What if a extremely hard ring gets stuck on my finger, can a ring be cut off?
Tungsten, ceramic or titanium rings can easily be slid off your finger using butter, liquid soap, or hand cream. If your finger gets injured and swells, the ring can be cut off using a ring cutting tool. Rings made extremely hard, like tungsten carbide, can only be removed by cracking them into pieces with standard vice grip style locking pliers. Standard ring cutters will not work. Removing a tungsten ring doesnt pose much more of a challenge than cutting through a traditional precious metal ring. Every hospital emergency room will be equipped to remove any wedding band in case of an emergency. If you slam your hand in a door or drop a heavy object on your finger, in most cases it is the ring itself causing the hand injury in which it must be cut off. Tungsten, ceramic and titanium rings pose less threat due to the rings being so hard that they don’t crush or bend out of place, placing pressures on the finger. Tungsten has properties where rather then bending and crushing, it would ra
