Talk:Body jewelry sizes

When O[...]g leaves off.
Originally: in this article, I wrote (well, I didn't write it, it was from one or the other articles that I pulled this from) that jewelry sizes less than 1⁄2" thick are measured with gauges, and that 1/2" and bigger are in inches. Whelps, yesterday (2012-05-26) happened to find me back at my piercer's shop, and we chatted and I showed her this page's chart; and she said au contraire, for the jewelry she measures for and gets in, the highest gauge they go to is OOg above which she uses fractions-- Namely, for her and for all the other shops in town, they start with fractions right with 7⁄16", even though that's less than 1/2". Then she said that stuff from the UK sometimes in 000g and 0000g (to her apparent annoyance, I sensed)-- and those are more than the 7/16ths mark that is her starting point for fractions.

Anyway, my tidy graphic plan of a straight gauges column down the page to 1/2" and then a clean handover from that column to the fractions of an inch column is out the window, and I'm going to show sizes up to 0000g, interlaced at relevant points with fractions of an inch. Also, she didn't take immediate real notice of the "(~x)" notation to mean "only very vaguely x!", so I'll put in actual "approx", or drop the sort of particularly "forced" fractions when there's gauge close above and below.  Luckily our chart has pleeeennnnnnnnty of spare sideways space.

I'll fill in data from what fractions she uses... which she says is always increments of 16ths (albeit with reducing to 4ths when you can cancel, as with 3/4), so my best-fit fraction of 4/9ths was quite useless, she said. No big crisis, just me pulling more from that Wikimedia PDF: A chart comparing all known wire gauges and having the chart be unavoidably less tidy (as reality often forces things to be).

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