Custom Monuments and Headstones
Custom Monuments are handcrafted works of art. These monuments are offered in many designs, colors and sizes. Always check with your cemetery for acceptance of custom designs. Josh Rapozo at American Headstones can create almost any custom monument and headstone you can imagine. The creative minds at American Headstones are hard at work making sure you have all options available for your custom monument, marker or headstone.
All cemeteries have their own specific rules and regulations or what they will allow to be installed into their cemetery. This means that it is extremely important for you the customer to understand and have a copy in writing of these rules and regulations. If the cemeteries rules and regulations are not followed the cemetery has the right to refuse the delivery of your marker or monument.
Here at American Headstones Company we have the ability to create custom memorial headstones. Whether it is custom writing or custom design work that you are shopping for we are more than happy to listen to your requests and see if we can create a design that fits your family’s needs to memorialize your loved one in the personal way you are looking for.
Languages
We have the ability to engrave multiple languages such as English, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Farsi, Arabic, Hebrew as well as many more. Often; all we need is for the family to type the writing in the given language into an email or even into a text message and send it over to us. From there we have the ability to import it into our design software. We also have a few fonts in each language to choose from.
Photos
We are a certified retailer of Paradise Pictures porcelain cameos, which are manufactured here in California. The clarity and vivid colors are by far the best that are offered for memorial photos. We can have them made in full color or black and white. We offer multiple shapes and sizes to choose from. We even have the ability to do inset photos as large as 10” x 22” which often times are used to form a collage of photos. If we can do it in Photoshop then we can have it printed. We do ask customers to be aware that the process of making a photo that lasts outside in the elements requires it to be kiln fired at extremely high temperatures as well as using only the best proprietary toners. Always keep in mind that colors change slightly when they undergo these extreme high kiln temperatures so what you see on your computer screen will vary slightly from the final product.
Artwork
At American Headstones Company we are more than willing to go over the manufacturing tolerances needed if you are interested in creating your own design using your personal design software. We can provide you with the needed file types to send over in order for us to be able to import the file into our program. Although there are many manufacturing restrictions in order for us to be able to successfully engrave your design it can be very satisfying for families to design a completely custom memorial for their loved one.
Things We Cannot Make
There are some processes we do not offer here at American Headstone Company. We do not offer any laser photo etching or diamond bit engraving. We also do not offer bronze cameos.
Using AI For Designs
As AI is increasingly becoming used more and more we have been receiving a surge in headstone designs done through numerous AI applications. Families need to remember that AI does not take into consideration any of the manufacturing restraints and tolerances so you will more than likely be left with a design that realistically cannot be made. The best piece of advice I can give is design things using black and white silhouette style of clipart.
For more information on a custom monument, marker or headstone, contact American Headstones at (949) 228-7055. Ask for Josh Rapozo and speak with Josh about all options available for your custom monument.