Die struck pins are pressed: your artwork is machined into a steel die and stamped into sheets of iron, brass or copper. Die cast pins are poured: molten metal fills a mold and cools into shape.
Casting allows thicker three-dimensional shapes, but it produces a softer, more porous piece and detail tends to soften at the edges. We strike rather than cast because the pressure yields a denser piece of metal and detail that stays sharp. A third term you may see quoted, die cut, describes the outline rather than the process — a pin cut to a custom shape instead of a standard circle, which we do at no extra charge.
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