Cup & Metal Trophy Plates - Engraving Specification
Cup & Metal Trophy Plates - Engraving Specification
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Unfortunately, not all the cups we see have been engraved by us in prior years. There has been a noticeable deterioration in consistency and quality of cup and trophy plate engraving entries over the last decade or so. This can be attributed to several factors, not least of which is the ease of access that untrained people have to basic engraving tools.
Whether your organisation gets all their trophies engraved at once, or leaves the engraving to the individual winners, it is a good idea to have a basic specification that engravers are required to meet. Please feel free to copy and paste the text that follows into your work orders, or the instructions you provide to cup winners.
Kelly Engravers Ltd
Engraving Specification for Metal Cups and Trophy Plates:
All work is to be completed by a professional engraverÂ
Text is to be engraved onto the cup or metal trophy plate using a laser or a diamond-drag tool
All text is to be set-out using a CNC machine that uses a file generated by specialised engraving software, or manually using a pantograph engraver
The standard font for Year and Name entries is single line sans-serif Gothic, Helvetica or similar
Text height shall match the existing (typically 2.25mm to 2.75mm)
Text must be left-aligned with any prior entries - for both the Year and the Name columns
Any damage to a cup affecting its centre axis (e.g. bent stem, dented lip or broken base) is to be repaired prior to engraving
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