I'm making Iron stanchions for around the companionway. I'm guessing that they would be about an inch in diameter so that's .021" in 1:48. I have some annealed steel wire about that size that is easy to form and takes blackening well but it isn't very sturdy. I also have some nice stiff piano/fishing wire but it won't take blackening and it's way harder to get a small eye. I guess it's stainless. If I use the annealed steel I'm concerned about the fragility, I think they would constantly get bent over and I would never get the rope "railing" tensioned enough. Are these my only options for these stanchions or is there something I have missed?