أسطوانة
Parallel walls, square ends, minimal radius. A modern profile that suits matte finishes and design-led collections.
- Standard sizes
- 8×11 · 10×13 · 12×16 mm
- Aspect ratio
- 1.35 : 1
- Production note
- Excellent surface for laser or pad-printed brand marks.
- Available in
- All nine amber varieties
- Minimum order
- 100 pieces per specification
Custom dimensions are routine. If the profile you need is not in the library we tool for it, proof it against a physical prototype, and archive it under your account so it is never produced for anyone else.
Amber weight, by diameter
Integrated from this profile’s own geometry at 1.08 g/cm³, beads only. Amber is traded by weight, so this is the figure that turns a specification into a price.
- 19G
- 8 mm · 33 beads
- 58G
- 8 mm · 99 beads
- 38G
- 10 mm · 33 beads
- 114G
- 10 mm · 99 beads
- 65G
- 12 mm · 33 beads
- 196G
- 12 mm · 99 beads
The heaviest bead per nominal diameter
With a fillet of only seven per cent of the radius, the cylinder is close to a true cylinder: straight walls, near-square ends, minimal shoulder. It carries more amber per nominal diameter than any other profile here — around twice a round bead and slightly more than a barrel — which makes it the heaviest option in the hand at a given size.
For a buyer who wants presence without going up a diameter band, that is the most efficient way to get it. For a buyer working to a per-gram budget it is the profile to be careful with, because the weight is real and so is the cost.
The sharpest edge amber will hold
The near-square end is as crisp as we will cut in this material. Any sharper and the arris begins to chip in normal handling within a year — not immediately, which is what makes it a tempting corner to cut, but reliably. We hold the fillet where the edge still reads as architectural and still exists after years of use.
This is worth knowing if you are comparing samples. A cylinder from another supplier with a visibly sharper edge is not better made; it is made to fail later, and the failure will arrive under your name.
A contemporary silhouette
The cylinder is the profile that reads least as tradition and most as design, which makes it the one European and design-led retail asks for most often. It also pairs unusually well with matte finishes, where the flat planes and low sheen produce something closer to a machined object than a gem.
Matte, packaging and the whole object
The cylinder is the profile that changes most with finish. Mirror-polished it reads as a gem; matted it reads as a machined component, and the second is why design-led buyers reach for it. If a range is being built around a contemporary position, a matte cylinder is usually the piece that establishes it.
It also photographs unlike the rest of the range. Flat planes and a defined edge give a photograph hard geometry to work with, which is why cylinder strands carry catalogue and campaign imagery well while rounder profiles need careful lighting to avoid reading as a blur. For an online-led programme that is a practical argument, not an aesthetic one.
Questions about this profile
It is the profile that gains most from them. Flat planes and low sheen produce something closer to a machined object than a gem, which is why design-led buyers reach for this combination.
No. A cylinder from another supplier with a visibly sharper arris is not better made; it is made to chip later, and the chipping arrives under your brand rather than theirs.
Slightly, yes, and roughly twice a round bead at the same nominal diameter. It carries the most amber of any profile here.
Amber chips at a sharper arris within about a year of normal handling. We hold the fillet where the edge survives.
European and design-led retail predominantly. It reads as contemporary rather than traditional and suits matte finishes well.
Quote a cylinder programme.
Send a diameter, a bead count and a quantity. We reply within one business day with a specification and an indicative price.