wedding ring as gear

If your wedding ring needs to be cut off you've got much worse things to worry about...;)
 
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I know this is an old thread, but I'm looking for a new wedding band. I've outgrown mine after 13 years. Anyone have anything new to add?? Thanks!!


Blades
 
After only 5 years of wedded bliss my white gold and yellow gold band has been banged up quite a bit. Ihave had car doors slammed on it, Halligan tools bashed against it (I know, I know..I shouldn't be wearing it at work), and lost it once and drove my Jeep over it in my driveway. After all this I figured it was time to get a new ring, with my wife's permission of course. The ring I chose had to simple, strong, and....you guessed it. Titanium.

I ordered my ring from Boone's Titanium Rings. I should be receiving it sometime this week. The ring I ordered was an Edge Band Satin size 9.5, 7 mm wide. He had it made in one day. I'll let you know how it turns out.
 
A friend of mine who dabbles in titanium fabrication made mine for me, a simple slightly crowned 5-6mm semi-comfort band, for my wedding.

It's light, it's taken alot of abuse over the years, and it spiffs back up with a few minutes with a Scotchbrite pad. It's also not a "thick" band that would be easier to remove in an emergency.

Besides, titanium is hard enough to open bottles of beer with without gouging it up like you would with gold (and maybe platinum). ;)
 
Personally, I do think ti rings are cool.
Light and durable but the robustness of these rings pose one particular, if uncommon, problem.

A local jewellery designer sold one to a friend of his that was a hardcore mountain biker. The biker took a nasty spill out on our world famous North Shore trails. His injuries included a broken ring finger. No big deal, right? Welp, they couldn't slide the ring off his busted finger (all bent outta shape and swollen) and they couldn't cut the ring either! Nothing the paramedics, or the hospital, had in their equipment inventory could cut through the ring!

You know what they had to do? They had to outsource the tool from another agency, maybe the fire department, to cut the ring. Let's just say the resolution was not convenient.

Even if the designer exaggerated the story it's still believable that a ti ring would pose more problems in that kind of scenario than other kinds of metal rings.

Just a side note to keep in mind. It's not life threatening but it probably made things very inconvenient.

Burton
 
Originally posted by Rumble
Interesting...but that would cut ti?

Burton
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I didn't think of that until after I pressed the Submit button. So, I went to http://www.titaniumcommitment.com/faq.html and found this:

Q: Are titanium rings easy to cut in case of emergency ?
A : Yes, they are. Even stronger titanium alloys can be cut without difficulty. We have performed some tests on a 6Al/4V ring with a basic (manual) ring cutter, and went through it in under 2 minutes. The hospital and paramedic issued ring cutters are usually electric, reducing the cutting time consequently

Two minutes would be a long time if you had smashed the **** out of your finger.:D
 
Frank,

Thanks for the info...
I guess 2 minutes would be long but not as long as I thought. I was under the impression that they had to run around town or use the yellow pages to get this ring off the biker's finger.

Burton
 
Hey all, My wedding ring is made out of tungsten carbide. It is cool as hell, and people are always commenting on it.
The great thing about it is it does not scratch. I lift weights with it on, I have fallen onto the concrete, and actually taken a file to the inside, and it does not scratch or dull.
Down side: ring cutters at hospitals CANNOT cut it off. When I bought it I was wearing scrubs (I work in a hospital), and they told me that the fact that it can't be cut off is a big concideration. I think you can view them at www.trewtungsten.com .
On another note, I've often wondered why someone does not make knife handles out of the stuff. You could let it ride in your pocket with keys and coins with reckless abandon. Peace, Josh
 
I dropped "Trew Tungsten" an email about how "hard" their rings were. On the site it says the tungsten carbide is 4 times "harder" than titanium, but it doesn't say which titanium. The tungsten carbide may only be slightly "harder" then the 8-1-1 titanium that Mr. Boone uses. I'll let ya know what they tell me.


Blades

Edited to change "tough" to "hard"
 
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