Tutorial: Tipping Corset Bones

Thank you :3

And by thickness I mean wide. < <'

Depends on how strong you want the boning to be and how comfortable you want to be.

Do you want stiff or not? Flexible or not?

I mean, if it's going to be your first time wearing a corset or even making one I kind of recommend that you, if making, use plastic boning first for tests. They are durable, get the point across and inexpensive. If you're used to corsets then and for wear I'd go with a heavier steel boning to spiral. Spiral will give you a little more flexibility while the plain white steel boning won't. Personally I find corsets comfortable regardless of the boning but its all about how use to the product you are.

Thickness is also on what your preference would be, many corsets though, use the thin boning rather than the thicker. Lulu's looks to be the bigger width. 1/2 inch but like I said, its all about personal preference.

The main difference is the way it bends - the spiral allows it to bend comfortably from side to side, but still give support, while the flat white only bends front to back, if that makes sense

You should really only be using the flat white in places that are straight up and down, and the spiral everywhere else. I made myself a corset with all flat-white boning a long time ago, thinking it would offer more support, and it just makes me tube-shaped (like an icecream cone - which is fine for Elizabethan style stuffs, but not so much so for turn of the century ), instead of giving more of a figure like I had wanted, because it doesn't bend in curves

Oh! Yes! Definitely worth getting another pair - if you just do one side, and then the top, and then the sides, etc, etc, it'll never crimp on!

Although, one thing I did do once, when I had to tip a piece at a convention where I only had a little pair with me was use some super glue inside of it first, and then crimp it on the best I could - the cap wasn't as tight as using two pliers, but it still hasn't come off