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Made to be kept.

Custom trading pins, award medals and key rings for teams in every sport and every hobby. Over 40 years of pin making, and a pin specialist with you from the first sketch to the day they are in your hands.

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Design, proofs and shipping included. Nothing is made until you approve.

A gold glitter trojan horse trading pin with four dangler loops beneath it
Wayzata Trojans

For every team, club and gathering

  • Hockey
  • Baseball
  • Softball
  • Soccer
  • Football
  • Lacrosse
  • Basketball
  • Volleyball
  • Wrestling
  • Dance
  • Cheer
  • Robotics
  • Scouting
  • Schools
  • Colleges
  • Clubs
  • Events

Pins

Every one of these, we made.

Spinners, sliders, danglers, glitter, puzzle sets and shapes cut to the mascot. Each began as a team’s logo, a sketch or an idea.

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  • A trading pin shaped like a golden retriever holding a hockey stick
    Las Vegas Storm
  • A trading pin shaped like a goalie mask with a see-through cage and set crystals
    Chaska Chanhassen
  • A multi-piece Edina puzzle pin set that fits together into one design
    Edina — Super Rink
  • A round Girls International trading pin for a Fargo Freeze team, showing a girl player flexing against a striped glitter background
    Fargo Freeze — Girls International
  • Two Wayzata Squirt A Gold trading pins side by side, a small one in antique silver and a large one in antique gold: a Trojan warrior in a plumed hockey helmet holding a stick, behind a round shield reading Wayzata Squirt A Gold 2025-2026
    Wayzata Squirt A Gold
  • A snow-globe shaped trading pin for the Stormhawks: three players on an outdoor rink under a purple and orange sunset, with glitter team initials and raised snowflakes
    Stormhawks
  • A rectangular trading-card style pin for Northern Lakes Lightning Squirt A: a wolf in team colors skating under the northern lights, with a red glitter border and a yellow lightning bolt
    Northern Lakes Lightning Squirt A — 2025–26
  • A shaped trading pin for the Arizona Bobcats Elite team: a glitter cactus mascot in a spiked helmet wearing a gold chain with a bobcat pendant, over a desert sunset
    Arizona Bobcats Elite — 2026
  • A round Detroit Lakes trading pin showing a Bigfoot in a red Lakes sweater and MN cap skating on a frozen lake lined with snowy pines
    Detroit Lakes Yeti
  • A shaped trading pin of a knight wearing a hockey helmet and gold crown, with a gold chain holding a small trophy charm
    Spring Lake Park
  • A square Fargo Freeze trading pin with a hockey player skating across an American flag, above USA 250th Anniversary 1776-2026
    Fargo Freeze — USA 250th
  • A trading pin shaped like a hundred-dollar bill, with the CCHA Stormhawks hawk in the middle, The United Skates of America across the top, glitter 100s in the corners and Squirt B1 Black along the bottom
    CCHA Stormhawks Squirt B1 Black

How it works

Four steps, and you approve before anything is made.

  1. Step 1: Design

    Send a logo, a sketch, a photo or just an idea. A pin specialist turns it into a pin design.

  2. Step 2: Approve the proof

    You see a proof of your pin and ask for any change you like before anything is made.

  3. Step 3: Made

    Your pins are made to the proof you approved, to the size and count you chose.

  4. Step 4: In hand

    In your hands on or before the date we promise.

Included: the design, every proof until you are happy, the mold and shipping.

Design, proofs and shipping included. Nothing is made until you approve.

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Medals & key rings

For the ones who finished first, and the ones who finished.

Award medals designed for your event, with the ribbon and an engraved back for each division or place. Key rings for seniors, teams and keepsakes, made the same way as our pins. Every one is designed for you and proofed before it is made.

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A key ring shaped like a referee, made for a state tournament
State Tournament key ring

Over 40 years of pin making.

Your team’s pin comes from the same long line of work as these.

  • 1.5 million pins for the 1987 Pan American Games

  • Pins for the NFL, the NBA and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

  • Coca-Cola, the 1994 World Cup and the 1996 Atlanta Olympics

What a team manager told us

I have had the pleasure of working with Bob on pins for multiple sports teams. He is incredibly easy to work with. First off, he is extremely knowledgeable about pin trading tournaments and how they work. Bob also always has a handle on the timeline required for designing and ordering pins. Most importantly, Bob is so talented at helping with the design and construction of pins; the kids LOVED being able to participate in the process, and once I sent those designs to Bob, he was able to take their ideas and bring them to life. Finally, Bob offered practical advice about sizing and pricing, which again speaks to how much experience he has in doing this.
Sarah B., Edina Hockey

Find your way in

Start with your team’s name and a date.

A team manager or pin coordinator fills in one short form. A pin specialist takes it from there.

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Design, proofs and shipping included. Nothing is made until you approve.