I'm wearing a wedding ring and once in a while I damage anodization on my lights with this ring. Especially by trying to unscrew the bezel or head (when it probably is glued down).
But I can guess that it will damage the coating by longtime use as well.
1. Do you care? Especially if the lights are a little more expensive or has some special coating?
2. And if so, have you done something about it? Maybe adding a piece of tape?
Just wondering.
The first scratch is the hardest. Then I stop caring and enjoy my lights as they were intended to be used.
Lol.. yes, that is very true. Especially if they are used as tools. I am more of a collectore (and reviewer) where 95% is not used on a regular basis.
Wedding rings and flashlights are incompatible on a number of levels 
I do put EPDM or silicone thin wall tubing over the barrel of some of my flashlights, but it’s hard to find tubing of sufficient diameter with wall thickness of less than 1mm. Small diameter Ranger Bands (EPDM)from a certain manufacturer put on in series works well for many lights.
Usually I don’t care. These are tools and they are meant to be used.
Though I do have reservations sometimes…
Jimmy Fallon badly injured his hand because he was wearing his wedding ring and had a freak accident.
I'm not the type to get married, but if I were, I wouldn't wear a ring.
My wife stopped wearing her ring the first day she started study to be a sports masseur, decades ago. Because I took it off every time I washed my hands, I joined her. First only at home, later all the time. Mind you, when in the Navy, they are banned on ships. You might loose a finger when the ring sticks.
If you want to wear a “married” sign, put the ring on a necklace or a (leather) shoelace on your neck. Know that for some women a man without a ring is what a Yugo, Trabant or Pacer is for some men. 
If it’s a gold ring (soft) and anodised aluminium (hard), I would suggest that you’re actually scratching the ring and leaving a trace of precious metal on the light 
Locard’s exchange principle. In forensic science, this principle holds that the perpetrator of a crime will bring something into the crime scene and leave with something from it, and that both can be used as forensic evidence.
Somethings gotta go .. the ring or the light .
:Precious
LOL
If you care, take off the ring. For me, I go for the other option; I don’t care!
I can totally understand that. The marriage sign is important to me... but not extremely important. Once I scared a girl away that I was talking to a few times when she saw my ring.. Not sure what she was thinking about our conversations, but that 1 time when she saw the ring she changed her face... lol... and I never saw her again.
Wearing the band as a necklace pendant is news to me. Never thought of it. Should I ever get married (VERY unlikely), I’ll probably do that.
It takes a certain state of mind to worry about the flashlight and not about the ring 
My ring is titanium, but I don’t find the base of my left ring-finger interacting directly with my lights very often. So I haven’t had any issues.
I do most things besides sleep and shower with the ring on. It does comes off and go on a carabiner on a belt loop any time I’m working inside something electronic.
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LOL :+1:
I have been married 43 yrs and stopped wearing that pesty ring 25 yrs ago.
Had it resized 3 times and after getting hurt by it numerous times, off it went.
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My ring lasted a couple of months maybe a half a year. I think the wife wore hers for about a year. I didn’t like wearing it and once I read about injuries I took it off for good.
Lol, my ring looks a little worn.. so yes, I don't mind the ring too much ;)