Wire Guard - Gold Plate - WG01GP

These gold plated wire guards are 4.5mm x 5mm with a 0.5mm hole.  

Wire Guards (also known as Wire Guardians or Wire Protectors) are used to protect your stringing material from abrasion from clasps, jump rings or other sharp edged components at the point where it attaches to a clasp. This adds strength to your jewellery at the point of greatest wear.

Wire Guards have a channel across the horse shoe shape on each side for threading through. These channels protect the silk, jewellery wire or other stringing material in your piece. The loop that the wire guard creates at the end of your piece enables you to be able to change clasps quickly without damaging your stringing material.