Body Circle Body Jewelry Sizing Chart printable pdf download

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Sizing Chart

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Beads for Rings:

To determine the size of your jewelry, you need to know two things:

3mm

4mm

1) the wire thickness or gauge of your jewelry, usually abbreviated "ga" (see below right)

5mm

6mm

8mm

2) the size, meaning either the length or the inside diameter of your jewelry,

Barbell Balls:

measured in fractions of an inch (see below).

Length

3/8"

5/16"

1/4"

Length for barbells is the distance between the balls.

7/32"

3/16"

5/32"

1/8"

Length

For curved barbells the length is the shortest distance

Inside Diameter

For Barbells up to 6ga.

between the ends, measured straight across.

Standard ball size varies for each type and size of barbell.

Inside Diameter is the width of the inside of the ring or circular barbell

7/8"

3/4"

5/8"

9/16"

1/2"

7/16"

3/8"

5/16"

1/4"

3/16"

Length

Diameter

Metric

4.8mm

6.4mm 7.9mm

9.5mm

11.1mm

12.7mm

14.3mm

15.9mm

19.1mm

22.2mm

25.4mm

Wire Thickness:

14ga

inch and metric equivalents

1/2"

Gauge Inches Millimeters

Gauge

16ga

20ga

0.8mm

.032"

Inside Diameter

3/8"

18ga

1.0mm

12ga

.040"

Some

10ga

5/8"

16ga

1.3mm

.051"

Examples:

1/2"

14ga

1.6mm

.064"

Gauge

8ga

Length

3/8"

12ga

2.1mm

.081"

10ga

2.6mm

6ga

.102"

1/2"

8ga

3.3mm

.128"

6ga .

4.1mm

162"

2ga

Printing This Page

5/8"

4ga .

5.2mm

204"

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0ga

7.9mm

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9.5mm

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Inches and fractions of inches

Metric (millimeters)

1 1/2"

2 1/2"

1 1/4"

10mm

20mm

30mm

40mm

50mm

60mm

70mm

1 3/4"

1/4" 1/2" 3/4"

1/8" 3/8" 5/8" 7/8"

15/16"

1/16"

3/16"

13/16"

5/16" 7/16"

11/16"

9/16"

Body Circle Body Jewelry Sizing Chart

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