Original and hand-made custom Cloisonne lapel pins are more than signage; they are enduring symbols of business ideals and aspirations. If you want to create a lasting impression for your business, then you need to invest Cloisonne. The beauty of Cloisonne lies in the fact that it fits well in a number of scenarios from product launch to public events. You can also use them skillfully to reinforce your brand, or award you staff. Here are compelling reasons why you should invest in timeless artworks from The Pin People.


Custom Cloisonne Lapel Pins Rich Legacy!

The history and legacy of Cloisonne is punctuated by royal beauty that dates back to the 13th century. These skillfully crafted pins were used in ancient China to create elegant vases and other artworks for emperors. Bronze was used in the Ming Dynasty to enhance the quality of Cloisonne, a process which The Pin People has perfected today!
Cloisonne lapel pins are best suited for designs that require contrasting or separate colors. You can use them with great success as recognition or reward pins because of their inherent value. Some of the fantastic metal-plating color options include highly polished gold, silver, and black nickel Cloisonne. The beauty and majesty of Cloisonne lies is encapsulated in:
1) smooth and jewel like finish
2) higher perceived value
3) custom designs and sizes
4) elegant and matching colors

Custom Cloisonne Lapel Pins – The Manufacturing Process

The Pin People considers the design and production of Cloisonne a participatory process. We give customers the freedom to select a metal sheet and colors of your choice. Most importantly, the design and production team pay close attention to the design, styling, and production of Cloisonne pins. Our craftsmen work meticulously to create durable Cloisonne pins. Each pin is carefully filled with Cloisonne paste, kiln-fired, inspected, and polished to a jewel luster. We use glass resins to give each pin a hard, shiny, and elegant look.

For the past several years we have been honored to create lapel pins for the Northwest Antique Airplane Club (NWAAC). The club which was originally founded in 1959 but because of the National Antique Airplane Association's lack of legal protection as well as a requirement for approval for club airshows, it withdrew from the National organization in 1962 and formed the Northwest Antique Airplane Club. The original membership began at about forty, and has grown to over three hundred. The NWAAC has since extended Honorary Life Memberships; to OX-5 members, Les Tomlinson recipients, and Past Presidents.
Creating Custom Pins for the NWAAC
The pin that we created has the club's initials of NWAAC along with text that reads, "51st Year". It is vibrant red in color, circular in design and features a bold image of a propeller. Anyone looking at the lapel pin will know that it is airplane related. The classic appearance and personal message is what makes it so visually appealing. That's the beauty behind custom pins. They can be made in any way that our customers see fit. That means they can be soft enamel, cloisonne, die struck or offset printed. They can be small, medium or large sized. They can be standard shaped or custom shaped depending on your preference. This ensures that your club is properly represented through the use of the lapel pins.
Portability is Part of a Custom Pin's Appeal
Part of the appeal of lapel pins is their portability. They are easy to carry from one location to the next and members of a club have no problem wearing their own pins to different events and meetings. This allows the public to see them and ask questions about the club. This is one way to recruit new members. It is also a great way to fundraise. If you want others to support your airplane club, you'll take the time to get the word out about it each and every opportunity that you have.
A Logo or Image Helps With Branding
Lapel pins often feature a logo or image of some sort. Choose one that reflects your club, its members, and its values. This will allow you to convey a message to the public in a real and measurable way. In fact, this can help recruit you some fans as most people in the community may not know about your airplane club and love for flying. If you want an items that starts conversations, you may want to order custom lapel pins.

Coast Guard is the maritime police, but its structure and functions, police this armed forces can’t instead, called a paramilitary force. It is mainly in charge of a country all along the coast guard, patrol, law enforcement and other tasks, is a militarization of law enforcement teams. A special arms, it performs life-saving, protecting state property, enforce the law, the implementation of the task of scientific investigation and safeguarding national security.



The United States is the country of the earliest formation of the Coast Guard, U.S. Coast Guard is the originator of all Coast Guard is the only law enforcement agencies of the United States at sea, is the world's most powerful maritime law enforcement team. U.S. Coast Guard is one of the five U.S. armed forces, but also one of today's largest ministry of the U.S. federal government - the Department of Homeland Security division.

Above is the introduction about Coast Guard. When soldiers join or retired, they can get the souvenir: Coast Guard lapel pins or Coast Guard challenge coins. These are the big honor and unforgettable gifts for them. Until now the six primary soldier lapel pins are produced. They are army lapel pins, military lapel pins, navy lapel pins, Air Forces lapel pins, Marine Corps lapel pins and Cost Guard lapel pins. This one same design as the logo of Coast Guard, background color is the blue sea, white color in center. With words of: "UNITED STATES COAST GUARD 1790" and "SEMPER PARATUS".

Church members of all denominations enjoy creating and wearing custom lapel pins as a way of showing faith in their religion. These small pieces of identification often come in the shape of a cross or a dove of peace and include details about a house of worship, its members, and location.

Because of their popularity, stock lapel pins are sometimes hard to come by. If your Christian group finds it hard to locate the image that they are looking for, let them know that all of the artwork that we create is custom. That means that they can take a common symbol and add their own personal flare to it. This option allows your group to create lapel pins that reflect Christian values but that are personal and memorable as well. Now, that's something worth considering as an option for your group's next event or fundraiser!

Rich in Symbolism

Religious lapel pins are symbolic in nature. At first glance, a person can see the message behind them. Cross pins in particular are very popular. Christians view the symbol as being holy. That is why they use it rather exclusively. Originally used as an ornamental symbol, it adopted a religious connotation as Christianity was slowly introduced to the world.

Taking a Standard Image and Making It Your Own

Lapel pin makers like Lapel Pins CN enjoy taking a common image like a picture of a church or a Bible and transforming it into something unique for our customers. For example, instead of being a plain black Holy Book, it can have flecks of gold glitter in it.
Another version of a unique religious lapel pin has hinges on the spine of the book so that the pin opens and closes when the latch is released. The sky is virtually the limit when it comes to all of the design options that we make available to you. From unique sizes and shapes to incredible add-ons like simulated gemstones and dangling charms, there are plenty of ways to make your gold cross lapel pin stand out.

For Church Functions, Fundraisers, and Fellowship

Christian lapel pins are perfect for church functions, fundraisers, and fellowship events. Despite their small size, they have a mighty mission. Cross lapel pins serve as a reminder of the basis of the religion. People from every type of religious background recognize the symbol and associate it with Christians and Christianity. This is especially important at events where there is mixed company.

Christian jewelry for women and men tends to be very popular. Custom lapel pins have a jewelry-like quality about them. People of all ages can appreciate the thought and craftsmanship that goes into creating crosses, churches, and peace doves that can be worn on clothing and hats.

Custom lapel pins are among the most cost effective and interestingly attractive promotional tools in the market today. Whether it will be used for promoting a small organization or raising awareness sponsored by a multi-national conglomerate, custom lapel pins are very affordable to subtly convey the message to a particular audience. This can be used for fund raising and is also an excellent way to show pride in sports or any achievement garnered by a group or an individual. However, custom pins and custom challenge coins are not only for effective promotional tool. There are several uses for custom pins which can be used by any organization or group.

For example, youths today who are very much enamored with sports use trading pins. This is a growing hobby collection that a lot of teenagers and even adults are getting into. When you see your collections grow into a pile it will certainly bring great pride and joy. Aside from being used in hobby collections, custom pins can also be utilized to show support for a particular cause. If an organization or a company is promoting a specific cause, using a custom lapel pin with the logo and message of the cause will help raise awareness in a more direct way. It can also be used as a souvenir to remember the occasion.

One of the best place to buy or order custom lapel pins is the internet. There are lots of online retailers who would be more than delighted to make the best custom lapel pin for whatever your organization’s needs are. Depending on your preferences, custom lapel pins can be made from various types of materials such as stainless steel, aluminum, and brass among others. This can also be designed using different molding and coloring methods based on the graphic design you submitted. You can also order for custom challenge coins.

Challenge coins are usually used to commemorate famous incidents or to offer special prestige to individuals in recognition of their excellent achievement or great contribution in the community. In essence, custom challenge coins are used to offer honor and a mark of respect and are collected by a lot of people. There is a possibility that this system of honoring an individual became popular during the first half of the twentieth century. Before, challenge coins were used with custom decorations and were presented to people who are serving in the army or revered leaders of an organization or a community.

At present, challenge coins became a symbol for commemorating something important that happened or to show support to a particular person or an organization. There are many online retailers that offer custom made challenge pins which can be ordered via the internet. You can get a free estimate or service quote to find out how much it will cost to order for a particular number of custom pins or challenge coins. By ordering it online, you can be able to select several vendors that can provide you with a service that will match your preferences.

Lapel pins are small badges, which many people wear at the collar of their jackets or the lapel. There are several lapels pins variations in Australia. Some of them include custom made lapel pins, custom lapel pins and corporate lapel pins. Many people wear these small ornaments as decorations or to show their affiliation to a certain cause.

Lapel pins had their beginnings during the American civil war. Back then, the soldiers used these ornaments so that they could differentiate the different units fighting the war. These small ornaments played a vital role in helping the soldiers stay organized. With these ornaments, they could also have a sense of solidarity, which enabled them to work as a team. This tradition went on for many years after the war. This is because many families use them as family emblems. Some people use them as souvenirs, while others collect them and keep them as collectibles.

Many people wear these items as decorative items on their coats. With this in mind, many manufacturers minimize the visibility of the fasteners when people wear them. These ornaments have a metallic pin which connects them to the cloth. This design allows the user to display the pin in an appealing way. Since there are various such items in the market, buyers should consider which ones bring out their taste and style before buying them. There are also some custom-made ones in the market which buyers can preorder. This custom-made ones allow users to incorporate their styles on them.

There are cloisonne models, which have a characteristic glossy finish that looks like a jewelry piece. These involve a lot of expertise for them to have the glossy finish. One of the inexpensive models is the embossed model. The makers of these models use soft enamel colours, which are then transferred to the surface of the model. The metallic parts of the embossed pin have to be raised so that the colors remain intact. Manufacturers can also use some elaborate designs on the surface of the pins. These can be printed directly on the metallic surface. Some people choose to have pictures or other images on their pins.

There is also enamel ones, which come in different variations, in the market. There are hard enamel die struck and custom embossed. All these models undergo different manufacturing processes, and they are distinct from each other. However, they have the same material on the surface which is enamel. Many people know that enamel is a high quality non-flammable paint, which is as a result of mixing thoroughly ground glass with colored oxide. The brilliant look of the enamel paint is also distinctive and does not fade over time as compared to other paints. These pins are exceptionally durable because of the presence of enamel on the surface.

These ornaments have different purposes. For some people, they serve as collector's items. Some companies use them as a means of advertising. Many people use these ornaments to show their patriotism, while others give them to friends and relatives as gifts.

For the new customer, ordering custom lapel pins for the first time can be exciting. Whether it is for a sports tournament, employee recognition ceremony or new product launch, businesses, organizations, and teams can benefit from knowing what types of lapel pins we offer and the characteristics that make each one unique. Different events call for different types of lapel pins. For example, a die struck years of service pin looks nothing like a soft enamel baseball trading pin and they are used by two entirely different groups of people. Academic institutes and corporations are more interested in the features that a die struck lapel pin has to offer whereas sports teams are concerned about the appearance, perceived value, and tradability of the custom soft enamel lapel pins that they order. You can ask yourself the following question, ''What am I trying to achieve with my custom lapel pin order?'' If you are still not 100% certain, you can refer to this guide for assistance. Types of Custom Lapel Pins and Their Benefits The beauty behind personalized pins is that you are in control of the design process. In addition to creating custom artwork to fit your specifications, Lapel Pins CN can help you choose the size, number, and style of pin that best represents your company, group or team. Some of our most popular styles of pins include: Soft Enamel. Sports teams, businesses, and organization love the look, versatility, and affordability of soft enamel. Raised and recessed metals depict your custom design. Up to seven colors of enamel paints are filled one at a time into the grooves and fired at 450 degrees Fahrenheit. Cloisonne. Similar to fine jewelry, cloisonné pins are the type of classy adornment that accentuates a person's wardrobe. Sophisticated hotels, day spas, retail establishments, and banks are a few of the types of customers who appreciate cloisonne. Two bronze die-cut molds help create a custom lapel pin rich in detail. Areas of the pin are then one at a time filled with a glass-like powdered substance and fired at 1600 degrees Fahrenheit. Each pin is then hand polished which enhances their brilliant shine and increases their perceived value. Die Struck. Commonly used for years of service and employee awards, die struck pins come in a variety of finishes that help give designs character and depth. Made from iron, brass or copper, cutting molds are created before the plating process. Plating color choices include: high polished gold metal, antique gold, high polished silver metal, antique silver, polished copper, antique copper, polished black metal, and black nickel. Offset Photographic Printed. Created from a digital file, offset photographic printed lapel pins are ideal for designs that incorporate gradients, drop shadows or other subtle color changes. Custom lapel pins are diverse. Knowing what type best sums up your company, organization or team's needs helps you achieve the type of results necessary to be a success. Contact us today for a no obligation quote. email info@lapelpinscn.com.

Lapel pins are popular among people of all ages. Now, one can not only spot men and women wearing traditional custom pins on their coat lapels, but also young boys and girls flaunting their attractive custom lapel pins on their bags, purses, hats, jeans, backpacks and elsewhere. Soft enamel lapel pins are the most popular style of custom pins, offering an outstanding balance of price and performance.

Soft enamel lapel pins are die struck pins with an enamel fill. When the pins are struck, the process creates raised and recessed areas. The recesses are filled with colored enamel, with each color applied separately. The lapel pins are fired in a kiln to harden the enamel. The raised metal borders give the design a 3-D look. If desired, a clear epoxy coating can be applied to further increase the durability of the pins.

Soft enamel pins are available in a wide selection of shapes, sizes and colors, depending on the customers preferences. They provide a look very similar to more expensive cloisonn lapel pins, but at a lower cost. Because of the outstanding appearance and economical price, the majority of custom lapel pins sold are soft enamel. Many organizations, including non-profits, schools, clubs, businesses and others use soft enamel pins for promotion, branding, showing membership and other uses.

Benefits of Soft Enamel/ Die Struck Lapel Pins

Soft enamel lapels pins are widely used for many purposes. Schools use them to help reinforce positive child behaviors. Businesses use custom lapel pins as part of promotional activities to help reach their target audiences.

Many businesses help maintain employee morale by presenting employees with soft enamel pins for achieving job goals such as sales quotas, budgets or production expectations. The pins also are very popular for company-wide awards programs that recognize employees years of service to the company. Such programs and awards keep employees motivated and let them know that managers appreciate their dedication and commitment to their jobs.

Soft enamel pins are by far the most popular style of custom lapel pins to be used for trading pins for youth sports teams. Their attractive artwork, custom shapes, bright colors and economical price make them ideal for youth baseball teams to trade at games and tournaments. Players, coaches, officials and spectators love to trade custom team lapel pins among themselves.

Any good provider of custom lapel pins will have talented graphic artists on staff who will be able to help designed the perfect soft enamel pins for just about any team, business or organization. They can create attractive, colorful designs that will be perfect for just about any use imaginable. Reputable suppliers will offer free artwork and design services.

Military personnel do a lot for citizens and people of the country. They risk their lives day in and day out so we can live in freedom. This is a huge sacrifice and risk for many military service personnel.

Different military units recognize this service through special coins. These coins are military challenge coins with special symbols. Military challenge coins are used as a way to commemorate service.

Military men and women are remembered lots of different ways. Various songs have been written just for them and their actions. Television commercials have also been designed to honor their service.

These are great ways to show thanks and gratitude towards them. However, these are not carried around by our military personnel. Military challenge coins are a personal token they can keep forever.

Military challenge coins can be given for every mission or service. These challenge coins are designed by each unit for each mission. This allows challenge coins to be customized to remember each mission.

Customized challenge coins can be designed with special symbols. These symbols can be military symbols or special unit symbols. These special symbols commemorate that particular unit of men.

Challenge coins can be designed with any color scheme desired. Companies that make challenge coins have a lot to choose from. Popular color choices for challenge coins are red, blue, and silver.

Customized edges are also available in the design of challenge coins. Some coin edges are smooth while others are rugged and ribbed. This allows for a variety in the design of military challenge coins.

Military challenge coins are not the only way to commemorate men. Custom lapel pins may also be designed and created as desired. These pins are similar to other coins, but offer some benefits.

Custom lapel pins can be created with similar choices as other coins. The same symbols and design edging is available to be used on pins. There is a major distinction between lapel pins and metal coins.

Custom lapel pins can be worn on a persons lapel or dress shirt. Traditional coins cannot be worn and are usually stored away. Custom lapel pins can be worn to celebrate the military unit of men.

This is an advantage to custom lapel pins as they are used more. Different groups of people have begun to purchase these pins. These groups provide custom lapel pins to members at certain events.

Hence its name, a lapel pin is a small pin that is affixed to the lapel of a dress jacket. Lapel pins can be worn just for fashion’s sake, but most of the time, they represent a person’s affiliation to a certain organization (charity, sport, fraternity, etc.), political beliefs, or past travels (lapel pins are popular souvenirs for tourists). Lapel pins, much like coins or stamps, are collectible and some can be worth thousands of dollars. Before the advent of lapel pins, boutonnieres were the most popular decoration for dress jackets and business suits. As with lapel pins, certain flowers used in boutonnieres represent certain people or events, such as red poppies representing Remembrance Day. Lapel pins are very cheap (sometimes, they’re free) and can be found anywhere, so it would seem that in this day and age of technology, if someone wanted to make a lapel pin, they could just upload a doodle into a computer and the computer would spit out the finished product. However, even though technology has allowed for a faster and more streamlined mass production of different products; lapel pins are mostly handmade, so a disproportionately large amount of work goes into making these tiny pins. Creating the design is the first step in the process of manufacturing the pins. The initial design can be done either digitally or it can be hand-drawn using a light-box to allow for more precise lines and color mapping. Once the design is approved by the customer, it is reproduced on a metal sheet, usually made out of magnesium. The metal stamp of the design is called a master and acts like a blueprint for the pin throughout the manufacturing process. To create the industrial mold for the pin, the front and back of the central design of one of the masters is cut out using a small coping saw. Once the front and back of the pin design is cut out, they are glued together using epoxy glue that comes in a dispenser the size of a sewing needle. The glue takes only about five minutes to dry. After the glue is dry, multiple copies of the master are made to fill up the space of a rubber disk. The person who makes the pins then traces the outline of the master onto the rubber disk and carves out the cavities with a scalpel. The rubber on the disk is usually dabbed with paint thinner to soften it and allow for easier carving and precise cuts. Once the carving of each pin is finished, a copy of the master is inserted into each little cavity. Another rubber disk is then put on top of the rubber disk with the mold prototypes and then the rubber “sandwich” is put into a machine called a vulcanizer to cure. The vulcanizer decreases the stickiness of the rubber while increasing its resiliency and strength by treating the rubber with sulphur under high heat and pressure. After the rubber sandwich is taken out of the vulcanizer, the once-soft rubber is as firm as the rubber of a car tire. The heat of vulcanizer also melts the rubber around each master imprint, therefore embedding the various details of the copies into the rubber to create the production mold. After the imprint has been made in the production mold, sprues, or little channels to, are hand-carved out of the rubber using a scalpel to allow the flow of metal into the cavities of the various pin molds on the rubber disk. Curved channels called runners are also carved into the rubber disk along with the sprues to filter out air and dirt particles. It is crucial to position the sprues and runners correctly because one mold produces an entire line of a particular lapel pin. If the person carving the mold makes a mistake, the mold will have to be reproduced from scratch. After the carving of the sprues and runners, a brass tack called a post is inserted into each cavity of the rubber mold. The post will later fasten to a clasp to attach the pin to clothing. The post is inserted before the body of the pin is made so that the post can better fuse to the metal during casting. At the beginning of the casting process, the two pieces of the rubber sandwich are aligned and stacked to match each mold’s depression with its corresponding depression. The rubber sandwich is then placed into a spin casting machine, which uses centrifugal force to distribute the molten metal (usually pewter, zinc, or a tin alloy) into every nook and cranny of the cavities. After the rubber sandwich’s time in the machine, usually a minute, it is pulled out and the metal cools within five minutes. The new or “raw” pins are then taken out of the mold and put into a bath composed of soap, water, and abrasive stones so that the rough edges can be smoothed out and the pins can be cleaned of any dirt that might affect the look of the plating. The newly washed pins are put into an electroplating tank, which uses an electric current to draw the metal particles onto the pins, to receive a surface coating of metal. The number of coats and types of metal for plating vary with the design of the pin and the customer’s demands. After the pins are plated, they are hand-painted individually using a numerical guide (like a coloring book) and epoxy paint, which is distributed through a tiny syringe that is powered by a foot pedal. Once the paint is dry, the pins are put into a pad printer, which uses ink to print details that are too small to paint by hand onto the pins. After the pins emerge from the pad printer, they are ready to wear. As shown by the long and arduous process required to make one set of pins, although lapel pins are very commonplace and inexpensive, their production requires a great amount of creativity and skill on behalf of the workers who make them.