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Q: Why does gauge size go up when actual size goes down?
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Is a 16 gauge the same as a regular earring?

No. The common, plain old, earring size is almost always 22 Gauge. 16 Gauge is just a bit smaller than the common piercing size of 14 Gauge. The size chart goes down in increments of two from 22 usually down into the negatives of 00 gauge, and then breaks down into diameters.


Can you adjust a 14 st gauge knitting pattern to a 12 st gauge by changing the size of needles used - up or down a size?

If you want to go from a 14st gauge to a 12st gauge, you need larger sizes needles.


Is a pencil a size 0 gauge size?

No, a pencil is not a size 0 gauge size but a 4 gauge.


What size gauge is a pencil?

The size gauge that can be compared to tat of a pencil is a 4 gauge.


What is the biggest size you can gauge your ears?

the biggest size you can gauge your ears is as big as you can make it with out snapping your ear. gauge size goes from: 18,16,14,12,10,8,6,4,2,0,00,7/16,1/2,9/16,5/8,11/16,3/4,13/16,7/8,15/16,1" and so on. It is really endless in stretching, but take your time. and clinical studies have proven tat in 98% of the time your ear will heal as long as you don't stretch past double zero gauge size


How much does it hurt to get your ear lobes pierced with 10 gauge rings?

a lot if u want to get size 10 gauge u should get the normal ear piercing size which is a size 20 or 18 gauge and slowly gauge it to a size 10 gauge


Where does shotgun gauge come from?

Think of a lead ball which is the diameter of the inside of the barrel of the shotgun. The gauge of the shotgun is the number of balls that size to make up one pound. 12 balls - 12 gauge 20 balls - 20 gauge 28 balls - 28 gauge Exception - .410 bore is the actual bore diameter


Is the gauge of the needle the bore size?

Yes, the larger the gauge the smaller the needle size.


How big is 6 gauge wire?

The size of the wire is stated by its gauge under American Wire Gauge. Six gauge wire is size 6 AWG.


What does gauge mean in relation to body jewelry?

When talking of body jewelry and piercing, gauge refers to the size of the body jewelry being used. To be specific, gauge size determines the thickness or the width of the jewelry. That portion of the body jewelry, which actually goes inside your skin, is measured in gauge size. For instance, if you were using a barbell for a piercing, then the gauge size would not be the measure of the two balls at the ends of the barbell, but would indicate the thickness of the bar in between the two balls. As the number of the gauge size goes higher, the thickness of the jewelry becomes lesser. Hence, a barbell of gauge size 12 would be thinner than one that was a gauge size 10. 16 gauge size jewelry is considered to be ideal for new piercings. The thicker your jewelry gets, the lower the gauge size will become. Gauge size �0� and �00� are the thickest (00 being thicker than 0). Once some piece of body jewelry exceeds this thickness, it is no longer measured in gauge size but in fractions and full inches. Gauge is particularly important for ear stretching body jewellery. Smaller gauges go up in parts of milimetres (e.g. 1.6mm, 2.0mm, 2.4mm, 3.2mm) and then go up in whole mm's from 4.0mm to 8.0mm. There is then usually a jump to 10mm, then 12, 14, 16, 19 and so on. Expanders are used to increase the gauge of a stretched piercing gradually. PTFE tape can also be used to increase the size of a piece of jewellery gradually. Article about body jewellery size can be found here http://www.redpiranhapiercing.com/blog/what-size-body-jewellery-will-work-your-piercing. Info on gauge and measuring tools for gauge can be found here http://www.redpiranhapiercing.com/useful-info/glossary/g?title=


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