Quote Originally Posted by Aleria View Post
Actually, gauge in the US only goes up to a certain point 00g(10mm or .375 inches) being the largest, and then switches over to inch or mm measurements from there. It was really a matter of the way they started listing the sizes, obviously once you get down to 00g yet the sizes continue to get larger just adding more zeros until you have 00000000g wouldn't make much sense since the smaller the gauge number the larger the size. So it was easier to stop using gauge as a term of measurement above that size.
It's more a matter of people simply using the wrong term as gauge refers to the size and stretching is the process and then of course you have tapers, plugs, earlets, tunnels or even weights as far as "jewelry" to wear in them.
I myself was misinformed when I first began stretching 10 years ago and referred to it as "gauging", but was eventually corrected by those in the modding community as to correct terms.
So, overall, it's not really a locality, just misinformation passed around by a large number of people.
Not much different than those people that call BPs bald or balled pythons instead of ball pythons.
yup 20g 18g 16g 14g 12g 10g 8g 6g 4g 2g 0g 00g 7/16ths 1/2 inch ...thats where i stoped at 1/2 inch and oddly my ears went back to normal for the most part u cant see the difference unless u pull on them then my ear opens up to about a 6g ive had them out for about a year now. ive tryed to restrech them but after all the time it took for me to get to 1/2 inch i dont have the patience to do that all over again last time i tryed to do it all over again i wanted to skip right back to my 1/2 inch and ended up with a blow out so i give up. i put to much time pain and effort into the first time and cant do it again