It's for myself, I am not materialist and I like the properties of the metal (weighty, almost scratch proof, dark silver appearance). I would still want it even if it was equivalently priced with platinum.

My fiancée was given a palladium engagement ring with a sapphire, again because I liked the properties of the metal over platinum and the color of the stone.
Maybe some people measure their love with the size of the rock?

Your bride/husband to be is a very lucky person

"Special Offer - Buy One, Get The Cheapest One Half Price"

Even bigamists like a bargain!

My fiancees ring was chosen based on the properties she liked...

Your bride/husband to be is a very lucky person

My fiancees ring was chosen based on the properties she liked...

Cause she's worthless

I can see his / her face now - completely overwhelmed coupled with a sheer desire to kill :laughing:

I've still got quite a few tungsten carbide tips from when I use to work on a lathe about 40 years ago.

Why are women so obsessed with weddings and wedding rings anyway?

"Special Offer - Buy One, Get The Cheapest One Half Price"

Even bigamists like a bargain!

Others measure it with the size of their :confused:

I like it for myself too!!! I have few rings on my fingers and none is wedding one (wedding ring have place in the box because it is gold and I'm not a gold fan). More,I am woman and completely do not understand why SOME men are so obsessed with weddings anyway? :wink: (Generalization is unconscionable).

Dont buy it, I had a tungsten carbide ring from Greed.
Im pretty sure they contain cobalt which leaches out and stains the ring.

Get titanium instead.

Hold on a minute......Are you suppose to buy them an engagement ring before you buy them a wedding ring??? There are 2 rings that you need to buy??

Just don't drop it... They're fairly brittle compared to other metals.

Are you telling me that women can tell the difference between platinum, tungsten carbide and palladium rings just by looking at them???

I do like girls that rock, but even I would be stretching to 'here's a cheap ring let's get married in a tent under the fridge' That has never worked, then again I've never wanted to be married and consequently that has never happened. Maybe if I drink more it will.

Let me tell you as a man, we could think up of a more stressful day than a wedding day- it's truly awful

Yeh right.

Think you would have to hit it with a hammer for it to crack.

All sizes out of stock anyway.

I got a titanium wedding ring for myself 5 years ago from John Greed. I chosen not to have the tungsten as when read up on removing them in an emergency can be a problem. It is still in great condition no marks or changes to the shape and i do manual work where softer metals would have gotten damaged. No skin allergy problems for me either with the titanium one.

I bought my wife a ring made from Welsh Gold for £49. Mostly because it was the only one I could find that matched the engagement ring.
I'd have loved one of these for myself (except I don't wear jewellery). :-)

Mine was absolutely incredible. I loved every moment and wish I could go back and do the whole thing again...

Nothing says "i love you" more than a ring made out of the same stuff as drill bits.

Do they do sovereign rings too?

The bigger the wedding day, the earlier the divorce.

You could say " I love you " better with the rings from a packet of Haribo.

They would probably last longer

best not to wear one at all. simple. :innocent:

Looked into tungsten a while ago. Interestingly (or "interestingly," depending on your mindset), it's a neutron reflector, so one of a few materials that can cause radioactive material to go critical.

how kind of you to take her opinion into account, she must be a very lucky lady

I chose Tungsten Carbide as my wedding band over 7 years ago, I love the colour and weight of the metal. Think it cost me just under £50, price wasn't particularly crucial so I could've spent far more but had no desire to. I got platinum for the other half though, don't think she would've appreciated a ring with a 2 figure price lol :smile:

This blokes getting married!

The chances of finding out what condition the ring is in are just behind his chances of plaiting fog or knitting yoghurt.

I can never think of Tungsten Carbide drills without thinking of >>>THIS<<<

Theres a name for people like you...











... Women

I suppose it's alright if you want to let the guest house owner where you are going away for a licentious
weekend think you are married... No wait that was in the 1950's and 1960's :confused:

Looking at them and wearing them. The weight alone will be a giveaway.

For poorer.....

Before you buy, there is one significant negative to a tungsten carbide ring - they are almost impossible to remove in an emergency situation, eg if you damage your hand in an accident and the fingers swell up. The cutting equipment which A+E or the fire services have will not get through this ring. They have to be compressed in order to fracture the metal.

If this is all you're willing to pay on a wedding band, might as well buy a brass Olive from your local plumbers merchant for 15p and save even more.

I have a different Tungsten Carbide ring... the cost of it was wasn't a consideration I wanted a dark sliver that only tungsten carbide could provide. Got mine for just over £60 (at the time) and absolutely love it ->http://www.weddingrings-direct.com/ring/matt-finished-decorative-tungsten-carbide-ring

They are exceptionally high quality, has a nice weight and is pretty much impossible to scratch being 4x stronger than titanium but be aware that this metal means that you'll never be able to resize the ring.

goes black.

OOS

My understanding of metals is that most are alloys. These are not pure palladium, platinum, or tungsten carbide rings- other things are added. So your weight theory is not correct. To change the weight- simply add or remove the accompanying alloys or change to a different alloy mix. As for looks, this too can be affected by the alloy mix as well. You are talking about wedding rings like they are women. A few women are slim and attractive and look like a models, and a man would not have a problem marrying them. But most do not- this is something cannot be changed.

Tungsten is very strong yes but tarnishes badly, i had a tungsten wedding ring 8 months later we had to replace it with titanium because the tungsten tarnished that badly it looked awful

I had one of these JG Tungsten rings the weight was nice but it was so shiny it looked a bit like chromed plastic.

I've also tried a cobalt ring which I really liked but the sizing was off so it went back.

I have my real wedding ring is palladium but I've a habit of losing things so most days I wear a cheap (also JG) titanium ring. A few people have assumed it is a large platinum ring no one else has ever noticed it's not the real ring. Just shows it's not really worth paying out for expensive metals unless it personally means something to you to do that.

I'll buy a bag of these

http://www.screwfix.com/p/compression-olives-15mm-pack-of-20/69557?activeTab=rr

And if she doesn't like it, I have another 19 to go :smiley:

Platinum and Palladium rings scratch up pretty bad so just because you're spending £300+ don't expect the ring to look new after a couple of months of wear.

Perfect deal for the working class

It isn't theory at all. True a pure 24k gold ring is a huge rarity as it is just too soft in its pure form, but most precious metal rings have a decent % of the total alloy content as the primary precious metal.

Platinum is typically 95% pure with Iridium making up the difference to harden it up, a Platinum ring (950 grade) or 18k + Gold has a very noticeable density to it that will set it apart from a much lighter Titanium, Palladium or Tungsten ring.

Unless you're going to alloy Tungsten 50:50 with depleted Uranium (or something just as heavy) or Gold 50:50 with Lithium (or something ridiculously light), there will always be quite a weight difference between the kind of rings you're talking about and something made from a precious metal.

So you're saying Tungsten is light compared to Gold?

Tungsten Carbide density is 15.63g/cm3
950 Platinum density is 20.1g/cm3

One is a prized precious metal, and the other makes tooling tips...

In pure form, Gold and Tungsten are within 1% of each other (because Tungsten is more tightly packed in its crystalline structure), but you're unlikely to see either in pure form for rings.

Tungsten rings are pretty weighty. I doubt Joe Bloggs in the street could tell the difference from Platinum by holding them.
Titanium rings are much much lighter then any of the other metals. And despite what's said in the marketing, Ti rings get scratched pretty easily. But that makes it look more like a precious metal if anything since Tungsten can look a little too immaculate.