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@41Pickup recently posted a For Sale ad for these chips:
Hiarility ensued about the makeup, method and manufacturer of the chips. A few chips were lost, and a purchase was made.
The thread has been closed but no closure of the debate had been reached. These sorts of things bug me, so I posted a thread on thechipboard.com to see if any of the people that know more about the history of chips could lend an assist. Our very own @David Spragg was the only one that responded. Here is his post:
"Tom, it wasn't an open mold back then, it was owned by John Kendall/Chipco.
During the time John Kendall owned the Burt Co assets, prior to starting chipco, he experimented with using it for compression molded clay, then later after forming chipco, had it converted to an injection mold.
Period in question is 1988-1991 (and maybe he carried on a little longer), so that would tie in with these chips."
So there you have it. Looks like they are compression molded. @72o looks like a great pickup to me. Some Chipco compression molded chips for way less than $1 each. You've got some history there.
Ain't this a great hobby? Always learning something.
Hiarility ensued about the makeup, method and manufacturer of the chips. A few chips were lost, and a purchase was made.
The thread has been closed but no closure of the debate had been reached. These sorts of things bug me, so I posted a thread on thechipboard.com to see if any of the people that know more about the history of chips could lend an assist. Our very own @David Spragg was the only one that responded. Here is his post:
"Tom, it wasn't an open mold back then, it was owned by John Kendall/Chipco.
During the time John Kendall owned the Burt Co assets, prior to starting chipco, he experimented with using it for compression molded clay, then later after forming chipco, had it converted to an injection mold.
Period in question is 1988-1991 (and maybe he carried on a little longer), so that would tie in with these chips."
So there you have it. Looks like they are compression molded. @72o looks like a great pickup to me. Some Chipco compression molded chips for way less than $1 each. You've got some history there.
Ain't this a great hobby? Always learning something.
