dice bag, halfway through:


And here's the outside of it, half-completed (and it looks kinda like a weird galvy flower :p ):


Aaaaand finally, the completed scale dice bag... which also has the potential too look like a weird galvy flower. Note: I "bloated" the complete bag by stuffing it with plastic bags to get it to show more. Looks sorta like a pinecone :p :



Anyhoo... bit of story about it. A while ago, I mentioned making this back when I was still contemplating how to make the shirt. I originally started thinking of possibly a sideways-scale method, but that sucked. I went through a few normal scale contractions and even more custom scale contractions (especially in the top-half) to close the bottom and contract the top. As you can see at the top (sorry about the blurry image btw), I did a 90 degree seam, but did it in a way that makes it more unique. I kinda tapered the scales off at the top instead of doing a full final few rows. Then, I 90 degree'd all of the parts inbetween the tapering. You get the idea.

And for the sake of being interesting (and avoiding the string, soon to be a leather strap, from pulling a ring apart), I king's mailled the top row (which was done every-other ring to avoid bunching), and mobius'd the king's part. King's mobius? Eh, whatever you call it.


And so, we have a round, ball-like scale dice bag. Stats are 14ga (according to Home Depot) galvy, 5/16" ID rings. Not sure of weight since I don't have a weight scale of any sort though. It'd look cool hanging at your side when wearing a full suit though :}

What thinks people?




Yeah, I made the bag with some of the scales I had left. Better pics of all if needed.