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Engraved Wallets

Custom Engraved Wallets

Minimalist metal wallets engraved across the entire plate — not a small badge in the corner. Titanium takes the deepest, highest-contrast mark of anything on this bench.

Titanium minimalist wallet laser engraved edge to edge with a bald eagle over an American flag

Two metals, two completely different marks

Titanium oxidises. The beam grows a dark, dense layer straight out of the metal, which holds fine detail without the halo you get on coated surfaces and carries enough contrast for a full illustration at wallet scale — individual feathers on an eagle, the stripes of a flag, the flow lines of a river.

Anodized aluminum ablates. The laser removes the coloured anodizing and exposes bright metal underneath, which gives a hard white-on-dark image with no midtones at all. A photograph has to be converted to a halftone — thousands of dots of varying size — before it will read as a picture, and getting that conversion right takes test passes on scrap. It is the most demanding work we do and it carries the longest lead time in the catalogue.

Named runs for corporate gifting

The money clip is the part the owner sees a dozen times a day, so on a corporate run that is where the recipient’s name goes, with one or two company marks beneath it and artwork on the plate. Send a spreadsheet and each wallet is engraved, boxed and labeled to its recipient with no per-name surcharge under a hundred pieces.

Questions

About engraved wallets

What kind of wallet can you engrave?
Minimalist metal wallets — titanium and machined anodized aluminum, in the Ridge and Mountain Voyage Co style, with RFID-blocking plates and an integrated money clip. We can also engrave a metal wallet you already own as a quoted job.
Can you engrave a photograph on a wallet?
Yes, converted to a halftone raster. Contrast matters far more than resolution: a high-contrast image with clear light and dark areas reproduces well, a flat or busy one does not. We show you the converted art on the proof before engraving.
Will the engraving wear off in a pocket?
No. On titanium the mark is an oxide layer grown into the metal, and on anodized aluminum it is the bare metal itself exposed beneath the coating. Neither is a coating that can rub away.
Can both sides of the wallet be engraved?
Yes. A common corporate layout is artwork on the plate, the recipient's name on the money clip and logos beneath it. Second-side marking is included on the titanium models.