Artistic Wire Beadalon Professional Deluxe 5-Rod Coiling Gizmo: Versatile Wire Coiling Tool Set for Precision Jewelry Making, 7mm/5mm/3mm/2.5mm/1mm by 38.1cm Review

I ordered this product in September or October but immediately moved and opened it today and used it for the first time. I did 3 things to it and it's already broken. Terrible quality. Also good luck trying to secure the wire without the help of a second person. Impossible to hold it in place and tighten with less than 3 hands.

While this tool certainly makes wire weaving easier, I am disappointed that the items I received were used and bent. The primary bars had grooves where someone had used a tool on them. The side of the drill is deformed and twists in an oval, but in the end the device works and I can also work as I need it.

I have a smaller version and I like it. I was looking for a coiling machine to make jump rings (and be easy on my wrists) and was thrilled to see this product. The problem is that the bar diameters given are just wrong. Looking at the bars in the pack, I could tell that the largest of them are far from 7mm, which is what I need. Of course, when I measured it through the packaging, it wasn't more than 5 mm. A rod advertised as 5mm is actually about 3.5mm. How could that happen? For this reason I

. The largest rod seems to give me a jump ring that is slightly larger than the 8mm jump rings I bought from the link below. Here is the cost analysis. In 20-foot spools, Artistic Wire Artistic Wire 18-GaugeTarnish Resistant Silver Wire, 20 feet costs 48 cents per foot. You can purchase the same Artistic Wire 18 gauge tarnish resistant silver wire 1/4 lb in a larger spool for 39 cents a foot. Rod Winders 7mm/5mm/3mm/2.5mm/1mm x 15" and each one uses about 1.1 inch of wire. So I get about 218…