This nested page is the shopping list behind the essay. The essay lives at A first pin board. Cork versus cloth, hats versus jackets versus bags, packing a pin for the flight home from Orlando. Keep that open. What to put on the wall and what to seat on the post.
Orlando Pin Company pins, enamel, souvenir-style, hat, are inquired through the catalog. The kit is the board those pins come home to, plus the backs that keep them on a cap in this city’s heat. Back to the starter-board kits hub for the longer backing and cap notes.
A flush enamel face for the board. Leave air between pins.
Wear it on a cap first. Park it on cork when the week is over.
A city mark on the same wall as the enamel disc.
Pick the surface first
A hat pin, not a lecture.
Start with the wall, not the pin. A cork pin board that is at least as thick as the post will hold without a clutch; you push, you rearrange, you see every hole. That used look is the point after a park week: the board becomes a map of where the needle has been.
A felt pin display board hides those holes. The needle goes through the cloth the same way it goes through a jacket, so the clutch has to stay on. Felt is the right first board if the pins will also come off and go back on a cap. The motion is identical. It is the wrong first board if you plan to hang a heavy run of metal along the bottom edge; the cloth will belly.
Measure the hallway, not a catalog. A square next to a door is enough for a first week’s pins. A larger rectangle becomes a trip map. Leave a finger of air between hard-enamel faces; the polish scratches.
Then the backs
A pin from Orlando Pin Company arrives with a clutch. The kit is extra backs, because Orlando heat and a swinging bag will spend them. Rubber clutch discs are the spare you actually use: kinder on a cap than butterfly wings, cheap enough to replace when they stretch. Search pin backs rubber clutch and buy more than you think; one stretched disc is how a pin finds a storm drain.
Locking backs belong on the pins that ride. A tote from a hotel to I-Drive will test a loose butterfly before dinner. Lapel Pins Plus names locking (deluxe) clutches as the most secure option and lists hat pins as a reason. Wikipedia’s butterfly-clutch note is the other half: the 1942 Ballou wing is the classic lapel back, and it is less secure on thick cloth. On a cap, skip the wings. On a jacket lapel, the butterfly is still the familiar pinch.
The clutch page is the hardware in ordinary language. The hat pin guide is how the post sits in crown fabric, not brim.
A first board without a pin is a cork square. The kit wants a few faces that have already been on a jacket or a cap, so the wall is a week, not a product shot.
A hard enamel pin is the flush face: color polished to the metal line, one plane, one shine. Alchemy Merch’s short test still holds. Run a finger across it; hard enamel is smooth. It wipes after an Orlando rain shower. It also scratches if two faces grind in a cup holder. On the board, give it air.
The board is how pins live. The pin is still enamel, souvenir-style, or hat. Name the family. Write sales@tabaconda.com. Publisher: Orlando Pin Company and Tabaconda LLC.
