Project record
The same 400 pins, quoted at two sizes
A Southern California team compared 2.25-inch against 3-inch at the same quantity — the clearest side-by-side size quote in this collection.
Winchester · CA · Inland Empire
- Quantity
- 400 pins
- Pin type
- Slider pins
The brief
Two sizes quoted side by side at 400 slider pins — 2.25 inch against 3 inch — with a glitter finish.
How the design got made
- Beat 1
400 pins, with sizes compared at 2.25 and 3.0 inches
proof round 1winchester-ca-baseball-proof-round-1.jpg - Beat 2
Price spread of $2.20 to $3.70 depending on size and features
- Beat 3
Slider construction with a glitter finish
The full account
What a size actually costs
Most teams pick a size before they see what the alternative costs. This order was quoted both ways at the same quantity, which makes it the clearest illustration here of what the decision is worth.
Four hundred pins, priced at 2.25 inches and at 3 inches, quoted as slider pins with a glitter finish. Across those variables the per-pin price ranged from $2.20 to $3.70.
Price shown is what this order was quoted at, for this quantity, size and specification, on this date. It is not a current price list.
How to read that spread
Size is the biggest single driver of price, and it's also the biggest driver of whether a pin gets traded. Those two facts pull against each other, and the resolution isn't the same for every team:
- Trading hard at a destination tournament — go larger. Under two inches gets skipped, and the bigger sizes are what other teams chase.
- Buying mainly for your own players and families — the smaller size puts more pins in more hands for the same money.
Add-ons stack on top. Glitter is mixed into the enamel of a chosen colour rather than applied over it, so it doesn't wear. A slider moves along a track and needs solid metal at its anchor — it works on substantial central elements and not on thin ones.
Where they are
Winchester sits in Riverside County, in the Inland Empire east of Los Angeles. Worth stating, because there are Winchesters in Virginia, Kentucky, Massachusetts and Indiana — this one is California, confirmed by the shipping address.
Specification
| Team | Arsenal Elite |
|---|---|
| Sport | Baseball |
| Quantity | 400 |
| Pin type | Slider pins |
| Finish options | glitter |
| City | Winchester |
| State | CA |
| County | Riverside County |
| Region | Inland Empire |
Reference material on file — logos and flat artwork, not steps in the story
The banner threshold
This order sat under the threshold, so no banner was included. At the time the line fell at 1,000 pins at 2.0 inches or larger: the size step cost $0.20 more per pin — $1.07 to $1.27 — and brought a free 3ft × 6ft banner plus 100 bonus gold-metal or blackout pins with it.
Worth checking before you commit to a quantity: the bigger pin is frequently the cheaper total order.
quoted for this order onlyAbout the prices on this page
Every figure here is taken from a real quote for a real order. That is the point of it — and also the reason it will not match what you are quoted.
- Quantity moves the price more than anything else
- Size and build are priced separately
- Turnaround changes the total
- Import tariffs apply and are disclosed on the quote
- These are historical
Questions this order answers
Two inches or larger is the working floor for tournament trading — smaller pins get passed over. Sizes run from 2 inches up to 6.
One little league's four orders across three years show the migration in practice: they started at 1.25 inches and moved to 2.0. Larger sizes also unlock the banner threshold, which is why the bigger pin often costs less in total.
Sourced — Sizing guidance across multiple orders; Northern Virginia little league, 2022–2026
Glitter is a finish, so it applies to any pin type — standard, spinner or slider alike. It is mixed into the enamel of a chosen colour rather than applied on top, so it will not rub off.
It is specified per colour: one glitter colour, or several. Commonly it lands on a single accent area — the shape of a state, a star, a puck. A 1,500-pin association order ran one glitter colour across the whole run; another design used gold glitter only on the state-shaped element.
Sourced — Multiple 2025–26 orders
No, and it is worth knowing before you fall in love with a layout. A moving element needs enough solid metal around its anchor point to survive being handled, so the type has to be chosen with the artwork rather than bolted onto it afterwards.
On one hockey design the customer asked for the stick-and-puck to be the moving element. The blade and puck could not carry it, and the counter-proposal was to spin the round logo in the centre instead. Round, chunky, central elements move; delicate outlying ones do not.
The same constraint applies to fine cut-outs. A multi-piece design with lots of small connecting bridges gets flagged in production before it is ever tooled — one puzzle-piece pin set had to be re-engineered because, in the shop's words, it would 'never hold up in production.'
Sourced — Two 2025 orders — production art direction
No. Every figure in this library is what one team was quoted for one order, on the day they asked. It is published as a record, not as a price list.
Quantity and size move it most: the break runs about $0.20 per pin for every hundred pins, and the range here goes from a 1,500-pin corporate run at 1.25 inch to a 3 inch dangler with glitter. Pin type and finish are priced per pin on top of that — a spinner was $0.65 more per pin on one order, glitter is $0.10 per pin per glitter colour.
Timing is separate again. Six weeks ahead of your date carries no delivery or rush charge; four weeks adds a $40 delivery charge; three weeks adds $40 plus a $75 rush fee. The pins are manufactured in China and are subject to US import tariffs, disclosed on the quote rather than at invoice.
For a price that applies to your order, send your quantity, size and in-hands date and we will quote it.
Sourced — Quoted ladders and fee schedule across the AP Pope, Corona Avengers and Brainerd AHA threads, 2025–2026
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