Broken Finger Tungsten Ring

Tungsten rings are quick and easy to remove from your finger in case of medical emergency easier than gold.

Broken finger tungsten ring.

The most common method of removing tungsten rings from your finger is by using a pair of vice grips. Now you know tungsten rings can break and you understand why they can break. A broken or fractured finger occurs when one or more of these bones breaks. A full video tutorial on the proper removal of tungsten rings can be found here.

I was showing how to slide down a flight of stairs and ended up showing how to break a 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.

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. 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 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. 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. The entire process should take less than 30 seconds to complete. I replaced that band with a tungsten carbide band with three diamonds in it.

So i either get a new ring or figure out how to make this. Listen nobody is perfect. If your tungsten ring has a precious metal inlay the platinum palladium gold or silver may be cut in the regular method. A break is usually the result of an injury to the hand.

Normally it might not be a big deal to get it resized except that my ring is made out of tungsten carbide. How to fix a loose ring with tape and clear fingernail polish. 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.