[jimnotgym]

Destruction? My wife crushed hers onto her finger in a cycle crash. It was across the park from our house. Her finger swelled terribly. I put her in the car and drove her to the fire station just down the road where they cut it off. I learned there was a special tool for this! I sent the cut ring to a jeweller friend of a friend... who melted it down and cast it into a slightly smaller ring! Edit: in another post there isa video where someone solders up a cut ring. My wife's ring was much more damaged by the crash than the rings in the video, hence the melt