Help me make your custom enamel pins!

Howdy, I’m a Mechanical Engineer from Texas A&M who has worked as a manufacturing engineer for a half-decade.

I have prototyped a process that can create custom designs cost-effectively for small orders of 1 to 20 pins. Making custom designs affordable to:

• Members of local clubs & events.
• Display custom artwork.
• Create custom badges, medals, or commemorative coins.
• Promote church & business events.
• Order completely customized pins for large groups of people.

What is an enamel pin?

Enamel pins are small & sturdy decorations made from metal & enameled paint that you can pin onto fabric or magnetize against metal. They feature a wide array of custom designs!

Below is a gallery of enamel pins I have prototyped with my manufacturing process. (More to come!)

❮ ❯

What makes my production different?

• My process specializes in small batch production. A single design will cost less than $25 rather than $80+!
• Ability to process many design variations without additional costs!
• Make exceptionally large or intricate design work for your use case.
• Quick turn-around times - your order at your door in under a month.
• Stateside manufacturing. No waits, tariffs, & costs from overseas shipping.
• Ability to drop-ship. Small online businesses can make money at first sale with no inventory hassles.

What does Brother Jonathan’s need help with?

I will be running a small crowd-funder – raising money through preorders. I want to setup a manufactory in the United States & prove there are enough people interested in my service.

If you would like to help me, register your email address below. I will use your information only to alert you about our campaign.

More technical details about the project are given below the form.

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 want to 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.