The rarer the better !
Here is the only one I have -
Who can name the chip and mold pictured ?
Chip Making Process pictures (3 Viewers)
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The rarer the better !
Here is the only one I have -
Who can name the chip and mold pictured ?
Mathieu
Two Pair
How does Pcf and its members start a group buy to buy a poker chip machine?
Quicksilver-75
4 of a Kind
More importantly how would pcf find and hire someone qualified to run and perfect said equipment...its cheaper to have David do it for us. Trust me.
Mathieu
Two Pair
Who's David? Does he make clay chips?
Pete
Two Pair
David is an owner of Classic Poker Chips (formerly ASM-Atlantic Standard Molding), a vendor here. They make beautiful clay chips.
Market cap of $86 million and give it a 25% premium for a takeover, we might be able to take over GPI for $110 million or so. Let's try a GB, GoFundMe, local bank, or maybe hire an investment bank to make an offer for the whole damn entity and make as many chips for ourselves as hearts desire
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Mathieu
Two Pair
Lol. I'm sure a machine would be cheaper than buying the largest casino chip manufacturing business in the world...
You guys never dreamed of making your own chips? I guess I'm the only one.
I Bought CPC's from David last year, my bad had forgotten his name. Yes true very nice chips.
You guys never dreamed of making your own chips? I guess I'm the only one.
I Bought CPC's from David last year, my bad had forgotten his name. Yes true very nice chips.
derekdd23
Flush
Market cap of $86 million and give it a 25% premium for a takeover, we might be able to take over GPI for $110 million or so. Let's try a GB, GoFundMe, local bank, or maybe hire an investment bank to make an offer for the whole damn entity and make as many chips for ourselves as hearts desire
Wouldn't 51% work just as well to have a majority share to vote in custom chip making for PCF memebers?
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Is this a trick question?
I thought the first photo was something you did with playdoh
then I saw the second.
Isn't that essentially the process?
I wouldn't know but it sure looks that way !
Note All These pics have been posted in various threads in the past, not sure who took / posted them..
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Chip Clay sheets waiting to be punched into soft blanks:
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Chip Clay sheets waiting to be punched into soft blanks:
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I've seen nearly the whole process, up close and in person.
Seeing it done and doing it are two different things. You would need to know the ingredients and the exact recipe to mix the different colors, then the temperatures and times to press the blanks. How long should they cool before you can epoxy the inlay, and then what temperature and time to press after you put in the inlay?. It would also help to know which epoxy to use, and exactly how much to attach the inlay to the chip.
There's also some work involved in working off the excess -- you can see it around the edges of the photos of chips in the molds -- and polishing the chip without cracking, breaking, or scratching the daylights out of it.
Fortunately for us, Classic Poker Chips has this all down.
Seeing it done and doing it are two different things. You would need to know the ingredients and the exact recipe to mix the different colors, then the temperatures and times to press the blanks. How long should they cool before you can epoxy the inlay, and then what temperature and time to press after you put in the inlay?. It would also help to know which epoxy to use, and exactly how much to attach the inlay to the chip.
There's also some work involved in working off the excess -- you can see it around the edges of the photos of chips in the molds -- and polishing the chip without cracking, breaking, or scratching the daylights out of it.
Fortunately for us, Classic Poker Chips has this all down.
I asked David for some in-process pics of my chips last year. He said "sure!!! But he'd have to kill me". I actually thought about it for a sec.
Serious though, he said those pics should have never been leaked and probably had some serious consequences.
Serious though, he said those pics should have never been leaked and probably had some serious consequences.
AfterTheFact
4 of a Kind
I'm waiting on someone to start making chips using a 3D printer. ( I'm sure it's already being done) I imagine if you could get the weight right you could make any mold you want...
Now you've got me thinking, I've got a buddy that has a printer. A chip seems pretty basic to what he's been making, but when you start talking about weight, color, and stamp characteristics ... he might just be interested
DJ Mack
Flush
I can think of no technical reason why this wouldn't be possible, other than the weight issue. However with current technology I don't think it's feasible.
You'd essentially be limited to making dice chips. We don't hate dice chips because they have dice on them - we hate them because they're straight up plastic. Then there's the matter of cost and production time. 3D plastic isn't cheap and items take a very long time to print. If China can churn out thousands of injection molded plastic chips an hour and your 3D printer is putting the finishing touches on its first one how the heck do you stand to make any money?
Not that it's not worth experimenting with, but I don't think the technology is ready for this kind of mass production yet.
justsomedude
Royal Flush
This is my most favorite thread ever.
ekricket
Royal Flush
I think those tubes going into the plate are for steam or some other heating medium, not injecting plastic. The posts on the edge look like locking pins for a similar plate to be applied on top.
EXTREMELY secretive. So much so, that I tried to save on shipping from CPC by taking a short trip to the factory to pick the chips up in person and even that was not allowed. The Nevada Gaming Commission doesn't allow any cameras anywhere near or inside the factory never mind visitors.
And the "play dough" pictures is what real unpressed unfinished clay chips look like before final pressing/lathing.
Meddler2
Full House
You can purchase your own equipment for $50k:
http://www.chiptalk.net/forum/threads/compression-clay-equipment-for-sale.83008/
http://www.chiptalk.net/forum/threads/compression-clay-equipment-for-sale.83008/
Ellasdaddy
Flush
Had no clue that the process might look like this or the secrecy, but it makes total sense now 
Mind = blown
Mind = blown
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