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 pos...