This is one of those moments I feel so out of touch with the community here. Is this even real life?
If you take a closer look, it's a brilliant sales pitch with an affiliate link to Amazon.
My Tungsten Cube (2019)
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Re: My Tungsten Cube (2019)
#112I want to buy one but looking at the Amazon Canada listing, it's gonna rack up to $250 + tax
Same in Germany, it's 250 EUR
~ 180 EUR if you order directly from https://midwesttungsten.com. Not sure if it's covers the import tax or not though.
Re: My Tungsten Cube (2019)
#113> I struggled a lot with deciding to buy a cube. It felt wrong to spend so much money on a featureless hunk of metal. When I bought my cube, I used it as an exercise to fight back against my frugality. But it wasn't meant to be: it was delivered to the wrong address and I received a full refund. Then my neighbor delivered it to me.
> But it wasn't meant to be: it was delivered to the wrong address and I received a full refund.
Then my neighbor delivered it to me.
This must have caused havoc with your frugality.
Re: My Tungsten Cube (2019)
#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
Good luck cutting it off in an emergency.
You can easily shatter it with a vice grip or locking wrench, and with the rise of tungsten wedding bands EMTs and hospitals are more and more equipped for this.
The better way to deal with that problem is by not having it in the first place.
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#115I had a neighbor a few years back who was a retired mechanical eng & machinist and as a retirement gift someone gave him a calibrated high percision gauge block set. There was some weird brain tingle I would get handling them, I think simply due to the extreme percision of them, I wonder if the sensation from handling the cube is similar?
There's only one way to find out...
Re: My Tungsten Cube (2019)
#116I have a tungsten wedding ring and the weirdest thing about it is how it bounces (on the occasions when it’s flown out of my hand - I don’t make a habit of doing so normally).
It’s dense/heavy so seeing it bounce so well is somewhat paradoxical.
(Side note: it may be impossible to cut through in case of an emergency but your finger is not.)
Re: My Tungsten Cube (2019)
#117I wish someone made a standard 608 (fidget spinner, skateboard, etc.) deep-groove ball bearing entirely out of Tungsten - it would be the ultimate desk trinket and I bet it would have the longest and most satisfying spins.
The tops look like fun: https://midwesttungsten.com/tungsten-shapes-toys/spinning-to...
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
How about the 4" 40 pound $2,999 one? > WHY? We thought nobody would buy our 17.6lb, 3" tungsten cube. We were so, so wrong
My sister owns two shoe stores in LA. It wasen't till she raised her prices significantly things got going. Wealthy measure value by price. (I don't get it.)
Shoes (especially the ones people buy for fashion value – think Louboutin stilettos vs. something more functional like New Balance sneakers) are a Veblen good. Their perceived value increases with their price. Like art.
Re: My Tungsten Cube (2019)
#119I didn't realize that tungsten was as heavy as gold. I always wanted to to hold a gold bar for the same reasons. When I see a picture of someone holding a gold bar, I always wonder if they are struggling much more than apparent because of the insane density (almost 20x that of same volume of water, 3x that of steel). I can't afford the $600K for a gold bar however.
Bank of England museum had a holdable gold bar. And yes, cage around it was probably for prevention of body damage, rather than theft.
Re: My Tungsten Cube (2019)
#120Earlier quoted context omitted.
For context, iridium is probably the densest material you’d want for a paperweight [1] but it’s rarer and more expensive than tungsten or platinum. [1]: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-heaviest-metal-I-can-legal...
https://luciteria.com/metal-cubes/iridium-metal-cube-9995
$9,000 for a 1cm cube. That's "winning the lotto impulse purchase" level for me.