Fantasy Football Trophy, Custom Logo Title Plates Part 1

I've been wanting to write a detailed article about this subject for a long time, and I hope you will find this information useful.

Up to this point, my articles have featured trophies with standard engraving. For most fantasy football leagues, standard engraving is an elegant and classic choice. For other fantasy leagues that have a logo, we need to enter the realm of custom title plates.

With standard engraving, the metal is actually cut to a predetermined depth. If you rub your finger across the surface, you will feel the engraved characters. Most standard engraving machines have limitations on the number and style of fonts they can do. As I mentioned, this is a classic approach, and standard engraved plates have a great sparkle to them.

In the trophy example on the above, the top plate was done with standard engraving, and the bottom plate was engraved with a laser.

A laser engraver is an amazing and costly piece of equipment that offers stunning capabilities to recreate complex graphics. In the above example, the laser plate is a special brass stock specifically made for laser engraving. The brass has a thin black coating which the laser removes revealing the golden brass beneath. On a laser plate, if you run your finger across, it feels smooth, the engraved characters are barely perceptible.

For a fantasy football trophy featuring a laser engraved title plate, the logo and text must be digitized with graphics software. My next article will talk about the types of art files needed to make a laser title plate. Because the art is digital, the laser can engrave virtually any kind of font and graphics, although there are some tips and tricks to making your title plate graphics look their best, which I will cover under the art requirements article.

If you are interested in having a custom title plate for your fantasy football trophy, and you have a logo, you should email it to your engraver to make sure it will work. They can guide you on what changes need to be made in order to have your graphics really "pop" on the plate.

At Sculpture Alley, we really enjoy working on logo title plates, this makes the fantasy football trophy truly custom! To see our full collection of fantasy football perpetual, loser and keeper trophies, visit us at Sculpture Alley! Don't forget to visit our Fantasy Football Engraving Gallery!