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Windwalker’s Chipping Journey in Pr0n0grAph1C Detail (103 Viewers)

CrazyEddie said:
Love the spots within the spots on those.
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So, lots of great acquisitions, but -- no offense -- done in a sort of feeding frenzy. :cool

I'd be very interested in hearing about your accelerated chip evolution -- how receiving and fondling each new set has affected your opinions and desires about things like:

1. The relative merits of clay formulae from TRK, Paulson, BCC, ASM, etc.

2. The color pallettes and intensity available from each manufacturer over the past 70 years.

3. The chip colors used or permitted in various states.

4. What spot and other design element progressions you appreciate most.

5. What you now regard as the key elements in choosing particular chips for your mixed sets.

6. What you're now considering the most important design elements for your future custom sets.

Thanks!
 
pltrgyst said:
So, lots of great acquisitions, but -- no offense -- done in a sort of feeding frenzy. :cool
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Thanks! Although, that is the incorrect use of the idiom -- a feeding frenzy happens when multiple feeders pounce on one resource. Not when one feeder pounces on multiple resources. :)

pltrgyst said:
I'd be very interested in hearing about your accelerated chip evolution -- how receiving and fondling each new set has affected your opinions and desires about things like...[SNIP]
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Though it is hard to ignore the veiled sarcasm and passive-aggression in the questions, I amazingly have opinions on some of those queries. I'll write more this weekend, when I'm not on conference calls for work. It'll be good to organize my thoughts anyway. Stay tuned.
 
BPTDirector said:
I think if I had monetary resources I’d probably have done the same thing as Krish here and wouldn’t necessarily feel the need to explain a darn thing. I don’t know why anyone would feel they have any right to know.
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Ah sorry. Thought this was a forum for fellow enthusiasts to discuss the ultimately meaningless ins and outs of chipping.

Don't think it has anything to do with owing anyone an explanation. Just banter most of us talk anyways. Would be interesting to hear someone's thought who's accelerated their timeline on the path.
 
JeepologyOffroad said:
Ah sorry. Thought this was a forum for fellow enthusiasts to discuss the ultimately meaningless ins and outs of chipping.

Don't think it has anything to do with owing anyone an explanation. Just banter most of us talk about anyways. Would be interesting to hear someone's thought who's accelerated their timeline on the path.
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We do love our banter around here....
 
Windwalker said:
Though it is hard to ignore the veiled sarcasm and passive-aggression in the questions, I amazingly have opinions on some of those queries. I'll write more this weekend, when I'm not on conference calls for work. It'll be good to organize my thoughts anyway. Stay tuned.
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You might be a little hyper-sensitive, WW. There was absolutely nothing like that intended. What prompted my post was simply the fact that you're accumulating a lot of coveted sets, I doubt that you can end up loving them all equally, and I'm interested in where this is taking you.

You're probably undergoing a very accelerated version of what many of us have gone through over a period of years as we've bought and sold various sets, with, in many cases, our opinions being molded somewhat by our CT and PCF peers. You're sort of a test lab for future newbies. :cool
 
BPTDirector said:
I think if I had monetary resources I’d probably have done the same thing as Krish here and wouldn’t necessarily feel the need to explain a darn thing. I don’t know why anyone would feel they have any right to know.
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We all probably would have.

But nobody's asking him to "explain" anything, and there are no "rights" being exercised. We're all involved in a common hobby -- without curiosity, why would any of us be here?
 
Windwalker said:
Thanks! Although, that is the incorrect use of the idiom -- a feeding frenzy happens when multiple feeders pounce on one resource. Not when one feeder pounces on multiple resources. :)



Though it is hard to ignore the veiled sarcasm and passive-aggression in the questions, I amazingly have opinions on some of those queries. I'll write more this weekend, when I'm not on conference calls for work. It'll be good to organize my thoughts anyway. Stay tuned.
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When I first read the questions I thought they were innocent enough and straight forward. Then I imagined an old cranky dude sitting on a rocking chair on his porch asking those questions and then the sarcasm and aggression came through. Lol. (not sure if @pltrgyst is old, cranky, or even a dude...:).. it's just what I pictured mentally.)

The pace and scope of your chip buying has drawn alot of attention. It's definitely raised the ire of jealous and grumpy folks. But at the same time, this is an online forum and you need to have a thicker skin. Rather than multiple announcements/posts about how mean these jackasses are, just delete their PM's, ignore their jabs, and perhaps use the ignore feature that's available.

I for one appreciate all of the pron you've shared. The chips are splendid but the photography/lighting stands out to me.

I do have one request, please take some close up's of your chips!
 
Highli99 said:
Money alone is not enough to gather the sets collected here. Takes impressive networking and sleuthing too. That part is more interesting to me than the fact he has resources to procure.
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AMEN. Lots of people with lots of money have been looking for 2000 Mint Mapes, and I havent seen many sets of them posted.
 
TheDuke said:
When I first read the questions I thought they were innocent enough and straight forward. Then I imagined an old cranky dude sitting on a rocking chair on his porch asking those questions and then the sarcasm and aggression came through. Lol. (not sure if @pltrgyst is old, cranky, or even a dude...:).. it's just what I pictured mentally.)
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Old dude, yes. Cranky, no; irritable, yes. Occasional lapses into pedantic mode, definitely. (When I intend malice or aggression, it's a lot more obvious than the level being ascribed here.)

My post was purely out of curiosity. WW's pace and scope of chip buying probably won't continue indefinitely, so I think it's interesting where he ends up: as a long-term confirmed chipper with one of the best collections in the world, burning out on the hobby and moving on to something else, or somewhere else entirely. And most especially, the effect that accrual of these sets has on his eventual custom designs.

None of WW's buying activities have any effect on me, since I'm the PCF outlier who doesn't even care for TRKs, for example. I'm just curious...
 

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