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2016年2月25日星期四

How to make a coin, tell you step by step.

If you want to make a coin, and don’t know how to do? please read it. then you have the idea.

7steps to make your coins:

1, Talk about the idea of the coin

2, Talk about detail instruction of the coin

3, Quotation

4, Artwork sketch for you.

5, Payment.

6, Production.

7, Shipment.

Now I’m going to show you step by step.

1, Talk us about the idea of the coin you want to do .

A, you have an idea of exact coin you want to do, tell us.
B, You want a special gift, but not know how to do, talk with us your thinking and outcome you want to reach. We’ll help you to work out the designs.
We show you a lot of coins, which we had made for our clients. So that you could get some inspiration. Please check video list. (click to check the list)

I take more than 7 videos to show the designs. Refer to the title for that you interested in.

(this is the first one, see more, check the list)

You could read our Testimonial stories on Blog too. Where you could find how we made coin for clients.

We have made more than 10000+ custom coins. These topic cover Movie, super star, famous landscape, religion, commercial use for company, history event etc.

2, after we have an idea of what coin to make, then we have to confirm the details, such as size of the coin, material, etc. So that the coin could be made. Tell us the details follow the step bellow.

1st step: Size of the coin. (see video)

By stamping technic. You could make any size within 150mm. Only If the size we never made before, you have to pay an extra cost for the cutting mold.
Size over 150mm or if you want deeper 3D effect, we could make it with casting technic.

We made these sizes the most.

Round in Diameter: 50mm, 45mm, 40mm, 36mm, 30mm, 25mm

Square: 50*28mm, 50*30mm, 44*28mm,

Thickness: 3mm or any you want?

2nd step: Confirm material. (see video)

We have many kinds of materials: Gold, Silver, Copper, German silver/copper-nickel, Brass, Zinc alloy, Aluminum, Iron, Bli-material, etc.
Most people choose Copper, Brass, Zinc alloy, or Iron. Depend on the budget and quality.

3rd step: confirm basic color. (see video)

This means the basic color of the whole coin.
Material basic color: Original silver color, original copper color, original brass color, original zinc alloy color, Original Aluminum color etc.
Or plated color: gold plating, silver plating, copper plating, nickel plating, anti-copper plating, anti-bronze plating, anti-brass plating etc.

4th step: further effect on it.(see video)

Add color or effect on the coin after basic color, to make the coin special. If the coins don’t need special effect, go to 5th step.
Normally people do colorful enamel color, pad printing, diamond inset or others, please talk to us. And the best way to describe to us is send us a picture of the effect you want.

5th step: packing or other details. (see video)

If you have an idea, tell us. If you don’t, tell us your budget and outcome. We could do some search for you.
Simple packing: Capsule with polybag.
Other packings: gift box, display box, gift bag etc. A good way to do it is send us a form as bellow, then we get everything, and understand you easily.

These is a sample form for your reference.

3, quotation against the detail instruction above.

We’ll quote you once we get your details instruction. Quotation including mold charges if any.
Negotiation base on the quantities etc. untill an agreement.
As we have told in the video, if work out the designs together, and both of us could sell it, we offer discount on the mold charge. So if you have a good idea in head, just talk to us.
Mostly, we’ll reach an happy agreement on the price.

4, artwork sketch drawing against deposit and order confirmation.

Once the order confirm, we’ll start drawing artwork sketch according to the idea and instruction and raw drawing. We’ll send you artwork in about 1-3days depends on the schedule. After checking, please approval with us or send us modification instruction.
To make it fast and shorten the time of communication, some of the tips:
1st send us detail instruction, better with some picture to describe what’s the coin look like.
2nd when the first artwork send to you, please check carefully and point out all that need to modify in a time.
Then we could finish the artwork quick for you.

If you want more information, please check our testimonial stories. By reading the stories, you know how we work with out client.

And here are some artworks.

First artwork

Final artwork

5, payment against the production.

1st , Pay for the mold charge, to make the sample production.

Sample production lead time: 7days, if more effect on coin, 10days.

2nd pay for the order for mass production.

Production lead time: 10-15days according to quantities and effect on coin.

I going to take some video of production and show you later. Let’s wait.

6, production photo for checking before shipment.

When production finish, we’ll take photo and send you, so that you could check the productions.

7, shipment and tracking no.

We’ll send you tracking number once shipment arranged.

2016年1月31日星期日

This is a police challenge coin we made for US client

After the crime prevention coin, we made an challenge coin of Bellbrook for Andrew. But this time unexpected misunderstanding happened.

Andrew is always in good cooperation with us, and he love our quality and service. But one day he sent us and email that. He want to change supplier. Why?

Because Anson is out for training for 1 week. The trainning is to improve skill in work and management. And then Anson got ill. So at that time, Anson could not arrange the artwork for Andew in time. Anson is such a careful person, he didn’t pass over this job to other colleague. He could understand client better. But Andrew have an urgent order to make, and could not wait.

So mistake happened.

Luckly Andrew is nice person, he just need in time communication. So when he heard this, he send us and email as bellow.

Mistake solved. Anson urgently work on the artwok for him.

Andrew get an inquiry form bellbrook police office. And he attached picture to us, so the we made him artwork.

Anson came back to work immediately when he was not very ill, and made Andrew artwork quick and sent him as usual. So that Andrew could do the checking and revising.

And we talked about the changes. You see Andrew decided to change the words on it.

And then finally the coin was done.

This coin is to Bellbrook police officer. Their daily work need Loyalty, courage and community. So that they could keep the town safer. Do you think so?

This coin are confidential to client, we don’t sell it. If you want to buy, you have to contact our client.

If you have an idea of making a coin or metal gift for the charity, please contact us. we're going to help. maybe free artwork, free mold charge, or some discount.

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Article by Olivia

South kingze

soutkingze@gmail.com

If you want see more stories about us and our client. Please turn to our other article.

This is a custom challenge coin about crime prevention and youth education.

Few days after we finished the Crime prevention coin, Andrew got another idea of making an crime prevention challenge coin for the Dayton police office.

We already made several coins for Andrew. We know each other well, so it’s become easy for us to understand each other. We finish this coin in quit a short time. Let’s see what coin we have done for him.

Here’s the picture Andrew sent us. One side of the coin will base on the first crime prevention coin. The other side will be the image of American eagle.

And this is the artwork we made for him. of course, we talk about the improved,

we talk about the color he want on the flag. and the finishing of the coin. and finally made this final artwork approved.

And price quoted based on the order quantity and the meterial to use as usual.

And We send Andrew production picture before sending him the coins. Here the coin we finished.

This coin is about education and prevention of the youth crime. To build a safer communities. We’re glad to engaged in this kind of productions. It’s meaningful.