What is the size in millimeters for a 00g?
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Wednesday March 18th, 2009 @ 7:42 AM
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I work for a retail body jewelry company and currently we are having a debate about what the true millimeter size of a 00G is. This debate was spawned by us recently getting new digital calipers.
Those of us who have been with the company for a while, and have experience with stretching consider a 00G to be 10mm, which would roughly be 2mm larger than a 0G. BUT, all of the technical charts that I have managed to dig up online; less maybe two, have listed 00G as a 9.2mm. Could you please help us end this debate.
I would say that it’s fair enough to translate 00ga into 9-and-a-bit millimetres. The fun thing about digital calipers is that you really get to find out how wildly the actual thickness/gauge of your jewellery varies from the expected/listed size, I don’t think ANYTHING is ever spot-on once it’s been well-polished, ha ha! And then G-D help you if you’re looking for exact measurements in glass or organics… 
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I have two stretched piercings in each ear at ‘00g’ so I have a bit of experience with this :p not a lot of bother for well healed piercings… but when buying stuff from a European/metric country, I find they consider 10mm to be 00g, and stuff I buy from America will usually be ‘9-and-a-bit’. I notice Gorilla Glass (and prob other companies) give an option of 9 or 10mm for their ‘00g’ XD I have, for God knows what justification, been called ‘elitist’ or something stupid before on this forum for supporting a standard metric system, but wouldn’t it be simpler?!
Almaxaquotal on March 20th, 2009 at 10:15 amLeave a Comment