Large and Small crown inlay examples (2 Viewers)

David Spragg

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As promised, quick explanation of what we can and can't do so far.
Going in order of my pics.

Small Crown - 7/8 inch, shaped and 1 inch no problem. 1-1/16 - this is only one of two chips where the inlays survived out of all the samples I made. They fell off due to lack of suction due to the shape of the mold. Shame as they look ok otherwise. Hotstamp - incredibly heavy strike required to just about produce an acceptable result but the 'flashing' from the foil sticks out way above the chip surface so no good. However, occurred to me last week while the final color samples were being made that these blanks used to test the hotstamp were amongst the very first chips to come out of the press. The samples got progressively better the more we played around with the mold so I thought it would be worth a second shot. A few more blanks were run off right at the end and they will be tested when we have time with the lighthouse one side and a larger (probably Atlantic Club) on the back to see how those go. Will report back on that.

Large Crown - 7/8 inch and shaped no problem. The 1 inch inlay is distorted because the ring is so deep. I know sometimes our existing chips with larger inlays do this but this is one of the best examples I could get. Not acceptable. 1-1/16 actually touches the crowns and gets completely screwed up. The inlays fell off half of these also. Hotstamp (sorry, gold would have scanned better than silver) look acceptable using same pressure etc. as our other molds.

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Samples look great, David. Big naughty tease with some of those spot patterns, however. :D :banghead:

Assuming blanks will be available for those who want to mill and apply 1-1/16" labels as an aftermarket project?
 
Are we supposed to just ignore the 1/8 pie?!?!? Please say this will be an option!

No it is not an option. It takes 4 chips to make one and there is a failure rate of anywhere between 50% & 90%.
I actually made those blanks last year myself. Took me about 2 days to make 20 good chips :)
So that would work out to between $16 & $28.80 a chip :) :)
 
Samples look great, David. Big naughty tease with some of those spot patterns, however. :D:banghead:

Assuming blanks will be available for those who want to mill and apply 1-1/16" labels as an aftermarket project?

Couldn't help it. How could I spend 2 weeks at the factory and not play with all the toys :)

Yes on the blanks, I already sent @Gear a few so he could check out milling.
 
Oh, and I have a bunch of playable chips that cost between $15-$30 each, and they aren't even customs. Just sayin', if you decide to later change your mind. :cool:
 
Oh, and I have a bunch of playable chips that cost between $15-$30 each, and they aren't even customs. Just sayin', if you decide to later change your mind. :cool:

"failure rate of anywhere between 50% & 90%" makes it impossible to price properly. I don't think sending peoples orders out with an invoice for an extra $4000 would cut it either :)
I think the workforce would quit if I put an order of those through!
 
"failure rate of anywhere between 50% & 90%" makes it impossible to price properly. I don't think sending peoples orders out with an invoice for an extra $4000 would cut it either :)
I think the workforce would quit if I put an order of those through!

Charge $30 per chip and be done with it.
 
Just noticed I even screwed that 1/8 pie up by putting one of the pairs of dg Saturn & dg yellow the wrong way round!
 
No it is not an option. It takes 4 chips to make one and there is a failure rate of anywhere between 50% & 90%.
I actually made those blanks last year myself. Took me about 2 days to make 20 good chips :)
So that would work out to between $16 & $28.80 a chip :):)

So you’re saying there’s a chance ;)
 
So does this mean that hotstamps on the L-crown are officially a go?

*hand is hovering over the Order button*

Not yet. Still at "Hotstamping yielded better results but we were out of time so will have to reserve judgment on this until we can produce a reasonable quantity of samples during our first proper run on the mold"
 
"failure rate of anywhere between 50% & 90%" makes it impossible to price properly. I don't think sending peoples orders out with an invoice for an extra $4000 would cut it either :)
I think the workforce would quit if I put an order of those through!

So we should submit an employment application too? What's the drawback here?
 
So we should submit an employment application too? What's the drawback here?

How much to rent the whole facility for 2 weeks? How much training is needed? 3-4 days? I figure I could easily get enough "employees" from this forum to keep the operation going 24/7. I bet they'd pay for the experience!! 2 week chip making holiday, $2k. Is there room for cots? +$500 for the bed and all you can eat hot dogs (freshly rolled).
 
If the failure rate became 95% we would be screwed :)
$30 must be about Level 108. Cool.
Yikes. That's a rank inflaton there. Normally the highest chip rank was Rank 13 with Ronoh's "Chaotic" Pillage & Plunder, and the design tool's highest rank was Rank 12.
 
How much to rent the whole facility for 2 weeks? How much training is needed? 3-4 days? I figure I could easily get enough "employees" from this forum to keep the operation going 24/7. I bet they'd pay for the experience!! 2 week chip making holiday, $2k. Is there room for cots? +$500 for the bed and all you can eat hot dogs (freshly rolled).

Honest answer from experience. Training is a minimum 6 months before anyone even gets near a press, and then another 6 months supervised.
 
So we should be taking a sabbatical as opposed to a leave of absence.

This is gonna be better than Willy Wonka opening up his chocolate factory.

There would be a number of conditions though.
Phones, cameras and other such devices would be confiscated on the way in.
You will be hypnotised each day out by the front door and released only once you are sitting in your car on the way out.
You will be xrayed and strip searched on the way out and the results may deem you a suitable candidate for an enema and an hours detention.
You will be responsible for checking you leave with the same number of fingers and toes you entered with and any claims for losses must be notified to the baggage handlers within 24 hours (not that removal of body parts by us as punishment for slow working cannot be claimed for).
Before you ask, no discrimination here, just our standard working conditions :)
 
There would be a number of conditions though.
Phones, cameras and other such devices would be confiscated on the way in.
You will be hypnotised each day out by the front door and released only once you are sitting in your car on the way out.
You will be xrayed and strip searched on the way out and the results may deem you a suitable candidate for an enema and an hours detention.
You will be responsible for checking you leave with the same number of fingers and toes you entered with and any claims for losses must be notified to the baggage handlers within 24 hours (not that removal of body parts by us as punishment for slow working cannot be claimed for).
Before you ask, no discrimination here, just our standard working conditions :)
1. Non-camera phone (like the cheapo monochrome Nokia 3310, careful: handle with care, do NOT drop or you'll cause a sinkhole.)
2. The hypnosis is possibly ineffective like Jimmy tried to hypnotise Riley but it was futile and instead hypnotised an old woman nearby.
3. Beware of explosive diarrhoea.
4. This is a factory and NOT the Burma Railway. It does actually say 'Factory' outside you know, or perhaps I should be more specific: "Factory for people who have a better than 50% chance of leaving here with all of your body parts intact!"
 
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