Great idea and question! AWG is American Wire Gauge and SWG is Standard Wire Gauge. Some places use all AWG, some use SWG and some, like us, use a mixture. So for any of our rings, 20g (0.8mm wire diameter) and thinner (so the higher the number the thinner the wire) are measured in AWG. 19g (1.0mm wire diameter) and thicker (the lower the number the thicker the wire) are measured in SWG. When you look at our website, we will give the wire diameter, usually somewhere at the top of the page, like this: Wire OD: 0.08" (2mm = 14g SWG = 12g AWG) - decimal inches, millimeters, then SWG and the generally recognized AWG equivalent (they aren't exactly equal to one another, but it's close enough to not make a huge difference). You can actually skip the SWG and AWG altogether and shop in decimal inches or millimeters. Any reputable chainmaille outfit should give you those numbers. Also, check out our Facebook page - I've done Ring Size Guides for a lot of weaves there, so you know which of our rings you can use for a bunch of different weaves. Look in our photos and there's an album for all the Ring Size Guides. -Jodey, TRL Creative Manager

yep - you can definitely do that. :)

possibly spot weld it. but it leaves a little soot behind, which i wipe but the actual weld spot is darker. not sure of size wire you'd use. but this welder can weld 22 gauge wire easy... as example. i have this welder.

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