{"id":2455,"date":"2015-03-18T17:46:36","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T23:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lazerdesigns.com\/?p=2455"},"modified":"2024-03-20T12:01:43","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T18:01:43","slug":"carabiner-style-and-sizes-review-and-comparison-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lazerdesigns.com\/blog\/carabiner-style-and-sizes-review-and-comparison-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Carabiner Style and Sizes Review and Comparison (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carabiners come in all shapes and sizes! They make great giveaways at trade shows, and have <a title=\"55 useful and fun things to do with a carabiner keychain\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lazerdesigns.com\/blog\/\">so many uses<\/a> it is <a title=\"3 more uses for carabiners\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lazerdesigns.com\/blog\/3-more-uses-for-carabiners\/\">hard to count them all<\/a> (oh, <a title=\"Video: Amazing uses for carabiners\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lazerdesigns.com\/blog\/\">here&#8217;s some more<\/a>).<br \/>\nHere we compare and review our various sizes in the standard D shaped style for you so you can get a good feel for which one is perfect for your promotion, gift, giveaway or trade show based on your engraving. We have other shapes and styles so if you need something unique, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lazerdesigns.com\/carabiner-clips\">check those out here.<\/a><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/eZsFNNqr23s?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nItems reviewed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lazerdesigns.com\/engraved-3-carabiner\">3&#8243; Carabiner<\/a> (most popular)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lazerdesigns.com\/small-225-carabiner\">2.25&#8243; Carabiner<\/a> (second most popular)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lazerdesigns.com\/small-2-carabiner\">2&#8243; Carabiner<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lazerdesigns.com\/micro-d-16-carabiner-strong-wire-gate\">Micro D Carabiner<\/a> (most popular small clip)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lazerdesigns.com\/utility-3-carabiner\">Utility Carabiner<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lazerdesigns.com\/engraved-3-carabiner\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lazerdesigns.com\/Merchant2\/graphics\/00000001\/c8_700x532.jpg\" alt=\"Personalized larger carabiner clip\" width=\"210\" height=\"174\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">3&#8243; Carabiner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been personalizing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lazerdesigns.com\/carabiner-clips\">carabiners <\/a>since 2001 and have a great variety of colors and sizes!<br \/>\nMost popular is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lazerdesigns.com\/engraved-3-carabiner\">3&#8243; carabiner<\/a>, popular with colleges, universities and outdoor companies. It comes in a round edge and flat edge option.<br \/>\nOur second most popular size is our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lazerdesigns.com\/small-225-carabiner\">2.25&#8243; carabiner<\/a>, popular for corporate handouts, tradeshow giveaways, and with auto mechanics. The slightly smaller size fits well in pockets.<br \/>\nIf you need something slightly smaller, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lazerdesigns.com\/small-2-carabiner\">2&#8243; carabiner<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lazerdesigns.com\/micro-d-16-carabiner-strong-wire-gate\">Micro D<\/a> size might fit the bill.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 248px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lazerdesigns.com\/small-225-carabiner\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lazerdesigns.com\/Merchant2\/graphics\/00000001\/C6-1_274x230.jpg\" alt=\"custom carabiner keychains\" width=\"248\" height=\"208\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">2.25&#8243; Carabiner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>These ultra light-weight carabiners are popular with light-weight backpackers and for manufacturers who attach them to other products.<br \/>\nThe Micro D is also great because it has a stronger wire gate with extra tension holding it closed.<br \/>\nOther options are the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lazerdesigns.com\/utility-3-carabiner\">Utility Carabiner<\/a> which has a rate rating for a static load and is made of higher quality aluminum, and also has a slightly higher quality gate. The load limit is 1200lbs.<br \/>\nYou can also order a nylon web strap on the 2.25&#8243;, 2.75&#8243;, Utility and 3&#8243; size.<br \/>\nAs for the imprint area, the obvious thing is the larger the carabiner, the larger the imprint<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 274px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lazerdesigns.com\/micro-d-16-carabiner-strong-wire-gate\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lazerdesigns.com\/Merchant2\/graphics\/00000001\/ccmicrod_699x494_274x194.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"274\" height=\"194\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Micro D Carabiner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>area.&nbsp; We can fit about the same number of characters on the 2.25&#8243;, 2.75&#8243; and 3&#8243; carabiner, when we go down in size we resize the imprint to fit.<br \/>\nSo the larger the carabiner, and the smaller the imprint, the larger the engraving area is going to be.<br \/>\nOn the 2&#8243; and Micro D carabiner, the imprint area is very small, but our laser is very precise, and we can fit 18 to 22 characters to easily be readable, we recommend 12 to 14 characters for maximum readability.<br \/>\nFor recommended characters and to personalize your carabiners today, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lazerdesigns.com\/carabiner-clips\">click here to view the Carabiner Category<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carabiners come in all shapes and sizes! They make great giveaways at trade shows, and have so many uses it is hard to count them all (oh, here&#8217;s some more). Here we compare and review our various sizes in the standard D shaped style for you so you can get a good feel for which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lazerdesigns.com\/blog\/carabiner-style-and-sizes-review-and-comparison-video\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Carabiner Style and Sizes Review and Comparison (video)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29,117],"tags":[23,102],"table_tags":[],"class_list":["post-2455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carabiner-keychains","category-marketing-ideas-tips","tag-personalization","tag-video"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lazerdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lazerdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lazerdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lazerdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lazerdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2455"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lazerdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7027,"href":"https:\/\/www.lazerdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455\/revisions\/7027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lazerdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lazerdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lazerdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2455"},{"taxonomy":"table_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lazerdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/table_tags?post=2455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}