Do These Chips Look Better With or Without Oil? (1 Viewer)

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Recently bought these beautiful $25 chips. Some came already oiled. I'd love to hear your opinions on whether one condition is more aesthetically pleasing than the other. I chose not to add a side-by-side shot of the chip faces since I really couldn't tell a difference.

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Hard to tell in a photo; I think I do prefer the chips on the left, which is really surprising. Normally I like my pink to pop bubble-yum style. But I like the slightly muted colors of the unoiled.

With that said, having them different would tilt me, so I say oil the rest.
 
Unless they are going to be for display only, I don’t think it will make much difference. After a few games they will look like to ones on the right due to being handled/shuffled anyways!
 
BearMetal said:
Hard to tell in a photo; I think I do prefer the chips on the left, which is really surprising. Normally I like my pink to pop bubble-yum style. But I like the slightly muted colors of the unoiled.

With that said, having them different would tilt me, so I say oil the rest.
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Yeah I'm using these chips for an overlabel project and pink/purple colors an important part of my theme. The pink spots on the oiled barrels have more of an orange hue while the spots on the chalky barrels remain noticeably pink from afar. I'm probably being way too anal about it, they do look good either way
 
BabaGanouj said:
I'm probably being way too anal about it, they do look good either way
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No ... and yes.

They will darken a bit overtime as BillyBluff has stated. I think it happens after more than a few games though, but it will happen. Chalky-ness is not a constant in the universe. I think you'd have to assume over time they will turn more toward orange.
 
I don't really like oiling my Paulsons unless they are decently used and I have just cleaned them with a wash/magic eraser. In this instance, it would also depend on the chips they are being paired with.
 
BillyBluff said:
Unless they are going to be for display only, I don’t think it will make much difference. After a few games they will look like to ones on the right due to being handled/shuffled anyways!
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Good point, it might be a while before these chips see play so I think I'll end up oiling the rest of them just so I can show em off to you guys when they're done :cool
 
Rieguy said:
I don't really like oiling my Paulsons unless they are decently used and I have just cleaned them with a wash/magic eraser. In this instance, it would also depend on the chips they are being paired with.
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I plan on pairing these with HSI secondary snappers, HSI secondary 1As, and HSI secondary 500s. Some are still being sent over but I don't expect any of the HSI chips to be already oiled.
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I like chips chalky, so I’ve stopped oiling. Sure, the colors look a bit brighter, but the feel changes and they collect dirt faster. If you feel the need to oil, a small amount on the edges is all I could stand.
No need to oil new Paulsons, especially white ones, as the white won’t get whiter.
 
I am team always oil. Chip surfaces are porous. Someone said early on that oiling seals these pores and keeps dirt from entering so while yes they can get dirty... I definitely don't think they get dirty any faster if dried correctly. But the aides is keeping the dirt out of the pores and basically much quicker cleaning job the next time.

As far as the natural oils thing... it takes a long time to oil chips naturally... more likely that is pizza oil and Doritos oils...you can say I don't allow that with my chips, but eventually it is going to happen.

Also conditioning the clay itself. In a casino those oils naturally lubricate the chips also IE a well oiled machine is less prone to flea bites and breakage as the moisture helps keep the edges of the chips from being dry and brittle.

Just my 2 cents. Play them how you like. But my answer is always Oil your chips... especially RHCs.
 
Ben8257 said:
I am team always oil. Chip surfaces are porous. Someone said early on that oiling seals these pores and keeps dirt from entering so while yes they can get dirty... I definitely don't think they get dirty any faster if dried correctly. But the aides is keeping the dirt out of the pores and basically much quicker cleaning job the next time.

As far as the natural oils thing... it takes a long time to oil chips naturally... more likely that is pizza oil and Doritos oils...you can say I don't allow that with my chips, but eventually it is going to happen.

Also conditioning the clay itself. In a casino those oils naturally lubricate the chips also IE a well oiled machine is less prone to flea bites and breakage as the moisture helps keep the edges of the chips from being dry and brittle.

Just my 2 cents. Play them how you like. But my answer is always Oil your chips... especially RHCs.
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Are chips really porous? I mean, they’re full of little crevices, but since chips are essentially plastic, are they really absorbing the oil, or is the oil just getting into the crevices and making the chip look darker?
I realize the oil could possibly soak into the fibers of the chip, but I always thought there wasn’t really any oil soaking in beyond the surface.

I’ve had a bad experience after oiling casino-used RHC chips. They seemed far slipperier after oiling, and I wished I hadn’t.
 
Colquhoun said:
Are chips really porous? I mean, they’re full of little crevices, but since chips are essentially plastic, are they really absorbing the oil, or is the oil just getting into the crevices and making the chip look darker?
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This.

They're not porous, but they do have fine surface texture. That texture helps oil adhere, which you could think of as "absorbing" the oil in a certain sense, but not in the way that, for example, a wooden cutting board would.
 
So if you oil chips and let them sit for two months eventually they dry out and go back to chalky... I have herd (but just a dumb redneck) that oil does not evaporate... I don't believe that is true as an oiling rag left out eventually dries out... but like minty BCC chips the next day are bone dry... where does the oil go if not into the chip?

We have already had to re apply oil on several sets we have oiled over the last two years....

I do have Google which says
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So if not into the chip... and the chips have not been played... what explanation is there for them drying out over time.

And I am a heavy oiler.... our oil rags are pretty soaked. All of our Jokers Wild after cleaning and oiling had to be re applied 2 days later as they were back to bone claulky dry again..
 
Huh. How 'bout that.

I'll freely admit I could be wrong.

Anyone want to put some water droplets on some exposed clay, and then see whether it is absorbed or merely evaporated?
 
Wow wasn't expecting an in-depth materials science discussion on the properties of clay, feel a lot more informed now. I just wanted some validation that my chips were pretty :LOL: :laugh:
 

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