I am a fresh new Piercer that just got licensed in my state, and I am now looking for a job in a studio with anybody...I do not have any portfolio's yet other than the Piercings I've done to myself which include my ears and plus the gauging of my ears due to I own my own tapers and equipment to do my own piercings,plus I pierced my nipple which I have also been gauging it out....I have been around tattoo studios for about 7 years now cause I have been going to them to get tattoo work done and as of right now I have both my arms tattood......IF ANYONE HAS ANY KIND OF WORK FOR ME THEN PLEASE E-MAIL ME AND LET ME KNOW......
THANK YOU
JASON MORGAN
Fresh new Piercer looking for a job with anyone
4 messages ยท last activity 2/16/2006
what state are u in
I am in MICHIGAN....
gaugeed your ears? do you mean stretched? you cant gauge an earlobe.. how the heck did you get a license?
Body jewelry and needles tend to be identified by their gauge, using the Browne&Sharpe gauge system, at least in North America (many other regions simply use metric sizing). The larger the gauge, the smaller the diameter.
Body jewelry is measured using calipers, a micrometer, or a gauge wheel by its outer diameter. Needles, in the medical sense (including play piercing needles), are measured by the inner diameter of the tube (so a 16ga needle will actually have an outer diameter of about 14ga), whereas piercing needles are always measured by their outer diameter (confused yet?)
The body jewelry industry uses mostly even gauges (although odd gauges are seen from time to time, usually when non-North American jewelry is being imported) between 18 and 00ga (larger sizes are usually referred to by their measured size) โ please note that some of the fractional sizes have been "snapped" to their closest match.Gauge Fractional Size Inches Millimetres
1/32" 0.031" 0.794mm
18ga 0.040" 1.024mm
3/64" 0.047" 1.191mm
16ga 0.051" 1.291mm
14ga 1/16" 0.064" 1.628mm
12ga 5/64" 0.081" 2.053mm
3/32" 0.094" 2.381mm
10ga 1/10" 0.102" 2.588mm
8ga 1/8" 0.128" 3.264mm
5/32" 0.156" 3.969mm
6ga 0.162" 4.115mm
3/16" 0.178" 4.763mm
4ga 13/64" 0.204" 5.189mm
2ga 1/4" 0.258" 6.544mm
0ga 5/16" 0.325" 8.251mm
00ga 0.365" 9.266mm
3/8" 0.375" 9.525mm
000ga 0.410" 10.41mm
7/16" 0.438" 11.11mm
0000ga 15/32" 0.460" 11.68mm
1/2" 0.5" 12.7mm
9/16" 0.563" 14.3mm
5/8" 0.625" 15.9mm
11/16" 0.688" 17.5mm
3/4" 0.75" 19.1mm
13/16" 0.813" 20.6mm
7/8" 0.875" 22.2mm
15/16" 0.9375" 23.8mm
1" 1.0" 25.4mm
Most body piercings are initially performed at between 14ga and 10ga depending on the piercing, but that is far from a hard rule and there are many arguments debating the subject of intial gauge size.
Gauge sizes do exist larger, but past 00ga people tend to use fractional imperial sizing (ie. "half inch").
As far as the gauges of common household objects, below is a (vaugely accurate) list provided by RAB's Lish:
Gauge Objects
16ga thumbtack tip, big safety pin.
14ga metal coat hanger, bike spoke, wire from triangular business clamp.
12ga wire hanger, spaghetti.
10ga round toothpick, q-tip shaft, small bamboo skewer.
8 fire extinguisher pin, #5 crochet hook, small pilot lock, coffee swizzles, ink cartridge.
6ga juice box straw, lightsaber handles from Star Wars lego sets, lightbrite peg, mini-glowstick, Rold Gold pretzel stick, heroin-style medical tubing, round boot lace, lollipop stick.
4ga pilot stylus, large bamboo skewer, chopstick.
2ga drinking straw, power cord for N64, Bic automatic pencil, crayola colored pencil, yellow pipette tip, crossbow bolt, no.2 pencil.
0ga Bic round stic, candy cane, round chopsticks, Master Lock shackle, PCR tube, blue pipette tip, plastic clothes hanger.
00ga Bic round stic cap, 1/4" male headphone jack, lego person's head, fat crayons, American lock company #5200 shackle, beaded Christmas garland, Papermate Gel Roller pen.
000ga Sharpie marker body, wooden spoon handle, 1/4" female headphone jack, A/V adaptor plug head from Sony Playstation.
0000ga Sharpie marker cap, mini one-use hydrating shampoo/conditioner bottle, Eppendorf reaction vial
. info taken from bme.
http://encyc.bmezine.com/?gauge