Beadalon Artistic Nylon Wire Straightener Tool - 228S-420 with 3 Rollers: Effective Wire Straightening Solution Review

Beadalon is very good at making and selling handy tools at reasonable prices and this simple wire straightener is no exception. The tool consists of 3 nylon rollers that are connected at the ends, which allows them to be folded. You put the wire on the reels, put the reels together and pull the wire through. (A short video on the product pages demonstrates this.) The straightener works exactly as described and does its job very well. Please note that as stated on the packaging, this tool is…

I'm just getting started with wire. I don't keep everything I make (some of them aren't great) but it seemed silly to throw away the wire when I could reuse it. (For the record, right now I mostly use "Artistic Wire", which is the color coated wire it was designed for, since I bought it to start with. I've only tried this with 20 gauge wire. I probably will it's harder to work with thinner calibers, and I'm not planning on making the move to gold or silver just yet.) In any case, pretty much…

This should only be used on smooth uncoated wire! Reviews about it were pretty good and it was a reasonable price. I should have just kept going! The first problem I had was the wire not going through at all. You really have to squeeze the little thing around the wire to make it work! The wire I was working with was a fairly average gauge of 14g. It wasn't too thin or so thick that the tool wouldn't close it. But as soon as I loosened my grip just a little, the wire popped right out. I squeezed