14K Palladium White Gold Round Wire, Dead-Soft

This dead-soft, 14-karat palladium white gold round wire, the bread-&-butter of jewelry making, is ideal for creating components and for a wide variety of techniques. 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. 20-gauge wire is a good all-purpose weight; it is useful for head pins, jump rings, cuff and wire bracelets, neck wires, ear wires, earring posts, rivets. As you know, jewelry wire has as many uses as there are jewelers and designers who use it to achieve their vision; these suggested uses simply represent some of the more common applications of this metal weight. This wire is packaged in coils and 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. Palladium white gold is made with 15% palladium and is nickel-free, ideal for customers in the EU (where nickel content is strictly controlled) and for those who wish to avoid concerns over sensitivities to nickel.

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Gauge: 20 ga., 16 ga., 22 ga., 25 ga., 18 ga.
Form: Wire
Shape: Round
Metal type: Gold
Metal color: White
Karat: 14K
Hardness: Dead-soft
Dimensions: 0.81mm, 1.29mm, 0.64mm, 0.46mm, 1.02mm
Length per weight: 8.33 in./dwt (21.16 cm/dwt), 3.31 in./dwt (8.41 cm/dwt), 14.41 in./dwt (36.60 cm/dwt), 26.50 in./dwt (67.31 cm/dwt), 5.31 in./dwt (13.49 cm/dwt)
Weight per length: 0.120 dwt/in. (0.047 dwt/cm), 0.302 dwt/in. (0.119 dwt/cm), 0.069 dwt/in. (0.027 dwt/cm), 0.038 dwt/in. (0.015 dwt/cm), 0.188 dwt/in. (0.074 dwt/cm)
Thickness: 0.032" (0.81mm), 0.051" (1.3mm), 0.025" (0.64mm), 0.018" (0.46mm), 0.04" (1.02mm)
Country of origin: Canada