| | |  | Drawplates | Home » » » » 50 Round Hole Drawplate Jewelers Wire Draw Plate Tool | | | | | | | Description: | | 50 Round Hole Drawplate For Reducing & Shaping Thickness Of Metals. This is a new drawplate with 50 round holes. Great for reducing and shaping thickness of gold, silver, platinum, brass, copper or soft steel wire. The holes are progressively smaller in proper increments so that wire drawn from a preceding hole will go through the next hole easily. Occasional annealing will keep wire soft and bees wax can be used as a lubricant. It measures approximately 8 1/2" x 1 1/16" (215.9 x 27 mm)We work hard to update our descriptions and pictures of our merchandise. As part of a process of ongoing innovation by our suppliers, newer versions of the item shown may be shipped before we are able to complete an update. As a result there may be a slight variation in color and design. | | | Product Details: | | | Average Customer Rating:
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5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
 Good Basic ToolNov 12, 2011
By Richard Berryhill
"human being"
This is a very basic, useable but limited, wire drawing tool which can be used to reduce size of wires or chains (annealed, of course). This plate, however, is simply drilled from both sides, therefore creating a taper from both sides. But the taper is not polished nor shaped at all, and the results will be rather limited and the surface very scratchy. Since I did NOT purchase this draw plate to pull wires, but to use for putting a head on when making rivets, it will be fine for that.
A good quality draw plate will be well tapered and have highly polished inside surfaces where the wire will be pulled through; this one is not at all like that. But you would pay about 10 times the price for a 50 hole draw plate of that quality, and quite a bit more for hard, long wearing carbide inserts.
The drawback of the carbide inserts as compared to tool steel is that carbide is so much harder that it can be fractured if struck or even if the draw plate were dropped (under the "right" circumstances). And carbide can only be polished using diamond powders, while tool steels can be re-polished using the standard polishing media, so small scratches can be polished out if they occur in tool steel drawing die. And I have scratched carbide drawing dies, so it can happen.
The bottom line is that this draw plate may do for a starter; but you should consider something a bit better if you plan to use it for drawing wires or chains.
1 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 KSSAug 01, 2010
By KSS
This is a verry good tool to have when you need to draw wire for jewelery makeing
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