Compressed carbon

**Damn True** · 12-12-2005

Just purchased the most expensive item I've ever bought that cannot be either lived in or driven. Heck....it was more expensive than most of the cars I've bought......yikes.

Amazing what they charge for something like a bit of gold and a hunk of rock.

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**6'9"Witha69** · 12-12-2005

Yeah, amazing how that worls. Mother nature does all the work, some dude digs it up, cuts it up and shines it and you have to pay a fortune for it.

Did she help or are you surprisisng her?

**Derek69SS** · 12-12-2005

I did the same last year for Christmas

Tiny little 1/3K and it still cost more than 9 of the 13 cars I've owned

**Steve1968LS2** · 12-12-2005

Originally Posted by Damn True

Just purchased the most expensive item I've ever bought that cannot be either lived in or driven. Heck....it was more expensive than most of the cars I've bought......yikes.

Amazing what they charge for something like a bit of gold and a hunk of rock.

The whole diamond industry is sort of a sham.. they create demand and most of it is ran by Debeers which, due to the fact that it's a monopoly, can't even sell in the US.

But, giving a Diamond is tradition so what can you do? ;)

I could have given you a hell of a deal on a certified half-carot diamond I have laying around, high quality. Make you good deal.. lol

What's funny as well is how much more platinum costs over gold.. (insert fainting here)

**Matt@RFR** · 12-12-2005

You guys are doing something wrong! My fiance wants me to design rings for us and have them turned on a CNC lathe out of Titanium. I'll have maybe $50 in two rings.

Sucka's!!!

**ilovefirstgens** · 12-12-2005

Matt,

Who is she and does she have a younger sister?!?!

**Matt@RFR** · 12-12-2005

She has a brother who's in jail....is that close enough to a girl for ya? lol

**Damn True** · 12-12-2005

Originally Posted by Matt@Lateral Dynamics

You guys are doing something wrong! My fiance wants me to design rings for us and have them turned on a CNC lathe out of Titanium. I'll have maybe $50 in two rings.

Sucka's!!!

Well the wedding bands are going to be Ti or Tungsten Carbide. I'm leaning for the Tungsten because............prepare for mushy metaphorical stuff.............it is indestructable.

**baz67** · 12-12-2005

True you are starting to scare me. What about us morons on our second wife. We had to but two of the damn things. Just to piss of my first wife, and I could afford more, my second wifes ring is twice the size of the firsts.

**TonyL** · 12-12-2005

talk to your local ER about titainium rings. when you smash them, bolt cutters dont help. nor do most saws. Figure the rest out from there.

I found a six carat ziconia solitare on the ground a few weeks ago. Im making it into a ring for my wife. the thing is massive.

**toxicz28** · 12-12-2005

Originally Posted by Damn True

I'm leaning for the Tungsten because............prepare for mushy metaphorical stuff.............it is indestructable.

You should've seen my tungstens when I first tried tig welding!

**TonyL** · 12-12-2005

here it is.

and people laugh at me for having to pic up the trash around here.

lol.

**Damn True** · 12-12-2005

Originally Posted by baz67

True you are starting to scare me. What about us morons on our second wife. We had to but two of the damn things. Just to piss of my first wife, and I could afford more, my second wifes ring is twice the size of the firsts.

Well this is my second one (and last) as well. The first for her.

The cool part is, that the first wife got her ring when I was an E-3 in the Coast Guard, Kathy gets hers from a guy at a significantly better "station" in life.

**Matt** · 12-13-2005

Shoulda asked me (not that I said anything) my family has a jewelry store.

As for Steve-o's comment...
Debeers controls 52% of the market now, less than ever before. And with the online e-tailer (read my next big project, shhh) diamond prices are coming down dramatically. Russians, and Canadians are also big in the market now. Plus you have to remember ever single facet is painstakingly cut, and considering most diamonds have upwards of 60 facets, that's a lot of work into each stone.

And the deal with platinum... well when you get a platinum ring you're getting a chunk of platinum, 14k gold is roughly 50% pure, and Platinum is also much much heavier per volume, so you'll wind up paying a helluva lot more for a platinum rig than a gold one.

hey, what is that like a 2.5-3 carat stone?

**Steve Chryssos** · 12-13-2005

Spending four or five digits on something that doesn't have moving parts is such a shame.

Maybe she'll go for some carbon brake rotors. Isn't that almost the same thing?

**CraigMorrison** · 12-13-2005

Hey! Is this Pro-Touring.com or did I log onto the Lifetime Network / Oxygen Channel forum by mistake!

Congrats on your purchase! Very cool. My wife and I had her ring custom made by a designer/friend. Very special trip that scored A LOT of brownie points.

Steve- That spare rock you have.......I'm thinkin' you need to take that bad boy to your dentist and have that mounted in one of your front teef.
BA-LING, BA-LING! Nothin' says PIMP like this!

**Steve Chryssos** · 12-13-2005

Yeah yeah--Chrome in da grille!

**Matt@RFR** · 12-13-2005

Originally Posted by TonyL

talk to your local ER about titainium rings. when you smash them, bolt cutters dont help. nor do most saws. Figure the rest out from there.

I found a six carat ziconia solitare on the ground a few weeks ago. Im making it into a ring for my wife. the thing is massive.

I heard the same thing, so I went to the two local hospitals, and also contacted a few people I know that work in ER's...this seems to be a myth, as everybody I could get ahold of said that their standard ring cutters work just fine with Ti rings.

**landyacht67** · 12-13-2005

You should try thius line: "but Zirconia looks just like a real diamond honey"

hmmmmm. probably not a good idea.

Congratulations

Julian

**toxicz28** · 12-13-2005

Originally Posted by TonyL

I found a six carat ziconia solitare on the ground a few weeks ago.

No, no, no! It's an "industrial" diamond!

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