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Featured Tool May 7: Miniature Digital Caliper GAU-178.00

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by Rose Marion, Wire-Sculpture.com

Tool of the Week for
May 7, 2012

This week’s tool: Miniature Digital Caliper, #GAU-178.00

Video by Kate, JewelryTools.com

Calipers are, in my opinion, one of the most important tools in a wire jewelry studio! Although I am a ruler aficionado (I have 5 steel rulers of various lengths on my desk at most times – I hate being without one) there are some situations when calipers beat my steel rulers, hands-down.

Measuring a cut stone is a cinch with a caliper. And measuring items that are only a couple millimeters big aren’t as hard on my eyes as they used to be – especially with a digital caliper like shown above, which is much easier to read.

Simply slide the caliper jaws apart and then close them on the object you’re measuring. Tip: Cabs and druzies are best measured while lying flat on a desk.

Wire-Sculpture also carries some calipers (and steel rulers). Click here to see Jewelry Calipers on Wire-Sculpture.

Click here to see Digital and Dial Calipers, available on JewelryTools.com:
Digital Caliper

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One Comment

  1. avatar

    Mr Fitz

    May 9, 2012 at 8:21 am

    Although VERY helpful/easy to read, we’ve had poor luck with this style of digital caliper. For whatever reason, the electronics don’t seem to hold up. Each of the 3 we’ve owned died within a month of purchase despite meticulous attention to turnig it off after use and changing batteries. And by “use” we’re talking roughly 30 seconds of actual use per week.