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Hi this is Julie with Beadaholique.com and I want to show you how to use
a wire gauge guide
It comes in a protective sleeve. I recommend that you keep it in this because the corners can
actually be quite sharp
so what you have is this disc and along the outside here it shows you the
wire. It goes from zero
all the way up. It goes around onto thirty six. I'm going to show
you gauges from zero to thirty six
and what you want to do is you're wanting them to fit within the slots so
don't worry about the little round spot down here it's the slot right there that
you want your wire to fit into it
and if you flip it over you'll see that it has its corresponding millimeters
over here
so as you can see
thirty to gauge wire is actually point two seven millimeters so that's handy
to know too.
so I'll show you really quickly how this works. I have an eye pin here and a head
pin as well
and if you're like me you tend to store these where you don't put their labels on them so you're always
trying to figure out what they actually are
so with this eye pin right here what you'll do
is you can kind of guess where you might think it might fall. So it went right through the
nineteen. That slides way to easily
go up to twenty, still very easily
go to twenty one and looks pretty much like a perfect fit but I want to double check and try
twenty-two
and it's not going in
that shows that this is a twenty-one gauge
brass eye pin. I'm going to show you with one more. I've got this head pin in gunmetal
I can tell it's a bit thinner I'm going to try the twenty-one, goes right through
that really easily
twenty-two, still going too easy
twenty three
pretty easy, twenty four
I wiggled it so that means it's gonna fit
but I'm guessing it's not going to fit through a twenty five but I'm just going to try it
yep it's not fitting, so this here is going to be a twenty-four gauge gunmetal
head pin
and that's all there is to using a wire gauge guide. It's a very handy tool
and then when you're not using it again just make sure you slip it back into it's
protective sleeve and that's going to protect your fingers