Description

This dead-soft, 18-karat yellow gold half-round wire offers a flat surface that makes it great for wire-wrapping on flat components and helps makes soldering more effective while presenting a round profile in your designs. This high-karat wire is great for creating loops, links and jump rings that have a flat inner surface. Dead soft wire is easy to bend, shape and hammer; it is an ideal starting point for forming, shaping and wire-wrapping. Keep in mind that hardness is changeable (by annealing or heat-hardening) and is relative among metal types (each temper will feel and handle differently from one metal to another). When finishing your pieces, also keep in mind that the harder the metal is, the brighter a finish it will take.

This yellow gold wire is sold coiled; it can be cut to any length that satisfies the system minimum. Orders must weigh at least 0.01 dwt.; if you click 'Add to Cart' for a quantity less than this, the cart will offer a prompt to let you know what the minimum for this item is.

Ideal for high-end designs and for pieces that are not exposed to a great deal of daily wear and tear, high-karat gold materials are highly workable and deliver a signature deep-yellow color to designs.

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Specifications:

• Country of origin : United States
• Metal type : Gold
• Karat/purity : 18K
• Hardness : Dead soft
• Form : Wire
• Shape : Half-round
• Dimensions : .204" x .102" (5.18 x 2.59mm)
• Length per weight : 0.36 in./dwt
• Weight per length : 2.800 dwt./in.
• Metal color : Yellow

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Catalog page: 2019-2020 Gems and Findings & Display and Packaging Catalog p.19

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