Printed/painted inlays? Any others? (1 Viewer)

[quintooo]

Was looking at one of the chips I had, and realized one of them had a "faux" inlay. It was pixelated so I thought it was weird, and looks like there's no inlay! The thing is just printed right on.

Didn't even know this was possible. Any other chips that are like this?

 

[kmccormick100]

I could be wrong, but pretty sure that’s an actual inlay. The old C&J mold aggressively pressed the same heavy chip texture into the overlay material of the inlay so it looks seamless. I imagine if you were to stick and exacto knife in it you could slice the inlay, not that I recommend that.

 

[gmunny]

That’s still an inlay. It’s inset into the clay. I think it’s referred to as a linen inlay, which has what you are calling pixels.

 

[gmunny]

Yeah that’s back in the day when manufacturing was done right!

 

[AlbinoDragon]

^^^ This

The pattern is the texture in the mold pressed into the chip. In this case, the texture is over the inlay. Some CPCs molds show this to different degrees. Most newer Paulson molds (house or otherwise) have a smooth "texture" over the inlay area.

 

[Colquhoun]

Yep, that’s a textured inlay, you can see the same texture pattern continue from the inlay itself, then throughout the rest of the surface of the clay.

The reason the texture on the inlay is more prominent, is that the clay wears faster than the laminate.

Nice chip.

 

[quintooo]

I could be wrong, but pretty sure that’s an actual inlay. The old C&J mold aggressively pressed the same heavy chip texture into the overlay material of the inlay so it looks seamless. I imagine if you were to stick and exacto knife in it you could slice the inlay, not that I recommend that.

that's super cool! Definitely not gonna try and experiment on this chip lol.

down another rabbit hole I go...

 

[MyLastChip]

that's super cool! Definitely not gonna try and experiment on this chip lol.

down another rabbit hole I go...

there are many

 

[CrazyEddie]

What's interesting to me is that the clay has intruded across the edge of the inlay in some places. You don't normally see this. Usually the edge between the inlay and chip is perfectly clean. My guess is that the inlay was somehow pressed too far into the chip during the initial non-molded setup (where the chip slug, edge inserts aka spots, and inlay are assembled) and then when the assembled chip was pressed in the mold some of the slug's clay "leaked" up and over the edge of the inlay. Because of the heavy texturing on the mold surface, the stray clay was more readily squeezed out of the valleys and more readily retained in the peaks, resulting in the stray clay looking "pixelated".

If CPC were pressing this chip today, it would fail quality control; I'd even go so far as to call this an error chip.