Comments on: Daily Wire Tip March 12: Hole Sizes in Beads http://www.wire-sculpture.com/jewelry-making-blog/1495/finding-the-bead-hole-size/ Making Wire Jewelry and Wire Wrapping Techniques Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:56:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Mush http://www.wire-sculpture.com/jewelry-making-blog/1495/finding-the-bead-hole-size/comment-page-1/#comment-1859 Mush Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:21:10 +0000 http://wire-sculpture.com/jewelry-making-blog/?p=1495#comment-1859 I have tried to collect various sizes of wires at home more to fit the beads I find rather than having the beads fit the wire I'm using. I found the more basic materials I can collect the better I'm prepared for odd bead sizes that I may find. Mush I have tried to collect various sizes of wires at home more to fit the beads I find rather than having the beads fit the wire I’m using. I found the more basic materials I can collect the better I’m prepared for odd bead sizes that I may find.

Mush

]]> By: Cindy Lietz, Polymer Clay Tutor http://www.wire-sculpture.com/jewelry-making-blog/1495/finding-the-bead-hole-size/comment-page-1/#comment-1857 Cindy Lietz, Polymer Clay Tutor Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:45:33 +0000 http://wire-sculpture.com/jewelry-making-blog/?p=1495#comment-1857 That is a great tip! It would be a good idea to have a ring with all the sizes on it and labeled some way. Wouldn't be such a bad idea to include beading wire and cording as well. Would become a very helpful tool! That is a great tip! It would be a good idea to have a ring with all the sizes on it and labeled some way. Wouldn’t be such a bad idea to include beading wire and cording as well. Would become a very helpful tool!

]]> By: julie http://www.wire-sculpture.com/jewelry-making-blog/1495/finding-the-bead-hole-size/comment-page-1/#comment-1855 julie Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:56:23 +0000 http://wire-sculpture.com/jewelry-making-blog/?p=1495#comment-1855 hello! I just wanted to say thank you for the 'wire guage to mm conversion table' you offered in your tip of the day today. much appreciated! julie. hello! I just wanted to say thank you for the ‘wire guage to mm conversion table’ you offered in your tip of the day today. much appreciated! julie.

]]> By: mary http://www.wire-sculpture.com/jewelry-making-blog/1495/finding-the-bead-hole-size/comment-page-1/#comment-1853 mary Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:24:02 +0000 http://wire-sculpture.com/jewelry-making-blog/?p=1495#comment-1853 Carrying that 2 inch piece of wire to a bead show was one of the first things Dale taught us to do. There is nothing more fustrating than falling in love with a strand of beads and discovering that the idea you had for their use won't work because the hole drilled thru the bead is too small for your wire. Carrying that 2 inch piece of wire to a bead show was one of the first things Dale taught us to do. There is nothing more fustrating than falling in love with a strand of beads and discovering that the idea you had for their use won’t work because the hole drilled thru the bead is too small for your wire.

]]> By: Diane http://www.wire-sculpture.com/jewelry-making-blog/1495/finding-the-bead-hole-size/comment-page-1/#comment-1852 Diane Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:57:44 +0000 http://wire-sculpture.com/jewelry-making-blog/?p=1495#comment-1852 Dale's suggestion of carrying a sample of the wire that one intends to use as stringing material along while shopping for beads is an amazingly simple solution, but it is something most of us would forget to do initially, and we would end up with beads that we couldn't use for our intended purpose without changing wire gauge. Good tip! Dale’s suggestion of carrying a sample of the wire that one intends to use as stringing material along while shopping for beads is an amazingly simple solution, but it is something most of us would forget to do initially, and we would end up with beads that we couldn’t use for our intended purpose without changing wire gauge. Good tip!

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