Brand New Royals (2 Viewers)

[PostalPoker2012]

Brand spankin new. My plan is to dump inside a bucket of dish soap, swish around. Take out, and dry. Then tomorrow either do the water and mineral oil bucket challenge or possibly the compression oiling or maybe a hybrid of both. Thoughts and suggestions?

 

[K ALL IN 9]

Idk if I’d feel comfortable submerging chips with glued inlays in water or water/oil mix. Personally I’d do each chip one by one with a damp towel.

 

[Santa123]

Idk if I’d feel comfortable submerging chips with glued inlays in water or water/oil mix. Personally I’d do each chip one by one with a damp towel.

I think also its quit an aggressive approach how ever I think the labels will stick to the chip as long as they are not too long in the water.

I would definitely oil these by hand. With only 400 chips its not a big deal.

 

[ratbastard]

Our group plays with Royals. They will be beautiful after 5 or so sessions in play without any work.

 

[Jackypoo]

Idk if I’d feel comfortable submerging chips with glued inlays in water or water/oil mix. Personally I’d do each chip one by one with a damp towel.

I scrubbed mine pretty thoroughly with soapy water when I first got mine. They were totally fine no labels came off or anything

 

[Santa123]

I scrubbed mine pretty thoroughly with soapy water when I first got mine. They were totally fine no labels came off or anything

Did your Royals smell before washing / smell your Royals after the washing less?

 

[Jackypoo]

Did your Royals smell before washing / smell your Royals after the washing less?

I think my sense of smell is shit because I've never noticed China clays smell

 

[Santa123]

I think my sense of smell is shit because I've never noticed China clays smell

Lucky you!

 

[LotsOfChips]

I think my sense of smell is shit because I've never noticed China clays smell

Side effect of Covid???

 

[PostalPoker2012]

Oiling process has begun. Wife has given me a look I’ve never seen before.

 

[SlowPokeTony]

Nice chips man I’m in New Bedford too, far north

 

[JLPicard]

Did your Royals smell before washing / smell your Royals after the washing less?

Mine certainly did. Washing helped, but so did the mineral oil & air dry. Eventually, it pretty much goes away altogether I think, my older samples don't smell at all

 

[PostalPoker2012]

Nice chips man I’m in New Bedford too, far north

No kidding, small world, or forum. Ha.

 

[SlowPokeTony]

No kidding, small world, or forum. Ha.

Yeah I guess so. I just joined recently after lurking for a couple weeks.

 

[PostalPoker2012]

Yea I joined not too long ago to get as much info as I could about all things chip related. Found out about it through some people I watch on YouTube. Definitely happy with the choice I made. Probably won’t ever buy anything super crazy but it’s cool to see what’s out there.

 

[SlowPokeTony]

Yea I joined not too long ago to get as much info as I could about all things chip related. Found out about it through some people I watch on YouTube. Definitely happy with the choice I made. Probably won’t ever buy anything super crazy but it’s cool to see what’s out there.

I’m the same. I have my set of ceramics that I love and I’ll probably get one more good set one of these days. Never going to get anything insanely high end. But I love looking at the classifieds. Chris and hobbyphilic on YouTube sent me here. Love their videos and enthusiasm for chips.

 

[PostalPoker2012]

I’m the same. I have my set of ceramics that I love and I’ll probably get one more good set one of these days. Never going to get anything insanely high end. But I love looking at the classifieds. Chris and hobbyphilic on YouTube sent me here. Love their videos and enthusiasm for chips.

Yup that’s exactly who I watch too.

 

[PostalPoker2012]

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Brand spankin new. My plan is to dump inside a bucket of dish soap, swish around. Take out, and dry. Then tomorrow either do the water and mineral oil bucket challenge or possibly the compression oiling or maybe a hybrid of both. Thoughts and suggestions?

 

[ctestb]

That looks awesome. Out of curiosity and being new, what benefit does oiling do?

 

[ThePrototype]

Idk if I’d feel comfortable submerging chips with glued inlays in water or water/oil mix. Personally I’d do each chip one by one with a damp towel.

I done 500 milanos this way. Only had 3 labels come away from the chips. A good success rate i would say

 

[PostalPoker2012]

That looks awesome. Out of curiosity and being new, what benefit does oiling do?

I think ultimately it is just to make them look more “attractive”. Possibly makes them easier to shuffle. Also cleaning them gets off the chalkiness that the brand new China clays come with. It is definitely not a necessity to oil them, but they do look better. You can probably get the same effect by playing a few games with other people and letting their natural oily hands all over them. But I really wanted to make the color pop right away. I used a bucket with soap and water and did each color by themselves. Used a strainer to rinse them off and I only let them in the water for like 20 seconds. Dried them with paper towels and let them sit for a day. Then I piled each chip individually loosely using the “compression” method that is quite popular here. That is the Apache 2800 case.

 

[TriTaylor]

Looks great! I resemble your OCD…
Do all chips benefit from oiling?
Ceramics too?

 

[SlowPokeTony]

Looks great! I resemble your OCD…
Do all chips benefit from oiling?
Ceramics too?

Never oil ceramics!!! The oil isn’t going to absorb and it’ll be a gross mess