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Has anybody's tungsten wedding band broken?
Mine has......three times now. I started with a regular tungsten carbide 8mm wedding band and it shattered while trying to dunk a basketball when my hand hit the rim. I replaced that band with a tungsten carbide band with three diamonds in it. I took it off my finger to wash my hands and it dropped on the tile floor in the kitchen, shattered again. Once again, last week I slapped my hand down on my desk at work and boom, broken again. I bought it because it was going to be the most durable wedding band I could get, no scratches and no bending either. They failed to mention it would shatter when falling three feet or playing basketball. Am I the only one that is having this problem? Thinking about going with titanium, or will it be brittle as well?
All 3 rings were made by artcarved and bought from benbridge. They have been great in replacing the rings at no charge with great customer service despite the problems with the rings.
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- CheyenneLv 51 decade agoFavorite Answer
Never heard of one breaking, but a male friend of mine has scratches all over his. The sad thing is, he doesn't work with his hands TOO much (he's a high school math teacher). Kind of making me rethink getting my FH a tungsten band....
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Where did you get this tungsten band from? It is supposed to be one of the hardest materials you can find. I know that hospitals don't even like men wearing these rings because they are EXTREMELY hard to remove in the case of an emergency where a finger swells. We bought my fiance's tungsten band from www.tungstenworld.com. I would start questioning the jeweler you bought the ring from. It may not be 100% tungsten carbide. However, the only way this ring can be taken off in the case of an emergency is through cracking. The ring can NOT be cut off... it has to be cracked in a few spots with vice grips until the ring literally falls apart. Only thing I can think of is that you keep getting small stress cracks in the ring that eventually cause the ring to fall apart with one last drop or smash on the desk. You might want to consider a gold ring instead?
