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Windwalker’s Chipping Journey in Pr0n0grAph1C Detail (4 Viewers)

Windwalker said:
My absolute favorite $1 chip. Sentimental, because it’s the first set I went after like my life depended on it.
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I can’t advocate for it any better than you. A set with “Windwalker’s” on the label, specifically designed for PCF meet-ups, might hold more meaning to you if it were made up of chips that describe your collective chipping experience on PCF as beautifully as you just did with the Giraffe $1’s.

Also, it’s my favorite $1 chip ever made too. So it would be really cool to see that dream become reality, vicariously through you. But at the end of the day, go with what you love. Just offering my thoughts, from one PCF member to another.
 
But that coke giraffe inlay is so iconic!

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The Sands Casino sure did have some really pretty chips.

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EDIT: The $5 is very similar to the NL $5, with slightly different spot colors. Picture below for reference. The NL $5 has a chocolate spot, while the Sands $5 uses more of a very dark greenish-black spot. The oranges are similar, though the NL looks more “mustardy” to my eye.

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AfterTheFact said:
Can you put a barrel next to NL $5 for science?
EXtremly cool chips buddy!
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Sure, when it’s light out. Biggest difference is that the NL $5 has a brownish / chocolate spot, and this one is a very dark greenish black. The NL $5’s orange spot is a little more mustardy than this one, but that could be the lack of oil / use.
 
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Windwalker said:
The Sands Casino sure did have some really pretty chips.

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EDIT: The $5 is very similar to the NL $5, with slightly different spot colors. Picture below for reference. The NL $5 has a chocolate spot, while the Sands $5 uses more of a very dark greenish-black spot. The oranges are similar, though the NL looks more “mustardy” to my eye.

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Windwalker said:
Sure, when it’s light out. Biggest difference is that the NL $5 has a brownish / chocolate spot, and this one is a very dark greenish black. The NL $5’s orange spot is a little more mustardy than this one, but that could be the lack of oil / use.
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Windwalker said:
Here’s a preview side by side:

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@Okku

 
Windwalker said:
I have. This is the only other $1 that made sense to me. I also wanted to stick with a traditional cali yellow $5.

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a little late to this conversation, but i've noticed that sunset beach $20 is prone to some nasty color transfer.
 
Windwalker said:
Completely forgot I had these leaded TRK blanks. Has anyone on the forum figured out to hotstamp as a service?

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I can stamp and josh kifer can as well. Leaded may make a difference, but the new scrowns are not the easiest thing to stamp. Old may perform better, but with the new ones it’s easy to get a light center stamp or simply crush them to dust. One extreme or the other.
 
Windwalker said:
The Sands Casino sure did have some really pretty chips.

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EDIT: The $5 is very similar to the NL $5, with slightly different spot colors. Picture below for reference. The NL $5 has a chocolate spot, while the Sands $5 uses more of a very dark greenish-black spot. The oranges are similar, though the NL looks more “mustardy” to my eye.

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OK, now those are cool.
 
raynmanas said:
a little late to this conversation, but i've noticed that sunset beach $20 is prone to some nasty color transfer.
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How so? Like the colors mix together a bit on the spots? Or transfer to other chips?
 
Pinkdan said:
How so? Like the colors mix together a bit on the spots? Or transfer to other chips?
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the former in my experience, but i can't speak to the latter because i only ever had a shuffle stack of them, so i have never mixed them with other chips. the brown transfers to the edge spots quite a bit.
 
Windwalker said:
The Sands Casino sure did have some really pretty chips.

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EDIT: The $5 is very similar to the NL $5, with slightly different spot colors. Picture below for reference. The NL $5 has a chocolate spot, while the Sands $5 uses more of a very dark greenish-black spot. The oranges are similar, though the NL looks more “mustardy” to my eye.

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is there a family pic floating around?
 
ekricket said:
I can stamp and josh kifer can as well. Leaded may make a difference, but the new scrowns are not the easiest thing to stamp. Old may perform better, but with the new ones it’s easy to get a light center stamp or simply crush them to dust. One extreme or the other.
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TRK scrowns are really hard to stamp. You end up with a lot of unstamped portions, or more pressure meaning a ton of excess to scrape, plus the stamp doesn't look nice. The material is not as friendly as ASM clay (BCC clay is ime one of the nicest to stamp, ASM and Paulson are similar, and TRK is really difficult)

CPC scrowns are a bit easier to stamp, due to the materials used, however, because of the cupped faces, you again end up with portions not getting foil transfer.
 
Racer96 said:
TRK scrowns are really hard to stamp. You end up with a lot of unstamped portions, or more pressure meaning a ton of excess to scrape, plus the stamp doesn't look nice. The material is not as friendly as ASM clay (BCC clay is ime one of the nicest to stamp, ASM and Paulson are similar, and TRK is really difficult)

CPC scrowns are a bit easier to stamp, due to the materials used, however, because of the cupped faces, you again end up with portions not getting foil transfer.
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Not possible to model a stamp to the curve of the chip, I take it?
 
warma said:
Not possible to model a stamp to the curve of the chip, I take it?
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I've thought of doing this, and talked with a few of the older hot stampers, and was basically shut down from pursuing the idea, lol. So. maybe? I don't know of it ever being attempted.
 
Seems like a stamper could give it a try at the cost of potentially ruining a stamp. Just take a file and gently file down the outer portions of the die until the die surface is just barely curved.

Maybe the folks doing stamps have already tried this, dunno.
 
Some more slow rolling from my Reno estate find that was stuck in probate court forever. Not an expert on TRKs, but I don’t think these are seen too much in barrel or rack quantities.

These are 60s issued chips from the El Cortez Hotel in Las Vegas. There’s some healthy debate on The Chip Board that these and the Sands chips were replicas made by TR King for the public in the 1990s, but I tend to disagree with that assertion for 3 reasons:

1. Weights indicate they’re most likely leaded, and as far as I know, the 90s reproductions were not (like the King’s Crown fantasy chips with round inlays.)

2. The provenance documents from the late owner whose estate I purchased these from show these specific chips have been in his possession since 1976 (and the Sands chips since 1981.)

3. If they were publicly available in the 1990s as some claim, then it’s curious why more of them don’t exist in the chipping community (like the King’s Crown chips.)

Either way, they’re pretty chips, and some unique examples of TRKs.

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