Straight Barbells – The most famous
Tongue piercing is most famously done with straight barbell. 14 gauge is the most common tongue ring gauge used. The tongue ring used to perform the tongue piercing should be at least ¾” to allow for swelling in the tongue. The piercing once became well can be changed to a smaller barbell of 9/16″(14mm) which is the most common size. Wearing a shorter tongue ring barbell after the piercing is healed is suggested.
On barbell style body jewelry, there is commonly a bar with a removable bead on each end that can be changed for replacement or to alter the look of the body jewelry or tongue ring. Often one of the beads is united, either via epoxy or welding, so that only one bead is used to install or change the body jewelry. Barbell threads on body jewelry are most often right handed.
There are five kinds of barbells that are most often used for tongue rings and other body jewelry. The internally threaded barbells are slightly more expensive than externally threaded barbells as there will be additional labor involved. Internally threaded body jewelry is thought to be superior because it causes less damage and irritation at the piercing site. The bead in an internally threaded barbell has a getting tube machine into it with a threaded post extending from the center, which mates with the threaded receiving tube on the bar.
Internally threaded body jewelry has become more and more popular, causing the use of externally threaded body jewelry to decline. It is so named because shaft of the bar has threads at both ends to allow beads with internal threads to be attached.
In naval piercings, it is much more common to use a curved barbell, named for its curvature, and in tongue ring piercings it is much more common to use a straight barbell. Curved barbells, often used for naval rings are mechanically identical to straight barbells, often used for tongue rings with the exception of the curvature. Curvature on a curved barbell can range from about straight to circular, with some barbells actually being spiral, with the ends overlapping but departed to permit the insertion of the jewelry. Curved barbells can either be internally or externally threaded.
A variation in this body jewelry design is a J-bar, a slightly curved barbell (sometimes referred to as a bananabell or banana barbell) with a 90 degree bend near one end, used in vertical navel piercings to position the decorative end of the body jewelry more
appropriately. The J-Bar style of body jewelry can be either internally or externally threaded.
Circular barbells, also known as horseshoe barbells are commonly used in many types of piercings and body jewelry. They are named so due to their shape.
In surface piercings, a type of body jewelry called surface bars is used. In order to used this barbells for surface piercing it has a pair of 90 degree bends in the same direction. This body jewelry design allows the pressure that would be caused by other body jewelry to be alleviated and allows for shorter healing time.
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