A handy chart for choosing metals for jewelry making.

My “day job” may be flying helicopters, but I moonlight as a jewelry artist. I’m constantly looking for reference materials to help me choose the right tools and materials for making jewelry. I find charts extremely handy since I can print them out and attach them to a wall beside my jewelry making bench in my shop. No need to rely on my memory since the chart is right there.

I stumbled upon one on the Rio Grande website recently. It was almost what I needed. I modified it to add information I needed and remove metals I don’t work with. (I only work with sterling, Argentium, and Fine silver and copper.) Here’s the result:

Table of metal gauges. “NR” means not recommended.

You can download a copy in PDF format from my public Dropbox.

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