Custom Metal Business Cards, for Any Business Tired of Being Forgettable
Wood is our thing, mostly. But a business card doesn’t have to be cardboard.
We engrave these on our secondary laser, built for smaller metal work, in anodized aluminum. Thin like a standard card, but metal, so it makes an impression the moment you hand it over. Doesn’t matter what industry you’re in. Contractor, esthetician, financial advisor, dog groomer, it works because it isn’t about the industry. It’s about not being the same card everyone else is handing out.
Same Precision, Different Material
Same precision and attention to detail you’d see in our wood pieces, just applied to a different material. The secondary laser gives us the control to engrave crisp line work and text into something as unforgiving as anodized aluminum, without the card warping or the finish chipping at the edges.
These two sets were made for Hydra Plus Irrigation and Earth Unlimited Worx, businesses that hand a card over on-site, standing in a driveway or a half finished yard. But the same card works just as well coming out of a blazer pocket at a networking event, or across a desk during a consultation. The setting changes. The point doesn’t.
If your business needs something outside the usual, we’re set up for it. Available in a range of colours.
Thin like a standard card, but metal. That’s the whole point — it doesn’t feel like every other card in the stack.
Why a Card Like This Actually Works
Seth Godin, one of the most influential marketing minds of the last few decades, built a whole book around this idea — Purple Cow — and the premise is simple. Drive past a field of brown cows and you don’t notice a single one. A purple cow, you remember. Godin’s point wasn’t really about cows, it was about business: in a market flooded with sameness, fitting in is the risky move. Being forgettable is the actual failure mode, not being different.
A business card is about as brown-cow as marketing gets. Doesn’t matter what industry, everyone has one, and most of them are the exact same rectangle of card stock. A quick glance, then a drawer, then the trash by the end of the week. That’s not a knock on any one business, it’s just what happens when a hundred people hand you a hundred identical cards.
A card that’s cold, heavier than expected, and catches the light like brushed metal doesn’t get that treatment. It gets held a second longer. Shown to a coworker. Kept on a desk instead of filed away. None of that is an accident — it’s the whole reason to make one in the first place. The card itself becomes the reason someone remembers the business, weeks after the conversation ends.
That’s the bet with a piece like this, no matter what the business is: the extra step, the different material, the thing that makes someone stop for a second — that’s not decoration. That’s the whole job.
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We do custom work — and we love a good challenge.
Company swag, personalized gifts, one-of-a-kind keepsakes — if it can be engraved, cut, or poured, we're probably into it. Send us your idea and we'll figure out the rest.
