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/Ste...-KSA-320&add=n

it works out just over a tenner

size is a bit big but after polishing will be right

[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]

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

[Lou333]

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

[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