INFI Ring??

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Cappy2cap

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I have been engaged for a while now and have looked at many wedding bands...(Ti and tungsten mostly) But to be original, what do you think Jerry would say if I asked him to commission me an INFI ring???

Im sorta serious....if your listening team Busse? :D


maybe with an urban camo finish???:confused::eek::D
 
C'mon, embrace the suck and go with platinum. Mix in a little iridium and you'll have a wedding band impervious to the saws they use at hospitals to cut said rings off!
 
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if you do a yahoo search for theringninja, the one for "myworld" (4th link down) has some cool tungsten carbide rings, and various other low cost, high hardness, high corrosion resistant rings. infi is corrosion resistant, but the presence of -any- carbon or nickel in a ring is bad idea. you will get rust, and eventually you will get a nickel allergy (become hypoallergenic). the longer you wear it, the worse the allergic reaction will get.

what you could do is have infi custom inlayed into a better suited material - but you still run the risk of the above two things happening should the ring maintain a position that puts it in constant contact with skin and sweat.

even 316lvm, which has historically been a standard for surgical implants, is now less advisable to inadvisable due to the presence of nickel. here are some links if your a nerd/weirdo like me and are willing to slug through them:

astm's 316lvm standards
http://www.astm.org/Standards/F138.htm
page talking about implantation grade metals in orthopedic surgery
http://academic.uprm.edu/~mgoyal/materialsdec2003/k03orthopaedicfixations.pdf
page talking about nickel allergies
http://www.nickelallergy.org/index.cfm/ci_id/99/la_id/1.htm
page talking about allergy development (including nickel sensitivity) in orthopedic surgery
http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1230696-overview
 
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It will rust, and that will be more of a problem than you think! Your finger will be stained all around the ring. Coatings won't last. Hot blue might stand a chance.

I went through the same thing when I got married again. Your sweat is corrosive. Washing your hands will remove any oils or waxes. Coatings chip and scrape off with daily activity. There are some cool custom Titanium ring makers out there though!
 
Tungsten seems to be the new "in thing" for wedding bands...if its sooo tough/corrosion proof, how come we dont have more tungsten blade makers out there?!!!


Any help from our hog metallurgists?
 
I know one guy who, instead of a wedding band, has a tattoo of a wedding band with his wife's name inside of it. She did the same thing, but with his name.

It's a novel approach.
 
Cappy2cap said:
Tungsten seems to be the new "in thing" for wedding bands...if its sooo tough/corrosion proof, how come we dont have more tungsten blade makers out there?!!!


Any help from our hog metallurgists?
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I have a tungsten wedding band, and it does not have a scratch on it. I've had it for a couple years. It is tough but the reason you don't see knife makers use it ever is because it is very brittle. The jeweler said if I drop my ring on a hard surface it could shatter. Worth the risk to me and it was a lot cheaper than platinum.
 
on_the_edge said:
I know one guy who, instead of a wedding band, has a tattoo of a wedding band with his wife's name inside of it. She did the same thing, but with his name.

It's a novel approach.
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with the divorce rate as high as 50%, prob a a risky move now-days...but def novel.
 
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