I agree with many of these thoughts on edge spots for ceramics - to me, ceramics are an opportunity to do something cool with the spots, especially if you're paying for aligned. (By the way, I love, love, love the Newfound Poker League edge spots when they're aligned. That green 25 on the right really does it for me.)
That said, I have a really visceral dislike of the edgespots in Tommy's opening pictures.
I can sum up why with a picture of two sample ceramics I have from PGI:
The chip on the left evokes the cheap plastic chips people buy online. The chip on the right evokes Bud Jones and Matsui chips.
In fact, the chip on the right has edges that remind me of Borgata's snapper, a Bud Jones:
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Here's your rolling edge, Tommy.
You're welcome.
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I was thinking of a custom set in ceramics with the art modeled on various playing card companies... the low denoms would be things like Bee, Bicycle, Aviators, Hoyles... and the higher denoms would have KEM, Piatnik, Copag, Modiano... and while thinking about this thread, I had the idea of using tax stamps as the edge spots. The stamp would wrap around the edge of the chip, aligning to the art on the top and bottom face of the chip. I think that would be way cool.
For anyone who doesn't know, playing cards in the US used to be taxed (are they, still?) and each deck had the ends sealed with a tax stamp. I think the box ends are now just sealed with a manufacturer's sticker, but it used to be a tax stamp, and you can date old playing cards from the tax stamps. They make for some cool art:
https://www.google.com/search?q=fed...a=X&ei=9GCtVNH9L-LIsQT5yoHICw&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAg