Technical Info
What will the enamel pins be made of? What are the design constraints?
- The enamel pins & coins are made of metal bodies.
- High quality enamel paints will be used for coloring designs - a custom mixture developed for quality & safety.
- The colors will be based off an approximate colorspace mapping, rather than Pantones.
- The metal body can be electroplated in copper, nickel, rhodium or gold.
- All products will be varnished with long-lasting UV-resistant clear-coats.
- The pins & coins can be any shape – featuring pockets, polished areas, or shallow embosses.
- Pockets can be filled with any single color.
- A design has no limit on the number of colors.
- Designs can be as small as 1/4" – 6 mm – or as large 12" – 30 cm. Design features can be as small as 3 thou or 0.1 mm.
What are the values of Brother Jonathan’s Custom Pins?
- Customer Satisfaction & Product Quality:
- Acheiving a less than 1% rate of defects.
- Mistakes or failures will be replaced or refunded, no questions asked.
- Once the process is running, all orders are promised to be fulfilled in a month.
- Helping Our Community: By building the manufacturing in my local community, I can offer high skill work and training opportunities to my local community.
- High Quality Products:
- A solid, corrosion-resistant alloy that can last decade.
- Aim for as few as possible visible defects.
- Use of pigments that will not fade after decades of sun exposure.
- Each product will be coated multiple coats of a sturdy varnish which can be repaired at home.
- Environmentally Conscious Design:
- Using only non-toxic & cheaply recyclable metal alloys.
- Using only non-toxic pigments.
- No cobalt dryers in our paints.
- Capturing and neutralizing or safely disposing of all fumes & particulates from coating processes.
- Zero chromium and chromates in any of the coatings, processes, or alloys.
- No petrochemical or purely synthetic polymers. We keep to plant-derived resins & mix our own paints to control which additives do or do not go into our paints.