My chainmaille kit

Shown at long last



My original chainmailling kit, labelled with barely readable painters tape squares, sitting on a wooden table.
It began as you see to the right. From nearly when I began chainmailling, I needed a way of organizing my rings, and found this nuts and bolts organizer, the contents of which were embarrasingly summarily discarded. I then proceeded to carve away the rightmost pockets to fit the pliers as seen through the lid, and hastily labelled the slots for my various stainless steel and titanium rings, and the other slots were more or less filled as necessity dictated.

It eventually became a horrible mess, not so much the rings, but the charms, bits, random ring pile, and other slots, there was little to no organization. And the labels eventually became almost entirely unreadable. It was time for an upgrade.
Our original chainmailling kit, a large multi slot organizer with 47 pockets, labelled with nearly unreadable pen on painters tape squares, and the rightmost pockets combined together to allow pliers to fit inside.
Obtained and labelled in mid 2026, I bought these two cases, that if not the same brand (Stalwart), was certainly inspired by the original (no fathomable what brand it was). So we bought two of the smaller cases (I could also have gotten a larger one literally identical to my original, with black plastic, but then I'd have to carve out the tool slots again).

And so we labelled all of the slots, and this time covered the labels in clear tape to keep them read able, and even separated out the steel, titanium, and aluminium with different pen colours! As well, being in England now, we put both AWG and European metric sizes for each to make purchasing rings easier. Decent.
On a wooden table, two smaller cases with fourteen pockets each, labelled with blue, black, or red ink to indicate stainless steel, titanium, or aluminium rings, as well as their sizes in american wire gauge and metric sizes.
The reorganization and re-labelling of this case to follow. The original case photo, with text saying to be converted into my scale organizer overtop.


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