Broken Finger Tungsten Ring

A full video tutorial on the proper removal of tungsten rings can be found here.

Broken finger tungsten ring.

The entire process should take less than 30 seconds to complete. 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. Take care not to slide the cracked ring up and down your finger. I took it off my finger to wash my hands and it dropped on the tile floor in the kitchen shattered again.

After losing a lot of weight my wedding ring would no longer stay on my finger. A break is usually the result of an injury to the hand. The vice grips apply enough pressure that the tungsten ring fractures safely. So i either get a new ring or figure out how to make this.

Normally it might not be a big deal to get it resized except that my ring is made out of tungsten carbide. A broken or fractured finger occurs when one or more of these bones breaks. 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. 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. Listen nobody is perfect. Listen nobody is perfect. Tungsten carbide rings are made of the hardest metal on earth.

Tungsten rings are quick and easy to remove from your finger in case of medical emergency easier than gold. Give the ring a quarter turn and repeat until the ring has completely broken off your finger. Once again last week i slapped my hand down on my desk at work and boom broken again. The most common method of removing tungsten rings from your finger is by using a pair of vice grips.

A fracture can occur in any of the phalanges. 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. Now you know tungsten rings can break and you understand why they can break.