SuperSoftstrand 500-Feet Picture Wire Vinyl Coated Stranded Stainless Steel

I love the coating around this cable. Makes it much more comfortable to handle and it adds some nice grip for the crimping ferrules.

Except for the fact that, having written that it had been repackaged, the vendor sent a jumble, loose with broken spool pieces in a baggy, instead of a wound spool, once I got it untangled and stored for efficient access, it has been the perfect wire for my purposes. The plastic coating is a nice finish and allows me to work with it without hurting my hands.

Great product that is as advertised. I have mounted several pictures of various sizes and this wire is great to work with. No residue on my hands and the vinyl holds very well to the metal wire,

The product itself is very good. Using it as a picture hanging wire and it is quite nice and holds its shape when twisted. However. The plastic spool it is packed on was broken on arrival. There were no pieces in the box so I have to assume it was broken at the shipping center. (Amazon shipped it?) The wire on the spool completely unwound in the box during shipping and was really bad to deal with. 500 ft of stainless wire literally unsprung from the box like a long loose spring. I made my own spool and rewound it on that and that will work fine. The annoyance factor for this was very high. If Amazon packed and/or handled this for shipping they need to look at how they are storing this product. This really was a big annoyance for me.

I originally bought this stuff to hang pictures - and it does a great job at that task. The plastic coated wire can be bent into twists and knots that stay put. Its plenty strong enough for most tasks. My wife asked me for something to tie wire fencing to posts and I gave her the remainder of my Supersoftstrand roll. Now she uses it for everything in her landscaping and gardening work and I cant get the roll back. So, I had to purchase an additional roll - for hanging pictures.

The stuff I was using before was just plain wire, without any coating over it, and the stuff always left a residue on my hands, like lead, and the mess was annoying at the least. This stuff, by comparison, is a whole other experience, and easily turned a negative into a positive. Whoever thought of this, thank you so much.

Fast shipping great wire

As a full time, artist this has been a wise and prudent purchase decision. I use this for all of my paintings and just double up on the cord when I am hanging something that seems heavy, like a 32-inch square pastel under glass.

This is the way to go if you are framing regularly. It is a much better deal than buying it in small amounts or in a kit from the hardware store. It is a good versatile weight. If you wrap it properly, it holds tight onto itself and wont come loose.

Probably more wire than Ill ever need, but having this beats going to the store constantly for those small packs of hanging wire. Identical wire to what I used while working in a frame shop. Easy to work with and sturdy.