Wednesday 18 November 2015

Custom embroidery service now open!


We've always been committed to making tactical gear that people can truly call their own. Through custom sizing to 'made to order' & bespoke pieces, Blastersmiths UK have always gone the extra mile to help you make your kit suit you. In pursuit of that, we can now announce that we are launching our bespoke embroidery service as of today.

Take your own logo or artwork, pay for the tooling once and you can use your logo again and again across our entire range of tactical equipment! Your one logo can be replicated across holsters, dump pouches, magazine holders and even tactical vests. With only a nominal application fee per item after the initial charge for digitizing your artwork, our customers can readily stand out from the crowd with top quality tactical equipment that is truly their own.

Purchasing your first bespoke embroidered piece:
Custom logos can be put on all sorts of products!
First, there's the tooling. We take your digital artwork and turn it into a file that our CNC embroidery machine can understand. To get us to do that, head over to our Custom Embroidery Tooling page and select your number of thread colours. Add that item to your basket. Now, select your desired item from our huge range of made-to-order tactical equipment and add that to your basket, too. That first price includes your first application fee so there's no need to do anything extra. If you want further items embroidered with the same logo, select the 'Reuse' option on the Custom Embroidery Tooling page and you'll only be charged the application fee. We will rotate, scale and generally muck about with your design to get it to fit to pretty much anything. If we can't get it to fit, we can put it on another item in your order or will just straight up refund you the price of the tooling.

After you've ordered, we'll email you to ask for your artwork. Once we've got that, we can turn it into embroidery for you. We'll send you a digital render of the final layout for you to 'proof'. That's where you check spelling, layout and final colours. If you OK that, we can then proceed to making your stuff. We'll also provide you with a Unique Tooling Code (UTC) for each logo/artwork that you  agree to 'proof' so you can use it for future orders.

Reusing your tooling for future orders:
If you like your customised items then you can come back and select the 'Reuse' option on every future order and will only have to pay the application fee. Your tooling can be used time and again, just add Custom Embroidery Tooling with the 'Reuse' option selected and we'll email you to ask for your UTC. Don't worry if you can't find it, we keep a database of them here but it will speed up the turn around time for your order if you can provide us with it.

Stock logos and designs:
Stock designs allow for budget customisation
For those without a desired logo, we have a bunch of stock designs and logos that we can produce for just the application fee. From biohazard symbols for the HvZ players out there to simple skull and crossbones motifs, we've already done the tooling. We'll keep adding to that library as we go. The shopping process to add them to your gear is much the same as custom logos, just add Stock Embroidery Tooling to your basket with the desired pattern option selected. Again, if there are multiple items in the basket, we'll drop you an email to confirm what's going where. :)

Please note that due to the nature of the embroidery process, it's not possible to retrofit embroidery to extant pieces. We honestly tried but webbing and fittings get in the way of the embroidery hoops preventing the fabric from being held in-situ correctly.

Patches, name tapes, text only options and more
We're launching today with our custom logo service but we'll be adding more lines as we go. Plans are in the pipeline for custom webbing or hook tape name tapes for squad members and LARP characters. We're exploring the option of promotional merchandise (for both ourselves and Nerf groups) and of course we're working to bring a bespoke morale patch service, too. That'll likely be after Christmas now but we've got lots to be starting off with...