C18: named after Ãtienne de Silhouette (1709â67), French politician, perhaps referring to silhouettes as partial portraits, with a satirical allusion to Silhouette's brief career as controller general (1759)
Basic Door Knocker Tongue Ring. This tongue ring is 5/8 and is available in 14, 12, 10 or 8 Gauge 316L surgical steel.
Tongue rings are generally straight bars with balls screwed on each end. Standard barbell lengths are 3/4 (roughly 19mm) or 5/8 (roughly 16mm), but thickness or girth comes in a wide variety of sizes, anywhere from 14GA to 00GA.