deborah ..I use all kinds of size wire. From 18 gauge to 24 gauge. The 18 to 20 gauge works good for making wire shapes that I use as focal points in the jewelry. The 20 and 22 is nice for wire wrapping. You might pick up different size ones and see which you like better. It will depend on what you like to use. Remeber the higher the number in guage --the thinner the wire. If you are doing a bigger and heavier stone --you the thickest wire ( lower # guage ) that you like to work with. The brown wire is a plastic coated wire. You will see that in alot of the wire that is sold for jewelry. The black and gold wire is a paint coated wire and you have to be careful not to knick the paint off it when you are bending it.
Wow I give you a lot of credit. Those are beautiful!!!! Great job!!!
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Just had to show the other ones i made last few days ... this is the one that remended me of a door to maybe a hobbit or gnome house :P These arent polished. I have spreayed several coats of craft sealer on them to add a gloss.
You can see more detail on my blog of them... this second one looks like a hwk to me. It is actually 3d also. all 3 of these peices are of petrified wood. The first two are from ranchmamas cattle ranch and the hawk one I had gotten with some stones on ebay a year or so ago. It is a texas piece of petrified wood.
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Posted - Dec 27 2008 : 03:18:58 AM
this is the one that remended me of a door to maybe a hobbit or gnome house :P These arent polished. I have spreayed several coats of craft sealer on them to add a gloss. 
this second one looks like a hwk to me. It is actually 3d also. all 3 of these peices are of petrified wood. The first two are from ranchmamas cattle ranch and the hawk one I had gotten with some stones on ebay a year or so ago. It is a texas piece of petrified wood.