@SeanGecko
I know you are watching this thread too, but this might be even more relevant to the web mold discussion that you started. I am going to post this over there too.
Thanks Alan. Appreciate you posting these. I can't explain why the scrowns feel sharper to me, so maybe it's just a bias on my part. It doesn't really matter, since we are talking a brand new mold here anyway. My only real point in all my comments is for
@MrRossKeys to hopefully impress upon Tina that if it is at all possible to make a new mold have sharper edges, that I think most of us would appreciate that. Or not???
If they are the same sharpness as the scrown that is good. Sharper than that could be bad. You want the edge broken somewhat. I think that if they are super shap (maybe impossible, idk) think of a brand new Paulson or
CPC chip that basically never breaks in. I am not saying that these ceramic chips will never wear, but they will certainly take a looooooooong time to change at all how they feel. Ceramic chips do not wear well in a Casino environment as they wear through the printing and look bad, but in a home game environment this will basically never happen...well it could happen but LOTS of hosting.
And also that the additional 1mm in barrel height (scrown hybrids over cards mold) is also appreciated and desired for this new mold. What I don't think any of us know is whether there is that degree of precision when creating a new mold, or if what we have gotten in previous molds is purely a random occurrence. i.e., some end up a tiny bit thinner, and others a tiny bit thicker.
yea, not sure about this either. 1mm barrel height spread over 20 chips isn't much.
I have a calipers (in inches because I actually used it at work) and I just spent some time measuring various chips & my conclusion is that the extra weight that Tina's scrown chips have suprisingly (lol) comes from the fact that they are just a little bigger. Both bigger dia and thicker. Both dimensions are very small and when all 4 of these chips are set next to one another on a flat & hard table they all seem to be exactly the same. You can not feel a difference in height sliding a finger or nail across from one chip to the next and you certainly can not see the difference in size.
Just for reference cheap copy paper that we all have in our printer is .004" thick so the extra thickness of the Tina scrown vs the Tina ngm is thicker by 1/2 the thickness of a piece of paper & the Tina scrown is roughly bigger dia by roughly the thickness of a piece of paper. Was this all done intentionally or did it just happen. Ikd, but it do know that the difference isn't much....
----------------------------------------Thickness--------------Diameter
THC Brand New ---------------------.128"-------------------1.540"
TRK Old school Brand New ----------.128"-------------------1.525"
Tina ngm------------------------------.128"-------------------1.530"
Tina scrown----------------------------.130"------------------1.535"