Martin Dare Engraving

09/05/2023

It's been a while since we posted. We are delighted to be supplying brass plaques for seats at The Mowlem in Swanage and last week delivered the next batch and saw some plaques in-situ.

25/08/2022

We are all setup and ready to start engraving the winning trophies at The Melplash Agricultural Society after a two year break!

02/06/2022

For the Diamond Jubilee we engraved a church window with a design given to us from the church. We went back there last week to see where the next one was to go for the Platinum Jubilee. We will keep you up to date!

24/05/2022

One of our jobs last week was to engrave names on a batch of Ten Tors medals for a local school, such a fantastic achievement for all those taking part

13/05/2022

We are very pleased to be supplying brass plates to 'Project 62 at Shillingstone' for their Name Plate on the Footplate fundraising. This is the first of the name plates!

05/03/2022

The shield is ready for the Dorchester & West Dorset District Scouts swimming gala. Good luck to all the cubs and scouts swimming!

23/12/2021

23/09/2021

This was for a customer who wanted glasses for an anniversary present that had the same text and layout as some mugs they had seen!

06/08/2021

Well it's been a while since we posted, and we are happy that customers are visiting the workshop again rather than all online work! This was a job from this week, a wedgewood decanter which we engraved all the way around the base!

29/01/2021

This is one of the more unusual awards that we engrave each year! Unfortunately we didn't have this trophy last year as the shows were cancelled, we hope that they are able to go ahead this year

27/08/2020

So sorry that The Melplash Agricultural Society Show is not on today. I guess all these trophies will be waiting until next year!

09/07/2020

Earlier this year we were asked if we could engrave empty champagne bottles that a cricket team had used to celebrate their wins. Here they are each engraved with an image of the trophy they won!

01/06/2020

It's always lovely to see our engraving after we have sent it, and this glass red heart block was a gift a year ago for a wedding in more normal times!

21/04/2020

This vase was engraved with all the national trails paths that our customer had walked, 3029 miles in total!

09/03/2020

We engraved this silver plated trowel, it was a perfect retirement gift for a builder!

20/02/2020

Most of our slate signs are filled in with white or gold paint but this one was left as natural slate for our customer.

15/02/2020

This was an award from a week ago for the 40th anniversary of Crossways Pantomimers. Congratulations to all involved

10/01/2020

Great Britain bobsledders return Olympic medals after 'farcical' engraving error

Saw this article on the BBC website https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/winter-sports/51057315. It wasn't me, honest!!!

British bobsledders, who won bronze at the Sochi Winter Olympics, return their medals after "farcical" engraving error.

12/08/2019

We were bought these teaspoons to engrave for a vintage wedding. It's difficult to see on the photo but the bride & grooms initials are engraved on each spoon!

18/04/2019

We liked this trophy we engraved recently for a Spring Show - very unusual for a trophy but much nicer for the winner to have on the mantelpiece!

08/03/2019

The winners of the Rod Brewer Crossways Quiz Challenge trophy, this year in aid of Crossways Pantomimers, has now been engraved. Making up the Numbers were the first team to win the new salver. Well done to all of the teams at the quiz!

23/08/2018

All setup next to the Secretary's Tent, and ready for the winning trophies to arrive for engraving at The Melplash Agricultural Society. Good luck to all competitors!

30/10/2017

Here's a photo from CrystalSkins of a crystal phone case personalised with one of our brass signs. We think they look fantastic and so sparkly!!

27/02/2017

Lovely to see The Melplash Agricultural Society show on last Thursday's episode of the The Farmers Country Showdown. It's good to see what happens before we end up with the trophies to engrave throughout the day!

09/02/2017

We were bought a handmade bowl and rolling pin, and engraved the award name on a plate on the bowl, and the last four winners on the rolling pin. Its a great award for a cooking competition!

22/12/2016

We have now finished engraving for Christmas and will be back in the new year. Happy Christmas to everyone.

14/10/2016

We were delighted to be asked to engrave a brass sign for the official opening last week of the new level crossing at Norden Gate on Swanage Railway. This is part of the work to connect Swanage with the mainline at Wareham. Thanks to the railway for sending us the photo which is copyright of Andrew PM Wright.

03/10/2016

Here is another unusual trophy we were asked to engrave - a kettle! It's an annual award so has brass plates fixed to it which are engraved with the winners name each year.

19/09/2016

We haven't posted much over the summer, so here's our stand at one of the local shows, with house signs, slate, gifts and pet tags.

13/07/2016

A bespoke house number sign with a spiders web - another happy customer!