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if anyone has any pictures of the chip making process please post them here

The rarer the better !

Here is the only one I have -

Who can name the chip and mold pictured ?
 
How does Pcf and its members start a group buy to buy a poker chip machine?

Market cap of $86 million and give it a 25% premium for a takeover, we might be able to take over GPI for $110 million or so. Let's try a GB, GoFundMe, local bank, or maybe hire an investment bank to make an offer for the whole damn entity and make as many chips for ourselves as hearts desire :D (y) :thumbsup:
 
Lol. I'm sure a machine would be cheaper than buying the largest casino chip manufacturing business in the world...

You guys never dreamed of making your own chips? I guess I'm the only one.

I Bought CPC's from David last year, my bad had forgotten his name. Yes true very nice chips.
 
Market cap of $86 million and give it a 25% premium for a takeover, we might be able to take over GPI for $110 million or so. Let's try a GB, GoFundMe, local bank, or maybe hire an investment bank to make an offer for the whole damn entity and make as many chips for ourselves as hearts desire :D (y) :thumbsup:

Wouldn't 51% work just as well to have a majority share to vote in custom chip making for PCF memebers?
 
I've seen nearly the whole process, up close and in person.

Seeing it done and doing it are two different things. You would need to know the ingredients and the exact recipe to mix the different colors, then the temperatures and times to press the blanks. How long should they cool before you can epoxy the inlay, and then what temperature and time to press after you put in the inlay?. It would also help to know which epoxy to use, and exactly how much to attach the inlay to the chip.

There's also some work involved in working off the excess -- you can see it around the edges of the photos of chips in the molds -- and polishing the chip without cracking, breaking, or scratching the daylights out of it.

Fortunately for us, Classic Poker Chips has this all down.
 
I asked David for some in-process pics of my chips last year. He said "sure!!! But he'd have to kill me". I actually thought about it for a sec.

Serious though, he said those pics should have never been leaked and probably had some serious consequences.
 
I asked David for some in-process pics of my chips last year. He said "sure!!! But he'd have to kill me". I actually thought about it for a sec.

Serious though, he said those pics should have never been leaked and probably had some serious consequences.

Leak? Is the process really that secretive? The first pic looks like an injection mold, and the later pics looks like someones child pressed out play dough
 
I'm waiting on someone to start making chips using a 3D printer. ( I'm sure it's already being done) I imagine if you could get the weight right you could make any mold you want...

Now you've got me thinking, I've got a buddy that has a printer. A chip seems pretty basic to what he's been making, but when you start talking about weight, color, and stamp characteristics ... he might just be interested
 
I'm waiting on someone to start making chips using a 3D printer. ( I'm sure it's already being done) I imagine if you could get the weight right you could make any mold you want...
I can think of no technical reason why this wouldn't be possible, other than the weight issue. However with current technology I don't think it's feasible.

You'd essentially be limited to making dice chips. We don't hate dice chips because they have dice on them - we hate them because they're straight up plastic. Then there's the matter of cost and production time. 3D plastic isn't cheap and items take a very long time to print. If China can churn out thousands of injection molded plastic chips an hour and your 3D printer is putting the finishing touches on its first one how the heck do you stand to make any money?

Not that it's not worth experimenting with, but I don't think the technology is ready for this kind of mass production yet.
 
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Leak? Is the process really that secretive? The first pic looks like an injection mold, and the later pics looks like someones child pressed out play dough

I think those tubes going into the plate are for steam or some other heating medium, not injecting plastic. The posts on the edge look like locking pins for a similar plate to be applied on top.
 
Leak? Is the process really that secretive? The first pic looks like an injection mold, and the later pics looks like someones child pressed out play dough
EXTREMELY secretive. So much so, that I tried to save on shipping from CPC by taking a short trip to the factory to pick the chips up in person and even that was not allowed. The Nevada Gaming Commission doesn't allow any cameras anywhere near or inside the factory never mind visitors.

And the "play dough" pictures is what real unpressed unfinished clay chips look like before final pressing/lathing.
 

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