This is hindsight, but I would have researched and bought the
busk first before starting the corset, and then adjust the corset
length so the available busk works.
Why do you have to buy the rest of the boning in the same place?
Is there a minimum order?
The spiral boning is not that hard to cut. I'm talking about
the type that looks like a flattened spring. You only need to snip
two parts of the wire, with cutters that do not need to be as strong
as those used to cut a solid metal bone. There's not that much metal
to cut.
If you cut it a certain way, you end up with a rounded edge
because of the way the wire is rounded. You can get caps for the
ends, but I found the resulting rounded edge works well. It's
slightly better than the white metal boning as far as not wearing
through the fabric.
When I used the pre-made lengths of boning, I have a stock of a
lot of different lengths. That way I don't have to order a specific
amount and I can switch them if something ends up not the right size
or comfort for any reason.
-Carol
the front of my corset is 19 inches in total (I chose this pattern
from Corsets and Crinolines because it was fairly simple but it was
long enough that I could do things like Bustle gowns as well as
crinoline fashions) so if I leave 1/2 an inch at either end that
leaves me with an 18" busk so 16" isn't long enough (though it's 1"
longer than Hedgehog Handworks) and they don't have 1/2" wide spiral
steels in pre-cut lengths, and I don't want to have to deal with
cutting up the boning myself.
Elizabeth
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