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The basics of measuring the gauge of non-ferrous (copper, aluminum, etc) wires with a standard AWG wire gage (sometimes, confusingly, called a "wire gauge"). Ensuring you're using the right size wire for the job is important, and this tool makes that easy.

While this video is from an electrical wire perspective, this same scale is also used for the wire in jewelry making.

A follow-up to this video is here:    • Wire Gauges pt 2 - Different gauge standar...  

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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:01 Demo
01:54 Anatomy
02:40 Some caveats
05:20 Measuring stranded wire
07:55 "Aught"
08:28 Even number gauges
09:30 Materials
10:00 Another caveat about making sure you get the right scale gauge tool
11:30 Outro