These are my most favorite pliers, ever. I have never understood why these pliers are not more popular. I have told so many people about these, and the reaction I usually get from them is along the lines of, "Why didn't anybody tell me about these? I need a pair, now!"
These pliers really do make wire looping easier when you are using finer gauges of wire, right up to 22 gauge. I have used them with up to 18 gauge wire, although more care has to be taken to avoid marring the thicker wires.
Looping pliers are different from round nose pliers in that one side of the nose is a classic round nose shape, and the other side is a concave shape that presses your wire in a perfect half-circle around the 'nose.' With two squeezes, or one continuous rolling motion, you can form your loop--no more using the tender pads of your fingers to press the wire around the plier.
As you can see in Andrea's video below, the pliers firmly grip the wire, allowing you to easily form a loop. Want to do a wrapped loop? Transfer the pliers to your non-dominant hand, keeping a grip on your loop, and use bent-nose pliers in your dominant hand to do the wrapping and tucking.
These pliers really do make wire looping easier when you are using finer gauges of wire, right up to 22 gauge. I have used them with up to 18 gauge wire, although more care has to be taken to avoid marring the thicker wires. Looping pliers are different from round nose pliers in that one side of the nose is a classic round nose shape, and the other side is a concave shape that presses your wire in a perfect half-circle around the 'nose.' With two squeezes, or one continuous rolling motion, you can form your loop--no more using the tender pads of your fingers to press the wire around the plier.
As you can see in Andrea's video below, the pliers firmly grip the wire, allowing you to easily form a loop. Want to do a wrapped loop? Transfer the pliers to your non-dominant hand, keeping a grip on your loop, and use bent-nose pliers in your dominant hand to do the wrapping and tucking.
A useful tip is that if you are planning on making lots of loops and need them all to the be the same size, to take a Sharpie pen and make a little mark along the nose of the plier. Then place your wire along this mark and make your loop. You will now have perfectly matched loops everytime.
- Sarah
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