Hello! I've got a customer who wants drawings of their cats' faces engraved onto some kind of bracelet. There are 5 different faces in total which are all to be engraved onto one single piece of silver sheet, almost like a name plate but with cat faces instead of letters!
I've contacted a local engraving place and explained the task and the quote they came back to me with seems a tad excessive. They've quoted £18 set up for each of the faces and a seperate £25 fee for "sharp diamond engraving".
Obviously they are completely entitled to charge what they feel is right for the task and I respect that. I honestly had thought that it would be much cheaper though.
Now I'm by no means a source of knowledge on engraving machines or their functions at all so I wanted to ask for some advice. Is there a cheaper way of getting this done? What would the best way be to do it? In my mind I had the idea that all 5 faces could be one single image which could be loaded into the software of the engraving machine and engraved on the bar all at once. I also would have personally thought that this task would have been more suited to a laser engraver but could be wrong. Anybody got some words of wisdom for me here? Maybe a recommendation of somewhere that could do this sort of thing for me. Also what could I reasonably expect to pay for this?
Thanks in advance for any advice and happy holidays!
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