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[wip] Enamel pin making - Crabby crab
🕑 Added 2025-06-25 18:41:10 +0000 UTCRelated post
1. Crabby Crab pin!
I've always thought that if I were to make another badge after the Shy Shrimp one, I'd want to make a Crabby Crab one.
Based on the voting results, I choose the screw pinback again this time.
[poll] pin back type - next secret shop
Unlike shrimp pin, Crab pin is only one color type!
2. Design
Just Crabby crab / Knife version / And one with bubble
I was debating between these three.
If you've used GIFs, you probably already know the nature of this crab,
But without the knife or dialogue, I thought it would just look like a regular 'crab'.
So I added the knife and bubble.
Shy shrimp was made in various colors.
I have drawn shrimp in various colors for a long time.
But perhaps we are already too familiar with the red color of crabby crab. So I made it in only one color. Come to think of it, there was a time when I decided on the color of Crabby crab as poll at the very beginning.
Crab character Name /Color vote (2020)
Crabby crab was inspired by a real species : vampire crab(freshwater), and they have several color variations.
So... this crab could have been purple.
3. Connected to factory
It's made in the same Korean factory as last time.
I was a bit stressed out when I made badges overseas, so I didn't make pins for a while. Fortunately, I felt really comfortable when I made Shy shrimp last time. So I was able to make badges again :D
I send the images to the factory, they create a draft and send it to me, and I do a final review.
In the image I first sent, the gap between the "Work" speech bubble and the crab arm wasn't wide enough. If I went with that, have to add metal to the negative space. But I thought that looked unpretty.
So I modified the design by reducing the speech bubble and spreading the claws further apart.
4. Size
I prefer small-size badges, so I tried to make it the smallest.
The actual freshwater animals that are the motifs are also small in size.
The initial estimated size was " 1 x 0.6 inch (25 x 16 mm)".
But when I compared it to the Shy shrimp, I felt that it was too small.
Crabby crab feels similar to Shy shrimp or a little bigger.
So I modified it to "1.2 x 0.74 inch (30 x 19 mm)".
It's still small, but bigger than the Shy shrimp pin :D
5. Backing card
It's the same method as last time. Instead of using plastic, it's packed on a paper card.
Just like last time, we use recycled paper. (But the type of paper is a little different. It's a different recycled paper.)
The pin badges will be placed as follows~
We will be able to see the actual photos of a sample as soon as next week, or at the latest in about 10 days.
The secret shop will open around mid-July : I will send a group message when it opens. If you don't want to miss it, turn on message notifications~
Thank you!
Comments
pikaole
Hehe yeah, I still have some of shrimp in stock! It will probably open in about a week!
Udina
yay, crab pin :D Hoping to snatch some left shrimp too~
pikaole
Yes I still have all the pins in stock :D Thanks for your interested!
viridian
Nice! Are there still shrimp pins available? I wasn't a patreon subscriber until recently and missed out on them </3
