Tungsten carbide rings are made of the hardest metal on earth.
Broken finger tungsten ring.
If your tungsten ring has a precious metal inlay the platinum palladium gold or silver may be cut in the regular method.
The entire process should take less than 30 seconds to complete.
Look at the detail if you have purchased a tungsten ring with an inlay such as meteorite or caribou antler look at the detail and the finish of the ring.
A full video tutorial on the proper removal of tungsten rings can be found here.
If you throw your hands up at a super bowl party and your ring goes flying across the room and out a tenth floor window it s going to shatter when it hits the pavement below.
Normally it might not be a big deal to get it resized except that my ring is made out of tungsten carbide.
Now you know tungsten rings can break and you understand why they can break.
How to fix a loose ring with tape and clear fingernail polish.
A fracture can occur in any of the phalanges.
I took it off my finger to wash my hands and it dropped on the tile floor in the kitchen shattered again.
I replaced that band with a tungsten carbide band with three diamonds in it.
Once again last week i slapped my hand down on my desk at work and boom broken again.
Cheaper tungsten carbide rings might be made from cobalt although these will discolor your finger in the way cheap jewelry is known to so are best avoided.
Give the ring a quarter turn and repeat until the ring has completely broken off your finger.
After losing a lot of weight my wedding ring would no longer stay on my finger.
A broken or fractured finger occurs when one or more of these bones breaks.
Tungsten does not bend out of shape due to its hardness so in an accident the ring will not become deform where it would injure your finger even more.
The vice grips apply enough pressure that the tungsten ring fractures safely.
Tungsten rings are quick and easy to remove from your finger in case of medical emergency easier than gold.
Listen nobody is perfect.
Take care not to slide the cracked ring up and down your finger.
A break is usually the result of an injury to the hand.
I was showing how to slide down a flight of stairs and ended up showing how to break a ring.
