Medals
Die-struck zinc alloy, 25 mm to 90 mm, soft or hard enamel. The finish-line medal people actually keep.
Die-struck in Birmingham since 2009
Nobody frames
a certificate.
Custom medals, trophies and championship belts, struck from your artwork and finished by hand. Fifty pieces or fifty thousand, the same bench does the work.
50 minimum order Free digital proof 3 weeks from sign-off UK made
Plating
Antique brass
What we make
Three things, done properly.
We turned down the tat years ago. No printed acrylic, no drop-shipped blanks with a sticker on the front. Everything here is tooled, struck and finished for you.
Trophies
Cast metal, optical crystal and hand-turned oak. Built to sit on a shelf for twenty years without yellowing.
Championship belts
Full-grain leather, hand-set plates, plating up to 24 carat. One belt, six weeks, no shortcuts.
How it runs
Twenty one days,
Twenty one days,
start to doorstep.
Every job runs on the same clock. The dates below are working days from the moment you say go, and we tell you the day you would have to miss for the event date to be at risk.
Express runs land in 10 days Reorders from an existing die ship in 8
0Day
The brief
Tell us the event, the quantity and the date. You get a price and a route back within one working day, from a person who has made this exact thing before.
2Day
Artwork
Our studio redraws your logo as a relief, because a flat file is not a sculpture. You see both faces before anything is cut. Revisions are free until you sign it off.
4Day
Tooling
Your artwork is cut into a steel die. That die belongs to you and we store it, so the reorder in two years matches the first run exactly.
9Day
Strike and finish
Struck under 300 tonnes, plated, enamelled by hand and polished. Every piece is checked against the signed sample before it goes near a box.
21Day
Dispatch
Ribboned, bagged or boxed, counted twice and tracked to your door or straight to the venue. We send the spare five percent as standard.
The rack
Two thousand
Two thousand
one hundred dies.
Every job we have ever run is a piece of hardened steel on a shelf behind the press. Yours goes on the end of the row with your name on it, and it stays there. The oldest one still in use was cut in 2010, for a rowing club that reorders every March.
Storage free Reorders from 8 daysYours to take elsewhere
Made for
Anyone with a
Anyone with a
finish line.
Last year we struck 214,000 pieces. Roughly half of them went to events with under four hundred entrants.
- Marathons and trail series
- Boxing and MMA promotions
- Brazilian jiu-jitsu academies
- Schools and universities
- Rowing and sailing clubs
- Powerlifting federations
- Corporate awards nights
- Esports leagues
The belt
The one nobody
The one nobody
puts in a drawer.
A belt is the only award a winner wears. It gets held over a head, photographed a thousand times and defended in public, so it is built like a piece of luggage rather than a piece of jewellery.
- Plates4 mm zinc alloy, CNC cut, hand polished before plating
- StrapFull-grain leather, 10 to 12 inch, stitched not glued
- StonesHand-set cubic zirconia or Preciosa crystal
- PlatingAntique brass through to 24 carat gold
- Lead timeFive to six weeks, one belt at a time
We have used four suppliers in eleven years. Martin is the only one who ever sent a batch back to his own floor because he was not happy with the plating.
Race Director, Peak District Trail Series
The belt landed two days before the show. The champion has not taken it off since, and I have the photographs to prove it.
Matchmaker, Midlands Fight Night
Tell us what you are handing out.
Send the event, the quantity and the date. You get a price, a lead time and an honest answer about whether we can hit it, within one working day.
Medals
Struck,
Struck,
not printed.
A struck medal has weight, a real edge and a relief you can read with your thumb in the dark. It costs about forty pence more than a printed one and it survives the drawer.
25 to 90 mmMOQ 50 Free tooling over 250
Every size, drawn to scale
Shown at true relative diameter
Know what you are buying
Three ways to make a medal.
Three ways to make a medal.
We only sell one of them.
Die-struck
What we do
A steel die is cut from your artwork and the blank is struck under pressure. The metal moves rather than being poured, so detail stays crisp and the piece rings when you tap it.
Best detailHeaviest feel
Die-cast
Sometimes right
Molten alloy poured into a mould. Good for shapes a press cannot make, such as deep cut-outs and heavy 3D. Slightly softer edges and a little more porous under plating.
Complex shapesOn request
Printed
Not from us
A blank disc with artwork printed under a resin dome. Cheap, fast, and it will scratch and yellow. If your budget only reaches here, we would rather tell you than take the order.
We do not offer it
Sizes and prices
The range.
Prices are per medal, die-struck zinc alloy, one plating, soft enamel up to four colours, on a 22 mm sublimated ribbon. Tooling is free from 250 pieces, otherwise £85 once.
| Size | Typical use | Weight | 100 | 250 | 500 | 1,000 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 mm | Club and school awards | 9 g | £2.10 | £1.65 | £1.42 | £1.24 |
| 38 mm | Age-group placings | 19 g | £2.60 | £2.05 | £1.78 | £1.55 |
| 50 mm | 5k and 10k finishers | 34 g | £3.15 | £2.40 | £2.08 | £1.82 |
| 60 mm | Half marathon | 52 g | £3.90 | £3.05 | £2.64 | £2.30 |
| 70 mm | Marathon and ultra | 78 g | £4.85 | £3.90 | £3.36 | £2.94 |
| 90 mm | Series and championship | 140 g | £7.40 | £5.95 | £5.15 | £4.50 |
Prices exclude VAT Carriage from £9.50Quoted firm for 60 days
Specify it
Every option we hold.
- EnamelSoft enamel, hard enamel, or bare metal relief
- PlatingSeven finishes, or two-tone on one face
- EdgePlain, reeded or rope
- Relief2D, 2.5D or fully sculpted 3D
- ExtrasSpinner centre, cut-outs, epoxy dome, sequential numbering
- ReverseStruck, laser-engraved, or left blank for the winner's name
- PackingPoly bag, velvet pouch or a hinged presentation box
Ribbon
Woven or sublimated.
Sublimated ribbon prints edge to edge in full colour and is included in the prices above. Woven ribbon has the thread texture you feel on a military medal and adds 40p a piece. Both come in 22, 25 and 38 mm.
Nine stock colours held Pantone match from 300 pieces
Need a lanyard instead? We print those too, in 15 or 20 mm, with a safety breakaway as standard on anything going to under-16s.
Send us the artwork.
A logo and a rough quantity is enough to start. We will tell you the size that suits the budget before you commit to anything.
Trophies
Shelf life
Shelf life
measured
in decades.
Most club trophies are resin with a gold coat that flakes at the handles inside three years. Ours are cast, turned or cut from optical crystal, and the plate is engraved rather than stuck on.
170 to 610 mmMOQ 1 Perpetual bases held in stock
The three we build most
Drawn at true relative height
Materials
Four ways to build one.
01 Cast metal
Zinc alloy or bronze, plated or patinated. The classic cup with real handles. Heaviest and the most repairable.
From £38
02 Optical crystal
K9 optical glass, sub-surface laser engraved so the mark sits inside the block and cannot rub off.
From £28
03 Turned oak
English oak or walnut, turned on a lathe in Warwickshire, oiled not lacquered. Grain differs on every one.
From £64
04 Cast resin
For figures and large sculptural shapes where metal would price the job out. Hand-painted, not sprayed.
From £14
The range
Sizes and prices.
Single-piece prices, including a plated engraved plate of up to four lines. Column trophies can be built to any height in 25 mm steps for a perpetual series.
| Piece | Material | Height | 1 | 10 | 50 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Presentation cup | Cast zinc alloy | 210 mm | £48 | £41 | £36 |
| Championship cup | Cast zinc alloy | 380 mm | £126 | £108 | £94 |
| Perpetual cup | Bronze on oak | 610 mm | £480 | £440 | POA |
| Crystal wedge | K9 optical crystal | 170 mm | £34 | £29 | £24 |
| Crystal obelisk | K9 optical crystal | 250 mm | £58 | £49 | £42 |
| Turned column | English oak | 300 mm | £72 | £64 | £56 |
| Figure award | Cast resin, hand-painted | 230 mm | £19 | £16 | £14 |
Engraving
Done here, same week.
- PlatesBrushed brass, satin silver or black anodised aluminium
- MethodRotary engraved into metal, or laser marked
- CrystalSub-surface laser, up to a full logo and 60 words
- PerpetualWe hold your cup, add the winner and return it inside five days
- CostIncluded up to four lines, then 40p a line
Worth saying
On perpetual trophies.
If you run an annual competition, buy one good trophy rather than twenty poor ones. A bronze cup on an oak base costs about the same as five seasons of resin, and by year six it looks like your club has been there forever.
We store, clean and re-engrave perpetuals for member clubs at no charge. Nine trophies in our safe have been coming back to us since 2011.
Ask about perpetuals →One trophy or a whole prize table.
Send us the categories and we will lay out a prize table that looks deliberate rather than assembled from a catalogue.
Championship belts
The one
The one
nobody puts
in a drawer.
We build about ninety belts a year, one at a time, for promotions, academies, powerlifting federations and a surprising number of sales teams. Every one is a different shape.
5 to 6 weeksDeposit 50% Free digital render before we cut
Three builds
Pick the weight class.
The difference is the metal, the stones and the leather. All three use the same tooling process and the same hands.
Contender
£340
Per belt, excluding VAT
For academies and in-house titles that get handed over several times a year.
- PlatesOne centre, two side
- Metal3 mm zinc alloy
- PlatingAntique brass or silver
- StrapBonded leather, 10 inch
- StonesNone
- Lead4 weeks
Most ordered
Championship
£680
Per belt, excluding VAT
The show belt. What most promotions put on the poster and hold over a head at the end of the night.
- PlatesOne centre, four side
- Metal4 mm zinc alloy, hand polished
- PlatingAny of our seven finishes
- StrapFull-grain leather, 10 or 12 inch
- StonesUp to 60 hand-set cubic zirconia
- Lead5 weeks
Legacy
£1,450
Per belt, excluding VAT
A one-off for a title that will only ever be won once, or a retirement piece.
- PlatesOne centre, six side, sculpted
- Metal5 mm alloy with brass inlay
- Plating24 carat gold over nickel
- StrapFull-grain, hand-stitched, suede backed
- StonesPreciosa crystal, up to 200 set
- Lead6 to 7 weeks
How a belt gets built
Five weeks,
Five weeks,
one bench.
- Week 1Concept sketch and a colour render of the front. Nothing is cut until you sign it
- Week 2Plates CNC cut from sheet alloy, then filed and polished by hand
- Week 3Plating tank, then enamel laid by brush and cured
- Week 4Stones set one at a time. A 200 stone belt is roughly two days on its own
- Week 5Leather cut, stitched, riveted and fitted. Photographed and shipped in a case
Straight answers
Before you ask.
- Rush jobsThree weeks is possible on a Contender. Not on a Legacy, and we will say so
- RepairsWe re-plate and re-stitch any belt we made, forever, at cost
- ReplicasYes, for a champion who wants a second. Same tooling, 30% off
- SizingStraps run 46 to 62 inches. Tell us the biggest athlete on the roster
- ShippingBelts go in a padded flight case, insured, tracked and signed for
Describe the belt in your head.
A rough sketch on a napkin is genuinely fine. We render it properly before anything is cut, and you can change your mind twice for free.
Process
You own
You own
the die.
Most suppliers keep the tooling and hold your reorder to ransom with it. We cut your die, invoice it once, and it stays yours in our rack with your name on the end of it.
2,100 dies stored Oldest still in use 2010
0Day
The brief
Event, quantity, date and a rough budget. A price and a route back inside one working day, from someone who has made this before.
2Day
Artwork
We redraw your logo as a relief and proof both faces. Revisions are free until you sign it off. Vector is ideal, a photograph of a badge will do.
4Day
Tooling
Artwork is cut into a hardened steel die. Yours, stored here, so a reorder in two years matches the first run exactly rather than nearly.
9Day
Strike and finish
Struck at 300 tonnes, trimmed, plated, enamelled by hand, cured and polished. Checked against the signed sample before packing.
21Day
Dispatch
Ribboned and counted twice. To your door or straight to the venue, with five percent spares in the box as standard.
Artwork
What to send us.
- IdealVector AI, EPS, PDF or SVG with type converted to outlines
- FinePNG at 1,000 px or larger on a transparent background
- WorkableA clear photo of an existing badge, medal or crest
- ColoursPantone references if you have them, we match by eye if not
- FreeRedrawing is included. We do not charge artwork studio time
The awkward questions
Answered plainly.
- Minimum50 medals. Below that the tooling swamps the price and you should buy stock
- OversStruck runs vary by about 2%. You are billed for what you ordered, you keep the rest
- Late artworkThe clock starts at sign-off, not at order. We will tell you the drop-dead date
- FaultsAnything that leaves here wrong is remade and shipped at our cost, no argument
- Payment50% to start tooling, balance before dispatch. 30 days for schools and councils
Still working it out?
Call the workshop. You will get Martin or Priya, both of whom have been on the press, and neither of whom will read you a script.
Get a quote
Tell us what
Tell us what
you are
handing out.
One working day for a price and an honest lead time. If we cannot hit your date we will say so in the first reply rather than the third.
Brief received
Thanks. That is with the workshop.
You will get a written price, a lead time and a straight answer on your date within one working day. If it is urgent, call the workshop on 0121 000 0000 and say you have just sent a brief.
Reference sent to your emailNothing is charged until you approve a proof