personalized Engraving
You picked the perfect piece now you want to make it even more special?
Engraving is a great way to personalize your purchase. We offer a variety of different kinds, types, and options in engraving.
Types of engraving
What is the best type of engraving?
That answer depends on the subject matter and piece, if you are not sure allow us to use our talents to determine the best quality finished product that we can achieve.
Need advice on what to engrave?
After receiving thousands of engravings for many different types of pieces, here are a few things to help inspire you based on what we have seen!
Engraving is a great way to personalize your purchase. We offer a variety of different kinds, types, and options in engraving.
Types of engraving
- Laser Engraving: As the name suggests, a laser is involved with this style of engraving. In reality, a laser technically burns your message or design on to the designated surface of your piece. Laser engraving, or marking as it technically is, can be done on any metal. Just about any image, font, and design can be done using our laser engraver. If you would like something custom laser engraved on to your piece, chances are we can do it.
- Hand Engraving: Hand engraving, is done BY HAND by one of our many skilled artisans. This type of engraving takes a mastery of art, skill, and design, as well as the patience and precision of masters in our industry. Our master engravers have carved some of the finest timepieces, awards, jewelry, and other object d' art that the world has ever seen. Patterns produced can be defined by you or you can allow our artists to freehand using their master skills to create something totally unique. Of coarse, you can choose to pick the top of engraving such as; floral motif, scrolling, scenery etc.
- Machine Setup: This type of engraving uses a diamond tipped instrument that is aligned on either a digital machine or one of our machines operated by hand. This type is best used for initials, dates, symbols etc it ensures precision accuracy and simplicity in clean sharp designs.
What is the best type of engraving?
That answer depends on the subject matter and piece, if you are not sure allow us to use our talents to determine the best quality finished product that we can achieve.
Need advice on what to engrave?
After receiving thousands of engravings for many different types of pieces, here are a few things to help inspire you based on what we have seen!
- Date Engraving: A popular aspect of many engraving requests that we receive are dates. Dates mark that special day, whether it be your wedding day or the first time you guys met. Date engravings also serve the purpose of helping you remember as well!
- Most common date types for engraving:
- Date of Wedding Anniversary
- Proposal Date
- Date of love at first sight
- Date of Newborn's birth
- Date of Someone's Passing
- Most common date types for engraving:
- Quotes: Quotations can carry significant weight with them, especially when they have a special meaning. Special phases, make each piece special.
- Most common quote types for engraving:
- Personal quotes
- Famous quotes
- Biblical, Torah, or other verses
- Sayings
- Most common quote types for engraving:
- Symbols: Symbols can have special meaning or can be combined with quotes.
- Most common symbols used in engraving:
- Heart
- Infinity symbol
- Religious symbols (ex: Cross)
- Zodiac symbols (ex: Virgo)
- Most common symbols used in engraving:
- Custom Images: Custom image engraving is also possible! These can be pretty much anything that you can think of. Simple or complex, does not matter as we have professional designers on site to get the job right.
- Most common images used in engraving:
- Engagement photo
- Pet photo
- Favorite Place picture
- Family portrait
- Portrait
- Handwritten images (ex: signatures, quotes, etc.)
- Animal images
- Hobbies (sports, work, lifestyle, etc.)
- Fingerprints
- Footprints
- Most common images used in engraving:
Will the Engraving Scratch off?
The durability of an engraving done on the outside of a piece often times depends on the durability of the metal itself, the wear, and the environment of the piece being worn. Engravings on the inside of a ring, for example, will last much longer, as opposed to engravings done on the outside this is because skin cannot wear an engraving, though if you transferred that same ring onto a chain the engraving would wear in time. We produce the best quality engraving to last on each piece we do. We take pride in doing it right.
Where should my engraving be on my ring?
Usually, most engravings are done on the inside of the ring. That means it is the part of the ring touching you finger when you are wearing it. This way others can't see your special message unless you take the ring off. This generally works best for machine setup engraving.
However, some people want the world to see their engraving. In this case, they choose to have their engraving done on the outside of the ring. So, when they are wearing their ring, others can see their engraving message, pattern, or design. These designs are generally done by hand engraving or laser engraving though sometimes are machine engraved.
There is no right or wrong place to engrave your ring. It all comes down to personal preference, and we are proud to be able to offer you the option that suits you best.
What's the Cost for Engraving?
Pricing depends on exactly what you are looking for, as some engravings are complimentary and some can be extreme amounts of hand labor. Most simple engravings (initials of two and a date) are $60 or less. For more complicated designs, hand engraving, and laser engraving pricing is quoted per piece to give an accurate measure.
What can you engrave?
We pretty much any hard surface! We can engrave pretty much any picture, pattern fingerprint, design, handwriting, you name it! We aim to please, tell us more about what you would like engraved, or send us a picture!
The durability of an engraving done on the outside of a piece often times depends on the durability of the metal itself, the wear, and the environment of the piece being worn. Engravings on the inside of a ring, for example, will last much longer, as opposed to engravings done on the outside this is because skin cannot wear an engraving, though if you transferred that same ring onto a chain the engraving would wear in time. We produce the best quality engraving to last on each piece we do. We take pride in doing it right.
Where should my engraving be on my ring?
Usually, most engravings are done on the inside of the ring. That means it is the part of the ring touching you finger when you are wearing it. This way others can't see your special message unless you take the ring off. This generally works best for machine setup engraving.
However, some people want the world to see their engraving. In this case, they choose to have their engraving done on the outside of the ring. So, when they are wearing their ring, others can see their engraving message, pattern, or design. These designs are generally done by hand engraving or laser engraving though sometimes are machine engraved.
There is no right or wrong place to engrave your ring. It all comes down to personal preference, and we are proud to be able to offer you the option that suits you best.
What's the Cost for Engraving?
Pricing depends on exactly what you are looking for, as some engravings are complimentary and some can be extreme amounts of hand labor. Most simple engravings (initials of two and a date) are $60 or less. For more complicated designs, hand engraving, and laser engraving pricing is quoted per piece to give an accurate measure.
What can you engrave?
We pretty much any hard surface! We can engrave pretty much any picture, pattern fingerprint, design, handwriting, you name it! We aim to please, tell us more about what you would like engraved, or send us a picture!