Could you create a tourney set of high-end chips that only costs $1 a chip? (1 Viewer)

[Wils]

Just curious - could you build a tourney set (or cash I guess), just by harvesting nothing but $1 cash chips and relabelling them? Are there enough variations in denomination standards to allow this?

If you were to do this, what chips from what casinos would you use?

Have you already done this? If so, do you have pics?

Apologies if this has already been discussed somewhere!

 

[jpietrella]

Depends what your definition of high-end is. Just something clay? Maybe, probably? THC or TRK? No.

 

[upNdown]

So an easier way of asking the question is, "Where can I harvest $1 chips that aren't white or blue." Off the top of my head I cant think of many. Maybe a couple of house molds in yellow or brown that I can't name?

 

[4RunnerRunner]

Yes. Easier if you just want Paulson and aren’t concerned about molds (rhc v thc v house).

Rampart has a brown thc dollar. There’s for sure white house mold and (I think) white rhc dollars on the strip. For a tournament set, you could have a blue be the lowest denom and a different blue be the color up denom (so they’re not on the table at the same time).

Getting a quantity that is in good condition will take time/work, but definitely possible with only harvested dollars, IMO.

 

[Darson]

Assuming just Paulsons, with just $1 chips it’s a bit tough since they’re all white and blue. If you add $2 you can find those in yellow (boulder station), green (Venetian) and silver (Paris). $2.50 gets you pink chips too.

 

[4RunnerRunner]

As has been mentioned, if giving any serious consideration to doing this, open it up to $2s also. The extra dollar per chip will be well worth how much easier it makes the harvesting quest.

 

[Littleluck55]

I think southcoast has a live brown/gold $1. Though it’s a solid

 

[ChipperMarten]

I think some of the mesquite casinos have brown, house-mold $1 chips. Also if I am remembering right, there's a pink frac at Virgin River on the blackjack tables.

 

[LeLe]

I think the cheapest possible Clay high tourney set below $1 is Paulson Roulette Chip like the example below

But will require Milling thou

 

[liftapint]

Agree, milling roulettes would be the way to go. Limiting oneself to harvestable $1s would be a pretty ugly set. Prove me wrong.

 

[upNdown]

Agree, milling roulettes would be the way to go. Limiting oneself to harvestable $1s would be a pretty ugly set. Prove me wrong.

No doubt. But it would be a fun challenge. And opinions vary, but there’s no shortage of ugly sets around here so . . .

 

[allforcharity]

Yes. There are probably enough base colour variations in live $1s in Las Vegas (and all over, really) that you could do a custom tournament set. The problems you might run into are:

1. Consistent mold patterns. THC, RHC, and house molds abound. Establishing a progression of edge spots will be challenging, too.

2. Time. The amount of work required to relabel even a single table set of 400 chips is not to be underestimated or taken lightly. It is a slog.

 

[BGinGA]

Relabeling $1 casino chips isn't free. So considering the harvesting, materials, and labor costs involved, I'm gonna say the answer to your specific thread title question is a resounding "no".

But one could theoretically compile and relabel high-end (aka clay) casino chips in enough different colors to put together a decent 4 or 5 denomination cash or tourney set for well under $2/chip all-in, labels included. As mentioned, you may need to mix molds a bit, but I suspect an all-RHC set is feasible.

Colors would likely include some combination of white, light blue, dark blue, brown, and maybe beige or something else (pink, green, and silver if you included Cali cardrooms or $2 and $2.50 chips).

Roulette chips would be one way to guarantee enough colors, but milling isn't free either. No edge spots that way, either.

A chipeguide search will pull up lots of $1 chip options when searching by mold and color.

 

[Frogzilla]

Orleans $1 is silver on that Boyd gaming mold

 

[OfficerLovejoy]

I did something like this but I mixed live and non live chips to get the best bang for my buck.

10ct - ex Casino $5 with mostly faded hot stamps that I had milled.
50ct - live $1 (silver sevens casino) - I removed the inlays myself
€2 - live $1 (sam's town) - had them milled.
€10 - ex Casino $2 (Huntington Park) - I removed the inlays
€50 - ex Casino $2,50 (Jack Cincinnati) - I removed the inlays.

Including milling fees, lable design fees and having 1200 lables printed I spent upwards of $1600.

Plus the many hours I spent writing back and forth with the designers, removing inlays and applying lables of course.

All worth it in the end because I couldn't be happier with the final set.

Using only live $1 might be cheaper but you would be very limited in what you can do and what your set is gonna look like in the end.

 

[ekricket]

Three THC colors is pretty easy. White, blue, yellow.
It’s the green/red/black spectrum that gets you but I suspect black might be doable too

 

[allforcharity]

Sweat equity can save you money. If you've got the wherewithal (and the equipment) to do your own milling or inlay replacement.