Broken Finger Tungsten Ring

Normally it might not be a big deal to get it resized except that my ring is made out of tungsten carbide.

Broken finger tungsten ring.

Tungsten rings are quick and easy to remove from your finger in case of medical emergency easier than gold. So i either get a new ring or figure out how to make this. 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. If your tungsten ring has a precious metal inlay the platinum palladium gold or silver may be cut in the regular method.

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. 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. I replaced that band with a tungsten carbide band with three diamonds in it.

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. Now you know tungsten rings can break and you understand why they can break. I took it off my finger to wash my hands and it dropped on the tile floor in the kitchen shattered again. Listen nobody is perfect.

The entire process should take less than 30 seconds to complete. How to fix a loose ring with tape and clear fingernail polish. Listen nobody is perfect. Take care not to slide the cracked ring up and down your finger.

Once again last week i slapped my hand down on my desk at work and boom broken again. Tungsten carbide rings are made of the hardest metal on earth. A broken or fractured finger occurs when one or more of these bones breaks. Give the ring a quarter turn and repeat until the ring has completely broken off your finger.

A fracture can occur in any of the phalanges. The vice grips apply enough pressure that the tungsten ring fractures safely. The most common method of removing tungsten rings from your finger is by using a pair of vice grips.