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. Give the ring a quarter turn and repeat until the ring has completely broken off your finger. 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. 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.

Listen nobody is perfect. After losing a lot of weight my wedding ring would no longer stay on my finger. I replaced that band with a tungsten carbide band with three diamonds in it. I was showing how to slide down a flight of stairs and ended up showing how to break a ring.

The vice grips apply enough pressure that the tungsten ring fractures safely. Once again last week i slapped my hand down on my desk at work and boom broken again. A fracture can occur in any of the phalanges. 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 full video tutorial on the proper removal of tungsten rings can be found here. So i either get a new ring or figure out how to make this. Tungsten rings are quick and easy to remove from your finger in case of medical emergency easier than gold.

The most common method of removing tungsten rings from your finger is by using a pair of vice grips. 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. Now you know tungsten rings can break and you understand why they can break. Tungsten carbide rings are made of the hardest metal on earth.

How to fix a loose ring with tape and clear fingernail polish. Take care not to slide the cracked ring up and down your finger. The entire process should take less than 30 seconds to complete.