The Sign Maker: Grave Markers and Plot Markers
for Temporary or Permanent Use
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Grave Markers & Plot Markers...
Marking the Grave Site with a Permanent or Temporary Marker.
A temporary grave marker can be placed quickly after the burial, providing immediate identification for visitors and ensuring that the grave site is not accidentally disturbed. It can serve as a placeholder while the family plans and designs the permanent headstone.
The permanent grave marker serves several important purposes. It provides a lasting tribute to a loved one, honouring their memory and marking their final resting place. They help create a personal connection, offering a place where family and friends can visit, reflect, and pay their respects.
Grave markers not only commemorate the departed but also serve as valuable archives. They safeguard names, dates, and significant inscriptions, ensuring that the memory and legacy of individuals are preserved for posterity
A grave marker can bring comfort, provide closure, and offer a sense of permanence in remembering a life that has passed.
Engraved Memorial Plaques
An engraved memorial plaque paired with a tree stake is ideal for a grave marker. At The Sign Maker, we offer a range of materials for our plaques to suit every preference.
Brass, a traditional choice for memorials, provides a timeless, classic look but requires some maintenance. For a low-maintenance alternative, we offer weatherproof, UV-resistant exterior-grade acrylic, and stainless steel, known for its durability and long-lasting nature.
Stone-like Corian is another excellent option, offering long-lasting memorial in variety of stone colour. We even have full-colour plaques for a more personalised touch. Each material has its own unique appeal, ensuring you’ll find something to suit your requirements.
Tree Stakes and Plaque Holders
Our tree stakes and plaque holders provide a dignified and durable way to display memorial plaques at gravesites. We offer a wide range of tree stakes to suit your specific needs, including simple wrought iron stakes, stakes with attached metal plates, and tree stakes with two spikes for added stability.
For a more modern option, we also offer angle iron stakes equipped with security pins, perfect for mounting into concrete. In addition to wrought iron options, we provide wooden tree stakes and posts, as well as wrought iron plaque holders for larger memorial plaques.
Each option is designed to securely and respectfully display your memorial plaque, ensuring it stands as a lasting tribute.
Memorial Wedges - Granite & Slate
Our slate and granite plinths and wedges are great value for money. Crafted to have a sloping effect (measuring 50 mm at the front and 100 mm at the back), these pieces can be designed with engraved lettering or a mounted plaque.
If you decide on a plaque it can be crafted in Corian, Brass or Bronze, all of which pair up well with the stone plinths and wedges. Our bespoke memorial wedges are available in a variety of standard sizes.
ToughPrint Memorial Plaques
These plaques are ideal for full-color memorials with rich, vibrant colors. They resist fading, moisture, abrasion, scratches, acid, and harsh weather, including seaside conditions. Made from 3mm aluminum and fully encapsulated using a heat process, they have a high-quality, graffiti-resistant finish.
Text can be included on the plaque or they can simply be a photo which is to be mounted on another material or just as it is.
Engraved Wooden Crosses
Crafted with classic Oak, or Iroko - similar to teak, these memorial signs stand out for all the right reasons and would honour the life and legacy of someone perfectly. Handcrafted in four different sizes, these crosses make for simple yet beautiful memorial pieces. The lettering and images of your choosing can be lasered directly into the wood or onto a plate which is then mounted onto the cross - both options, though different, deliver the same quality appearance.
At The Sign Maker, we can also have painted hardwood crosses, delivering a memorial that may feel a little more personal to you or in line with the vision that you had. We always strive to meet and exceed your expectations with all of our signage and memorials, the memorial crosses being no exception.
Woodland & Natural Burials
Some woodland burial sites require memorials to be as natural as possible, which in most cases involves having a memorial plaque that is entirely wood with no metal fixtures. Our talented craftsmen can craft bespoke wooden memorial plaques to meet these requirements, while enabling you to access a design that works for you. We can even make wooden ashes caskets without screws.
Though we have a variety of solutions, our recommendations include wooden lawn memorials, wooden plaques fixed to oak posts with wooden dowels and oak crosses - all of which would make a fitting tribute for a loved one.
Stone-Like Corian Crosses
Stone-like Corian is a wonderful material. Unique in many ways despite it's similarities to Stone, many choose Corian for its vibrant colours and stand-out appearance. Others choose Corian based on the fact that though it is more expensive, it is longer lasting than many other materials. Its main advantage over stone is that the text can be much smaller, and detailed images can be included.
Corian also requires little to no maintenance throughout its life, which is a definite perk if you're looking for a straight forward memorial. You can purchase Stone-Like Corian Crosses (both standard and Celtic crosses) in four different colours.
The memorial crosses are used as grave markers or permanent memorials.