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For the last couple of days, my ring has been itching and there's an awful rash. It has got so bad I've had to change finger.
speramus in juniperus
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Why don't you just listen to the Wizard and give this ring to a hobbit who will destroy it for you?
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Oh no! At times of stress I'm always playing with my ring.
speramus in juniperus
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: I'm always playing with my ring.
Probably why it itches then?
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More likely because I never take it off.
speramus in juniperus
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really ! What's Gin for then ?
Thanks,
Milind
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You have to quit the curry.
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Buckminster Fuller
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You have to quit the curry gin.
FIFY
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Gin isn't a problem, Gin is a solution.
Politicians are always realistically manoeuvering for the next election. They are obsolete as fundamental problem-solvers.
Buckminster Fuller
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You've got a sick and twisted mind, Jörgen... I like it! 
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I would advise you to be very careful when using a different finger to do the job the ring finger is intended to do. Whatever you do, do not use the nose-picker finger instead. 
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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My understanding is that the traditional Hungarian house-husband nose-ring, inserted by the bride during the four-day wedding ceremony, after the walk over live coals, often itches.
Changing the finger you scratch the itch with sounds like a very reasonable strategy, but you might also consider asking she-who-must-be-obeyed to extend your leash.
 bill
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Until the late 20th century, nobody knew how to take seriously a machine with a trillion moving parts. It's just mind-boggling." Daniel C. Dennett
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You should not have sold the gold one for a brass one.
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Assuming that fit is the problem, take it to a jeweller and get them to resize it 1/2 a size larger.
They've got a ring-stretcher, which avoids the need to solder a piece into it. At worst, it'll need to be annealed before-hand and re-polished afterwards.
No good however, if you've got one with filigree of any kind or a titanium insert etc, etc.
Many people find their jewellery gets uncomfortable at festive times of the year when people eat different food and their sweat has a different composition - in that case, just wash with soap and allow to dry before you put your finger back in your ring. A dirty ring finger is never a good thing!
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I had to have that done with mine years ago, after I gave up smoking - only problem was it's white gold, so it had to go off for Rhodium plating again...so it took a month.
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:eeeek:
Jeebus! bloody hell. Whenever we did a rhodium-plated one, it took an extra 2 minutes if the whole thing needed plating - so it would be 12 minutes instead of 10. The equipment is beyond basic - just a voltage & current controlled DC supply and either a rhodium plating pen for things like settings or a simple titanium mesh anode and a rhodium solution. Only problem was, a 100ml solution with 2g of rhodium used to cost $700 when I was still in the game 7 years ago. I worked with another fella, so we were just a two-man show.
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A two-man, two-minute show?
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I guess I kinda walked into that one. 
I suppose now would be a really foolish time to mention that he was Turkish?
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Was his name Sean?
Politicians are always realistically manoeuvering for the next election. They are obsolete as fundamental problem-solvers.
Buckminster Fuller
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 Nah, it was Tony.
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Out of curiosity, is engraving a problem for ring stretchers?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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As long as it's not incredibly deep, I can't see a problem.
Where you can run into trouble though, is if the ring is too large and needs to be resized-down. On one hand, you can saw out a small piece, which can obviously remove some of it. On the other hand, a ring-compressor can damage the edges of any engraved lines.
There are two types of stretcher, though one of them is actually a compressor - forcefully thinning the metal by compression to enlarge it. This is the type to use when the ring contains delicate settings which would burst if the ring was stretched, or rings that are significantly thinner at the back than the front - men's rings with a large onyx, for example.
The second type enlarges the ring by expanding a tapered mandrel to become thicker - this type is better suited to rings with external decorative engraving.
I never experienced any problem with rings that had engraved messages inside them. The ones that you did have to be careful with were the ones that were engraved on the outside, for decorative purposes. A popular fad for a period was Lord Of The Rings duplicates (which were invariably cast, from a mold taken of a ring that was originally hand/machine engraved) Porosity of the cast metal combined with variable strength due to the engraving meant that these sometimes got a little 'interesting'.
A really enjoyable job, but elephant working daily with cyanide and red-hot metal, with permanently black finger-tips from polishing for less money than hairdressers are paid! Never mind the stick-up risk. 
Type 1: Ring stretcher that uses compression[^]
Type 2: Ring stretcher/compresser 2-in-1[^]
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How long have you had the thing on??
My wife had a similar problem with a ring. Turned out to be an allergic reaction to the metal it was plated with. Having it re-plated with rhodium worked for her.
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Been wearing it pretty much always for 12.5 years. Mrs Wife put it on me when we got married and there it has stayed except when I was doing something exceptionally mucky or sticky - like working on the car or baking.
speramus in juniperus
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Well, the symptoms you described sound exactly like dermatitus or anaphylaxis.
Do you wash your hands with the ring still on? Has the wife changed soaps on your recently? Water and soap can stay trapped under the ring and, if not completely removed and dried, can cause the same dermatitus problem you're describing.
I've got a cobolt ring that I can't wear for more than a few days at a time because of an allergic reaction to the chromium used to plate it.
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