7. Addressing the Sizing Challenge and the Emergency Removal Myth One of the most significant trade-offs for the extreme hardness of tungsten carbide is its non-malleable, rigid nature, which has specific implications for sizing and emergency removal that must be thoroughly understood by prospective buyers. Traditional rings made of precious metals can be resized by a jeweler through cutting the band, adding or removing a small section of metal, and soldering it back together—a process made possible by their softness. Tungsten carbide, however, cannot be cut, bent, or reformed due to its immense hardness. This means that a tungsten bands ring is inherently non-resizing and must be worn in its original manufactured size. Quality jewelers mitigate this challenge by offering free sizing exchanges or an initial ring sizer service, but the ring itself cannot be altered once purchased.