House molds are okay and I don’t think that’s controversial.
I see a few mini rants on the new chip room thread, about how so many PCFers claim to hate house molds. I have a couple of thoughts, but I don’t want to clog up TCR’s thread.
House molds have always gotten less love here, but that doesn’t mean that people actually think they suck. They don’t fit comfortably into mixed sets, and on a related note, people are less likely to buy them to relabel them. So they go unsold, or sell for less. Doesn’t mean they suck, it might just mean that people don’t know what to do with them.
Newbs are probably influenced by that. They see them going unsold, so they follow the crowd. THC is goat, RHC is next best thing, so housemolds must suck. They might even be naive enough to post that. I’m pretty sure I did. But as they gain experience and expand their horizons, there’s probably quite a few chippers who used to think that housemoods suck, who now embrace them.
And of course, some of them do suck. There are some very cool house molds and there are some very bad ones. Like anything else, it’s personal preference. My preference is for molds with a protective outer ring, and if not, at least broad shoulders. If a housemold doesn’t have either of those (think RHC) I’m probably gonna hate it no matter what they’ve carved into it. Doesn’t mean I hate all house molds.
I see a few mini rants on the new chip room thread, about how so many PCFers claim to hate house molds. I have a couple of thoughts, but I don’t want to clog up TCR’s thread.
House molds have always gotten less love here, but that doesn’t mean that people actually think they suck. They don’t fit comfortably into mixed sets, and on a related note, people are less likely to buy them to relabel them. So they go unsold, or sell for less. Doesn’t mean they suck, it might just mean that people don’t know what to do with them.
Newbs are probably influenced by that. They see them going unsold, so they follow the crowd. THC is goat, RHC is next best thing, so housemolds must suck. They might even be naive enough to post that. I’m pretty sure I did. But as they gain experience and expand their horizons, there’s probably quite a few chippers who used to think that housemoods suck, who now embrace them.
And of course, some of them do suck. There are some very cool house molds and there are some very bad ones. Like anything else, it’s personal preference. My preference is for molds with a protective outer ring, and if not, at least broad shoulders. If a housemold doesn’t have either of those (think RHC) I’m probably gonna hate it no matter what they’ve carved into it. Doesn’t mean I hate all house molds.
