Usually you would buy the Dead soft because it is not so prone to breaking if you do a lot of minipulating of it. Also, the more you manipulate it, the stronger it gets...up to a point. It would work nice for bails and cab wrapping if you are going to use more than one strand of it. 24 gauge is pretty small...wouldn't use it for rings but enough of twisted together would do for bracelets too. There are any number of wire wrapping tutorials out there, check 'em out!!