{"id":73,"date":"2014-04-08T22:36:54","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T03:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.advantage-advertising.com\/wordpress\/?p=73"},"modified":"2020-02-13T21:22:33","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T02:22:33","slug":"how-to-solve-the-biggest-problems-with-personalized-pocket-knives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.advantage-advertising.com\/wordpress\/how-to-solve-the-biggest-problems-with-personalized-pocket-knives\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Solve the Biggest Problems With PERSONALIZED POCKET KNIVES"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Laser Engraving on the Metal Bolster of a Knife\" src=\"https:\/\/www.advantage-advertising.com\/media\/Auto-Tools\/Knives\/ss_size2\/17131.jpg\" alt=\"17131.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" name=\"prod_img\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laser Engraving on the Metal Bolster of a Knife<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Personalizing pocket knives is an art, because it&#8217;s not the same as using a color office printer and printing on a piece of white paper. Knives present a unique set of obstacles such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Color of the material<\/li>\n<li>Type of material (wood, metal, bone, synthetic)<\/li>\n<li>Irregular surface contour<\/li>\n<li>Required durability of the imprint<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These problems are not usually a direct concern of the customer unless his company logo has a lot of detail or requires a color imprint. Each logo imprinting request is handled one at a time. When our art department receives your logo, the artist looks at these questions:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Does the logo contain too much detail<\/li>\n<li>Does the imprint contain text smaller than 6 point<\/li>\n<li>Are the lines in the imprint thinner than 1 point<\/li>\n<li>Is a color imprint required<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>These problems can be solved by our art department or yours. A complex logo can be simplified to eliminate the detail problem. Small text can either be eliminated or re-arranged somehow. Thin lines can be broadened. A black and white version can be made of your logo if needed.<\/p>\n<p>Most pocket knives are laser engraved on the metal blade, metal handle, metal bolster, or the wooden handle. Laser engraving doesn&#8217;t offer color. However, laser engraving on stainless steel looks black or dark. Laser engraving on anodized aluminum handles looks white. And if doing this same method on a blackened metal blade or handle will look white.<\/p>\n<p>Some knives can be pad printed on a handle in color, or screen printed on a metal surface.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Case imprinting techniques\" href=\"http:\/\/www.logo-knives.com\/case-imprinting.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Case Knives can be personalized in a few different ways<\/a>. If the handle is made of smooth bone, wood, or synthetic material (except Zytel), Case can imprint in these ways:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Laser engraving<\/li>\n<li>Laser engraving with a 1-color fill.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Color added to laser engraving: Gold, white, silver, black, red, yellow, blue, or green.<\/p>\n<p>Another imprinting option is Electro-etching, which looks dark on a stainless steel blade. This method of making <a title=\"Making Personalized Pocket Knives\" href=\"https:\/\/www.advantage-advertising.com\/pocketknives.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">personalized pocket knives<\/a> is considered semi-permanent. It doesn&#8217;t go as deep into the metal as machine engraving and laser engraving. This leads to a final method of imprinting knives, which is machine engraving. This is like using the engraving machine that jewelers have to engrave your initials on a pendant. It is good for lettering only. It is permanent.<\/p>\n<p>Most\u00a0<a title=\"Promotional Items with your logo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.advantage-advertising.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">promotional items<\/a>\u00a0 have their share of printing problems, but Pocketknives have a unique set of hurdles for the imprinter. That&#8217;s where Advantage-Advertising.com and Logo-Knives.com can use their experience to make your folding knife a cherished gift with your corporate logo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most promotional items  have their share of printing problems, but Pocketknives have a unique set of hurdles for the imprinter. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[74,75,73,72],"tags":[83,80,81,77,84,82,76,175,56,55,78,174,173,79],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.advantage-advertising.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.advantage-advertising.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.advantage-advertising.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.advantage-advertising.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.advantage-advertising.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.advantage-advertising.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1676,"href":"https:\/\/www.advantage-advertising.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions\/1676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.advantage-advertising.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.advantage-advertising.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.advantage-advertising.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}