Jarsa and Company Stone Engraving

Jarsa and Company Stone Engraving Jarsa & Company Stone Engraving

We transform the beauty and mystery of natural stone into tangible ways of remembrance, honoring and supporting (funds generation).

Here's a sneak peek screenshot of our upcoming video. Thank you to the Lean Rocket Lab and Drake Lolley at Advantage Vi...
09/07/2026

Here's a sneak peek screenshot of our upcoming video. Thank you to the Lean Rocket Lab and Drake Lolley at Advantage Visuals for bringing all this together.

I am now the same age as my grandmother was when I was born. That reality hits a bit harder these days. Forged steel...
08/13/2026

I am now the same age as my grandmother was when I was born. That reality hits a bit harder these days.

Forged steel / bronze-finish rose, 6" x 6" x 2" tumbled Pennsylvania blue stone base - approx. 13" tall.

We have the capabilities to incorporate a small titanium capsule with cremains in memorials like this.

Patiently on guard...more than we'll ever realize.
08/04/2026

Patiently on guard...more than we'll ever realize.

Natural shadow - Deeply cut inscriptions survive the test of time. No stain fill was used with any of these stones.
07/22/2026

Natural shadow -

Deeply cut inscriptions survive the test of time. No stain fill was used with any of these stones.

Facebook is abuzz with a familiar sounding situation in Kalamazoo, and it has the people talking!The general consensus s...
07/18/2026

Facebook is abuzz with a familiar sounding situation in Kalamazoo, and it has the people talking!

The general consensus seems to be about preserving history, and the need for making today's roads as just durable as they once were back when bricks were used (look how amazingly flat this section is).

We couldn't agree more!

I find it amazing how the algorithms follow you...even for the most out of the ordinary stuff, like this brick project i...
07/18/2026

I find it amazing how the algorithms follow you...even for the most out of the ordinary stuff, like this brick project in Kalamazoo!

Very, very cool!

Every once in a hundred years or so, a project such as this comes along... Back in May 2007, a major street constructio...
07/14/2026

Every once in a hundred years or so, a project such as this comes along...

Back in May 2007, a major street construction project in downtown Hillsdale unearthed a small mountain of paving bricks that had been part of Broad Street since the 1800s.

Sensing an opportunity to be a part of a very unique project, and preserve a special era of local history, we pitched an engraved brick fund-raiser idea to the city.

The undamaged bricks were rescued, cleaned and placed in a special area located in downtown Hillsdale's historic Mrs. Stock's Park, where they will continue to "live out" the next century or so without the fear of being dug up and shipped off to a landfill.

Most unusually, there is one remaining street in Hillsdale that is still 100% brick from the 1800s, and it's Monroe St.

Currently, Monroe St. is a very wavy, rollercoaster of a ride. But sometime in the near future, "progress" will eventually make its way towards that end of town. Hopefully, those bricks will be fortunate enough to find their way into local back-yard patios and walkways.

Hillsdale County Economic Development Partnership Lean Rocket Lab

June 16, 1986 - - - Forty years ago this morning, I walked through the door of North Adams Mold in North Adams, Michigan...
06/16/2026

June 16, 1986 - - - Forty years ago this morning, I walked through the door of North Adams Mold in North Adams, Michigan to begin my tool and die apprenticeship.

A gentleman by the name of Shannon Rowe saw enough spark in my eyes to give me a chance to learn a skilled trade that has served me well beyond my tool and die years. Born in the hills of Kentucky, Shannon's formal education ended at eighth grade, and he often credited the Army for "taking care of the rest".

The shop was small and archaic by today's standards. We had no CNC equipment at that time, and most of our machinery was from decades prior. Blueprints were hand-drawn and there were no computers to be found...anywhere...neither in the office nor the shop. Back then, hand-built wooden models were used to help create the impressions in tool steel that eventually formed plastic parts of every shape and size imaginable. But in all honesty, the shop turned out amazingly skilled work for our day, and for the technology we had to work with.

Including Shannon, there were only three of us. It was magical world where I, as a young buck, grew wildly and rapidly in my tool-making skills. I learned every process. And by the time I was a young twenty-something I could build out an entire project by myself...not because I necessarily wanted to...but because I had to. It was just the way things were done back then.



But it's a totally different world today. Tool and die shops now have to be incredibly agile and fiercely competitive, and that requires "departmentalization". Essentially that means doing one or two processes and then handing off the project to the next set of skilled hands.

Jarsa & Company could not possibly be where it is today without those early days of my career spent in the machine shop (All 30,000+ hours!). The research and development projects that have gone on to help us produce some of our best works were born there, and I'd be remiss if I didn't stop to honor the man who helped me set it all in motion. The two photos of myself essentially represent the "book ends" of my career.

Shannon passed away in 2000. I owe him a very large debt of gratitude for purposely and patiently seeing me through to becoming a journeyman.

"Rest in peace, dear friend. I still remember the sound of your voice often. Your relentless pursuit of new and exciting things has been a great inspiration to me these past four decades...thank you for being a friend".

Address

1831 Squawfield Road
Hillsdale, MI
49242

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm

Telephone

+15173574569

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