FDLmold: Rat Rod mixed .25/.25 and up leaded THC poker set (1 Viewer)

[FDLmold]

Okay I don’t know how I missed this thread before this week but I’ve since read through these 2 pages like 3 times.
@FDLmold this set has just latched into my brain and I’m obsessed with the idea.

 

[FDLmold]

I discovered another 11.00 gram + inlaid chip today. Yay!

Just *barely* squeaked into the club. If the chip was sharper, it would have made weight very easily.

 

[FDLmold]

Upcoming milestones:

Full rack of quarters, 25 unique quarters
40 unique 50-centers
150 unique ones
300 fives, 250 unique fives
Full rack of twenty-fives (also meaning 100 unique)
Barrel of hundos
$5000 total bank

 

[FDLmold]

Small dilemma. I experimented shuffling a leaded house mold into a leaded THC batch of chips. It flawlessly joined them. Diameter and chip thickness are an exact match, and good house molds have a "mold rim" equal to or exceeding the mold rim of a THC chip.

Yay or nay, adding a few high quality house mold chips to some denoms is a good thing?

 

[upNdown]

Small dilemma. I experimented shuffling a leaded house mold into a leaded THC batch of chips. It flawlessly joined them. Diameter and chip thickness are an exact match, and good house molds have a "mold rim" equal to or exceeding the mold rim of a THC chip.

Yay or nay, adding a few high quality house mold chips to some denoms is a good thing?

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That excalibur $5 is stunning. That house mold is shockingly underrated. But no, I don't think house molds belong in this set. I guess the question is, just how ratty do you want to get?

 

[HaRDHouSeiNC]

That red five might be my favorite red chip in history of. Id pay quite a bit to go back in time and get a whole pallet of those new fives

 

[NotDunric]

I was struck with the idea of doing a set exactly like this today, and was directed to your set by a friend as an example of it being done before. So damn cool! I'd *love* to play with a set like this.

 

[FDLmold]

That excalibur $5 is stunning. That house mold is shockingly underrated. But no, I don't think house molds belong in this set. I guess the question is, just how ratty do you want to get?

I've decided that I will not pursue house mold chips intentionally. BUT, if the right deal comes along for say a Bicycle Club $1, or a leaded Caesars Palace $25, I'll happily add such a chip to the set. We will call them the easter eggs of the set, hidden like Hot Coffee in GTA. The deal on this Excalibur $5 was very good, so now it's joined the set. I can throw him out any time. But like most of his friends, there are zero, or very very few, sets that use him. Casino chips deserved to be gambled with, not hermetially sealed in cardboard slips or airtites in a binder on a shelf!

 

[upNdown]

I've decided that I will not pursue house mold chips intentionally. BUT, if the right deal comes along for say a Bicycle Club $1, or a leaded Caesars Palace $25, I'll happily add such a chip to the set. We will call them the easter eggs of the set, hidden like Hot Coffee in GTA. The deal on this Excalibur $5 was very good, so now it's joined the set. I can throw him out any time. But like most of his friends, there are zero, or very very few, sets that use him. Casino chips deserved to be gambled with, not hermetially sealed in cardboard slips or airtites in a binder on a shelf!

As long as you can come up with a rule that justifies it fitting in your set, then it fits in your set.

 

[FDLmold]

Have you ever had a rack of 99 chips?

No, you haven't. Because if you had 99 chips, you didn't HAVE a rack. It's enough to trigger OCD even in people who've never had it, I imagine.

#99 arrived this week. #100 is not on the horizon or my radar. But I'm sure it will turn up soon. Because this bothers me!

 

[FestiveKnight]

Have you ever had a rack of 99 chips?

No, you haven't. Because if you had 99 chips, you didn't HAVE a rack. It's enough to trigger OCD even in people who've never had it, I imagine.

#99 arrived this week. #100 is not on the horizon or my radar. But I'm sure it will turn up soon. Because this bothers me!

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Let’s see some more pr0n! A couple favorites? Which of this crowd comes in at the heftiest?

 

[louBdub]

If I had another $25 for ya it would yours immediately!

I can’t use this one, maybe you?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/2040574608...oyxtjb4t4m&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

 

[buffalojim]

Have you ever had a rack of 99 chips?

No, you haven't. Because if you had 99 chips, you didn't HAVE a rack. It's enough to trigger OCD even in people who've never had it, I imagine.

#99 arrived this week. #100 is not on the horizon or my radar. But I'm sure it will turn up soon. Because this bothers me!

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I spy with my eye an Empress twenty five

 

[buffalojim]

Need a Nevada Hotel 25?

 

[FDLmold]

Cactus Jack here wins the mass battle among hot stamp $25s. 11.76g

Despite being a litle worn but still able to stand on edge, the St Croix Turtle Lake (WI) and Empress (IL) still weigh in at an impressive 11.26 and 11.25 grams respectively.

 

[FDLmold]

Need a Nevada Hotel 25?

Nope. I'm doing pretty well on Nevada Hotel chips actually.

 

[buffalojim]

Nope. I'm doing pretty well on Nevada Hotel chips actually.

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Perfect, I really didn't want to give it to you anyway lol

 

[FDLmold]

May as well be 98 chips. I forget where and when I got this one, but that giant werewolf bite is not good enough.

 

[FDLmold]

If I had another $25 for ya it would yours immediately!

I can’t use this one, maybe you?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/2040574608...oyxtjb4t4m&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

Swanky $25 is on my radar. Most days I am value-hunting chips for this set. So that just means I haven't seen a $25 Swanky at a value I liked yet.

 

[FDLmold]

More pron. All the South Dakota $25s, except Nugget, which is a multi hundreds of dollars chip. I like posting these because they make @ReallyGoodUsername a little jealous, and that's hard to do!

 

[DMack]

More pron. All the South Dakota $25s, except Nugget, which is a multi hundreds of dollars chip. I like posting these because they make @ReallyGoodUsername a little jealous, and that's hard to do!

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You don’t want to make him mad. He’ll be hunting even harder for what you’re looking for to keep them away from you now!!

 

[FDLmold]

 

[FDLmold]

Top 3 chips are all second copies. Bottom five are new. Now that I'm allowing a few house molds into the $1/$5/$25/$100 denominations, there are some real THC-like beauties out there. The 1980s and early 1990s Atlantic City chips, the clay ones anyway, have some great house molds. The Trump Plaza in the middle is just a super chip. Shuffling it in a stack with other leaded THC chips, you can't even tell a difference. It clearly belongs.

Also nice is the Glitter Gulch. I'm under $15 for that one. They seem to be much more common than Chip Rack would lead us to believe. Somebody found a rack I'm guessing. Or more! And that Golden Nugget WA chip is the last WA 50 cent chip I need. There are others, but I'm skeptical that they are leaded, so I will pass on them.

 

[louBdub]

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Under $15 for the GG, and eBay is like…. Lol, this hobby is so outta wack.

 

[FDLmold]

The price guide from 2007 agrees with that guy. Maybe.

 

[FDLmold]

Whaaat?

After it went past my max bid, I ignored it. It's a great chip, one of the best hot stamps ever. Glad I have one. And for much less than $20.50 + tax + shipping.

 

[calfdemon]

Wow... just wow! As the owner of a 31 Vicky ratrod, your title drew me in and your awesome set and collection has me absolutely obsessed!

I am newer to chipping and while I never had a desire to use actual casino chips in a set except to murder and customize them (which I am in the middle of), seeing what you did with your ratrod set is truly inspirational and the one way I would want to (and now want to) do it!

It would definitely be a set that is only played amongst good friends as with all those unique chips, you have to make sure none of them walk away.

Someday I want to do something like this! It is truly an amazing and one of a kind set!!

 

[HaRDHouSeiNC]

Whaaat?

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After it went past my max bid, I ignored it. It's a great chip, one of the best hot stamps ever. Glad I have one. And for much less than $20.50 + tax + shipping.

I wanted that
Grief

 

[FDLmold]

I get that all these chips are technically not the same. But still...

 

[calfdemon]

I'm at the point that if you end up with extras you don't need, PLEASE let me know and I will probably take them off your hands. I am infatuated with what you have done!