Windwalker’s Chipping Journey in Pr0n0grAph1C Detail (14 Viewers)

[blackhole]

Hi everyone, french newcomer (so please pardon my sure to come language errors) here on PCF... First comment.

Just finished reading (more looking at) the 48 pages of this thread. First of all, thank you so much WW for sharing all this, I really like the reflections you have while pursuing your collection.

I landed on page 13 after clicking on a link for a search on "paulson poker chip".
After 2 pages I said to myself oh there's something here...
Went to page 1.
Feeling a certain vertigo not even on page 3.
Subscribed on page 24.
Cried a little on page 30-something when the giveaway is announced but knowing I'm totally not elligible. (I'm cool now lol)

I have no poker set of mine yet.
Man I just discovered a new world...
Where will I find the time and money?
I don't even know where to begin...
Have a nice day everybody...

 

[buffalojim]

Hi everyone, french newcomer (so please pardon my sure to come language errors) here on PCF... First comment.

Just finished reading (more looking at) the 48 pages of this thread. First of all, thank you so much WW for sharing all this, I really like the reflections you have while pursuing your collection.

I landed on page 13 after clicking on a link for a search on "paulson poker chip".
After 2 pages I said to myself oh there's something here...
Went to page 1.
Feeling a certain vertigo not even on page 3.
Subscribed on page 24.
Cried a little on page 30-something when the giveaway is announced but knowing I'm totally not elligible. (I'm cool now lol)

I have no poker set of mine yet.
Man I just discovered a new world...
Where will I find the time and money?
I don't even know where to begin...
Have a nice day everybody...

The fact you're still breathing after looking through this thread bodes well for your future. Welcome

 

[cpac54]

Hi everyone, french newcomer (so please pardon my sure to come language errors) here on PCF... First comment.

Just finished reading (more looking at) the 48 pages of this thread. First of all, thank you so much WW for sharing all this, I really like the reflections you have while pursuing your collection.

I landed on page 13 after clicking on a link for a search on "paulson poker chip".
After 2 pages I said to myself oh there's something here...
Went to page 1.
Feeling a certain vertigo not even on page 3.
Subscribed on page 24.
Cried a little on page 30-something when the giveaway is announced but knowing I'm totally not elligible. (I'm cool now lol)

I have no poker set of mine yet.
Man I just discovered a new world...
Where will I find the time and money?
I don't even know where to begin...
Have a nice day everybody...

Welcome to the rabbit hole that is Paulson poker chips! Say "au revoir" to your money!

 

[Lil Tuna]

Hi everyone, french newcomer (so please pardon my sure to come language errors) here on PCF... First comment.

Just finished reading (more looking at) the 48 pages of this thread. First of all, thank you so much WW for sharing all this, I really like the reflections you have while pursuing your collection.

I landed on page 13 after clicking on a link for a search on "paulson poker chip".
After 2 pages I said to myself oh there's something here...
Went to page 1.
Feeling a certain vertigo not even on page 3.
Subscribed on page 24.
Cried a little on page 30-something when the giveaway is announced but knowing I'm totally not elligible. (I'm cool now lol)

I have no poker set of mine yet.
Man I just discovered a new world...
Where will I find the time and money?
I don't even know where to begin...
Have a nice day everybody...

Welcome to the world of chipping, poker and just about any other topic you could imagine. Take your time, enjoy the ride and hang on to your wallet with both hands.

 

[Windwalker]

Man I just discovered a new world...
I don't even know where to begin...

Je suppose que pour l'instant, tu te sens un peu comme Alice, tombee dans le terrier du lapin noir? Bienvenue!

 

[Windwalker]

With the upcoming additions of my Westerner and El Cortez TRK full sets, and recent Mapes and Nevada Lodge acquisitions, I've now gotten enough of a variety of TRKs that I am willing to let some go. Plus, I need the space. I've decided that my King's Castle set will be the most likely to go, not because I don't love it, but because the denominations are so much better suited for a smaller stakes game. This is not an official sale, but I wanted to field interest from people wanting to acquire an entire TRK set. This is a massive one (1600 or so chips,) and includes fracs, hundos and some super rare high denom $500s. As far as I know, there is no other complete King's Castle set of this size anywhere. Here is the breakdown:

$0.50 140
$1.00 700
$5.00 300
$25.00 300
$100.00 125
$500.00 4

I am not interested in breaking the set up at all, they can stay in my vault in that case. But I do know a TRK club exists in PCF, and some of these chips never see the light of day. I wanted to give someone new or inexperienced with TRKs an opportunity to own one. This is not a sale thread, just curious about whether there is interest. I paid a ridiculous amount of money for this set, but, for the right person looking to build a collection for the right reasons, I will probably let this go for below my cost.

All questions by PM only -- this is just to gauge interest. Also, pretty chips, pretty pictures.

 

[Lil Tuna]

Very nice opportunity presented @Windwalker.

 

[SuckoutKing]

Woowzers! Beautiful

 

[stavman]

Amazing set sir.

 

[liftapint]

Love this set so much!!

 

[SpaceMonkey420]

I was like ok sweet, I’ve only owned TRK singles, No sets. Check one for the monkey!!! Oh ya Then I read this part of the quote.

I paid a ridiculous amount of money for this set

When the great WWWhale says redic my stomach dropped irl. One cant even begin to imagine what a guy with a door man and custom glasses high above the hills in Beverly thinks is redic. I’m assuming $2 a chip? Lol

 

[Windwalker]

I’ve been troubled by how to ship individual barrels for a while now. The Warneke boxes work incredibly well for full racks, but for expensive barrels, the traditional method of rolling them up in bubble wrap and then padding an SFRB has seemed primitive.

And then I remembered something from my hardcore Numismatist days — the patented silver Medallion holder. In fact, the original sizes of chips had been based off the the treasury’s model for medallion coins, and so I dug through my storage closet and voila!

They have CRAZY prices on Amazon, but you can get them for 95 cents each here:

https://www.ready-set-collect.com/products/1-ounce-silver-medallion-tube

 

[RocAFella1]

Yup tons of folks use these to transport / ship barrels. Just tape the top in case it’s loose.

 

[Windwalker]

Yup tons of folks use these to transport / ship barrels. Just tape the top in case it’s loose.

Ah, not a new idea then. Oh well

 

[davislane]

Thanks for sharing. First I've seen it mentioned and I have trawled through a lot of threads on best practice for shipping.

 

[RocAFella1]

I always wondered if there was a way to make them into a rack. But then there’s the Matsui type rack and equivalents.

 

[Saoliver]

Ah, not a new idea then. Oh well

But a good idea. I believe that I bought mine from @Spinettis Gaming.

The alternative for me is bubble wrapping a barrel, filling a SFRB with paper/packing peanuts and crossing my fingers.

 

[Windwalker]

I always wondered if there was a way to make them into a rack. But then there’s the Matsui type rack and equivalents.

Super glue 5 of them together? I’m actually kinda serious lol.

 

[RocAFella1]

@ovo gifted a cool mystery bubble prize for one of our meetups but fully masking taping the whole thing so it would remain unknown.

 

[BarrieJ3]

I am not interested in breaking the set up at all, they can stay in my vault in that case. But I do know a TRK club exists in PCF, and some of these chips never see the light of day. I wanted to give someone new or inexperienced with TRKs an opportunity to own one. This is not a sale thread, just curious about whether there is interest. I paid a ridiculous amount of money for this set, but, for the right person looking to build a collection for the right reasons, I will probably let this go for below my cost.

All questions by PM only -- this is just to gauge interest. Also, pretty chips, pretty pictures.

Before I PM to see potential costs and owning the best set there is out there, what $ amount do you place on someone coming to work for you for a year?

And then I remembered something from my hardcore Numismatist days

I think it's a great idea, and while I've seen it I have never seen a link for purchases, thanks. But more importantly, I want to know the million dollar word you tell people instead of poker chip collecting, so that I can use it too.

 

[RocAFella1]

Super glue 5 of them together? I’m actually kinda serious lol.

Do you know if there is one that could store 43mm chips?

 

[Windwalker]

Do you know if there is one that could store 43mm chips?

Yep. In the 1980s, they manufactured a coin called the “Onza”, which was a 43MM coin. They make tubes for those.

https://www.monarchpreciousmetals.c...n-tube-mexican-balance-scale-onzas-new-detail

 

[RocAFella1]

Excellent. Always wanted the equivalent for 43mm chips.

 

[davislane]

Super glue 5 of them together? I’m actually kinda serious lol.

sounds like a job for your prototype team

 

[davislane]

I envisage some sort of sliding locking mechanism to allow you to join tubes together like on certain children's toys that i can't find a photo of right now.

 

[Windwalker]

what $ amount do you place on someone coming to work for you for a year?

????

 

[davislane]

????

i think @BarrieJ3 was offering to work for you to pay off the set. Just like eating in a restaurant then offering to do the dishes to pay off the meal.

 

[Thomacetti]

Super glue 5 of them together? I’m actually kinda serious lol.

Superglue makes the flexi plastic brittle...use quality duct tape (2 rotations) or heat shrink foil

 

[JustDave]

I've done this before and then taped the 'package' together. Padded and shipped.

 

[Rieguy]

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I've done this before and then taped the 'package' together. Padded and shipped.

Can confirm I received chips from Dave (and others) this way and they came through excellent. I now send a barrel or less the same way, obviously with padding etc. added. The medallion holder (and those chips you have in them Krish ) looks like an awesome method.