Why inlays on Paulson chips are not aligned with each other? (3 Viewers)

[lee123china]

Their final pressing process is still very manual and very human labor-dependent by all accounts.

This is surprising...in a highly mechanized world...

 

[lee123china]

@Psypher1000 I'm interested in the production process of paulsons. Any related material on that?

 

[softchewy]

example of alignment for Paulson casino chips - Casablanca $500s mustard color.
I only had a couple of barrels of these, but they were all aligned.

Your option for aligning Paulson chips that you have already or will acquire, but are not aligned, is to relabel or do a full inlay replacement.
Neither of which I would suggest if you are simply doing it for alignment (not changing denomination or artwork)

 

[Psypher1000]

@Psypher1000 I'm interested in the production process of paulsons. Any related material on that?

Negative. I have no first-hand knowledge nor printed material on the matter. That information is simply hearsay from folks who have worked in chip factories over the years & from people at the chip convention this summer. How those folks know, I'm really not sure, but all their tales seem to line up with one another.

 

[lee123china]

Negative.

That is interesting. Looks like chip industry is one of them mysterious ones. I only think financial/military/pharmaceutical industries are mysterious. I'm intrigued.

 

[lee123china]

example of alignment for Paulson casino chips - Casablanca $500s mustard color.

It seems like Casablancas are good looking chips! All the color combinations I have seen right now (yellow 100s, red 100s, and your 500s) are good. They are quite creative on coloring. I'm gonna search for pictures of other denoms. I don't think relabel is good as well. Just leave them the way they are is good enough.

 

[bentax1978]

I don't think relabel is good as well. Just leave them the way they are is good enough.

Let me know how that works out when you go looking for a Casablanca $1 chip

 

[lee123china]

Let me know how that works out when you go looking for a Casablanca $1 chip

Is this chip a rare thing?

 

[bentax1978]

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Is this chip a rare thing?

Very.


These are a great inlay replacement example in terms of an alternative Casablanca $1.

https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/my-relabeled-casablanca-1s.8096/

 

[softchewy]

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Is this chip a rare thing?

hopefully this answers your question...

 

[Shaggy]

@Psypher1000 I'm interested in the production process of paulsons. Any related material on that?

Here is a great link to the manufacturing process for a compressed clay chip. There are no images of the tooling, just the process:
http://www.antiquegamblingchips.com/mfgchip.htm

 

[lee123china]

Here is a great link to the manufacturing process for a compressed clay chip. There are no images of the tooling, just the process:
http://www.antiquegamblingchips.com/mfgchip.htm

This looks like the process of ASM/CPC. It's good information for me. Thank you.

 

[lee123china]

@softchewy the steak is so undercooked...looks like it's ripped off from a cow...

 

[bentax1978]

@softchewy the steak is so undercooked...looks like it's ripped off from a cow...

Which is perfect for describing the rarity of the Casablanca $1

 

[lee123china]

@bentax1978 a little research finds out that the casino is located on Aruba, a tiny Dutch Caribbean island off the coast of Venezuela. It looks like a vacation place.

 

[bentax1978]

@bentax1978 a little research finds out that the casino is located on Aruba, a tiny Dutch Caribbean island off the coast of Venezuela. It looks like a vacation place.

Not sure what that has to do with obtaining scarce chips from a casino that's been closed for 7 years.

 

[moose]

I'm trying very hard to learn all the Paulson employee names. But I don't know which one has OCD. Maybe it is the mysterious inspector 7 or 8. We can rule out Blanca and Amparo since they stamped their boxes upside down. A real sleuth should track down Veronica Cortez and ask her what it is like to work in the Paulson factory.

 

[Krony]

example of alignment for Paulson casino chips - Casablanca $500s mustard color.
I only had a couple of barrels of these, but they were all aligned.

View attachment 114304


Your option for aligning Paulson chips that you have already or will acquire, but are not aligned, is to relabel or do a full inlay replacement.
Neither of which I would suggest if you are simply doing it for alignment (not changing denomination or artwork)

I have a barrel of these too and they are all aligned.

 

[BGinGA]

It seems like Casablancas are good looking chips! All the color combinations I have seen right now (yellow 100s, red 100s, and your 500s) are good. They are quite creative on coloring. I'm gonna search for pictures of other denoms.

Start here, it's a great resource:

http://chipguide.com/

Below is a pic of most (not all) of the $100s and $500s made for the Casablanca Casino. Note that inlays are both aligned and not, depending upon the spot style.

http://www.themogh.org/cg_quickview.php?id=AWPBCC&s=&series=&cols=4

 

[ovo]

I received some Aztar 500s today and they are really heavy too! Almost feels like metal slugs when shuffling

casa hundreds, aztar 500's , you not wasting any time getting the good stuff

 

[upNdown]

Start here, it's a great resource:

http://chipguide.com/

Below is a pic of most (not all) of the $100s and $500s made for the Casablanca Casino. Note that inlays are both aligned and not, depending upon the spot style.

View attachment 114378

http://www.themogh.org/cg_quickview.php?id=AWPBCC&s=&series=&cols=4

Were they drunk?

 

[lee123china]

getting the good stuff

Speaking of the good stuff, what are the most wanted chips? Is there a top ten list? Or what's your top ten?

 

[BGinGA]

Were they drunk?

Nah, they only aligned the simpler spots.

 

[justsomedude]

A real sleuth should track down Veronica Cortez and ask her what it is like to work in the Paulson factory.

 

[moose]

I just hope that's Julia in the background because I always imagined Julia as the hot one.

 

[Jambine]

I bought some WTHC 1Ks recently and noticed that inlays on both sides are not aligned. Sometimes the inlay on the other side of the chip is completely upside down. Why doesn't Paulson make them align with each other so it looks more professional (in my opinion)?

Because it cost more and they are in a position where they they don't have to care

 

[Hobbyphilic]

Here is a great link to the manufacturing process for a compressed clay chip. There are no images of the tooling, just the process:
http://www.antiquegamblingchips.com/mfgchip.htm

"Very Fine Checkering" That was my first impression of the Key West CPC chips. If I ever make poker chip cookies, I'm aligning the inlay and stamping the box upside down.

I had 500 BCC (I know not Paulson but supposedly made in same factory) poker chip 'business cards' made this year. 5 had inlays aligned both sides. 2 were aligned forming symmetry with edge spots. It is like they deliberately go out of their way to avoid aligned inlays. Ask me if I'm OCD, I looked through 500 chips, individually, to check centering and inlay alignment.

 

[BGinGA]

It is like they deliberately go out of their way to avoid aligned inlays.

lol, this made me chuckle, as it hit home a bit.

Whenever I relabel Paulson chips for a project, I almost always apply the labels randomly (so that they better match up with the randomness of the other Paulson chips they are paired with).

I have found that the easiest way to ensure a random placement is to just align the labels with the existing inlays. Because whenever I deliberately try to do my own random placements, it comes out more organized/aligned than the factory's handiwork. Those guys are random pros.

 

[Krony]

As for CPC, I have some Atlantic Club samples and some Key West samples. To be honest, the samples are of pretty bad qualities. The clay material looks dirty and some spot patterns are falling off. They also feel too chalky when you shuffle them. I like the feel of Paulson chips. It's like a right combination of clay and plastic. I know CPC is proud of their craftsmanship but I don't really see that on the samples. They are even more expensive than Paulson. I don't know if custom chips are gonna change my opinion. I've seen some beautiful custom chips on the forum.

I have a set of around 650 CPC customs with a selection of spot patterns and none of them have this "falling off" on the spots you speak of, in fact almost all the spots except for a few of the 1/8" spots are immaculate, there are a few chips with some colour contamination but i think that adds to the look and style of clay chips.
As for Paulson, i have a set of around 900 World Top Hat and Cane and a few of these had this bonding issue between base and spot material, they also have some colour contamination.
Compression molded chips will have imperfections due to the nature of the manufacture process regardless of who made them.

 

[justsomedude]

I have found that the easiest way to ensure a random placement is to just align the labels with the existing inlays.

So much this.