New Tina Mold Poll (5 Viewers)

[SmockKnives]

Mafia fedora hat. Just the hat. POKER $$ house mold. Or POKER with fedora and not the $$. Just wanted to give some images to my suggestion.

 

[SmockKnives]

Or alternate the speech bubble in the PCF logo and PCF. So PCF "speech bubble" PCF "speech bubble"

 

[200 Motels]

Mafia fedora hat. Just the hat. Or POKER with fedora and not the $$.


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[200 Motels]

Also,

 

[Meddler2]

You're obviously more than welcome to have your own opinion, or start your own GB.


CPC doesn't offer any of those and BCC molds are owned by GPI and have been retired. I would love it if we could convince them to bring them out of retirement and make some of those old molds for the home market, but that seems pretty unlikely at this time.

Yeah I know. But all of the molds mentioned are owned by somebody...as pointed out...

 

[Manz]

Never been a fan of the Greek mold since BCC times, dunno why but only seems ok just for few classical/vintage themes. There are plenty of other motifs and ornaments from other eras with a more "wide usability"

 

[djfayze]

I feel like it’s worth differentiating between owned by someone and actively in use in a casino setting right now. The thing with THC is that it’s in use by hundreds of casinos and there is a much higher risk of counterfeiting. Greek key has been made by many companies and is even currently being used in a few different plastic slugged chips by different manufacturers. Don’t think anyone would bat an eye at Greek key.

 

[Coyote]

Greek key, known in Greek as the Meander from the name-sake winding river in Asia Minor (present-day Turkey), would be the only reason I would ever make another (totally unnecessary) set

 

[khaltire]

^ That mold is currently owned -- and bring used -- by GPI, offered to casinos only as the "Flower" mold for their Blue Chip brand of budget clay chips. Illegally using it would be no different than using their THC mold.

In fact, versions of all four of the molds in this thread's OP poll are owned by someone, and legally, each would need to be sufficiently modified to avoid copyright and/or trademark infringement. Same for the other molds (Roman, THC, Sun/Flower) being discussed in this thread.

Best option is a new unique design, or a Greek key variant that hasn't been produced before (i.e., not a copy of an existing mgk mold).

I’d be More interested in hearing more about this budget line of chips under blue chip. Are they the original BCC formula? Original BCC chip colors. Any live examples? What country

 

[TheOffalo]

Here's a couple I came up with for designs from scratch: Stetson/Arrow mold, Coins (or Chips) mold, Currency Mold...

I realize that the dye-sub may not work well on the last one in practice.

 

[Coyote]

How many chips are required for a new mold?
Do they all have to be the same, color- and spot-wise?
Edit: And label-wise?

 

[TheOffalo]

How many chips are required for a new mold?
Do they all have to be the same, color- and spot-wise?
Edit: And label-wise?

I'd think the color/spot/label/inlay would not make a difference, since the dye sublimation process doesn't care. It's probably just if people will buy enough chips in the new mold to justify them making the "master" mold that shapes the ceramic chips.

 

[Coyote]

I 'd be in for roughly 700.

 

[Coyote]

@Kid_Eastwood ?

 

[Kid_Eastwood]

@Kid_Eastwood ?

I prefer SF over Tina.
It's a little bit more expensive but in the long run it is worth the extra cost imho

 

[TheOffalo]

Tweaked the Stetson/Arrow design to make the arrow more prominent, and the hat more "curvy" as to look less like a top hat at a glance. Also tried an inverse and alternating orientations.

 

[SeanGecko]

$2000 for your own mold.
Or 20,000 chips I believe.

 

[khaltire]

As said in this thread previously, Palm mold ? Like In N out, repeated around the perimeter

Might be cool! And unique

 

[JFG]

I like the Greek, but I worry the color won’t transfer into the groves. Same with the horse shoe.if I were to guess, I would say the only option that would allow good color transfer would be the less than desirable suites mold.

 

[TX_Golf_N_Poker]

As said in this thread previously, Palm mold ? Like In N out, repeated around the perimeter

Might be cool! And unique

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I was interested until you mentioned In-N-Out - gag! Luckily that's not what I see when I look at them.

 

[spartan037]

Are there any pics of Tina's THC chips? I keep hearing about them but I don't see GB for them. Or threads showing them.

 

[Johnblue]

Feeling the in

As said in this thread previously, Palm mold ? Like In N out, repeated around the perimeter

Might be cool! And unique

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Beast!

 

[BukNaked36]

I always liked the pineapple mold.

d.

 

[SeanGecko]

I always liked the pineapple mold.

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Swingers set

 

[jonstanley2009]

Is large Greek key an option?

 

[Coyote]

I 'd even be happy happy with Smaller-than-Medium Greek Key (NOT small, though)

 

[eightyWon]

I know it'd be a meme mold but I really like the idea of a donkey

 

[NotRealNameNoSir]

Might I suggest a Monster Truck crossed by a meth needle?

Kid Rock mold, I love it

 

[SeanGecko]

Most users smoke meth injection while the second common way to use is only done by 24% of users.

Get that crank pipe chip!

 

[TX_Golf_N_Poker]

It sounds like some would be most comfortable if we propose a unique design. So I did a little quick analysis on the various key molds. Each existing mold as used on previous clay chips has some similarities, and some differences. I'm not a graphic artist, but I feel like we could come up with a greek key design that is different from all three. First, some photos.

LGK has no outer ring, and has 15 keys.
MGK has an outer ring, has 22 keys, and uses a simpler key that doesn't hook back downward at the end.
SGK has a wider blank area before getting to the outer ring, uses the same key design as LGK, then also has an inner ring and more blank space before getting to the inlay area.

Personally, SGK is my least favorite.
I like the more complex key used by LGK, and the outer ring of the MGK. But I suspect the more complicated key might be too complex for a Tina mold chip.

Here's the key mold proposed by Justin in the OP. If you will notice, this key mold design has 26 keys. It uses the simplest key, and the outer ring of the MGK, but with a different number of keys. And the inner ring of the SGK. It's sort of a hybrid of MGK and SGK, and technically it is unique, and not an exact copy of any of the other three. Seems to me that we ought to be good to go with this design should we choose to move on Greek Key mold. Clearly the other chip manufacturers in the past felt that changing the design of the key and the number of keys was enough to make their design their own, and not infringe on any previous key mold trademark.