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Looked around and couldn't find if anyone has done it but I have to imagine someone out there has. Has anyone tried using lead tape (commonly used in Tennis and Golf) to up the weight on a murdered/milled newer Paulson chip (under the new label)? The below example is 1g per 1 inch of tape - which I think 1/2 inch per side would suffice. While I don't imagine this would give newer Paulsons the clack of true leaded chips but maybe it would assist with the lighter weight.

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ChipEnvy said:
I never thought I would hear of a worse idea than milling a casino chip. I was wrong.
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I agree with the bit about milling. As far as this idea goes, I’m not sure it’s horrible in and of itself, if the goal is to increase the weight of the chip. I just think it’s sort of the wrong problem. In my opinion, chip weight is overrated. To me, the appeal of leaded Paulsons in order is something like: the feel, the textured inlays, the sound, the smell, the fact that they’re not making any more of them, and the weight would probably be at the bottom of the list.
But yeah, I'm curious. If the goal is to increase the weight and you’re murdering the chips anyway, I say give it a shot and report the results.
 
How deep does one need to mill for this to even be feasible?
 
Knowing how important weight is to some people (maybe it’s not the weight itself that’s important but all the other stuff a certain weight implies), I’ve often wondered why weighted labels aren’t a thing
 
upNdown said:
I agree with the bit about milling. As far as this idea goes, I’m not sure it’s horrible in and of itself, if the goal is to increase the weight of the chip. I just think it’s sort of the wrong problem. In my opinion, chip weight is overrated. To me, the appeal of leaded Paulsons in order is something like: the feel, the textured inlays, the sound, the smell, the fact that they’re not making any more of them, and the weight would probably be at the bottom of the list.
But yeah, I'm curious. If the goal is to increase the weight and you’re murdering the chips anyway, I say give it a shot and report the results.
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I think the feel specifically has a lot to do with the weight of the chip but that could just be me. I have a few extra chips I might consider trying this with and will report back if/when I do.
Sprouty said:
How deep does one need to mill for this to even be feasible?
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I've seen shallow and deep mill jobs. After label is applied on deep mills, laminated labels still tend to be lower and not even with the chip where I think adding 1-2mm could work - non-laminated labels would sit lower. For murdered (inlay removed) chips, it's generally less the case but about 0.5-1mm depth difference still in most cases.
London24 said:
Knowing how important weight is to some people (maybe it’s not the weight itself that’s important but all the other stuff a certain weight implies), I’ve often wondered why weighted labels aren’t a thing
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I personally dislike lighter chips <9g and much prefer 10-10.5g chips. But some newer THC chips like Paris $1s feel surprisingly great.
 
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How thick is the tape, how thick is a chip? At what point have you milled the chip too deep?
 
jamesjkim said:
I think the feel specifically has a lot to do with the weight of the chip but that could just be me.
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Maybe I should have said handling, but I FEEL that actual feel has something to do with it too. It's easy to think that a lot of this is in our heads, and I'm sure some of it is, to varying degrees with different people. And yeah, all things being equal, I'd prefer 10g chips over 8.5s. But after about two hands with the 8.5's, I could barely care less about the difference. Though I could say something similar about THC vs RHC. But we're talking about poker chips on the internet - we're here for the minutiae.
jamesjkim said:
The one I posted is 10 mils which is about 2.5mm
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Bummer. That sounds like at least 5x too thick. I think a standard paulson is under 3.5mm and that's shoulder to shoulder - an unmilled recess would be less than that.
 
I love this thread because I had a similar thought legit yesterday (at least spiritually)

The snappers are the only unleaded 39mm chips in my relabel set. Only 2 barrels, but the rest of the chips are bricks—pretty noticeable. Best idea I had were the pipe screens I used to use to smoke weed from bowls lol
 
I have an old C&J chip that was offered on eBay as an manufacturer sample but could be as simple as a missing inlay. Underneath is a lead slug that's 1/4 in across (maybe a bit more) that is in the center of the chip with the inlay normally (?) pressed on top.

If you look at some of the older C&J chips, you can see a funny circular mark on the face of the inlay. I suspect this is that slug either showing through from age, or maybe just because the material is different than the chip itself and the pressing makes it show up. I could imagine someone, if they were truly determined to add weight to a chip, could murder the chip, drill a hole in the center and add a slug then add a new label over the top.

Like the comments above, the sound will probably not be the same. It's just adding a gram of mass to a chip. Seems like a lot of effort to add a little bit of weight.


The chip I mention is at home quite some distance from where I am now. I'll get a picture of it and post it here once I'm back where the collection lives.
 
Adding 1g to a 9g chip is just over 10%. As a single chip, I agree the difference would be a bit imperceptible but with a barrel/shuffle stack, I’m sure it would be more noticeable.
 
I've been milling only one side of my Paulsons, but to a depth of 0.5mm. then I add two layers of tape to one side.

You get the same weight as milling and taping both sides, but it's half the work.

Adam Sandler Genius GIF
 
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