Do not know how to distinguish the medal plating in making medals online?

The following explanations will help you finish your custom medals well.

Popular Plating: Shiny Gold & Shiny Brass

• Shiny Gold Finish for Medals

Gold plating is an unnecessary process of adding a thin layer of gold to the metal. The shiny gold finish is very bright plating. Its color looks like the color of the eye of wheat, which is yellow. It is usually used in shiny & sandblast medals, soft enamel medals and hard enamel medals. It is real gold but it uses less, so it hasn’t the value of gold.

Gold usually symbols honor, glorious moments and success. If you customize 1^st medal, finisher medals or awards medals. Gold plating can be seen everywhere.

• Shiny Brass Finish for Medals

Shiny brass is the second choice for medal owners. Its color looks like moss, which is light green. It is mainly used in shiny & sandblast medals and custom enamel medals.

If you want your medals to be different, shiny brass plating is a great attempt, especially when you make your graduation medals online.

Personalized Plating: Shiny Silver, Shiny Black Nickel & Dye Black

• Shiny Silver Plating for Medals

Shiny Silver or nickel is often used on custom medals. Its color looks like steel. You can easily distinguish it from the above picture. But when you get your medals, maybe it is a little difficult to distinguish from black nickel. You should watch the side edge or back of medal to identify.

It is usually used on the 2^nd medals, running medals or else.

• Shiny Black Nickel Plating for Medals

Shiny black nickel is a bling dark and can reflect lights. When it reflects lights, it seems to be silvery.

• Dye Black for Medals

Dye black is a deep dark, and it needs to make products dyed. Dye black is not wear-resistant compared with black nickel. In addition, you can choose to dye other colors, like dye pink, dye purple or else.

If you like dye crafts, you can try it. It will make your medals very different.

Eye-catching Platings: Shiny Copper and Rose Gold

• Shiny Copper for Medals

Shiny copper is a very deep color. It seems to be jacinth. Copper looks like burning in the furnace.

• Rose Gold for Medals

Rose gold is a kind of pink color. But the color is very light.

How to Distinguish Different Colors in Custom Medals?

1. Watching the margin of products carefully.

2. Whether it reflects light or not. You can put them in the sun, you will get the answer.

3. Comparing with different products and looking through the production details.

FAQ about Custom Medal Plating 

Q: Will the plating be faded on the award medals?

As times goes by, plating will lose the original brightness. It is common.

Q: How long medal plating will last?

Generally Speaking, plating can last up to 2 years with proper protection.  

Q: How to keep medals with plating for a longer time?

1. Please keep away from oil and chemicals.

2. Do not expose it to the water.

3. Do not store it with other metal products to avoid friction.

4. Please wash it regularly if you want to keep your award medal as a collection.

Q：Do you have other platings in making my custom medals?

Most medal makers will offer several medal platings for you to choose. At GS-JJ, we offer over 10+ medal platings as follows.

1. Antique Platings for Antique Medals:

Antique Gold/ Antique Brass/ Antique Copper/ Antique Silver

2. Shiny Platings for Custom Enamel Medals:

Shiny Gold/ Shiny Brass/ Shiny Copper/ Shiny Silver/ Shiny Black Nickel

3. Unique Platings for Personalized Medals:

Rainbow Platings/ Two-tone Finish( Gold Plating+Silver Plating)

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A) Size

The automated quotation system at GS-JJ is humanized. The inches area is from 1.5 inches to 4 inches. Along with the medal size, your ribbon size is different. As we can see, the bigger medal is, the bigger the size is! This is for your comfort level and safety. Too small ribbon and big medal will make your neck heavy. If you are not satisfied with the market size, you can contact the salesman to select your favorable size. By and large, the medal is under the chest muscles.

B) The Color

There are three designs for you to choose from.

1) Pure Color Ribbons

Usually, pure color ribbons are suitable for antique medals and shiny medals because they are designed without color. Pure color can fuse them. Black, white, red, and blue is both popular colors.

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2) Mix Color Ribbons

Mix color ribbons are appropriate for soft enamel medals and hard enamel medals. Especially for colored medals, it will make your medals shinier. There are two kinds of mixed ribbons. One is three colors alternated like red-white-blue ribbon, others are two colors alternated like white and orange ribbon.

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3) Gradient Color Ribbons / Rainbow Ribbons

This kind of ribbon is nice for medals with many colors. Rainbow ribbons are popular among running medals. Multi-color will attract people’s eyes. Medals without color are not suitable, which will be a little strange. If your custom medals are colorful, why not try this ribbon?

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C) The Design

Four common design of ribbons is simply introduced. You can know more information in this blog <<How to choose the best type of lanyard to suit you >>. You can consider it according to your needs.
1) Polyester Ribbon
Polyester Ribbon is a simple design. The price is cheap.
2) Woven Ribbon
Woven ribbon can be printed logo and text because these are knitted and durable. But it is a little expensive. If you have a limited budget, you can give up it.
3) Nylon Ribbon
The nylon ribbon is a little smoother. Simple texts and logos can be printed. However, it is a little formal.
4) Dye Sublimated Ribbon
Dye Sublimated Ribbon is very suitable and smooth. When you wear it, your neck will feel cool. The logo and text dyed are vivid. However, It has poor air permeability.

As for attachments, you can know from blog << How to Make Your Custom Medals More Exquisite? >>,

Selecting the ribbon is also very important. If you have any problems, you can contact our salesman. They will help you in selecting the ribbon.  After all, Details determine success or failure!

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• 100% Sandblast Medals

• 100% of sandblast medals are common everywhere. Like the left award medals, at first sight, it is shiny. Its glossiness is good and protection is strong. It looks like delicate. It will totally present all the texts. If you only make your products special, 100% sandblast is a good way.
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• 75% Sandblast Medals

• 75% of sandblast medals are less used. It adopts sandblast in some special place like texts. On the other place, it adapts the polish surface. As the left picture, its periphery and center use sandblast, giving people a sense of depth. If you want to make something prominent, 75% sandblast can be chosen.
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• 50% Sandblast Medals

• 50% sandblast medals are used in cut out medals commonly. Like the left gold medals, sandblast are used in the center. Carefully looking, there is a man riding in the house. It is to make its logo prominent. By using sandblast, it gives people visual impact. 50% coverage of sandblasting can imperceptibly express what you want to.
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• 25% Sandblast Medals

• When you needn’t many embellish while you think that there is a little monotonous. 25% of the coverage of sandblasting can be added. Like the left Judo Yukon sports medals, the designer only uses a little sandblast around the logo, which creates separation. The product becomes different right away. If you want to make your logo eye-catching, you can emphasize reversely – by adding sandblast around the logo.
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• Different Sandblast Medals

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• The sandblast is associated with the glossiness. The good it is, the shiny product will be. From the left to right picture, we can clearly find that their sandblast is different. The effect of No.1 Picture is clearly rough than one of the No.2 Pictures. While No.3 medal has granule like beans. This is because the factory selects different grinding materials like round one or rhombus one. Moreover, in the same grinding material, it is also different. The thicker the sand is, the rougher it is. Sandblast usually is used in shiny medals or antique medals. According to different effects, we can classify into Fine: a delicate subtle finish with a matte surface medium: a slight visual texture is apparentCoarse: a heavy rough finish with a slight texture or even with a granuleIf you want to represent the feature of products, sandblasting is a good skill to use. The cost is low. As for choosing different coverage of sandblasting, it is up to your products and what you want to extrude. If you would like to know more information, click here: https://www.gs-jj.com/medals/Custom-Medals

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