FDLmold: Rat Rod mixed .25/.25 and up leaded THC poker set (2 Viewers)

[suchj0sh]

My wallet is very sad that I have found this thread. Love everything about this. Just won a Winners $5, perhaps the start of a fun project like this.

 

[louBdub]

My wallet is very sad that I have found this thread. Love everything about this. Just won a Winners $5, perhaps the start of a fun project like this.

This is the way…

 

[hypnox]

My OCD does not like this

 

[OfficerLovejoy]

My OCD does not like this

You came to the wrong thread, buddy.

Awesome project @louBdub!

 

[louBdub]

You came to the wrong thread, buddy.

Awesome project @louBdub!

This beautiful set is Mr. @FDLmold

He’s the Godfather of them all.

 

[FDLmold]

This beautiful set is Mr. @FDLmold

He’s the Godfather of them all.

 

[FDLmold]

My OCD does not like this

This won't help...

 

[upNdown]

This beautiful set is Mr. @FDLmold

He’s the Godfather of them all.

Probably some credit goes to @Irish too - his skittles set belongs in the lineage somewhere.

 

[OfficerLovejoy]

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Indeed!
Sorry, mixed up your threads. They're both awesome sets.

 

[FDLmold]

Latest fives added. I recounted and had two fives missing. One I remember selling, the condition wasn't good enough. The other I'm guessing I sold as well, but can't find any documentation. Oh well. Still just 292 fives then, with a couple on the way.

 

[FDLmold]

Got the fives together. Shuffling ALL of them. It's dreamy.

 

[FDLmold]

Shuffle stack. Noticed the Rio in here, so I thought I would take a photo and shout out all the PCFers at the WSOP, which isn’t at the Rio anymore, but whatever.

 

[upNdown]

Shuffle stack. Noticed the Rio in here, so I thought I would take a photo and shout out all the PCFers at the WSOP, which isn’t at the Rio anymore, but whatever.

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There was a Rio $5 on eBay the other day - couldn’t tell us it was an actual error or just a strange picture.

 

[FDLmold]

There was a Rio $5 on eBay the other day - couldn’t tell us it was an actual error or just a strange picture.

The middle spot on the Rio $5 can photograph like shit very easily. That eBay photo might be worse than the chipguide photo, which is saying something.

 

[FDLmold]

And $14 is about right for that chip. I have in my records that I paid something similar for mine. Now $14 + shipping + taxes is a bit much.

 

[FDLmold]

Washington state Rat Rod chips in the mail today. I’m not convinced all of these are leaded, but no chip here except the Jokers $5 has a mass less than 10.00g. And they all stand on edge easily, which I bet is difficult to find for at least a few of these $1 chips.

 

[FestiveKnight]

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Washington state Rat Rod chips in the mail today. I’m not convinced all of these are leaded, but no chip here except the Jokers $5 has a mass less than 10.00g. And they all stand on edge easily, which I bet is difficult to find for at least a few of these $1 chips.

Something about the “The Pub” inlay just gets me.

 

[FDLmold]

I love it when I get another notification that the OP got another "like". Up to 57. Rat Rod!

 

[FDLmold]

Rat Rod got a little nicer, and a little larger, today.

That makes 297 unique fivers...so close!

 

[louBdub]

@BonScot

 

[CHIPnD]

At a time when I’m contemplating my own mixed THC set, this is the coolest concept I’ve seen yet. And when you look back, it’s such a unique story. Good job on thinking outside the box!

 

[FDLmold]

And with this delivery today...

...I am now OVER 300 unique $5 chips. That was my goal for the year, to reach that milestone. Much pr00n to follow, after some chip bathing and cleaning and chip oiling.

 

[FDLmold]

Car crapped out. Said screw it you only live once and bought a new one. This Rat Rod project will be on hiatus for a bit, though I do have some overdue updates that will be forthcoming.



Not a rat rod. Vroom vroom.

 

[FDLmold]

Was cleaning chips for a nice photo update. While doing so, I remember that I created an accidental family reunion. The new chip is the blue $1, since my Rat Rod has blue leaded $1s, and a very nice WA state collector contacted me and sold me one, plus a few others. The chips I already had are the inlaid fracs you see here. (The two frac chips are hard as hell to find, at least the last time I checked.)

So yeah, two entirely separate collections, but a nice family reunion all the same.

 

[FDLmold]

FINALLY got to this cleaning and oiling project. It’s been months. My summer was lousy. But it is good to have this done. Next will be to add these chips to the rest, then denomination pr0n and set pr0n!

 

[FDLmold]

This is why I Rat Rod. 305 unique leaded Paulsons…

 

[FDLmold]

And 469 ones…

 

[agb31]

Have you ever looked at a casino chip and wondered, like in Toy Story 3, "When was the last time somebody used you to gamble with, little buddy?"
Have you ever wondered how you could afford leaded Paulsons in the current chip market?
Have you ever been frustrated when other people now want singles of the chip you've slowly been acquiring?

This is a rat rod.
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It doesn't look like much. It's put together from whatever scraps the owner can cobble together. But it works. And some rat rods work REALLY well.

This is my Rat Rod poker set. Conceived as an intellectual exercise, and put together as a test of a unique (to the best of my knowledge) idea. A whole set of singles, united only by their lead content and their chip mold. Cobbled together with a multitude of transactions, but as functional and pretty as any homogenous set of chips from a single location.

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I could write a dissertation about the knowledge I've acquired and stories and experiences I've stumbled across over the past 12 months as I've put this together. But for now, I'll just leave you with a few statistics so far up to these photos:

Transactions: 90
Chips: 796
Unique chips: 421
Average cost per chip: $6.122
Average mass of a chip: 10.430 grams

When was the last time some of these all-time beauties were used to gamble? I'd say decades. Let them play!

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Love these

This is why I Rat Rod. 305 unique leaded Paulsons…
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Wow

 

[FDLmold]

Sadly, this set is broken up and sold now. In a perfect world, I'd be a rich millionaire and I'd have kept it! Things I take away:

1) I coined the term Rat Rod for sets like this. That's kinda fun.
2) Other people made Rat Rods too! I never expected that.
3) I know a metric shit ton about leaded Paulson casino chips. They really are the best chips ever made. Ever. Leaded TRKs are nice, but they don't take oil nearly as well as a Paulson.
4) I do not regret any of the time spent. As far as $$, I'm getting out about what I put in, which is not bad considering I paid shipping on about 200 transactions to get these chips.

 

[FDLmold]

Oh, and if anybody ever has a question about a casino chip ever, ask me, I'm happy to share knowledge. I've even had Windwalker ask me a question or two.