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Paulson: Full label replacement tutorial thread (4 Viewers)

I plan on starting on my relabel project and ordered this nail polish remover today. Hoping it might not be as harsh on the chip colors if I use the soak method. I’ll text a few spare chips first to be sure. Anyone tried it? If so, any better or worse than any other brand?

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Rhodeman77 said:
I plan on starting on my relabel project and ordered this nail polish remover today. Hoping it might not be as harsh on the chip colors if I use the soak method. I’ll text a few spare chips first to be sure. Anyone tried it? If so, any better or worse than any other brand?

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I tried several different brands and they all worked the same.
 
Rhodeman77 said:
I plan on starting on my relabel project and ordered this nail polish remover today. Hoping it might not be as harsh on the chip colors if I use the soak method. I’ll text a few spare chips first to be sure. Anyone tried it? If so, any better or worse than any other brand?

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i use this brand. works well. just gotta be careful with certain colors and getting it outside of the inlay location. but it does the job well.
 
@Gear I have a mixed set that I'm working on relabeling. Most have the vinyl type inlay are pretty easy to remove. Two of my colors have the paper inlay and they suck to remove. Do you mill all your chips, or what's the best method you've found for removing the paper inlays?

Also, where do you get your labels? I'm extremely curious to the laminating process.

Thanks,
Tim
 
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Timmy501 said:
@Gear I have a mixed set that I'm working on relabeling. Most have the vinyl type inlay are pretty easy to remove. Two of my colors have the paper inlay and they suck to remove. Do you mill all your chips, or what's the best method you've found for removing the paper inlays?

Also, where do you get your labels? I'm extremely curious to the laminating process.

Thanks,
Tim
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@Gear Does full inlay replacement and labels (he is the guy to do labels pretty much).

To clarify (a bit of a pet peeve of mine), inlays are removed, hot stamps are milled. You wouldn't kill out an inlay.

There are a lot of people on the site who have done inlay removal on this site who will offer help/encouragement/recommendations (including myself) but @Gear does it as a business, so not really fair to ask him how he does it (special sauce etc etc).

Paper is a pain, you can either use Non-Acetone nail polish removal and struggle or send them to @Gear to remove and replace for you.

Look forward to seeing what you plan to do.

Grant
 
Nobody should undergo a full-label replacement job lightly. It is a PAIN IN THE ASS. Slow work, requires precision, and chance of injury is moderate (cut/stab/muscle strain/hemorrhagic stroke). Go in with your eyes open.
 
Lesson for the would be chip murderers. I found out early on that it's safest to use a blunt blade to dig out the inlay, and a sharp one to make the cuts.

Todays episode proved why, because I was doing the casa $5s, which are more difficult to do, because the laminate feels thicker and harder to dig out than other chips. Anyway, I slipped and went hard into my thumb with the blunt blade.

It wasn't bad because of how blunt it is, but I dread to think how far in the sharp blade would have gone.
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Perthmike said:
Lesson for the would be chip murderers. I found out early on that it's safest to use a blunt blade to dig out the inlay, and a sharp one to make the cuts.

Todays episode proved why, because I was doing the casa $5s, which are more difficult to do, because the laminate feels thicker and harder to dig out than other chips. Anyway, I slipped and went hard into my thumb with the blunt blade.

It wasn't bad because of how blunt it is, but I dread to think how far in the sharp blade would have gone.
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After +500 kills, this is how I do it:

- make a cut (box cutter sideways, very sharp blade) and cut away from other hand
- use tweezers to remove laminate
- two drops of acetone
- remove rest of label
- rinse chip & dry

Only one slip (damaged THC outer ring but no blood or cut) in last 200 chips
 
Perthmike said:
Lesson for the would be chip murderers. I found out early on that it's safest to use a blunt blade to dig out the inlay, and a sharp one to make the cuts.

Todays episode proved why, because I was doing the casa $5s, which are more difficult to do, because the laminate feels thicker and harder to dig out than other chips. Anyway, I slipped and went hard into my thumb with the blunt blade.

It wasn't bad because of how blunt it is, but I dread to think how far in the sharp blade would have gone.
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You got away easy lol. Ive gotten a few with the sharp one and nooooooo fun
 
I’m only about 200 chips in. So far I’ve stabbed my left thumb 3 times, have only bled once. Besides that, the skin on my thumb has broken in a few places, that comes more from the pressure of holding a chip in place when making the first cut to the inlay.

For me, it’s not really as difficult to remove an inlay as advertised. It is somewhat time consuming however, especially considering that I have about 800 chips to work on.

I’ve scratched more than a few chips :mad: but after a barrel or two I’ve got my process down and have maybe scratched 2 chips since then. The key for me has been to take my time, and more importantly, to pay attention to what I’m doing. When my attention wanders, small mistakes happen that make the inlay removal more difficult.
 
Always always always cut AWAY from you if using a box cutter blade.

I use an X-acto to make two quick cuts (pie slice) on the laminate, perpendicular to the chip face.
Then a very small box cutter blade to dig underneath and pry up the pointy part of the slice. Needle nose pliers to pull off the laminate layer.
Soak inlay with non-acetone nail polish remover.
Use small box cutter blade to scrape off inlay. Vinyl usually easier to deal with than paper.
Rinse and let air dry.
Look at the huge pile left to do and sigh.
Repeat.
 
used a hobby knife and after digging in it slips thru and i’ve cut my fingers four times. would a flatter blade work better?

the nail polish remover I used was old and didn’t do anything. what tool should be used to scrape up white paper label left over after nail polish remover

anybody trybusing a glove to protect against stab wounds or would it be too hard to control with gloves on
 
jeff123 said:
used a hobby knife and after digging in it slips thru and i’ve cut my fingers four times. would a flatter blade work better?

the nail polish remover I used was old and didn’t do anything. what tool should be used to scrape up white paper label left over after nail polish remover

anybody trybusing a glove to protect against stab wounds or would it be too hard to control with gloves on
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I actually use a small utility knife and have a lot of success. Tried an xacto knife the other day and it was harder to use.

You need to make sure you use Non-Acetone nail polish remover. Otherwise the acetone eats the chip. Old stuff would not work as well.
 
Is it possible to remove an oversized inlay from paulson?

Anybody try rubbing alcohol for the label?

Anything else besides slicing to remove the laminate outer shell?
 
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jeff123 said:
Is it possible to remove an oversized inlay from paulson?

Anybody try rubbing alcohol for the label?

Anything else besides slicing to remove the laminate outer shell?
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Yes to oversize, no to being able to do anything with it. The space left doesn't work for a label and you end up with an additional ridge.
 
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Is this a paper label? It’s on there pretty good. the nail polish remover I used was pretty old and didn’t do much. softened it a little bit, but I need some sort of scraper still that won’t damage the chip but can scrape off the label.

Anyone know how to remove the part of label in the picture from the chip?
 

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