Mens Rings Selection
By : Ted Crist
Men Rings
This article will tell you a little about mens rings, hope you can find something useful before you decide to buy a mens rings. Enjoy it 
Mens Wedding Rings
Mens wedding rings style and model is usually simple. Some of men don’t mind (or maybe don’t care) what they wear for their wedding. Besides that, there’s a possibility that mens spend a lot of money to buy his bride diamond wedding ring. Bride: “WOW! That diamond ring looks fantastic, can we buy it honey?” Groom: “Sure, go ahead, buy it” Bride: “What about You?” Groom: “nah it’s ok, I choose a simple one, and I am mechanic anyway; I won’t wear my wedding ring at work”
Mens Fashion Rings
Mens fashion rings usually is the opposite of mens wedding ring. Mens wearing fashion ring to attract attention. The models and style is also various and increase rapidly as the culture and lifestyle changes. Unlike women’s rings, you can find many strange and weird styles, from tribal, skull, ring with a club name, ring with a big gemstones, you name it. Mens usually wear a ring to show their identity, status, power, ruggedness, wealth and prosperity.
Mens Rings - In General
Mens rings are usually wider and thicker than womens rings, it makes ring sturdier and have a better durability. In addition, mens prefer ring that looks masculine, easy maintenance and comfortable to use. For comfortable reason, you may buy or ask the designer to make mens rings with a slightly rounded edge to make it comfort to wear.
Mens Rings - The Material
There are many options for ring material, such as gold (which is commonly used, especially for the wedding day), silver, stainless steel, Platinum, titanium and tungsten Carbide.
Gold Ring
If you choose gold mens rings, it is better if you buy 14K gold ring than 18K gold ring, because 14K gold ring is harder and stiffer. One thing you should know if you want to buy white gold ring is they usually plated with rhodium and it will wear off after some period of constant use. You can always replated again with rhodium, but as you know, it’s hard to ask men to bring his gold mens rings to the jeweler (but men always have a time to watch football or doing their hobby )
Silver Ring
Silver is quite soft material, it makes designer can easily create many models as they like; hence there is many models you can choose. Mens like silver ring because their relatively low cost; but on the other side they don’t like it because it’s vulnerable to scratch, dent and it will not shine again after some time. Silver rings are good if you like to change your appearance or your ring frequently.
Stainless Steel Ring
Stainless Steel ring is durable, hard to dent, the colors good (not easily tarnish and some report it doesn’t tarnish at all!), and for the bonus, the price is also affordable. Hmm… So what is the disadvantage? Stainless steel ring not so popular because sometimes people embarrassed if the others knew that they don’t spend a lot of money for their wedding ring, and stainless steel sounds like a kitchen ware But if you don’t care about what people say, and you don’t want to spend your money just for the ring, stainless steel is your best choice.
Platinum Ring
Platinum is a white metal, and it looks like white gold ring, but harder, heavier and stronger. Platinum ring is a rare material, that what makes platinum rings so expensive. The advantage of platinum ring is expensive, if you can afford to buy a platinum ring, it’s like a bold text say you are rich, and the disadvantage is… the price if you want to buy ring that looks like platinum ring, you can buy white gold ring or stainless steel, of course with much cheaper price.
Titanium Ring
Titanium is a hypo-allergenic and corrosion free metal. This material is light weight but strong. Usually the colors of titanium are grey, but there’s also black titanium and some anodized with another color. Mens like titanium ring because “titanium” sounds cool (at least for me ) and they like the color too.
Tungsten Carbide Ring
Tungsten carbide is the hardest material from all the material that used to make mens rings (8 - 9 Mohs hardness scale, while diamond is 10). If you want scratch resistance ring, tungsten carbide ring is your best choice. Because it’s hard, you can wear it anytime anywhere, but one thing to remember, it’s like a two sides of coin, if there’s an accident, tungsten carbide is also hard to cut.
Conclusion
There is unlimited choice of style and material for mens rings. When you want to buy mens rings, what you only have to do is choose your own style, choose the material, prepare your budget and don’t put your trust 100% to the jeweler, because more expensive does not always mean better.
About the Author :
Ted Crist is an avid writer, providing two minutes guide on diamonds, rings and jewelry. Feel free to publish, use or edit my article (for grammar corrections), but I would be very appreciate if you put link back to DiamondsRings99.com.
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