100+ Ways to Engrave Your Custom Jewelry

A row of pendant necklaces with different custom engraving options

Our bread and butter here at Waystone is personalized, custom jewelry. Not only do you get to send us your own stone to make your jewelry, but you get customize it with personalized engraving too. 

Adding custom engraving makes your jewelry that much more unique and meaningful. Thanks to our laser engraver, we can add your choice of text or illustrations to everything we make—yes, even the edge of stud earrings!

We give you 100+ engraving options to choose from when designing your jewelry. What you pick is totally up to you. Read on to see all the ways you'll be able to engrave your custom jewelry at Waystone, and get lots of ideas for personalized gifts to create.

 


Table of Contents

  1. Engrave a Message
  2. Monograms
  3. Flowers, Trees, and Peaks
  4. All 50 States
  5. Latitude and Longitude
  6. Zodiac Symbols and Constellations
  7. Your Custom Art
  8. How to Get Started

 

Pro Tip One thing to keep in mind—our jewelry personalizer adjusts the number of engraving options you see based on the size of the jewelry you've chosen. For the largest number of options, pick a big stone necklace like our large Lodestars.

 

Engrave a Message

Woman holding engraved silver pendant necklace that reads, "How wild it was to let it be." by Cheryl Strayed

 

Perhaps the simplest choice, and the most popular, is to engrave a personal message on your piece. We often see people engrave a love note, initials, meaningful quotes, a date, or their names.

As we mentioned, the larger your jewelry, the more space you'll have to engrave. For example, the Large Lodestar Necklace has room for up to 11 lines and 200 characters. The Atlas Cufflinks, on the other hand, have room for just one line and 22 characters on each cufflink. 

 

Examples of custom engraving on earrings, cufflinks, and necklaces

 

Monograms

A monogram engraved on a pendant on a chain

 

A monogram is a classy way to make your jewelry your own. When entering the initials for your engraving, be sure to enter them in this order: first name, last name, middle name.

That way, the first initial of the last name takes up the biggest spot in the middle, with the first and middle initials on either side. Don't worry; we'll give you an example to follow when ordering.

Don't want to include all three letters? No problem. Just enter the letters you'd like to engrave, and we'll adjust the spacing before engraving and send you a preview to approve.

 

Flowers, Trees, and Peaks

Do we stop there? No way! We love images of nature here at Waystone, and give you a plethora of North American flowers, trees, and peaks to engrave on your jewelry. We'll give you a preview of your art options here, but you'll have to start designing with the jewelry customizer on the product page to see them all.

 

Necklace engraved with a Columbine flower
A customer wanted to engrave a Columbine flower on their jewelry, so we created this art just for them. Let us know if you'd like to use it too!

 

North American Flowers

Graphic showing 5 art options with North American flower illustrations

Flowers are one of the most popular choices to engrave. Select from 11 designs to engrave many of the most popular wildflowers and cut flowers in North America. 

 

North American Trees

Graphic showing 5 art options with North American tree illustrations

Sturdy and strong, a North American tree is both a symbol of longevity and a marker of place. We've included a variety of trees from across all 50 states. 

 

North American Peaks

Graphic showing 5 art options with North American peak illustrations

We know that many of our people here at Waystone like to hike and climb. Choose from 11 of the highest peaks in North America to engrave on your jewelry. Just be careful about where you pick up your stone; rock collecting isn't allowed in National Parks. 

 

All 50 States

Here's an easy choice: engrave your home state! The jewelry customizer will give you the options to select art for each of the 50 U.S. states. 

Graphic showing 5 art options with U.S. state illustrations

Another cute idea would be to make matching best friends necklaces and each wear the other's home state. 

 

Latitude and Longitude

 

We make it easy to engrave latitude and longitude coordinates on your jewelry. If you want to commemorate a special place, like where you found your stone, just enter the coordinates to get them engraved.

 

Zodiac Symbols and Constellations

 

When we launched our delicate line of Compass Necklaces, they were too small for most engraving options except initials or a few characters of text (up to 16 characters on the Dainty size). That's when we added zodiac symbols to our engraving library!

Zodiac symbols are a great way to personalize a birthday gift. If you prefer to engrave your zodiac constellation, you can shop our gold and silver zodiac constellation charms.

 

four voyager charm necklaces with zodiac constellations.  Sagittarius,  Virgo, Gemini, and Aquarius charms pictured

 

Your Custom Art

 

Have something special you'd like to get engraved? We can convert handwriting, line art, and more into custom engraving for your jewelry. Send us a message to get a quote for your special request.

 

Line drawing of a childhood home engraved on a pendant

 

How to Get Started

Ready to design your engraving and preview what your jewelry will look like? Select a jewelry style then click the button to personalize your jewelry on the product page. You'll get to see a live preview with your choices before adding your jewelry to the cart.