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Royal Flush
If everybody's done, we just group-bought 26,025 chips in less than a week.
lock it down so i can dibs a sample set already....If everybody's done, we just group-bought 26,025 chips in less than a week.
Looks like I am going to have 56 sample sets (25 original, 31 from this buy) so I think I will have plenty.lock it down so i can dibs a sample set already....
I'm up for a sample set.Looks like I am going to have 56 sample sets (25 original, 31 from this buy) so I think I will have plenty.
I'm sure I'll have some to sell too.
That's right. I think we did discuss trading for my Texas Flood. I guess I'll have another NCC sample.Looks like I am going to have 56 sample sets (25 original, 31 from this buy) so I think I will have plenty.
My goal is to trade with anybody else buying cards mold chips. Well, anybody who had the foresight to order enough sample sets to have some to trade anyway. I'm sure I'll have some to sell too.
Why yes! Yes I do! Good job!If you like nerdy spreadsheet crap:
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It is interesting that with my wife's recent medical drama, we are going to "plead poverty" with the hospital to try to get our out of pocket expenses reduced. We did it before with a similar income level and a couple of expensive surgeries. I say that only because it is hard to plead poverty when you have a bank account with $10k in it. So I might have to explain to a hospital financial person what a group buy is and that $8,000 was never mine.Money is in the bank. Manufacturer has sent an invoice. The invoice is payable AFTER we see the prototype chips printed. The printing of the prototypes should occur within the next few days. Of course I will post in this thread any pictures and videos I receive.
I won't let anybody order FEWER chips of any denomination, but I could ask if we could order more. I'm flexible.Everyone wishes they bought more is my guess
One of the, I will call it idiosyncratic, things about these chips is the large areas of solid colors often produce alternate hues at edges or depressions. If you look in the depressions or on the edges of the 5 cent chips, you will see blue hues. This bothered me a little at first. Then I realized I'm getting fully custom ceramics for 30 cents each (approximately) delivered to my doorstep, and I embraced it at that point.Not sure if it is the lighting or not, but something looks off about the 10 cent chip. Kind of looks like the dye is not fully getting into the cards impression maybe? Looks blue-ish to me.
Everything else looks great.
First samples are in. @BGinGA @liftapint how are they looking?
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Do you have some side photos or videos to check edge alignment?
I have several hundred of these in my possession already. My best answer is that they get it pretty darn close on almost every chip I've seen.Do you have some side photos or videos to check edge alignment?
It's lighting and reflectiveness. The bottom of the cards mold is glossy and more reflective than the surface of the chip. I've observed the same thing in photos I've taken of the chips I have in hand. It's also much more evident in darker colors.Not sure if it is the lighting or not, but something looks off about the 10 cent chip. Kind of looks like the dye is not fully getting into the cards impression maybe? Looks blue-ish to me.
Everything else looks great.
First samples are in. @BGinGA @liftapint how are they looking?
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Good catch. Scalloped on one side and hub on the other does not seem right. Let me check my artwork files.Maybe it was intentional, but the Keno Queen side of the $25 looks like different artwork. The ”inlay” is a different shape, she has a yellow dress instead of green, and the denomination looks like a darker red...