How do you engrave stone?

Answer 1

Almost all stones can be engraved via a number of ways. I say almost all because some stones are either too dense and others just break apart to easily. But for your regular density stone there are number of ways you could go about for engraving it.

You could go to a laser engraver, a rotary engraver or a sandblaster. The laser engraver uses a laser that essentially evaporates some of the material on the surface of the stone to present the desired engraving. Laser engravers have a wide range of ability as they can do black and white clip art/graphics and text. The rotary engraver uses a tool very much like a dremel tool that drills out the area to be engraved. Rotary engraving is a little more limited as they can not do the detail that a laser engraver can. Last is the sandblaster who basically blasts sand or other particles at the stone to be engraved to remove some of the surface of the stone. Sandblasting is also limited as a template will need to be made in order to engrave the areas only desired.