Early Chain Mail Cleaning and Restoration

[rand]

Looking for someone experienced to clean early chain mail and replace any missing riveted links.

Thanks for your help in advance,

rand

[Jens Nordlunde]

Hi rand,

The only one I know is Ian Ashdown, but he is living in the French part of Switzerland. There are likely to be others closer to you, but he is the only one I know. Maybe you should try and ask Brian, or how about Don LaRocca, I am sure he would know someone, and that would be in the US.

Jens

[estcrh]

Originally Posted by rand

Looking for someone experienced to clean early chain mail and replace any missing riveted links.

Thanks for your help in advance,

rand

Rand, I recently cleaned a very rusted riveted mail shirt using the electrolytic rust removal process which was not to complicated and worked quite well, other people have used Evapo-Rust and similar products with good results.

Tom Biliter has been making historically patterened mail from Indian riveted links, he has a facebook page, you can post a message there as he knows people with the skills to do repairs.

https://www.facebook.com/historicallypatternedmail