Complete beginner 🤣

[Lou333]

Hi, this is possibly the most stupid question you’re going to read 🤣
I’d like to make a cuff bracelet 1.5mm thickness, 3mm wide and 16cm long.
When I put the measurements in to buy the Silver sheet it’s coming up as £79.32
Is this right? It seems a lot, surely I could buy a bracelet for less than that? What am I doing wrong??

[CJ57]

Hi Lou, welcome.
Do you mean 3 mm wide or 3 cm for a cuff otherwise you could buy 3mm wire cut to length.
Depends where you are buying a bracelet from and in what country it’s made and silver is very expensive just now but that does seem a lot for 3mm wide

[josef1]

https://www.cooksongold.com/Wire/Sterling-Silver-Rectangular-Wire---3.2mm-X-1.6mm-Fully-Annealed,-100-Recycled-Silver-prcode-KSA-320&add=n

it works out just over a tenner

size is a bit big but after polishing will be right

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[Lou333]

Yes 3mm sheet. It just seems really expensive! I thought maybe I was putting the measurements in wrong?

[Lou333]

How can the wire be that much cheaper than the same size but in sheet format?

[josef1]

cutting sheet 3mm wide would be a pain I imagine not really sure but it does seem very expensive your right

[CJ57]

How can the wire be that much cheaper than the same size but in sheet format?

I got £8.22 for sheet so cheaper per gram because of the processing costs of wire I would imagine

[Lou333]

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That’s what I’m getting! What am I doing wrong?

[CJ57]

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That’s what I’m getting! What am I doing wrong?

Your image is blurred so I can’t see what measurements you’re putting in but have you checked they both say mm?

[Lou333]

I think it must be a glitch or probably something I was doing as now it’s coming up at £8.22 ��
Just out of interest how wide would you buy to make a nice chunky cuff?
Absolutely love your work ��

[CJ57]

I think it must be a glitch or probably something I was doing as now it’s coming up at £8.22 ��
Just out of interest how wide would you buy to make a nice chunky cuff?
Absolutely love your work ��

Thanks Lou! I wouldn’t call it a cuff under 3/4in to 1 ins, sorry I’d need to get the ruler out for mm. I suppose I have done perhaps 2 or 3 ins, depends who you are making for and how it sits on a wrist. I’d make them thinner if wider or it’s too heavy. I’ve only ever made one that fits me and it was wide and oval. I think wrists are funny things and always like customers to try them on. I’ve stopped making them for the moment but I do like the hammering part!

[Dennis]

Hi folks,
I dont know how you are doing your screenshots, but they are giving me vertigo.
Here they are again, hopefully more in focus.

Yes, wire is more expensive than sheet, always has been. If I were making it, I would go for 10-12mm in width.
Might not qualify as a cuff, but would be comfy to wear Dennis.

[CJ57]

Hi folks,
I dont know how you are doing your screenshots, but they are giving me vertigo.
Here they are again, hopefully more in focus.

Yes, wire is more expensive than sheet, always has been. If I were making it, I would go for 10-12mm in width.
Might not qualify as a cuff, but would be comfy to wear Dennis.

Gosh Dennis you must know by now that women don’t go for comfort but style even if it hurts! I’ve still got 2 sets of thin ones and I have to wear them all together because I’m the only one they seem to fit now

[Dennis]

Ha ha, I'll take your word for it Caroline, as I dont wear them myself, even for me rheumatics.

[CJ57]

Ha ha, I'll take your word for it Caroline, as I dont wear them myself, even for me rheumatics.

I’m always getting complaints about there being nothing for men at my shows but the only men I know who wear jewellery are old hippies!

[theresa]

I've made loads of cuffs, varying in size from 25mm wide to 40mm and use 0.70mm thick. Anticlastic shaping mostly. I have sometimes used other thicknesses up to 1mm.

[jay-ell]

For sheet wire to get close to the same price (£78.29 inc vat) I have to enter 30mm wide so you may be adding a 0 in somewhere. for cut sheet 1.5mm thick, 3mm wide and 160mm long I get £8.11

For 1.6mm by 3.2mm wire 160mm long I get £10.26