[Jewelry making - Article 00012] - [Orchid] Drawing gold wire and hardness

[arinovis]

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    I have a lot of practice hardening sterling silver wire by drawing
    it. I like the harder wire for making unsoldered chains. I'll take
    18 ga sterling soft and draw it down to 24ga, with no annealing to
    make it slightly harder than full hard. I know that works well for my
    designs. I want to try my same designs with gold. I'd like to try it
    with both 14K and 18K yellow gold. Can anyone provide me with some
    guidance as to what gauge of dead soft yellow gold I should start
    with to end up with a hard 24 ga wire? I'm assuming that a hard 14K
    or 18K will be about as stiff as hard sterling, but I could use some
    guidance on that, too. 

Thanks- Ari
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