Engrave Your Metals Permanently By Metal Etching

Getting your name, brand or any important happening engraved into a piece of metal is a true symbol of permanence. Getting your initials engraved in a locket, carving out the name of your loved ones on a bracelet or getting your company’s name carved on the keys of your office are almost equivalent to getting a tattoo but on a metal piece. This is done by a process called metal etching. It is becoming very common nowadays because people like more and more customized products. They don’t just want to spend money on a piece of metal but they want to buy something that they call as ‘their own’.

Metal etching is a process of engraving a design, be it text, numbers or an illustration, on a piece of metal. This was originally done by using very strong acid to melt the metal and then informing was carved into the metals. Metal etching has been prevalent since the beginning of time. It was done on coins, jewelry, monuments and many other things. However now the process has become a lot easier because of the introduction of technology.  Instead of acid, laser is used to carve out information which makes the process a lot faster and simpler.  The labor that was used for metal etching has now been to reduce to almost nothing. All we need nowadays are some advanced laser machines and one digital command to manufacture bulks of products one after the other. The quality is not compromised and a lot of products are manufactured with so much ease. 

Laser engraving has so many applications. It is used to carve into stone, plastics, natural materials, metal, glass and the end product is super finished and well put together. The finished products can be classified into jewelry, pieces of fine art and in a lot of industrial appliances like cylinders and many more.

The combination of laser engraving and metal etching leads to the making of very interesting products. It is not only used for extremely important things like carving out coins or carving out names for identity purposes. It is also used for carving out extremely creative pieces of art. Especially with the introduction of laser engraving into metal etching, beautiful laser cut signs are created for various purposes. These are customized signs depicting anything you want in any font, size and color made for decorative purposes.

These laser cut signs can be used as name and number plates for your house, for names of the bride and groom on the wedding day, decorative pieces of art for the walls of your room and many more. Not only this, people nowadays also like to etch their names on their tools. So now whenever someone borrows your hammer, your name on it will be a quick reminder for them to return it back to you. No matter how beautiful these laser cut signs might look, they can get a little expensive sometimes. There are tutorials on YouTube that teach you to do a DIY engraving on metals with some things available at your home.