Enamel pins are customizable, jewelry quality, and affordable. Pins are popular for companies, clubs, schools, students, and veterans. Use our free design service to create a pin for branding, rewards, giveaways, and anniversaries. So many people want lapel pins more than before. I’m sure many people are interested in knowing how custom enamel lapel pins are made! Let us show you how to make enamel pins now.

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Step 1: Design Drawing

We will design drawings according to customer requirements.

Step 2: Finish 3D Model

The customer confirmed design drawings that are forwarded to the factory mold department programmer. After the 3D model is finished, the production of the lapel pins can start. A piece of black steel that is a mold material, fixed in the engraving machine, the computer program will be compiled according to the 3D model in the black steel, and remove the excess metal parts. Patterns are gradually formed, which is a slow process. Because of different sizes, different complexity of the design, engraving time spent is not the same.

Step3: Die Struck

We use a hydraulic machine to fix the mold, the following we can start the beginning process. This process is what we call DIE STRUCK. The material selected for this is iron, copper, zinc alloy, aluminum, and so on. When the first blank pin comes out, we need to carefully check the blank custom pin and design is the same. If there is a little flaw, we need to modify the mold or even re-engraved new mold. After checking is complete, if there is no problem we will start mass production on the order. 

Step 4: Grinding and Vibration

In order for the enamel pins to come out smoothly, we put all blanks into the grinding machine to shock. This will cause the blanks to start collision and friction so that it gives the pins a simply polished.

Step 5: Add Attachments

Different accessories led to different purposes of the badge, so the names are different. We equipped our production with a very wide range of accessories, “thorn needle, butterfly clutch, safety pin, magnet, etc.”

Step 6: Polishing 

Polishing is a very important part of the production process. The polishing grinding wheel is divided into many kinds, there is a hard sand wheel, soft cloth wheel, and so on. If smooth requirements are not high, we can use the grinding sand wheel directly polished production, if customers want to get a smooth surface or mirror gloss, we need to use the cloth wheel to polish productions.

Step 7: Electroplating

Polished pins will be sent to electroplating, which is according to the customer’s demand. There is bright gold, bright silver, bright red copper, antique gold, antique silver, antique copper, and so on.

Step 8: Coloring

Color is divided into soft enamel and hard enamel. Soft enamel pins are one of our most popular styles. 

Step 9: Packaging

The last quality inspection is made before packaging. Only qualified productions were sent anywhere in the world by land transport or air transport. We can provide different packaging according to different requirements for customers. Ziploc bag is most common. Besides, we provide paper cards, velvet pouch, velvet box, plastic box. get best custom enamel pins from www.taskwingifts.com