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GB Completed Injection Molded Chips GB - 2021 (4 Viewers)

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allforcharity said:
Thanks for the tag. Yes, I did do some relabeling of various Crown Plaza chips with custom cash and tournament denominations by coordinating with @Gear and @p5woody .

I'll tell you right now, that project was a real bitch and a half. Abbiati's vinyl labels are nothing like Paulson or CPC labels. They don't much come "off" as they come "apart", and there is a hell of a lot of epoxy residue afterward to deal with. In short, it's a tedious scrapefest using liberal amounts of isopropyl alcohol as both a solvent and lubricant. Not quite as horrible as an old paper inlay, but close.

If we are to embark on a project like this again, I want everybody to go in with eyes open. There will be art licensing fees to deal with. There will be label costs to deal with. There will be my time costs to deal with. There will be back-and-forth shipping costs to deal with. There will be time needed to coordinate these things. And when everything is added together, it would probably not be considered by any sane person here to be "cheap". And this is all over-and-above the actual procurement cost of the Abbiati chip to begin with.

Fair warning: it would probably not be worth it, on a per chip basis, to convert less than 50 chips per order (to one address). You can count on at least doubling the base cost of your chip, and that might not even cover all the shipping costs. I'd work with others to try to keep costs down as reasonably as possible, but there's only so much that can be done when working with the postal system of multiple countries. A single US-based reshipper would help.

I'm open to being part of any discussion about this.
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I had a barrel of these and they were awesome to behold. They were 1:1 like they came from the factory.

That being said, that's a pretty extreme level of effort for something like that.
 
toothpic said:
I wonder how open Abbiati would be to sending some chips without labels
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You wouldn't necessarily want this. With the anatomy of the Crown Plaza chip, the laminated vinyl label is applied directly to the (non-ferrous) metal slug. So a Crown Plaza chip without a label would look like a blank CiC. Your tolerance with label sizing would be extremely tight in order to cover up as much of the metal as possible without spilling over into the adjacent plastic (which would create spinners). This is another reason why the overall process is a PITA and another example how Gear does great, precise work that makes it even possible to contemplate.

At least with Bud Jones chips like a weighted S2, you are applying on top of a plastic layer, which makes it easier because you can still make a label slightly smaller than the size of the recess and it will still look good.
 
I can't afford an entire set of these beautiful Matsui Abbiati, so I'm thinking it'd be a good idea to buy a travel mini-set (head ups or max 3 people) of High-roller chips: $1,000/$5,000/$25,000. But I don't like the colors for the $1,000 - $25,000, which are kind of similar. Maybe with a yellow $25,000 (the same yellow of the $20 chip?) it'd be better.

What do you think about these two chips?
 
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CarlosStorm said:
I can't afford an entire set of these beautiful Matsui, so I'm thinking it'd be a good idea to buy a travel mini-set (head ups or max 3 people) of High-roller chips: $1,000/$5,000/$25,000. But I don't like the colors for the $1,000 - $25,000, which are kind of similar. Maybe with a yellow $25,000 (the same yellow of the $20 chip?) it'd be better.

What do you think about these two chips?
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these aren't Matsui, they Abbiati.
 
Tommy said:
Option #2 is a separate cash and tourney set. Some molds are used more than once.

No photo yet as things are still being worked on.

I'll post another update once option #2 is ready and will put a poll up at that time.
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I should have a mockup for option #2 in the next day or so. The cash set at least.
 
Option #2 Cash set.

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Option #2 Tourney Set coming soon....
 
Damn it. Damn damn damn damn it.

I was out, I had talked myself out of buying a set of these.
But if we are going with this version...I am 100% back in. These are incredible.

That $5!! Holy crap. Take my money.
 
Uff Option 2 cash looks good!

I know they’re just a mock-up, but I noticed the denominations need to either be centered before the currency or after, but not both. The $20 and $25 look a bit off-center (as compared to the 25c).

These would be tough to resist.
 
So if option #2 went through, about how much would it be per chip?? I was keeping track of this thread for a while, but lost track after like 15 pages. Wasn’t it like $2.30 a chip?
 
With that being said though, @Tommy there was also some interest in doing an add on to the current CP's right? Has there been anymore progress made on that? Maybe even one denom like the $5s?
 
Emitsu said:
With that being said though, @Tommy there was also some interest in doing an add on to the current CP's right? Has there been anymore progress made on that? Maybe even one denom like the $5s?
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We decided to do an add-on for both sets in 2022. And if anyone wants to get a personal custom Abbiati set, that will be the time too. Save your pennies! ;)

churlbut18 said:
Wow @Tommy cash set #2 is fantastic... well done...
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Thanks. Working with @mipevi and @p5woody have produced some great designs.

That $5 is my favorite. I know those colors will be awesome together because the WTC $5s, while only 2 color chips have similar colors.
 
Tommy said:
We decided to do an add-on for both sets in 2022. And if anyone wants to get a personal custom Abbiati set, that will be the time too. Save your pennies! ;)
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I think I will start saving for that now! No way I'm missing that opportunity.
 
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