Ring-slinging

[dvandom]

Well, this week the size 10 rings I bought back in July started to slide off the ring finger of my right hand. Being stainless steel, resizing ain't gonna happen. :) Unfortunately, I doubt my knuckles have gotten any smaller, and I know from July that size 9 is kinda hard to get over the knuckle of my ring finger...and cheap rings rarely come in half sizes. I suspect, though, that I haven't really lost that much fat in my hands in two months. It's more that in July my hands tended to be a bit moister, but now that it's cool enough I need to wear gloves in my office (the AC is working now, whee) my skin gets so dry that rings slide off.

On the other hand (no pun intended), the size 11 rings I had to give up wearing on my ring finger a few months ago now fit my middle finger, albeit a tad loosely, and I can almost get one of the cheap hematite rings I got back in grad school (which fit my pinky) on and off my ring finger easily. Well, on is easy, off a little less so.

For reference, back when I was 14 and taking a jewelry class, I had to use the base of the ring mold to make a middle-finger ring, because the biggest size (14) wasn't quite big enough for a cuff-style ring.

Sadly, my non-resizeable Legion Flight Ring was already a little too big for my middle finger when I bought it 110 lbs ago (my hands had shrunk a little already despite my gut swelling), so even with a spacer it ain't staying on anymore. Ah well. It's not like I wore it a lot...I have a tendency to slam my hand into doorknobs every so often, which is rough on rings. Hence wearing stainless steel in the first place.

I suppose this could be counted as one of those tiny little benefits of not being married right now. :/ Especially since my inclination, should I ever get married, would be to go for the titanium or tungsten carbide rings, which aren't resizeable the way gold is.

Oh, and the title of this post doesn't refer to having a Green Lantern ring (although I really should check to see if the plastic one I got last year is less constricting now). It refers to how a loose ring gets slung off my hand while I'm walking. I once did this so hard that the ring dented (it was a brass and copper ring I made in the aforementioned jewelry class).

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[sigma7.livejournal.com]

Dad regaled me with horror stories involving electricians and jewelry (and why he never wore any) -- so I've gone through fits and starts of going bare-fingered, but I figure The Abyss raises a compelling point in favor of keeping it on.

That said I do still kinda wish I'd sprung for the LSH ring -- when I was younger, I would've driven a bus of nuns off a cliff for one, even without antigravity alloy. (Its availability coincided with my disillusionment with the series, so I comforted myself with Spider Jerusalem glasses instead.)

About the only other jewelry that I'd consider donning would be a championship ring, but it appears these (http://jostens.com/sports/fan_sports/index.asp) are as close as I'll ever get....

[jarodrussell.livejournal.com]

Sadly, my non-resizeable Legion Flight Ring...

Then how does Shrinking Violet's stay on?

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

She sprang for the more expensive version.

[jarodrussell.livejournal.com]

Well, there you go...

[grant-p.livejournal.com]

Or just the resizable one.

[grant-p.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean, though probably for different reasons. My class ring is stainless steel, as I have some problems with gold and silver, ESPECIALLY silver. In both cases, they cause rashes. Stainless works perfectly well, except that you can't change it easily once you have it set.

You may want to look into the small metal bands that you can have temporarily or permanently attached to the rings, that go under the finger. It sort of 'fills up' the extra space, and stops the slinging from happening. They're cheap, usually.

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've used spacers before on the flight ring. There's also always looking into an O-ring at the hardware store. :) But when you're talking $10 rings, it doesn't do to spend too much on a solution when replacement is so cheap. I guess it's time to use my filled Hot Topic card to get a discount on a new ring.

[grant-p.livejournal.com]

I hadn't thought about O rings...that would probably work even better. Thanks!

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

An O-ring won't work too well on a narrower band like with the flight ring, but with a cuff-style ring it strikes me as being pretty effective. And a well-equipped hardware store will have them in so many sizes you're bound to find one that fits.

For narrower bands, if you don't want to buy a purpose-made spacer, get some thin (say, 1/8" or maybe 3/16") rubbery plastic tubing and cut a short length off, then slit it the long way and slip around the band. This, or a proper spacer, will tend to roll off the ring when you take the ring off, though.

[aardy.livejournal.com]

It's not as "techie" a solution as an o-ring, but the way I learned to deal with too-big rings was to wind yarn around the palm side until the ring fit better. The yarn gives a little, so it'll allow the ring to be put on and pulled off, but it also provides enough friction that it isn't as likely to get flung around the room if you talk with your hands and make an exuberant gesture.

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

However, I don't keep yarn around. :) That said, I got some o-rings yesterday, and they don't really work in a "between ring and finger" capacity unless you're lucky enough to have exactly the right amount of looseness. I'm currently using one as a lock (put on ring, then put o-ring on, so ring can't get past it), but that isn't exactly hidden. But I'm geeky enough to do it once or twice.

That said, the kind of ring sizers you buy at the store are really just sections of plastic tubing. For 19 cents you can get a foot of the thinner stuff and make all the sizers you could want.