Three consecutive Gold wins for Best Place to Buy a Gift (2023, 2024, 2025) plus a Silver in 2022 — Finger Lakes Laser has essentially owned this category across the entire FLX Finest voting history. Operating out of Romulus, a small town on the western shore of Cayuga Lake between the Seneca and Cayuga wine trails, this custom laser engraving and 3D printing operation has turned personalization into an art form that Finger Lakes residents cannot stop voting for.

The business model is deceptively simple: bring your idea, and Finger Lakes Laser will engrave it, print it, or cut it into existence. Custom tumblers, engraved cutting boards, personalized ornaments, wedding gifts, memorial pieces — the range of what a precision laser and a creative operator can produce is essentially limitless. What keeps customers coming back is the execution. The engraving is clean and precise, the turnaround is reliable, and the willingness to take on unusual custom requests sets it apart from the cookie-cutter personalization shops that have proliferated online. You are working with someone who will actually talk through your idea rather than just uploading a file to a machine.

In the gift economy of the Finger Lakes, where every winery and tasting room has a retail section full of branded merchandise, Finger Lakes Laser has carved out a different lane entirely. The gifts that come out of this shop are genuinely personal — your names, your dates, your inside jokes, your pet's face on a tumbler. That specificity is why the voting has been so dominant. People do not just buy from Finger Lakes Laser; they give the results to people who remember where it came from. Four consecutive FLX Finest appearances, three of them Gold, is the kind of track record that turns a small-town maker into a regional institution.