Decide first what the tag should carry: a picture, a gold bar, diamonds or a plain face. Photo and bar tags took about six tenths of the sales here in the year, and the plain 10K tag sold the most pieces. Take 14K for a tag you wear every day, in yellow like most buyers. No plain tag promises engraving, so before you pay, give the live chat the words you want on the tag, or after 10 AM ET text them to 212-872-9692.
The tag: plain, diamond, photo or gold bar dog tag pendants for men
Pick the tag by what it carries. A dog tag is the flat plate with rounded ends the military stamps. Ours come plain, set with diamonds, framed around a photo, or built around a minted bar. Photo and memorial tags and the bar tags sold six pieces each over the year. The plain 10K tag sold the most pieces, the lightest tag we carry.
Engraving and photo: engraved dog tag, custom dog tag pendant, photo dog tag necklace
Settle engraving with the desk before you pay. Only three titles promise it, one reading Engrave Your Text and two reading Customizable, all 14K with diamonds. No plain tag says it takes engraving, so ask about the side, the lettering, the wait, and whether a tag cut with your words can come back.
For a picture, choose one of the eight photo and memorial pieces, a pet portrait among them. How the picture goes on and what you send are desk questions too.
Diamonds and gold: diamond dog tag pendant, iced out dog tag, 14K or 10K gold
The stones are diamonds wherever the title says diamond or Iced, as most do. The origin is printed on every diamond tag, natural on all but two.
Take 14K for a tag you wear every day. Three listings in four are 14K, most of the rest 10K, and there is no 18K or silver. A bar tag frames a minted bar, its own weight in the title. Nearly every tag offers yellow, white or rose from the menu, and three buyers in four took yellow. What the karats mean is on the men's gold chains guide.
Size and weight: how big a dog tag pendant is and what a gold dog tag weighs
The typical tag is about an inch wide and two inches top to bottom. The small ones run half an inch across, and the two money bags are the widest. Weight follows width. The middle tag weighs 15.8 grams, stones and bar included. A tag under three quarters of an inch wide sits near 6.5 grams. Past an inch and a quarter, it tops 40. Ask the desk whether a printed drop takes in the bail.
The chain and buying: what chain to wear a dog tag on, made to order and returns
Hang it on a box or rope chain, the two links the descriptions name most. No listing says how wide a bail opens, so tell the desk the link and width you wear. The bail and grams rule sits on the men's pendants guide, and a set tag has the chain and pendant sets guide.
Some tags are made for you, so ask the wait first. Those and engraved tags are final, and bar tags follow the bullion terms in the refund policy. Another tag, unworn and unaltered, gets fourteen days from delivery. Customer service clears a tag first at service@traxnyc.com or 212-391-3832, and sends our return label. The refund drops by that label and five percent restocking.