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Tungsten Rings

GeorgeinSC

GeorgeinSC

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From time to time I pull a tungsten ring out of the sand/water. Wondering what you do with the ones that you find. There must be a good use of some kind that one can do with them.
 
That's a good question, I give mine away to friends & family.
Not sure what you can get for them. I just found one & ebay price was $110. But what could you really get for it, don't want to sit on them for long just for a few $$$$$
 
I have not sold any. I have gave some away. Buy GOLD rings now and wait for the economy to get better. Grease up with sun-screen drink beer and lose the gold. Those were the good old days. Just thinking about days gone bye. HH :minelab:
 
You have to admit, some of those tungsten rings are really good looking rings. It's not that they are ugly, or not stylish etc; it's purely because they are a poor substitute for a nice heavy gold wedding band that most of us are detecting for. It's the disappointment in digging on the beach what you really think is a gold ring and experiencing the punch in the gut seeing tungsten instead!:rant:.
So.......that's why they are hated and despised by most detectorists LOL!!!!!!! I have a collection of them but when family or friends want one, they are very welcome cuz there's no charge!!!!!!
 
Its a shame! Some of them are really nice looking rings too, like Goldstrike said...I bet they cost over 300bucks new...you see them on Craigslist for sale...I'm trying to sell one now to the guy who works down at the bait/beer store...all he needs to do is come up with 40 bucks! I have more junk rings than I'd like to admit, and the junk to gold ratio continues to climb...too bad they weren't all gold/ plat, or 925...
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I use the best ( junk) rinks for tipping. I give the waitress her choice, the ring or the cash. You would be surprised.
 
They're utter trash. I just throw them away. That's just horrible that someone can wear stainless steel or tungsten for a wedding ring. I think the trend first started back in about 1980 or so, when gold went way up the first time. It got to the point where high school kids couldn't afford to buy their high-school class rings anymore! So the school ring companies started making them in cheapo metal. And then ... pretty soon ...... it spread to wedding rings too. There's *always* been junk (aka costume/avon) jewelry over the decades. But I don't think it was until the last 20 yrs. or so that people actually started wearing the stuff for WEDDING rings, for pete's sake :(
 
You're right. That didn't sound good :( Some people just could no longer afford them after the 1980-ish spike, and then again the spike a few years ago. I spoke out-of-turn :( Ironically, from a strictly cosmetic and durability stand-point, the tungsten & titanium rings are probably every bit as durable and esthetic as gold. Heck, probably more-so !
 
I work in a pawn shop part time, and we won't take them at all. People bring them in all the time, telling us how expensive they are, or how much they cost them. But we only take gold and silver. And yes Tom, some of those class rings are Valadium(?), and we won't take them either. I wear a titanium wedding band that the little wife bought for me. But it's not for a lack of money...I'm just not real reliable with rings, lol. Speaking of...I have a 10k, 1979 SHS class ring somewhere along the Red River, west of Hwy 901, if anyone wants to look for it, lol. I haven't seen it since the fall of 1980, dang it. I was really proud of it at the time.
 
I may need to send my wife to find your ring for you. She recently had her left knee replaced and a couple of weeks after surgery she was going out somewhere and when she got to the bottom of our front steps she stopped for a second to regain her balance. She looked under a shrub that she planted many years ago that is by our sidewalk and noticed something round. When she took her cane and retrieved the round it it was our eldest sons high school class ring. He lost it in 1987 and he and I both have been over the yard numerous times with metal detectors to no avail. It was over 14 grams of 10K. She says that I need to get a titanium knee and that will do the job. I think I will just continue to struggle along with my Excal.
 
GeorgeinSC said:
I may need to send my wife to find your ring for you. She recently had her left knee replaced and a couple of weeks after surgery she was going out somewhere and when she got to the bottom of our front steps she stopped for a second to regain her balance. She looked under a shrub that she planted many years ago that is by our sidewalk and noticed something round. When she took her cane and retrieved the round it it was our eldest sons high school class ring. He lost it in 1987 and he and I both have been over the yard numerous times with metal detectors to no avail. It was over 14 grams of 10K. She says that I need to get a titanium knee and that will do the job. I think I will just continue to struggle along with my Excal.
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HAHA, dang that's crazy! I wouldn't even be able to get in the area I lost my ring at...
 
i'd rather find tungsten rings than clad or pull tabs i was in Mexico and pulled four tungsten rings out in at least fifteen minutes time. My son in law wears one of them. Got a Triton like new, guy lost it on his honeymoon on a friday and i found it on a Monday and he had left. This guy told me where he was in the water when he lost it and after the guy i was talking with left i found it in less then 30 seconds. My favorite Tunsten ring is my comfort fit Batman Ring it has a yellow batman design and iwear that all the time. That was two years ago in Siesta Key--Dew must of missed that. HH
 
I am glad that there are different strokes for different folks. I would much rather find a few dollars in clad that I can use to purchase a gallon or two of gasoline than find a tungsten or titanium ring. At least the clad has some value and the rings have no value to me. But our differences are what makes life interesting.
 
I didn't know they made rings out tungsten, titanium, or stainless until this year. I have gotten more serious with Tiger Shark and got away from the normal hunted out crappy beaches, suddenly I am finding them. Throwing them out would be a shame so I have thought about burying them on beaches so some other numb nuts could have a brief second of excitement! This would be considered recycling excitement and not wasteful.
 
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