A.
This enamel has been used for 3000 years and many pieces
of antiquity dating back hundreds of years incorporating
enamel are still in perfect condition. Whilst our products
may not need to last that long they will retain their
colour for years to come.
A.
It will not always be possible to match a colour exactly
as the manufacturers of the enamel only produce a limited
range of colours. This stems from the legislation over
the year which has banned the use of certain elements
that enabled other shades to be produced.
A.
This is a piece of special steel that has the design
to be reproduced in any of our products engraved on
it; the die is then used to stamp the design onto metal
as the first part of the manufacturing process. Each
different logo will need a die.
A.
Colour is applied to one side of the product to be produced
and then placed upright in a furnace and heated so that
it fuses with the metal. When the metal cools the colour
hardens. If colour was then put on the other side, when
this was heated in the furnace, the first colour being
on the underside, would melt and fall away from the
metal.
A.
Because the colour melts when heated in the furnace,
if there were no retaining lines the colour would run
into areas where it should not go. The metal lines keep
the different colours in the positions required by the
design.
A.
The colour which is I the form of tiny granules is applied
by hand and the size of the area into which it can be
placed will have to be sufficiently large to take the
enamel. Hence if it is put into the letters of a word,
the space between the letters would be too small to
take the enamel and this space would have to be metal.
A.
Many designs that do not require colour and are complex
will be manufactured by stamping the logo onto metal.
Whilst designs with colour will all be at one level,
deep stamped logos can have fine detail at different
levels and this allows complex logos to be reproduced
more faithfully.
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