Tungsten Carbide Ring

Railsplitter

Railsplitter

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My wife just handed me an early birthday present. A tungsten carbide wedding band to replace the gold band that I lost about 5 or 6 years ago.

This thing is so friggin nice! I love it!

Anybody else have a TC band? Are they really as scratch resistant as they say they are?

I'm stoked!
 
I have one and it doesn't look scratched but I don't think it is as shiny any more. They can shatter if you drop them though. The nice thing is you can get a new one for about 20 bucks if you break or lose it.
 
Have one and I actually try to scratch it on absolutely everything with no success.
 
Both of mine- a wedding band and my Masonic ring- have taken a good bit of abuse and haven't so much as dinged. They're essentially bulletproof.
 
FlaMtnBkr said:
They can shatter if you drop them though.
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This has me a bit concerned. I'm not really worried about dropping it but my hands are often subject to extended periods of vibration from the handgrips on my motorcycle. Not intense vibration but it's there. My handgrips are all aluminum so there would be metal to metal contact with vibration.

Can anyone comment on how it would hold up under those circumstances?

Thanks.
 
Railsplitter said:
This has me a bit concerned. I'm not really worried about dropping it but my hands are often subject to extended periods of vibration from the handgrips on my motorcycle. Not intense vibration but it's there. My handgrips are all aluminum so there would be metal to metal contact with vibration.

Can anyone comment on how it would hold up under those circumstances?

Thanks.
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I never had any issues on my bike. I love the ring. I've banged it up pretty good against other metals and it's stood up just fine. Toughest ring material that I know of.
 
I don't think you have anything to worry about on the bike. It takes a good fall onto a hard surface but I do know a couple people that have broke them and saw it happen once. Broke into 3 pieces. In the emergency room they will take a pair of vice grips and set them so it won't touch the finger and then crank down to crack and to remove from injured digits. Definitely the easiest type of ring to remove from a finger.
 
Thanks for all the advice guys!

I've never owned a TC ring before and I didn't really know what to expect. It was very difficult a few years ago telling my wife that I lost my gold wedding band. It would break my heart and hers to tell her that I broke this one.

Sounds like I have nothing to worry about as long as I don't drop it. Something that I will be extremely careful not to do.

I'm glad I started this topic. You guys have been very helpful.
 
I have had good luck with mine. Mine has a very slight scratch/chip on one of the edges, but you have to look really really close to see it.
I wear mine under my gloves at work. I do landscaping part time. I have also had it fall and crash along the asphalt a couple times when riding my bike, but it is still in good shape.

I would definitely recommend it, and for the prices online, it is pretty cheap to replace if you lose or break it.
 
I have had mine for 7+ years now, not a scratch on it.

I would advice taking it off if you're doing anything that may get your ring caught (climbing ladders) or your hand smashed. These rings can't be cut off in case of swelling like the gold or silver ones, so you could lose your finger if it gets smashed with the ring on. Yes, rare but it happens. For that reason I don't deploy with mine, plus I don't want to risk loosing it in some hole.

Since I got mine the prices have come down which is nice, just in case I need a replacement.
 
I have been wearing a TC wedding band for 3 years. I work for a living doing structural repairs and pipe fitting on commercial fishing boats. That includes lots of hammering, grinding, saw-z-alling etc. No problems what so ever. They may be scratch resistant, but mine is scarred all to hell, the inside is still nice a mirror polished though.
 
ohen cepel said:
I have had mine for 7+ years now, not a scratch on it.

I would advice taking it off if you're doing anything that may get your ring caught (climbing ladders) or your hand smashed. These rings can't be cut off in case of swelling like the gold or silver ones, so you could lose your finger if it gets smashed with the ring on. Yes, rare but it happens. For that reason I don't deploy with mine, plus I don't want to risk loosing it in some hole.

Since I got mine the prices have come down which is nice, just in case I need a replacement.
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FlaMtnBkr said:
I don't think you have anything to worry about on the bike. It takes a good fall onto a hard surface but I do know a couple people that have broke them and saw it happen once. Broke into 3 pieces. In the emergency room they will take a pair of vice grips and set them so it won't touch the finger and then crank down to crack and to remove from injured digits. Definitely the easiest type of ring to remove from a finger.
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They might not be easy to cut off but they are easy to get off because they are so hard and are brittle compared to some other metals. Vise grips are easier to operate than the ring cutters that are in most ERs. I would be more confident that a pair of pliers are laying around than some type of saw or snips to cut off a traditional gold ring.
 
They don't get scratched (unless you're playing with diamonds or something equally hard) but they do get dirty, especially if you have one with the "brushed" finish. I thought I had messed mine up trying to see if it would get scratched on some metal, but it turned out that it had shaved the metal and the metal had filled in the "scratches" in the brushed finish. Scrubbed it with some Flitz and it was good as new. The flip side is that it will scratch all your other stuff if you're not careful, like brushing some crumbs off a table. It also hurts like hell if you smack somebody in the head with that hand!
 
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