Personalization
Custom Engraving
Make your handpan truly yours with hand-engraved designs.
Where It Goes
Two places, two outcomes
Engraving on a finished handpan can live in one of two places. Each has different implications for your instrument's tuning, so it's worth understanding the trade-off.
Interstitial Area
Engraving on the interstitial part — the space between tone fields — does not damage your handpan in any way and does not change its tuning.
- ·Fully safe on a finished instrument
- ·Keeps your current tuning intact
Tone Fields
Engraving directly on the tone fields creates the most striking visual effect, but the engraving process disturbs the tuning, so a full retuning afterwards is required.
- ·Most dramatic visual result
- ·Comes with a required retuning.
About the Color
Engraving on a finished instrument is white
A finished handpan can no longer be annealed. That means the color of the engraving is fixed — it will be "white" steel, the natural tone of the metal beneath the patina, and cannot be changed.
If you'd like a colored engraving (deep blue, bronze, blackened tones), we'll need to engrave during the build, before final firing. Ask us about this when you order a new handpan.
How It Works
Design
Share your vision — a symbol, pattern, or text you'd like engraved.
Engrave
Our artisans carefully engrave your design by hand into the steel.
Deliver
Your personalized handpan is tuned, inspected, and shipped to you.
Examples
Pricing
Engraving pricing varies based on design complexity and size. Tone-field engraving includes the required retuning. Contact us for a personalized quote.