If you need a pickleball gift that is not another paddle cover, Printed Pickle makes a small 3D-printed pickle trophy that also works as a bottle opener. It is designed and made in Venice, Florida, by Liberty Designs, and it is meant for one very specific moment: an 11-0 win, the shutout players call a pickle.
The Classic Pickle is $3.99. It is the trophy for an 11-0. The body is green PETG plastic, with a gray bottle-opener tooth, a red paracord lanyard, and Pickled! embossed on it.
The Golden Pickle is also $3.99. It is the trophy for a golden pickle, which the FAQ defines as the first server running all 11 points in a row. Golden pickles are rare in the sport, which is the framing Printed Pickle uses for this version. The body is a special gold-look PLA: plastic, not real gold. The bottle-opener tooth is solid brass, and the lanyard is yellow.
If you are buying for a group, the packs are the better value on a per-pickle basis, according to the product pages. A Pickle 4-Pack is $14.99, or about $3.75 each. You can choose all Classic, or 3 Classic + 1 Golden. It ships in one mailer for $6.99 and counts as four pickles toward shipping. A Pickle 10-Pack is $34.99, or about $3.50 each. You can choose all Classic, all Golden, 5 Classic + 5 Golden, or 9 Classic + 1 Golden. It ships in one box for $8.99. The 9 + 1 mix is the one the product page describes as being like a real season, because a golden pickle is the rare one.
Shipping is USA only, by USPS Ground Advantage, from Venice, Florida. Individual pickles (any mix of Classic and Golden) ship at $6.99 per mailer of up to four. If you add singles on top of a 4-Pack or 10-Pack, those singles still ship at $6.99 per mailer of up to four. The site says orders usually pack and ship the same business day, and that transit typically takes 2 to 5 business days. Exact shipping totals are shown at checkout. See also Shipping & Returns.
Who is this actually for? Rec and league players who want something to hand over after a shutout. A friend or family member buying a stocking stuffer or a small gift. A club or tournament director who needs a prize or a thank-you that does not cost paddle money. Sal’s own story, on the Our Story page, is that he started by making them for friends, then donated them to local tournaments to help raise money for charity, and then started selling them when people asked if they could buy one.
Hang one on the Christmas tree
The lanyard is already a hanger. A Classic or Golden Printed Pickle can hang on a Christmas tree the same way it hangs from a bag or a fence: by the paracord lanyard that comes on each one. The Classic is green PETG with a red lanyard. The Golden is a gold-look PLA body — plastic, not real gold — with a yellow lanyard and a solid brass bottle-opener tooth.
That also happens to fit the Christmas pickle tradition many families know as German-American: a pickle-shaped ornament is hidden on the tree, and the person who finds it gets a reward or good luck for the coming year. The German origin of that custom is widely disputed, and many sources treat it as mostly an American one. Printed Pickle is not claiming an old-country history. It is just a 3D-printed pickle, made in Venice, Florida, that already has a loop to hang it with.
A single Classic or Golden is $3.99. If you want a few extras for the tree, or for the next 11-0, the 4-Pack and 10-Pack are in the shop.
Shop the singles, the 4-Pack, and the 10-Pack at the Printed Pickle shop.