Unweighted Dayglos (1 Viewer)

[mooremo]

I am considering using the unweighted dayglos for tournament solids. I would appreciate any feedback from those that have done this.

Thanks
Mark

 

[mipevi]

No problems as far as I'm concerned. If you mix dayglo solids with weighted ones, you can feel the difference when handling stacks though. I don't mind it, but of course if you get dayglos for all the colors, then they should all weigh about the same.

 

[BPTDirector]

The Stardust Quarters from the recent group buy were dayglo peacock - I love the clean look and softer feel really. Go for it.

Too much emphasis is wasted on weight in my opinion. Anything over 8 grams is good for me.

 

[doakwolf]

Apart from weight, have many people noticed any stack height differences when mixing unweighted bases with weighted from the same mold and production run? I checked with Phantom and he said there was a tiny difference with his new 007 chips. Curious if it's a standard thing. I only ask because I put the vernier calipers on my samples and found all the unweighted chips to be slightly thinner than weighted.

 

[BPTDirector]

That may be mold specific. My FDL dayglo quarters are the same thickness as my non dayglo quarters on the same mold. There are many factors that may lead to thickness differences. Many.....

 

[Chicken Rob]

Some molds at CPC have had small differences with different colors even with weighted base colors.

Typically they are quite consistent within the same color though.

 

[DJ Mack]

Honestly the only people obsessed over chip weight tend to be the ones trying to sell "official casino weight" dice chips (which usually weigh quite a bit more than what you'd find in any casino). To @BPTDirector's point once you get past 8 or so it doesn't feel like a Bicycle interlocker, so it's not a critical issue.

 

[Chicken Rob]

Honestly the only people obsessed over chip weight tend to be the ones trying to sell "official casino weight" dice chips (which usually weigh quite a bit more than what you'd find in any casino). To @BPTDirector's point once you get past 8 or so it doesn't feel like a Bicycle interlocker, so it's not a critical issue.

I actually prefer the lighter CPCs to the weighted ones.

 

[RainmanTrail]

The difference isn't that huge. I weighted a rack of my weighted Rounders chips, and it was 1 lb 15.4 oz. Then I weighed a rack of my Dayglo Tiger $5k Rounders, and they came out to 1 lb 13.0 oz, which is a little over 92% of the weight of the brass weighted chips.

 

[MD Mike]

No problems as far as I'm concerned. If you mix dayglo solids with weighted ones, you can feel the difference when handling stacks though. I don't mind it, but of course if you get dayglos for all the colors, then they should all weigh about the same.

Tangential question - who designed your inlays? I really love the clean design.

 

[BPTDirector]

Some clay colors are heavier than others. Just wanting you to know there is a slight variance in clay weights between colors whether the clay is weighted or dayglo.

The difference isn't that huge. I weighted a rack of my weighted Rounders chips, and it was 1 lb 15.4 oz. Then I weighed a rack of my Dayglo Tiger $5k Rounders, and they came out to 1 lb 13.0 oz, which is a little over 92% of the weight of the brass weighted chips.

 

[courage]

I'd be surprised if anyone could tell the difference in a fairly-administered blind test.

 

[bentax1978]

I'd be surprised if anyone could tell the difference in a fairly-administered blind test.

Sounds like an opportunity for prop bets at DCS-V.

 

[mipevi]

Tangential question - who designed your inlays? I really love the clean design.

Thanks Mike, I designed them myself.

 

[Chicken Rob]

I'd be surprised if anyone could tell the difference in a fairly-administered blind test.

I know one guy who could. Penn Jillette can tell how many cards you cut off the top of a deck of cards by weight. He can do this for all brands of commercially available cards.

My brother in law helped him train.

He can tell the difference between 2 stacks of cards different by 1 card, he must be able to tell these chips apart.

Freaks aside, your point is probably valid.

 

[DJ Mack]

Penn Jillette can tell how many cards you cut off the top of a deck of cards by weight. He can do this for all brands of commercially available cards

Interesting - I've never seen that utilized in any of his shows that I've seen. But then again every good magician has a much wider repertoire of tricks than usually shown during big performances.

 

[courage]

I know one guy who could. Penn Jillette can tell how many cards you cut off the top of a deck of cards by weight. He can do this for all brands of commercially available cards.

My brother in law helped him train.

He can tell the difference between 2 stacks of cards different by 1 card, he must be able to tell these chips apart.

Freaks aside, your point is probably valid.

mmmkay, he's not invited to my game.

 

[Chicken Rob]

Interesting - I've never seen that utilized in any of his shows that I've seen. But then again every good magician has a much wider repertoire of tricks than usually shown during big performances.

There was a trick they did on stage that involved an audience member selecting an unwrapped deck of cards form an assorted pile, handing the deck to teller who would perform perfect shuffles so that the deck was in a known order, and then the audience member would cut the deck, placing the cut portion in Penn's hand. THen by weight alone, he'd know the card the audience member would look at at the top of the stub.

Sure it's a trick, but that is practically real magic. Fine tuning your skills to that level is amazing to me.

 

[Chicken Rob]

mmmkay, he's not invited to my game.

I wanted him to get us an unknown slight of hand magician to use as a dealer and have him deal crazy coolers all night long to different people in the game, and then at the end of the game, we'd give all the money back to where it started. I never had the balls to ask him though. I can't imagine anyone willing to do it, but he has the contact list that could do it.

 

[Mental Nomad]

There was a trick they did on stage that involved an audience member selecting an unwrapped deck of cards form an assorted pile, handing the deck to teller who would perform perfect shuffles so that the deck was in a known order, and then the audience member would cut the deck, placing the cut portion in Penn's hand. THen by weight alone, he'd know the card the audience member would look at at the top of the stub.

Sure it's a trick, but that is practically real magic. Fine tuning your skills to that level is amazing to me.

That also requires knowing NDO for all the brands of cards on the table - the resulting order after the shuffle will depend on the New Deck Order, which varies by brand.

 

[Chicken Rob]

That also requires knowing NDO for all the brands of cards on the table - the resulting order after the shuffle will depend on the New Deck Order, which varies by brand.

Perhaps, unless teller is good enough to shuffle them into the same order, which wouldn't surprise me, he's pretty slick with card manipulation and control.

 

[jbutler]

I know one guy who could. Penn Jillette can tell how many cards you cut off the top of a deck of cards by weight. He can do this for all brands of commercially available cards.

My brother in law helped him train.

He can tell the difference between 2 stacks of cards different by 1 card, he must be able to tell these chips apart.

Freaks aside, your point is probably valid.

My cousin could do the same thing. But his skills were put to use more for dirtbag card cheating and prop betting (before I knew to call it prop betting). It's pretty amazing to see someone do that trick the first time having no idea what's going on.

 

[AK Chip]

No problems as far as I'm concerned. If you mix dayglo solids with weighted ones, you can feel the difference when handling stacks though. I don't mind it, but of course if you get dayglos for all the colors, then they should all weigh about the same.

I love this set!!

 

[stocky]

I'd be surprised if anyone could tell the difference in a fairly-administered blind test.

That guy who bought ceramics probably could.

I know one guy who could. Penn Jillette can tell how many cards you cut off the top of a deck of cards by weight. He can do this for all brands of commercially available cards.

My brother in law helped him train.

He can tell the difference between 2 stacks of cards different by 1 card, he must be able to tell these chips apart.

Freaks aside, your point is probably valid.

Nice name drop