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Driftless Memorial Co.
Hand-engraved memorials for the ones you lost — the people and the animals both.
Made in Trempealeau, Wisconsin, in the part of the country the glaciers went around.
What we make
Every piece starts the same way — a picture you already have, cut into blackened aluminium so the image comes up silver. No ink, no printing, nothing to yellow on a windowsill.
Pets & people
Wallet-sized, engraved with their photograph and their name. The one people carry.
Pets & people
Sized to the urn you already have, so nothing has to be replaced.
Pets
For the spot in the yard where they used to lie. Weather doesn't touch it.
People
For a memorial bench, a planted tree, a bench at the ballfield.
People
A companion plate for an existing headstone — a photograph where the stone has only a name.
Pets
Their tag, kept — remounted and engraved rather than left in a drawer.
The engraving is the memorial. Anything digital is a bonus, never the substance.
Optional, and only if you want it. A small chip can be set into the back of any piece. Touch a phone to it and a page opens with more photographs, video, and room for family to add their own memories over time.
We'll say plainly what we can and can't promise about a web page twenty years from now. What we can promise is the object in your hand — that one doesn't need us, or electricity, or a company still being in business.
How it works
A phone picture is usually fine. If it's an old print, we'll scan it. We'll tell you honestly if an image won't engrave well before you pay anything.
You see exactly what it will look like, with the name and dates set, before anything is cut. Nothing goes on the machine until you say yes.
One piece at a time, on our own machine, in our own shop. Not sent out, not drop-shipped.
Locally, in person, if you're near. Otherwise it ships in a few days — and if a name is wrong, we make it again.
Why this exists
The first memorial we ever made wasn’t for a customer. It was a photograph of two dogs on a deck, engraved one evening because there wasn’t anything else to do with the feeling.
It turned out we were good at it. Engraving a photograph into metal well is genuinely hard, and most shops do it badly — faces come out muddy, or flat, or not quite like the one you remember. So we decided to do it properly, for other people, at the moment they need someone to get it right the first time.
For Pippa and Sasha.