Regarding the sharpness of the edge of the chips:
If they are the same sharpness as the
Tina scrown that is good. Sharper than that could be bad. You want the edge broken somewhat. I think that if they are super shap (maybe impossible, idk) they are not going to handle or shuffle well. Think of a brand new Paulson or
CPC chip that basically never breaks in. Brand new paulsons SUCK to shuffle. They only become great after some breaking in and if they never broke in people would not love them like they do. I am not saying that these ceramic chips will never wear, but they will certainly take a looooooooong time to change at all how they feel. Ceramic chips do not wear well in a Casino environment as they wear through the printing and look bad, but in a home game environment this will basically never happen...well it could happen but LOTS of hosting.
yea, not sure about this either. 1mm barrel height spread over 20 chips isn't much.
I have a calipers (in inches because I actually used it at work) and I just spent some time measuring various chips & my conclusion is that the extra weight that
Tina's scrown chips have suprisingly (lol) comes from the fact that they are just a little bigger. Both bigger dia and thicker. Both dimensions are very small and when all 4 of these chips are set next to one another on a flat & hard table they all seem to be exactly the same. You can not feel a difference in height sliding a finger or nail across from one chip to the next and you certainly can not see the difference in size.
Just for reference cheap copy paper that we all have in our printer is .004" thick so the extra thickness of the
Tina scrown vs the
Tina ngm is thicker by 1/2 the thickness of a piece of paper & the
Tina scrown is roughly bigger dia by roughly the thickness of a piece of paper. Was this all done intentionally or did it just happen. Ikd, but it do know that the difference isn't much....
----------------------------------------Thickness--------------Diameter
THC Brand New ---------------------.128"-------------------1.540"
TRK Old school Brand New ----------.128"-------------------1.525"
Tina ngm------------------------------.128"-------------------1.530"
Tina scrown----------------------------.130"------------------1.535"