Crystal Trophy Making Technique
Crystal TrophyBecause of its elegant appearance and unique luster test, it is widely used in various awarding and celebrating occasions, such as:
- Best Employee of the Year, Team Excellence, and Special Contribution Awards are presented at the annual corporate meeting, reunion activities, and professional conference award ceremonies;
- Outstanding students, awards for academic excellence, and awards for athletic competitions are presented at school graduation ceremonies, school anniversaries, and end-of-semester award ceremonies;
- Awards are presented to the winners of competitions, best athlete awards or fair play awards at the end of sports events, league finals, and awards ceremonies at major sports games;
- Awards recognizing outstanding achievements in the fields of music, art, literature and film are presented at the opening of art exhibitions, cultural festivals, and under the scenes of film festivals;
- Trophies recognizing outstanding volunteers and community service at community events, charity galas, and volunteer appreciation events;
- Business events, industry summits, and exhibitions recognize excellence and innovation in the industry;
- Crystal souvenirs for weddings, anniversaries and family gatherings, personalized to bless happiness;
- Recognize outstanding participants or speakers at professional conferences and forum summits;
- In popular tourist attractions, the production of some of the local scenery, local characteristics of the building, the region's unique souvenirs can be to publicize the local brand; enterprises in the production of crystal gifts belonging to the company's brand of products, as gifts or advertising gifts to give away the same also play a role in publicizing the corporate brand, the significance of the promotion of the enterprise's products.
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First, prepare K9 crystal raw materials, the surface of the raw material is not bright and smooth, refer to the picture of the raw material
1, the quality of the material: K9 crystal is also known as optical glass, belonging to man-made glass, according to the quality of the distinction between K9 grade 1, grade 2 ... points, the later the quality of the relative translucency weakened, bubbles, impurities and water veins increase, there are ordinary glass products materials, is with a blue-green color, there are 5mm below the same translucency of the crystal glass. The production of crystal crafts, usually with the naked eye to distinguish between different materials to present products with different effects.
2, the shape and color of the material: most of the crystal material is a block, strip structure, easy to cut and process, each piece of material has a different width and thickness; there are also a lot of colors to choose from, the picture is only a part of the color number reference, raw materials factories can also customize the color.
3, the product price affected by what: the product price is important by the impact of labor, now the high cost of labor technology, and fluctuations, conventional technology is relatively stable labor costs, in addition to the direct impact on the price of the color of the material, the thickness of the material, the rare color and thicker materials will allow the price to rise quickly, indirectly affect the price of the product is the product's design structure and manufacturing process, of course, the more complex the more expensive structure, the more technology supporting more technology will also increase the product scrap rate will also increase in cost and price will also increase accordingly. Of course, the more complex the structure, the more expensive, the more technology supporting the technology will be more, the product scrap rate will also increase, the cost of the price will also increase accordingly.
II. First process of discharging (cutting machine)
According to the shape and size of the trophy to be produced, select the appropriate size of raw materials, and the surface of the material with a steel needle to mark out the cutting line, of course, when marking the line should be left for later grinding and processing of the margin, otherwise the size of the finished product will be made small, the use of the water cutting machine shown in the picture on the lower left, the larger the diameter of the disk to cut the size of the material will be the larger, so this machine will be a slight limitation to the size of the trophies we produce the size of the factors. The picture on the right is the effect of cutting out the blanks, experienced and good craftsmen can use the cutting machine to cut out the blanks very close to the shape of the product, the cutting process is needed to keep a constant flow of water to cool down the cutting piece.
Third, the second process of rough and fine grinding surface processing (flat grinding machine)
Into the second process, is the need to cut the blanks, using the lower left picture of the flat grinding machine, the first use of coarser steel grit for the first rough grinding process, grinding process is also the need to keep adding water until grinding all the cut marks, this process mainly to make the product blanks close to the size of the product design and smoothing of the rough surface. After rough grinding is fine grinding and fine grinding, this process is the use of finer steel sand again with water to smooth the surface of the rough sand grinding, so that the surface of the rough sand into a fine surface, after this process, it presents the lower right picture of the slightly translucent and masked surface effect, we observe the surface with the naked eye whether there are still traces of sand or sand surface, because sometimes the machine's long-term use, there is unevenness, grinding out the surface of the crystal there will be no grinding Therefore, regular maintenance of the machine grinding disk is also a necessary task. Of course, the picture on the right is only to see the effect of fine grinding, the surface appearance is omitted.
IV. Third process of modeling (modeling faceting machine)
After the above rough and fine grinding process, the product has completed the preliminary surface treatment, and it is necessary to carry out the modeling treatment or crystal edge protection treatment on the surface. In order not to cut the hand easily, the edge of the trophy is often seen, and it is the use of this modeling machine below that the edge of the corner has a fine edge, such as the diamond in the picture on the lower right, there are many angular surfaces, which are all the effect of the grinding and cutting out of this machine. The modeling machine is also divided into different thicknesses of abrasive discs, but this kind of disc is a fixed abrasive disc, which only needs to be filled with water constantly. The position of a modeling machine operator is a highly technical one, which requires not only a good sense of touch, but also a good sense of space and a strong eye for judgment, so it can be said that it is a combination of calculation, eye, gesture, thinking and sense of touch that will lead to a masterpiece. Simply take an example, I saw some trophies with bases that are on the wrong side, this is the problem that the stylist is not good at paying for the eyesight, when pressing the bonding surface, there is no always take an angle ruler to hit the right angle, some trophies are slanted, there is no way to hit the right angle ruler, you can only rely on your eyes to see the whole product how to be positive, just like a builder how to put a wall can be from the lowest to a few tens of meters high without deviation is the same reason, the builder still have measuring tools to go to the bottom. Builders still have measuring tools to correct, the stylist can only rely on the eye, even if there are measuring tools will not go to use, that more time-consuming. This is the handmade quality, an important part of the product quality.
Fifth, the fourth process is polishing (polishing machine)
After fine grinding the product, the surface is still grey and misty, not translucent, not yet presenting the original color of the crystal, then you need to go through the surface polishing process to achieve the effect. The machine in the picture below left is the polishing machine, initially it looks the same as the flat grinding machine, the difference lies in the surface material of the disk is different, in front of the flat grinding machine is a pig iron disk, a groove on the disk is to stop the abrasive is not easy to be thrown away by the rotation of the disk, and add the gold steel grit abrasive grinding directly on the surface of the disk, but only to change the different coarseness of the abrasive material to achieve the effect of sanding. The polishing disk is in the iron disk surface and then paste a layer of felt or leather and other polishing materials, in the polishing process before you need to fully wet the felt and add the special polishing powder, machine rotation and crystal material contact will be hot, so in the polishing process also need to keep adding water and polishing powder, water and polishing powder beforehand is already blended, polishing process just need to keep brushing the polishing disk on the good, it is important to It is important to make sure that the crystal material is not hot, to avoid the temperature is too high burst, then it will be a waste of effort. The picture below right is the finished product after polishing, this is what we often call wholesale blank trophies, blank blanks, and finally just need to engrave the logo, text. If you have prepared the fifth process of sand engraving machine or printing machine can be directly purchased ready-made blank trophies, go back to the processing of engraving.
Sixth, the fifth process is the printing or engraving of the LOGO, the production of customer-specific content, but also an important part of the rich and colorful effect. Below, I will focus on introducing the various techniques that are commonly used and popular at present.
1, sand engraving technology: the use of sandblasting machine, and the finer specifications of the gold and steel sand, the use of compressed air to carry out high-pressure spray scanning for sanding and carving, supporting the process also need to have a tanning technology, see the reference picture below for the sandblasting machine, tanning machine, punching machine, two different precision of the film, the production of the plate and tanning the film after the specific operation process: the call to the content of the program design draft = "the manuscript into a pure black and white documents =" the document will be printed on light-transparent paper or film called plate =" the light-transparent plate and film overlap placed in the tanning machine for the explosion of the tanning operation =" the use of the plate processor to wash the tanning of the film to get the film graphic version =" the film graphic version of the paste to the blank surface of the crystal =" the use of sandblasting machine sand engraving that is the completion of the scheme of the carving =" need to fill in the color needs to be deeper carving time, the technology is only suitable for monochrome program content
Craftsmanship features: the content of the text for the carving effect, strong texture, to maintain the original color of the crystal, can be permanently preserved, the production of complex processes, not too much color
2, color photo technology: call the design file = "the file using a photo printer to print to transparent or translucent film = "the use of special glue to the surface of the crystal to form the effect of the following picture than the technology can be produced with a gradient color pattern = "such as the need to strengthen protection can be covered with a layer of crystal glass on the film, so that the color picture hidden in the middle of the crystal to prevent damage.
Technological features: close to the design effect, can be any gradient color, can have a photo gloss, the process is relatively simple but the difficulty of the process is relatively increased, not cover the glass to keep relatively short, cover the glass can be maintained for a longer period of time.
3, UV printing technology: call the design file = "the file will be color separation processing and imported into the UV printer system = "machine will be color separation printing to the crystal surface in one go!
Craft features: This is the popular printing technology directly on the product, can be any color gradient printing, a strong three-dimensional effect, color adhesion ability is better, but often for the matte color effect, can be printed on the reverse side of the front to see will be brighter colors, the following picture effect
4, laser laser technology: also known as 3D internal carving, simple to understand is that there is a fixed length of the beam, and the ignition point at the end of the beam is just able to dissolve the crystal glass material, and the size of the ignition point diameter of the beam is the precision of the engraving machine, and the 3D pattern is the number of coordinates of the data is often said to be charged according to the number of points of the pattern, after the computer software to each coordinate point using the same fixed beam After the computer software to run through each coordinate point with the same fixed beam, it will form the pattern hit inside the crystal material.
Technique: We need to make a 3D graphic file with 3D plate making software, import the file into laser software, and use the laser machine to engrave the pattern. When we want to make a three-dimensional model gift, but do not want to spend too much cost, this process can be a perfect solution, can be in a very small crystal products carved out of fine three-dimensional patterns. You can also directly use 2D pictures for engraving, engraving photos and other files.
Craft features: Because the pattern inside the crystal, can be permanently preserved unchanged, can also use the LED lamp holder, the crystal irradiation to produce dazzling effect, but the internal pattern itself is no color, can only be carved in the high translucent crystal, the darker color crystal can not be engraved!
Silk Screen Printing: Also known as screen printing, it is a commonly used printing technique, especially for printing patterns or text on a variety of different materials and shapes of surfaces.
The basic steps of the screen printing technique:
Silk screen production: A suitable mesh (usually polyester or nylon) is selected and fixed with a frame. The mesh will be made with or without openings according to the design to form a template for printing.
Exposure and Developing: Light-sensitive ink (photosensitive material) is used to coat a mesh cloth on which the design is placed for exposure, allowing light to penetrate the openings. The unexposed portion of the design is then exposed to allow light to penetrate the openings. The unexposed portion of the design is then exposed to light, creating a printed template.
Ink Preparation: Select the appropriate ink, choose the right color and quality according to the material and demand of the printed items.
Printing: Place the silk screen on the surface to be printed, scrape the ink evenly through the silk screen with a squeegee, and allow the ink to be transferred to the object through the openings.
Curing (selective): Curing is done according to the type of ink used. Some inks require heat to improve durability and adhesion.
Advantages of Silk Screen Printing Technology: Adaptable: Printing can be done on a wide range of materials, including fabric, plastic, paper, metal and glass.
Cost-effective: For mass-produced products, silk-screen technology is relatively cost-effective.
Colorful: Silk-screen printing technology can produce rich and colorful patterns, especially suitable for large-area printing.
Durability: The use of specific inks can improve the weathering and abrasion resistance of printed patterns.
Apparel printing: such as T-shirts, sportswear and other fabric products.
Advertising Signage: Includes outdoor advertising, posters and display materials.
Packaging Printing: Used for making packaging boxes, bottle labels, etc.
Electronics: Printing of logos and patterns on circuit boards and accessories.
Artwork: Many artists use silkscreen techniques to create prints and limited editions.
Due to its flexibility and high efficiency, silkscreen printing technology is widely used in industry and daily life, especially where high quality and durable printing results are required.
6, labeling process: is the design of the text is made into metal, gold foil, stainless steel, mirror metal, brushed steel, aluminum, heat transfer sheet, and then pasted to the crystal surface, as shown below, this process later in the other craft technology Zhongxin, here is only a brief introduction to the crystal trophy part of the labeling.
The above is only the general process of hand-cutting, grinding, polishing, engraving crafts, and copywriting LOGO production process varied introduction. Crystal crafts also have molding, deep carving, painting, blowing, pickling, punching, wire cutting, assembling and splicing, color plating and other processes, and later on another part of the introduction. This craft technology does not add detailed parameters of consumables and equipment parameters, such as want to open a factory in need of detailed technical guidance can contact the author.