The Foundoria Journal

Most people are choosing between rings. This lets you draw one instead.

It is the question that stops people buying tungsten, and it is almost always answered badly. A tungsten ring can be removed in an emergency, and it usually comes off faster than a gold one. Here i...

A black tungsten band starts at £104 and a black zirconium one at £449, and in a photograph they look identical. The difference is not hardness, it is where the black lives: one is a coating over g...

Nobody holds every size of every ring. On eighteen of our styles every size stays buyable anyway: if we have yours it ships from stock, and if we do not we make it, typically in 8 to 10 weeks with ...

Black is the most requested finish in men's rings and the least well explained. There are three ways to make a ring black, and only one of them cannot wear off. A UK buyer's guide to what you are a...

Most black rings are a grey metal wearing a black coat, and the coat comes off. Black zirconium is the exception: the colour is the metal's own surface, chemically converted to a ceramic during man...

Worried about fake meteorite rings? This guide walks through the four reliable authenticity markers (the Widmanstätten pattern, magnet response, weight, and natural variation), the signs of imitati...

An honest UK guide to the pros and cons of titanium wedding rings. We cover durability, sizing, hypoallergenic credentials, how it compares to tungsten and gold, where titanium isn't the right choi...

Muonionalusta is the meteorite with the blue-silver sheen. Formed 4.5 billion years ago, found in the Arctic Circle in 1906, and paired with titanium for a reason. This is what the material is, why...