The Wedding Band Options And The Decisions To Be Made

guest — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 06:19:07 +0000

Tungsten rings are quickly becoming a very popular choice for wedding bands and everyday rings. Tungsten’s weight, shine and durability appeal to men and women alike. One of the hardest substances on Earth, tungsten is used to create rings that can withstand the daily abuse of an active lifestyle. Although custom tungsten wedding bands have only really been produced for a few years, they are proving as popular as white gold and titanium. Tungsten has many benefits that other metals cannot match, which is why tungsten cannot be ignored in the wedding bands market.

“Is the Tungsten Carbide metal indestructible?” The tungsten metal is definitely a robust and durable metal but to say it is “indestructible” would be misleading. However, when it comes to rings or wedding bands, tungsten might just be the closest any metal comes to this claim. The biggest benefit of Celtic wedding bands for men is to provide its wearer a “maintenance-free” experience. The ring’s polished finish and remarkable shine remains as is since the day you first bought it. It will outlast any similar rings of platinum or titanium even. This brings us to the final myth; and the myth which worries many couples.

The process of making Celtic wedding bands involves grinding and machining a piece of shapeless metal into a beautifully designed ring, similar to cutting and polishing a beautiful diamond. Tungsten rings consist of 85% tungsten carbide, which is the ideal tungsten carbide purity level to produce the strongest rings. The remaining 15% consists of trace amounts of many other metals, nickel being the main component to bind all the other metals together. The metals are ground down into a fine powder and then high pressure compression is used to form a ring blank. The blank is then fired in an oxygen free furnace at extremely high temperatures. Tungsten is so strong, that it does not really melt in extremely high temperatures. Instead, it is the other elements that melt and “glue” themselves to tungsten to form tungsten carbide. The result is a solid piece of metal that behaves more like a hard diamond than a metal. The next stage is the most labor intensive step required to make tungsten rings. The rings must be cut and polished into their desired styles with diamond cutting wheels and grinding tools. The finishing step is to polish the rings to a high sheen by using a fine powder of diamond dust. Only after all this labor and energy is put into each ring, is it finally ready for you to wear. Tungsten rings will provide years and years of pleasure to wear with no deterioration in looks or performance. This is the reason that tungsten is proving so popular for use in wedding bands – there is something innately romantic about the idea of the symbol of lifetime love, actually lasting a lifetime. Tungsten is not just a fashion trend, but a major player that is here to stay, with its own unique niche in the men’s wedding ring market.

The actual metal Tungsten has the highest melting point of all the non-alloyed metals not that I am encouraging you to drop your ring in a volcano Lord of the Rings style. The metal is the heaviest metal known to be used by living organisms, such as enzymes. It is also called wolfram, since it is found commonly in the ores wolframite and scheelite respectively. According to John Daintith, it is remarkable that “it’s very high density is 19.3 times heavier than water, and 71% heavier than lead”.

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