Chain Maille Jewelry Wire Sizes For Jewelry Making
Gold, platinum, sterling silver, argentium silver, brass, bronze jewelry wire is now available for turning into rings.
Aluminium and titanium, copper and niobium (non allergenic) are also available in a wide range of anodized or colored rings. Wire comes in different shapes and sizes (gauges), ranging from round to triangular, square to half round.
Traditionally round wire has been used to produce the rings for chain maille; however, there are now rings on the market using square, diamond, twisted and half round shapes to great effect.
The chart below sets out the wire gauges used in the US and UK including metric measurements, the bigger the gauge the thinner the wire.
AWG in.
| AWG mm
| Gauge
| SWG in.
| SWG mm
| 0.102
| 2.59
| 10
| 0.128
| 3.25
| 0.091
| 2.31
| 11
| 0.116
| 2.95
| 0.081
| 2.06
| 12
| 0.104
| 2.64
| 0.072
| 1.83
| 13
| 0.092
| 2.34
| 0.064
| 1.63
| 14
| 0.080
| 2.03
| 0.057
| 1.45
| 15
| 0.072
| 1.83
| 0.051
| 1.30
| 16
| 0.064
| 1.63
| 0.045
| 1.14
| 17
| 0.056
| 1.42
| 0.040
| 1.02
| 18
| 0.048
| 1.22
| 0.036
| 0.914
| 19
| 0.040
| 1.02
| 0.032
| 0.813
| 20
| 0.036
| 0.914
| 0.029
| 0.737
| 21
| 0.032
| 0.813
| 0.025
| 0.635
| 22
| 0.028
| 0.711
| 0.023
| 0.584
| 23
| 0.024
| 0.610
| 0.020
| 0.508
| 24
| 0.022
| 0.559
| 0.018
| 0.457
| 25
| 0.020
| 0.508
| 0.016
| 0.406
| 26
| 0.018
| 0.457
|
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