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What this site is, what it deliberately is not, and how it came to sit on this domain.
This is an independent reference about engraving, marking and personalisation. It explains how things are marked, which processes suit which materials, and where UK law or a British Standard has something to say about the result.
What it is not
It is not a workshop and not a business.
- Nothing here is for sale. There are no prices, no product listings, no ordering and no quotations.
- No work is undertaken. There is nobody here to place work with, and no commercial operation behind the site.
- It is not advice. Where a page touches hallmarking law, advertisement consent, safety signage or tax, the linked primary source is the authority and this site is orientation.
How it is written
Every substantive page carries a Further reading block linking the sources it was written from — legislation, HSE guidance, British Standards documentation, museum and trade technical material. Those links are the point rather than an ornament: a page here should be a route into the primary material, not a substitute for it.
External links carry rel="nofollow noopener". The site makes no third-party requests when a page
loads: no external fonts, no scripts, no trackers, no embedded media.
The domain
creative-engraving.co.uk previously carried a commercial engraving business, and later a small
blog on personalisation and interior decor. That business is gone and this site has no connection
to it. Nothing of its identity is reproduced here — no trading name, no staff, no address, no
telephone number, and none of its photography.
Between 2021 and 2022 the domain’s WordPress installation was compromised and used to host
injected link-spam posts in several languages on entirely unrelated subjects. None of those pages
are reproduced. The full list, and what was done about it, is recorded in REMOVED-URLS.md in the
site repository.
Old addresses from the previous site are preserved where the subject survives: the .html pages
redirect to their equivalents here, and the blog posts keep their original paths. The mapping is
in URL-MAP.md.
Contact
By email only, at the address in the footer, and on the contact page.