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WHEN YOU NEED THE HIGHEST QUALITY CUSTOM PIN:

Custom Hard Enamel Pins

The cloisonne or hard enamel lapel pin style is perfect for putting your best foot forward. So when you need to present a high quality lapel pin as a gift or an award or when you want a classy looking custom enamel pin this is the style for you. The custom cloisonne enamel pin is the “go-to” style for Fortune 500 businesses, government agencies and pins made for resale because they are rest assured that their pins will convey the importance and significance of the recipients.

WHAT ARE HARD ENAMEL PINS?

The style of custom hard enamel pins are defined by two characteristics. The first being the colors of the pin utilize an enamel that has a glass-like quality to it. Second, the pin face is entirely smooth and flush. This look is achieved with an enamel that when polished gleams like glass. It’s not surprising when hard enamel pins are turned into wearable jewelry, like necklace charms, because of the look and feel of these custom pins.

TOP 5 REASONS WHY YOU NEED A CUSTOM HARD ENAMEL PIN:

You want to make and sell your own pins on Etsy. The vast majority of pins sold by small businesses and individuals as a means of income are hard enamel or cloisonne pins.
You want the highest perceived quality custom enamel pin. Do you need to put your best foot forward? If you need to impress a client or your boss, this is the pin style for you.
You need to create charms, earrings and other jewelry-like goods. A custom hard enamel pin can easily become a charm, necklace or earring by modifying or removing the post on the back of the enamle pin.
Your custom enamel pin design calls for fine detailing which calls for Silk Screen printing. Is your custom pin design intricate? Your pin may benefit from silk screening, which hard enamel pins allow, if so.
Your company is recognizing employee accomplishments and anniversaries. When showing your appreciation to your ever important employees, giving a high quality award is paramount. The custom hard enamel pin fits the bill in that respect.

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CUSTOM HARD ENAMEL LAPEL PIN PRICING:

	100	200	300	500	750	1000	2000	3000	5000	10000
.75"	$2.56	$2.03	$1.48	$1.25	$1.14	$1.07	$1.00	$0.92	$0.77	$0.69
1"	$2.58	$2.08	$1.58	$1.29	$1.18	$1.10	$1.11	$0.98	$0.88	$0.79
1.25"	$2.70	$2.16	$1.66	$1.36	$1.21	$1.16	$1.10	$1.01	$0.92	$0.89
1.5"	$2.93	$2.42	$1.90	$1.45	$1.38	$1.30	$1.25	$1.09	$.92	$0.93
1.75"	$3.20	$2.58	$2.10	$1.78	$1.69	$1.58	$1.50	$1.33	$1.15	$1.15
2"	$3.50	$3.01	$2.50	$2.01	$1.92	$1.80	$1.76	$1.53	$1.40	$1.40

FOR ANY PREFERENCE AND OCCASION:

Custom Hard Enamel Pin Plating Options

Our hard enamel pins are, of course, made of metal but they can be plated with various metals according to your liking. Sometimes the pin plating would be determined by an event or an occasion. A good example of that would be representing a 25 year anniversary with a Polished Silver metal plating. If you have a personal preference for a metal finish, such as having your custom lapel pin matching your gold jewelry, not a problem there. Find all of the metal plating options for your pins below:

POLISHED GOLD

Free

POLISHED SILVER

Free

POLISHED COPPER

Free

BLACK NICKEL

Free

BLACK METAL

Free

ANTIQUED GOLD

$.10 per pin

ANTIQUED SILVER

$.10 per pin

ANTIQUED COPPER

$.10 per pin

DUAL PLATING

$.40 per pin

WHEN THINGS CALL FOR A LITTLE MORE PANACHE:

Hard Enamel Pin Design Options

Who doesn’t like to upgrade? All of the enamel pins we make are awesome as they are but if you want to spruce up yours there are many different options that can add eye catching elements. Here are some of the enhancements we offer for our custom lapel pins.

CUT OUTS

$.10 per cut out, per pin

GLITTER PAINT

$.15 per color, per pin

TRANSLUCENT PAINT

$.15 per color, per pin

SILK SCREEN

$19.00 Setup fee per color + $.10 per color, per pin

3D MOLDING

$150.00 Setup Fee

ABOUT THE THINGS THAT HOLD YOUR PIN TO YOUR LAPEL:

Our Custom Hard Enamel Pin Clutches and Backings

The custom enamel lapel pins we create come standard with a rubber clutch but if you’re looking to upgrade here are the available clutches and backing options:

RUBBER CLUTCH

Free

BUTTERFLY CLUTCH

Free

JEWELRY CLUTCH

$.30 each

MAGNETIC BACKING

$.70 each

DELUXE CLUTCH

$.20 each

WHY CUSTOM HARD ENAMEL PINS?

The Difference Between Hard Enamel Pins and Other Pin Types

There’s a misconception that there is one particular type of pin that is “better” than another with custom hard enamel pins being touted as the pinnacle of what a pin can be. If that assumption was true than it would mean the other types of pins, such as soft enamel, would be inferior to the hard enamel pins. That couldn’t be any further from the truth. All of the pins we make are handmade at the highest quality by craftspeople with years of experience, sometimes decades. What really separates custom pins from each are their application, essentially the environment the pins would be used in or how they are worn. Custom hard enamel pins, for example, are found almost exclusively in corporate life whereas a sports trading pin has always been designed with the mindset it will be manufactured as a soft enamel pin.

WHERE DID ENAMEL PINS COME FROM?

The History of Hard Enamel Pins

The origins of enamel pins reaches back thousands of years. It probably wouldn’t be all too surprising to hear that decorating ourselves with shiny jewelry and precious metals has been a practice that has spanned the time modern humans walked the earth. Among the gems that adorned our ancestors were intricately designed cloisonné enamel based brooches, rings, hairs pins and crowns. Where modern pins now use strictly mixed paint enamels to create hard enamel pins, in the past the cloisonné enamels were made of glass like compounds, like silica, along with traces of metal alloys. The mixture was melted together and poured into pieces of jewelry with their design dictated by metal boundaries created with hand laid wires or depressions made with tools. You can imagine these ancient jewelries as miniature stained glass pieces with solid glass colors separated from each other. So how ancient was ancient in terms of cloisonné enamels? Try the 12th Century BC, some fourteen thousand years ago. Before civilization as we know it existed, craftsmen were laying the foundation of a practice still used in the present day. As incredible it is to see a tradition last generation after generation, it may equally be incredible that cloisonné-like enamel jewelries are beloved to this very day.

HOW ARE ENAMEL PINS MADE?

Manufacturing Hard Enamel Pins

The process of creating a hard enamel pin from your custom design starts with converting the Adobe Illustrator file, that contains the design, to a 3D image in CAD which can then be exported into a STEP file. The new file format is required by our CNC machine which cuts your enamel pin design, reversed, in to a steel die. We utilize that die to stamp the custom enamel pin design into a long ribbon of metal with a stamping machine. To remove the excess material, from around the pin design, sheers and grinders are used. To give the uncolored pins a smooth edge, sanding is typically required. These blank pins have their pin posts welded on and then are attached to hangars. The hangars are what suspends the pins in an electroplating bath to apply your desired metal coloring such as gold, silver or copper. With the the pins plated, they are set aside to dry. At this point, the pins are ready for coloring. The painting process is done by hand, entirely, with the use of syringes. Our craftsmen and craftswomen each have a printout of an enlarged pin design with color locations noted. They follow this guide and insert color into the recessed areas of the blank pin that were created with the die stamp. After the colors are filled, the pins are placed on to racks which are then sent to a kiln for baking. The firing of the pins helps with hardening the colors allowing us our workers to polish the entire face of the hard enamel pin to give it is signature glossy look. After the polishing, the hard enamel pins are completed by attaching a clutch to the pin post and then they are packaged to be sent directly to you.

WHO USES HARD ENAMEL PINS?

The Applications and Uses of Custom Hard Enamel Pins

The quick and easy answer is anyone and everyone. There is not specific criteria as to what your custom pin should be manufactured as, in regards to pin types and styles. In all likelihood, your enamel pin would look great as a soft enamel pin or a hard enamel pin. Saying all of that, there are some trends we have noticed among our customer base when it comes to who purchases what type of pin or what hard enamel pins are used for. We can confidently say that universities and colleges do lean towards the hard enamel style for their custom pins and those pins take shape in orientation pins or graduation pins along with school crests or seals reproduced in pin-form. Religious entities, as well, seem to have a fondness for that style of pin as we see many churches and places of worship create pins for their congregations to thank them for donations and volunteering. To add to that, many corporate customers purchase hard enamel pins for their company employees and executives in the form of Years of Service awards or logo pins to aid in their brand recognition.

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