i get your situation. ours is different. possibly very unique. but i see people all day long with conundrum (sapphire) and diamonds worn on their hands. here is a good friend's ring, i know for a fact it slips to diamond on bottom alot... <http://yfrog.com/h6xp4nj> and it aggravates her ability to easily receive iDevices without über careful cradling.
so. carelessly; you mean any way with either hand?
see, i have rings on both. in fact cannot wear one of them because it scratches sapphire. actually both do but i just do not use left hand to pick up electronics anymore and neglect wearing a $1500 ring on my right. my wife has as many rings or more than, fingers. she hates that she must disrobe her fingers to use electronics. we find we cannot always pass the ipad/iphone so that you cusp it in your hands, there is alot of grabbing to pass going on, many ppl do that, we do that, with one hand. maybe most people dont wear alot of hand jewelry. we do. and we find gold and silver to be minor metals we have. jenn and i wear a lot of exotic metals and stones, all of which, except for maybe gold nad silver, scratch sapphire glass, except for some garnets i have ,but i have found even though they are softer than sapphire glass, they can scratch it how i dont know, but seen it happen, seen garnets softer than tungsten scratch tungsten even. the numbers dont match. either MOh was wrong or i have super minerals stronger than science knows about.still scratching my head at that one. if i wear all my rings i have four. the wife has some on her, umm above her knuckles. our ipads gets used 5-9X more than our macbook and the screen is ultra more prone to being scratched because there is no way to hold with with the screen closed, its always open. maybe your singlualr or 2 rings wont scratch, but our fifteen plus sure do have a high propensity for scatchging because we wear jewely. lots of it. just this year after 20, i went from over a dozen earrings to just four. sure we are careful, but mistakes happen and stuff gets used, worn out, and marred around here. i cant just cradle my ipad in my right hand 100% of the time. and even if i do my ring if i wear it will scratch it. i feel bad that my wife has to undress her hands just to use her two favorite pieces of electronics: ipad and iphone. but then, so must I.
that is us. i imagine most people are different. i know for a fact most people do not have zirconium ceramic rings on their hands. thats factual. yet. i do. my fault. my responsibility. inevitably, my scratches too. YMMV.
`KM
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On Jan 1, 2011, at 2:56 AM, Susan Platter wrote:
The point I was trying to make is: only my fingertips go near the screen. I don't see how any sort of ring could scratch it *in normal use*; the metal involved is, I should have thought, irrelevant. If you grab it carelessly, before closing the case, that is another matter, because you could scratch the screen then.RegardsSusan
From Susie's iPad.silver is softer than tungsten and diamond and garnet and sapphire.
silver wont scratch sapphire but sapphire will scratch glass and diamond will scratch sapphire, sapphire will scratch garnet; etcmoh's hardness scale.`KM"I'd rather have two girls at 21 each than one girl at 42. " ~ WC Fields
On Dec 31, 2010, at 2:00 AM, Susan Platter wrote:I'm still trying to work out how a ring can damage the screen. I wear two silver rings on my left hand (
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