Please help me decipher edge spot placement & size codification (1 Viewer)

[Rush4Rod]

Where can I find what all the edge spot size and placement codes mean. Most are obvious to me. but others I can't figure out. For example, in 3TA316 I assume (but could me wrong) that the first 3 means 3 groups of spots on the chip and 316 means each individual spot in the groups is 3/16" but letters mean confound me?

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So, would the yellow chip from the set I'm designing be a 4TA18?

Based on these 2 example:

{What do the letters D & TA mean (and all the other letters for that matter)?}​

Please advise and thanks in advance. BTW, I wonder if this community ever gets tired of being so f***in' awesome.

Rod

 

[Okku]

This could be very helpful for you:
https://www.pokerchipforum.com/pcf/pokerchiptool/

 

[Rush4Rod]

This could be very helpful for you:
https://www.pokerchipforum.com/pcf/pokerchiptool/

Thanks. That tool is very helpful.

I still need help with the letters D TA DS A TSA

 

[Machine]

I still need help with the letters D TA DS A TSA

GL! and I don't just mean that sarcastically.

You could always ask Old Ben... (@BGinGA)

 

[Rush4Rod]

GL! and I don't just mean that sarcastically.

So, I am correct about the this chip from the set I'm designing being a 4TA18 even though I don't know what the letters mean?

Based on these 2 example:

 

[Colquhoun]

The way I’ve always understood it, the first number is the amount of groups of spots on the chip. 4D18 will have 4 sets of spots.

The letters correspond to the type of spots, D for double, T for triple, V for angled and W for angled with a different center color, etc.
Sometimes a second letter is included, and is an A or an S. I think A is “adjacent” (spots are grouped next to each other). So for 4TA18, it’s 4 sets of spots, triple groups, adjacent, and 1/8” wide spots.
The S is “separated” (spots have the base color between them.)

The last number is the size, 12 being 1/2”, 14 is 1/4” etc.

You can view lots of chips and codes in this post:
https://www.pokerchipforum.com/resources/paulson-edge-spot-options.26/

 

[Rush4Rod]

You can view lots of chips and codes in this post:
https://www.pokerchipforum.com/resources/paulson-edge-spot-options.26/

Thanks for the link. There was an example that matches my chip.

Sometimes a second letter is included, and is an A or an S. I think A is “adjacent” (spots are grouped next to each other). So for 4TA18, it’s 4 sets of spots, triple groups, adjacent, and 1/8” wide spots.
The S is “separated” (spots have the base color between them.)

The last number is the size, 12 being 1/2”, 14 is 1/4” etc.

That makes sense.

This one is confusing. Can edge spots be both S separated and A adjacent? Shouldn't this one just be a 4TS18? Or does the A mean how closely they are separated?

These two are S but no A. The spots are separated but not closely separated? IDK

 

[arch3r]

DS - double separated??

 

[Rush4Rod]

DS - double separated??

IDK

This one is DS14 but the 1/4s aren't double separated relative to themselves like the DS18s are.

 

[arch3r]

Maybe DS is doubled-spaced, when each space is 1/8"?

 

[AlbinoDragon]

I've always read DS as "dual, split". TS would then be "triple, split". The first digit is the number of spot groupings on a chip. A spot like 3D would just be "three spot, double".

3TA is "three spot, triple, alternate".

The "18" or "316" at CPC is the width of the spots... these examples being 1/8" and 3/16" respectively.


I find the CPC spot descriptions make sense when looking at the "name" and the spots in the designer. One can quickly change between initially similar looking spot nicknames and what they actually mean there.

 

[harrysallout]

http://www.classicpokerchips.com/pokerchips/realclay/edgespots.htm

http://www.classicpokerchips.com/pokerchips/realclay/39spots.pdf

 

[allforcharity]

A = alternating colour within a spot group
S = split spacing (with base colour in between) within a spot group
D = double spot
T = triple spot

 

[BGinGA]

^ this

V = v-shaped spot
W = U-shaped spot with a 1/8" center

 

[BGinGA]

So, would the yellow chip from the set I'm designing be a 4TA18?

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Yes: 4TA18 = 4 sets of Triple-spots of Alternating colors that are 1/8" wide

If the three spots were separated, it would be a 4TSA18. And if the separated spots were all the same color, it would be a 4TS18.

 

[Rush4Rod]

A = alternating colour within a spot group
S = split spacing (with base colour in between) within a spot group
D = double spot
T = triple spot

Thanks.

Here are some questions about it: Why can D stand alone but T is accompanied with A. Don't double spots also have alternating color within it? And since D can stand by itself couldn't T as well because the colors within the spot wouldn't NOT alternate when there are more than one color, wouldn't they not? Isn't using "A" superfluous? Do same color double and triple spot chips exists? What am I missing?

Is 3T14 even a thing?​

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Shouldn't this be a 3DA14 instead of 3D14?​

or even this?

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And so this would be 3D14?​

Do I have too much time on my hands and am I over thinking this? Thoughts?

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[allforcharity]

Not quite.

3A12. Three spots, each it's own colour, 1/2" wide. Spots are big, and not split into smaller multiple segments
I don't know if the variation below that would be possible - if so, would be expensive and probably not look good.

3D14 is correct. D means two spots of different colours, each spot 1/4" wide.
Variation below would be very very expensive.

Bottom is 3A12. It would look smoother.

If you were doing this as a dye-sub ceramic the you can have whatever you want with no cost differences.

 

[Rush4Rod]

Not quite.

3A12. Three spots, each it's own colour, 1/2" wide. Spots are big, and not split into smaller multiple segments
I don't know if the variation below that would be possible - if so, would be expensive and probably not look good.

3D14 is correct. D means two spots of different colours, each spot 1/4" wide.
Variation below would be very very expensive.

Bottom is 3A12. It would look smoother.

If you were doing this as a dye-sub ceramic the you can have whatever you want with no cost differences.

What I'm saying is if A is part of the codification system then the "bottom one" is truly 3D14 and the ones above it should be 3DA14, Why no A with D but A with T?

"A" refers to alternating color (and is superfluous, imo, btw) within each spot not alternating colors on the chip

These are 312 (no A) (3 spot colors and 1 spot color)

This is 3TA14 with 3 spot colors
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This is 3TA14 with 1 spot color. So if A is part of the coding, a Triple Spot of only 1 color would be 3T14 (no A) notice the scallops, but who does/would do this and is it still a triple spot?
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If you smooth out the scallops does it become a 334?

 

[allforcharity]

If there is only a single colour of a spot, then there is no D, T, or A designation, and it's just referred to by its width, i.e. 18 for 1/8", 316 for 3/16", even all the way up to 12 for 1/2". There are probably other codes for spots larger than 1/2".

 

[gmunny]

like others said above

Is 3T14 even a thing?​

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And so this would be 3D14?​

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Do I have too much time on my hands and am I over thinking this? Thoughts?

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these 2 are basically the same thing