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8mm Polished Tungsten Carbide Dome Wedding Band - $22 shipped

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pubicenemy

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I've been thinking of pulling the trigger on the deal of the day at sparklecartel.com. 8mm tungsten carbide wedding band for $22 incl. shipping.

Is this a solid deal? I know they have them on ebay for a little less but I have had two bad eBay experiences recently (one was a 128GB SSD DOA :frown🙂.

Does anyone have experience with tungsten carbide wedding bands? How do they hold up? Scratches, etc. I don't understand why these things are so much money at dept. and jewelry stores, it's not like tungsten is a scarce and precious metal. I have been shopping around for a while, gold is pricey and my brother's 18k band is pretty scratched after only a couple years. I hear they can be a ah heck to remove if you break your finger.



 
I have a Tungsten carbide ring from Triton for about 3 years and I work on cars, I have never taken it off and it still looks brand new. A little heavier but worth it to keep it looking nice.
Easy to get off in emergency with a pair of vice grips. Do a google search on it and you'll even see some videos of it being done.
 
Originally posted by: ZickZJ
I have a Tungsten carbide ring from Triton for about 3 years...
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Same here. Triton 925.....old lady pd around $400 for it though!

Mine has some other metal to give a band of a second color. That other metal nicks some, but the tungsten carbide is tough.

 
Found some youtube videos where they put the ring in a pair of vice grips or a bench vise and crack it in half. Kind of spooky to stick your finger in a vise but if you have to get it off you have to get it off. One video some guy hits it with a claw hammer and a files on it, no nicks or scratches. From what I have been seeing tungsten carbide is extremely hard but brittle. I wonder if you dropped it on concrete if it would shatter.
 
The problem with Tungsten is that 1) it's heavy and 8mm is huge as it is. 2) most emergency rooms have to have special equipment to cut them off (same with titanium). 3) you can't ever re-size it- a deal breaker if you're buying it without trying it on first.

Let me know if I'm wrong on any of those, but that's what I remember of my research when shopping for mine.
 
22 dollars? Damn, if I ever choose to get married...I know exactly what I'm going to buy. At 22 bucks I don't care if they cut it off.

This is most definitely what I will be buying for myself...

And for the wife, HQ synethic diamond

With ms cashback, I could probably get it all <200 shipped.
 
Originally posted by: pubicenemy
Found some youtube videos where they put the ring in a pair of vice grips or a bench vise and crack it in half. Kind of spooky to stick your finger in a vise but if you have to get it off you have to get it off. One video some guy hits it with a claw hammer and a files on it, no nicks or scratches. From what I have been seeing tungsten carbide is extremely hard but brittle. I wonder if you dropped it on concrete if it would shatter.
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It won't, I have.
 
Originally posted by: maximusfarticus
The problem with Tungsten is that 1) it's heavy and 8mm is huge as it is. 2) most emergency rooms have to have special equipment to cut them off (same with titanium). 3) you can't ever re-size it- a deal breaker if you're buying it without trying it on first.

Let me know if I'm wrong on any of those, but that's what I remember of my research when shopping for mine.
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Pretty much all emergency rooms have them now as it's become more common. It's not an uber metal, it shatters with enough torque force. Besides, the odds of you showing up in the emergency room with an injury so specific they need to take it off are pretty rare, too.

Nearly all jewelers or the makers of the ring will give you one or two size changes for free over the life of the ring if you just mail them the old one.

That said, Tungsten Carbide is incredibly cheap, you can get them $5 cheaper than this deal on ebay 24/7, shipped. I want my wedding ring to have more value to it, perhaps get tungsten carbide with a precious metal inlay (platinum, titanium, etc).

That band looks very nice. Avoid the vands with a sharp (relatively) edge, it can chip off.

One bad thing-- given how shiny TC is, and that there is no such thing as a "brushed Tungsten Carbide", finger prints, oil from fingers, etc will get onto it, and it is noticeable on smooth ones like that. If you get a multi-faceted TC ring (ebay it) this is harder to nice.

Here are mine

Notice the chipping on the one on the left. This has not been a problem with the other 2.
No I am not gay, these simply look awesome. Yes I wear all 3 at once.
 
Originally posted by: pubicenemy
Found some youtube videos where they put the ring in a pair of vice grips or a bench vise and crack it in half. Kind of spooky to stick your finger in a vise but if you have to get it off you have to get it off. One video some guy hits it with a claw hammer and a files on it, no nicks or scratches. From what I have been seeing tungsten carbide is extremely hard but brittle. I wonder if you dropped it on concrete if it would shatter.
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You pretty much can't have one without the other. For the vast majority of materials, things that are hard will be brittle, things that are soft are ductile. It's to be expected. Tungsten carbide has pretty good impact toughness though so it wouldn't break from a drop on concrete.
 
Originally posted by: soccerballtux
Ring shops will size your finger for free btw.
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They do, but also note fingers grow and shrink over lifetime. Especially if you do manual labor or even just use your hands often.
 
Originally posted by: soccerballtux
Originally posted by: maximusfarticus
The problem with Tungsten is that 1) it's heavy and 8mm is huge as it is. 2) most emergency rooms have to have special equipment to cut them off (same with titanium). 3) you can't ever re-size it- a deal breaker if you're buying it without trying it on first.

Let me know if I'm wrong on any of those, but that's what I remember of my research when shopping for mine.
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Pretty much all emergency rooms have them now as it's become more common. It's not an uber metal, it shatters with enough torque force. Besides, the odds of you showing up in the emergency room with an injury so specific they need to take it off are pretty rare, too.

Nearly all jewelers or the makers of the ring will give you one or two size changes for free over the life of the ring if you just mail them the old one.

That said, Tungsten Carbide is incredibly cheap, you can get them $5 cheaper than this deal on ebay 24/7, shipped. I want my wedding ring to have more value to it, perhaps get tungsten carbide with a precious metal inlay (platinum, titanium, etc).

That band looks very nice. Avoid the vands with a sharp (relatively) edge, it can chip off.

One bad thing-- given how shiny TC is, and that there is no such thing as a "brushed Tungsten Carbide", finger prints, oil from fingers, etc will get onto it, and it is noticeable on smooth ones like that. If you get a multi-faceted TC ring (ebay it) this is harder to nice.

Here are mine

Notice the chipping on the one on the left. This has not been a problem with the other 2.
No I am not gay, these simply look awesome. Yes I wear all 3 at once.
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Mine has a brushed look to it, don't see any finger prints but oil sometimes.
Here is mine; http://www.tritonjewelry.com/tb_tcr02_11-2097C-G.php
 
Originally posted by: KPACOTKA
How to figure out which size is perfect for me?
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Google 'printable ring sizer' and several .pdf files will come up with a little widget you can print and cut out. Hope you don't have sausage fingers like me or you might need legal paper.
 
Originally posted by: pubicenemy
Originally posted by: KPACOTKA
How to figure out which size is perfect for me?
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Google 'printable ring sizer' and several .pdf files will come up with a little widget you can print and cut out. Hope you don't have sausage fingers like me or you might need legal paper.
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Better option would be to stop into a jewelry store and have them check your size. They'll have you try different size rings until you find one that fits comfortably.

 
Originally posted by: ZickZJ
Originally posted by: soccerballtux
Originally posted by: maximusfarticus
The problem with Tungsten is that 1) it's heavy and 8mm is huge as it is. 2) most emergency rooms have to have special equipment to cut them off (same with titanium). 3) you can't ever re-size it- a deal breaker if you're buying it without trying it on first.

Let me know if I'm wrong on any of those, but that's what I remember of my research when shopping for mine.
Click to expand...

Pretty much all emergency rooms have them now as it's become more common. It's not an uber metal, it shatters with enough torque force. Besides, the odds of you showing up in the emergency room with an injury so specific they need to take it off are pretty rare, too.

Nearly all jewelers or the makers of the ring will give you one or two size changes for free over the life of the ring if you just mail them the old one.

That said, Tungsten Carbide is incredibly cheap, you can get them $5 cheaper than this deal on ebay 24/7, shipped. I want my wedding ring to have more value to it, perhaps get tungsten carbide with a precious metal inlay (platinum, titanium, etc).

That band looks very nice. Avoid the vands with a sharp (relatively) edge, it can chip off.

One bad thing-- given how shiny TC is, and that there is no such thing as a "brushed Tungsten Carbide", finger prints, oil from fingers, etc will get onto it, and it is noticeable on smooth ones like that. If you get a multi-faceted TC ring (ebay it) this is harder to nice.

Here are mine

Notice the chipping on the one on the left. This has not been a problem with the other 2.
No I am not gay, these simply look awesome. Yes I wear all 3 at once.
Click to expand...

Mine has a brushed look to it, don't see any finger prints but oil sometimes.
Here is mine; http://www.tritonjewelry.com/tb_tcr02_11-2097C-G.php
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Interesting. Are you sure that's not a metal inlay, it's actually brushed TC?
 
Originally posted by: soccerballtux
Originally posted by: ZickZJ
Originally posted by: soccerballtux
Originally posted by: maximusfarticus
The problem with Tungsten is that 1) it's heavy and 8mm is huge as it is. 2) most emergency rooms have to have special equipment to cut them off (same with titanium). 3) you can't ever re-size it- a deal breaker if you're buying it without trying it on first.

Let me know if I'm wrong on any of those, but that's what I remember of my research when shopping for mine.
Click to expand...

Pretty much all emergency rooms have them now as it's become more common. It's not an uber metal, it shatters with enough torque force. Besides, the odds of you showing up in the emergency room with an injury so specific they need to take it off are pretty rare, too.

Nearly all jewelers or the makers of the ring will give you one or two size changes for free over the life of the ring if you just mail them the old one.

That said, Tungsten Carbide is incredibly cheap, you can get them $5 cheaper than this deal on ebay 24/7, shipped. I want my wedding ring to have more value to it, perhaps get tungsten carbide with a precious metal inlay (platinum, titanium, etc).

That band looks very nice. Avoid the vands with a sharp (relatively) edge, it can chip off.

One bad thing-- given how shiny TC is, and that there is no such thing as a "brushed Tungsten Carbide", finger prints, oil from fingers, etc will get onto it, and it is noticeable on smooth ones like that. If you get a multi-faceted TC ring (ebay it) this is harder to nice.

Here are mine

Notice the chipping on the one on the left. This has not been a problem with the other 2.
No I am not gay, these simply look awesome. Yes I wear all 3 at once.
Click to expand...

Mine has a brushed look to it, don't see any finger prints but oil sometimes.
Here is mine; http://www.tritonjewelry.com/tb_tcr02_11-2097C-G.php
Click to expand...

Interesting. Are you sure that's not a metal inlay, it's actually brushed TC?
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Pretty sure, when I bought it there was nothing that said anything about an inlay. Just out of curiosity, how would one find out for sure if it has a different metal inlay?
I know I've been unable to damage it thus far.

EDIT: I just did a search online for Brushed Tungsten carbide rings and there's quite a few places that are selling them. I guess I'm confused as why you think they can't brush TC?
 
I have a tungsten wedding band and absolutely love it. My wife and I like it so much that I just got her a really nice tungsten carbide watch for her birthday. It's really a nice material for jewelry. It shines up nice and is very sturdy, never dulls or gets scratched.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yu8KeKlR9w

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...UXtRXg&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...cknwIA&feature=related

Obviously they are not indestructable, but they will put up with any normal amount of abuse and then some.
 
Originally posted by: jjmIII
Originally posted by: ZickZJ
I have a Tungsten carbide ring from Triton for about 3 years...
Click to expand...

Same here. Triton 925.....old lady pd around $400 for it though!

Mine has some other metal to give a band of a second color. That other metal nicks some, but the tungsten carbide is tough.
Click to expand...

Hey, found mine! (I'm not gay either, LOL @ soccerballtux)
 
Originally posted by: jjmIII
Originally posted by: ZickZJ
I have a Tungsten carbide ring from Triton for about 3 years...
Click to expand...

Same here. Triton 925.....old lady pd around $400 for it though!

Mine has some other metal to give a band of a second color. That other metal nicks some, but the tungsten carbide is tough.
Click to expand...

wow .. i only spent about $100 for my gold wedding band.
 
I've got a TC band and agree that they're a great choice. They do hold up well, but are not unscratchable. I've got a scratch or two on mine after the better part of a year of wear, but they're hard to notice and it still looks new.

Price tends to depend on designer, where you're purchasing, and the design, obviously, so shopping around can save you some $.
 
Originally posted by: JDub02
Originally posted by: jjmIII
Originally posted by: ZickZJ
I have a Tungsten carbide ring from Triton for about 3 years...
Click to expand...

Same here. Triton 925.....old lady pd around $400 for it though!

Mine has some other metal to give a band of a second color. That other metal nicks some, but the tungsten carbide is tough.
Click to expand...

wow .. i only spent about $100 for my gold wedding band.
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Tungsten carbide > gold
 
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