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 & environmental friendliness.
The colors will be based off an approximate colorspace mapping instead of Pantones to begin with.
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.

Customer Satisfaction & Product Quality:
- Acheiving a less than 1% rate of defects.
- Mistakes and failures will be replaced or refunded, no questions asked.
- A turn-around time of under 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 decades.
- Few visible defects.
- High quality pigments that will not fade.
- 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 out paints.
- Capturing, neutralizing, and safely disposing of all fumes & particulates from coating processes.
- Zero chromium and chromates in any of the coatings, processes, or alloys.
- The paints are plant-based & self-mixed - no petro-chemical binders or unknown additives.
  - I hope to also formulate a plant-based varnish that is high quality. However, making a non-plastic clearcoat that meets the necessary quality requirements may be a challenge to meet later.