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Floating is the word

We now feature beautiful Diamond or Round Floating Glass and Acrylic Standups in Rosewood or Black Piano. These floating standups feature a 3/16″ thick jade glass or acrylic blank that is suspended off the standup with the attached hardware. It’s…

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Crystla Paperweight for Employees

Optic Crystal Paperweights providies brilliant cuts and an ultra high polished surface. These paperweights engrave extremely well, and each is generously sized to blaze in light and refract brilliant rainbows. They make perfect personal appreciation or employee recognition gifts. Each…

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Perpetual Award in Glass

Our perpetual glass award is a new interpretation of a traditional award and the perpetual plaque. The jade glass award features a large glass engraving area flanked by 12 black aluminum blocks with silver font. The individual aluminum blocks are…

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Logos like you’ve never see before

Award manufacturers work to revolutionize the industry with the high-tech, innovative design and manufacturing processes used to create new custom awards. It reinvents the traditional concept of award creation. Instead of starting with a blank piece of acrylic and simply…

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How to personalized plaque – laser engraving

This is the most common used method. Mount a laser-engraved substrate to the plaque or laser directly ontothe wood’s surface, or engrave on wood directly. Laser settings depend on laser machine type, with many recommending a relatively low speed and…

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How to personalize plaque – Sandblasting

Sandcarve or sandblast a glass panel or marble that can be mounted off the plaque’s surface using complementary standoffs. Many times, to be able to see personalized info, color filling is recommended.

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How to personalize plaque – rotary engraving

Rotary engrave a metal plate, preferably one that engraves a contrasting color, and mount it to the plaque with screws or double-sided tape. Most people use brass or aluminum with oxidization.

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How to personalize plaque – UV printing

Print onto any suitable substrate, then mount the piece to the plaque. Or print directly onto UV-printable wood substrates to create a directly printed plaque. It’s very colorful and vivid. Can even have 3D look.

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How to personalize plaques – Sublimation

We mount a sublimated metal panel to the plaque. Even sublimation allows for full-color images, for an engraved look, we can transfer a black-only image to the sublimatable metal panel instead. Alternatively, we can decorate a sublimatable wood panel in…

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How to create a metal award

Using Gold Obelisk Award as an example, these are the steps to make it: 1) Create a model for approval. Replicas of the model are created in silicone, plaster and resin. A mold master finally determines how many pieces are…

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