Ear Sweets Earrings

EAR SWEETS

Antique Venetian Glass Millefiori Beads 

18G Hand Crafted Fine Silver (.999) Ear Wires

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My beautiful daughter tried to try these on this morning and experienced difficulty with the larger gauge ear wires - she could not get them into her little ear holes and I suppose there is a strong possibility that most ladies might be a little uncomfortable with 18G (1.0 mm) ear wires, fine silver or not. I had a meeting and discussion with my friend & jeweler guru Rita Telaak ( Eye Candy Gallery ) and upon seeing some of my ear creations with the custom crafted 18G fine silver ear wire she did say that she thought 'most people' would be uncomfortable with that larger gauge ear wire. After some web research I find that the most common gauge for ear wire is 20G (.75 mm) or even 22G (.64 mm) wire (and I already knew that most of the commercial quality ear wires come in that gauge range) although it seems a one millimeter (18G) hole is what is most often shot through the ear to begin with - the hole probably just shrinks a little over time. Nonetheless, as an artist I cannot escape the gravity of my own preferences in that I really like the quality, strength and eye appeal of the 18G fine silver ear wire - and the fine silver won't tarnish as readily as the sterling silver. So what do you think? Of course any of the ear wears that you see in my blog can be re-fitted with standard 20G ear wires.