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[ophiuchus_99]

I also have a full color sample set on A mold and one of each mold on white chips. Also a few sample chips with the CPC labels on them.

 

[Tommy]

This is coming together nicely. Here is what I can offer...

I will use some of the site's revenue (next month's giveaway may be cheesy though) to pay the shipping and have the collections sent to me. I'll play the curator.
I can lend the set out on request. The member has to agree to pay a deposit and shipping both ways. The set must be return by said period of time that we all decided on.

When a member requests their chips back, they will be returned as soon as I received them back from who ever has them OR if they are in my possession they will be shipped back right away. I will also cover the shipping of the chips back to the owners.

 

[Quicksilver-75]

I have a full sample of the CPC stuff including the shaped inlays. I will happily mail them out to whomever (reputable folks) for the postage and a small fee..like $5.
Of course they must be mailed back or its knee-capping time

....or do Tommy's way as above..

 

[Junior24xx]

That sounds awesome. I have several dice chips if you need samples of them.

 

[atomiktoaster]

Can we fit in a small flat rate if we stick to current colors and molds?

 

[Mental Nomad]

This is coming together nicely. Here is what I can offer...

Nice, Tommy. I was going to offer to put this together and administrate it after I start my next job and move, but it's probably best if it's a PCF item. (I didn't want to push that on you, though.)

One recommendation: make the deposit hefty. It should be more than just the purchase price of the pieces. Maybe something like $3/chip.

Reasoning:
1. Part of the value here is getting all the pieces together. It's very hard to assemble.
2. If the deposit is anywhere near fair market, the temptation to consider it a "purchase" is there, and you need the deposit to incentivize return, not just cover replacement cost.
3. The high deposit is not a turn-off for anyone in a position to actually buy a CPC set, and they'll have the deposit back soon enough.

 

[manamongkids]

Well the color sample from Cpc is $45. I'm not sure the going rate for a sample of each mold.

Maybe 1.5x the total rate so that these don't go missing.

I also came up with a genius idea, there should 10000% be a minimum post count for receiving the sample set.

And even possibly a feedback score or successful transaction taken place before you are given the goods

 

[courage]

Don't want to complicate things, but have been thinking about this and would make sense to have samples from all PCF chip vendors of their available chips (not just CPC) in a MFRB, administered by Tommy. Vendors would be invited to send 10 of each mold/type by a certain date. If they fail, the community can donate samples to fill in the gaps. Label and photo them, sort into chip boxes or ziplocks. I think a decent surcharge that would go to the site would be appropriate, whatever amount Tommy determines (shipping + $20, etc). It would be a service to the community and good exposure for vendors.

 

[atomiktoaster]

The idea of a travelling sampler has been floated before. There's a couple advantages for a set focused on potential CPC orders: it's more manageable in size (SFRB?), there's less argument on what to put in it, and the likely audience is going to be veteran chippers, rather than newbies evaluating a first set (trust, or at least willingness to put up a deposit). For a set that covers multiple vendors, this would be too many CPC chips, imo. Something for the "get samples and buy China clays" crowd could be a separate effort.

 

[courage]

The idea of a travelling sampler has been floated before. There's a couple advantages for a set focused on potential CPC orders: it's more manageable in size (SFRB?), there's less argument on what to put in it, and the likely audience is going to be veteran chippers, rather than newbies evaluating a first set (trust, or at least willingness to put up a deposit). For a set that covers multiple vendors, this would be too many CPC chips, imo. Something for the "get samples and buy China clays" crowd could be a separate effort.

True, and it died because it wasn't site-sponsored and site-driven imo. But I concede the other points. 130 CPC chips is more manageable in a SFRB.

 

[atomiktoaster]

True, and it died because it wasn't site-sponsored and site-driven imo. But I concede the other points. 130 CPC chips is more manageable in a SFRB.

Yeah, I think that would make a big difference. I still think it would be a great thing to try again with site support here, but the CPC specific box with complete colors and molds really should be its own thing.

 

[Mental Nomad]

T_Chan or MoscowRadio - what are the chances of someone being able to design a padded wooden chip rack that fits in a SFRB? You get to advertise on it....

The thought occurred to me while thinking about how to idiot-proof the packing; this will be travelling a lot, often to people who don't routinely ship fine chips.

 

[atomiktoaster]

I was thinking about a solid block of wood, just small enough for the box, with holes drilled through to hold the chips in a hex pattern. Line the holes with felt. I'd be willing to give that a try for free.

 

[manamongkids]

T_Chan or MoscowRadio - what are the chances of someone being able to design a padded wooden chip rack that fits in a SFRB? You get to advertise on it....

The thought occurred to me while thinking about how to idiot-proof the packing; this will be travelling a lot, often to people who don't routinely ship fine chips.

how about a chip tray with cover?could just use tape or some type of velcro strap to permanently send with the set

 

[spikeithard]

I was thinking about a solid block of wood, just small enough for the box, with holes drilled through to hold the chips in a hex pattern. Line the holes with felt. I'd be willing to give that a try for free.

sounds like a solid idea.. easy to ship it with no issues.

 

[Junior24xx]

Would the weight of the solid block of wood not be a problem? Just spitballing here..... No love for the dice chip comment???? Lol

 

[RichMahogany]

There's no weight overages in the US if you send it via priority mail SFRB. "If it fits, it ships" was their motto for these boxes. That'll probably bring problems for our non-US chippers so I think sticking to chip boxes with added bubble wrap inside the box is the way to go

 

[Tommy]

Chip boxes or chip tubes would work. I like using SFRB then putting that inside of a flat rate padded envelope depending how many chips are inside. Then double or triple it up in more padded flat rate envelopes. It's about 50 cent more but worth the added protection. I order 100 padded flat rate envelopes about every two weeks. I have about 800 of them on hand. I use them for everything...padding flat rate boxes, turn them inside out for first class mail, etc.

 

[Mental Nomad]

Probably the wiser route.

 

[Tommy]

Irish and I were talking and he will have half barrels of all the molds coming in and a full color sample set too. He will be the go to guy for the CPC loaner samples.

 

[Psypher1000]

Tommy, RichMahogany, et. al. - this needs to be a resource page, similar to the Paulson color samples. I found these color sample chips to be absolutely invaluable!!! Continue on with puttnig together a sample set, sure, but please still make these chips into a resource page.

And thanks for posting this!

Here's all my ASM/CPC samples, not including samples from members sets.

Top 2 rows are the FDL color sample set. Middle left are 2 sets of A mold samples, middle right are H molds from Apache. Bottom left are 2 scroll molds from PGI, bottom right are one chip each of individual molds.

The molds are:

Diamond square
B diamond
Textured no mold
A mold
FDL
Cards and dice
Circle square
Hourglass
H mold
Horse head right

 

[Forty4]

I'd be tempted to put money into a set that had inlays with the color stated on them. I remember seeing a posting about someone who ordered the color samples from CPC and couldn't determine what was what. Then again if we are going to that detail we might as well through a few spot patterns and shaped inlay's on the chips.

Now I'm starting to understand the difficulty in even making a custom set with all the options and the slippery slope it becomes...

 

[Poker Zombie]

Sets with inlays are critical to get the proper feel. So much of the sound and feel is altered by the inlay, more so than the mold itself IMO.

As for the inlay stating the color, that would be nifty, but taking the color samples and comparing them to the pics online isn't that challenging of a task, and the active mental process involved really helped me absorb the nuiances in color differences. I found it helped me more than the (old) chip design tool to determine colors.

 

[CdnBeerLover]

I wish I could detect the nuances between some colours. I can't, and I'm not willing to pay for a colour sample that isn't labeled. I just believe that I shouldn't have to guess what the colours are, and if my monitor isn't calibrated correctly, I'm going to get some wrong. That defeats the purpose of the sample.

 

[RowdyRawhide]

It should pretty easy for CPC to label the color samples even if they used sharpies and abbreviations. I have a sample set ordered in September I believe, and it has two experimental green colors (no longer in production AFAIK) in it and I am still trying to figure out what color is what (I have 7 greens in my sample set their color chart only lists 5). Looking at my computer screen is no help. ONLY thru sample sets (7) have I been able figure out what Effin color is what. I still have seven colors I don't know what they are, I have good idea on several but not for sure.

 

[links_slayer]

The last time I ordered a color sample they came in two separate sleeves, each accompanied by a list of the colors in the order they were packaged in the sleeves. Are they not doing this anymore?

 

[spikeithard]

I got them like that packaged in sleeves with a note years ago . But its best to have a perm marker name each color on the chip. Its what I have done.

 

[RichMahogany]

The last time I ordered a color sample they came in two separate sleeves, each accompanied by a list of the colors in the order they were packaged in the sleeves. Are they not doing this anymore?

I got them like this too but lost the list long ago. I've stared at them so much though that I know which is which by now.

Someone(rimmerryan?) on big blue had a photo color chart with all the chips labeled from all the major manufacturers. Paulson, BCC, Chipco, ASM, TRK, maybe one other? IIRC, the ASM chart doesn't have all the currently available colors, but it's a start

 

[ChaosRock]

I got my sample set from the new CPC and did not get the list... The only iffy chips for me to identify were Dayglo Saturn and Dayglo Yellow... I'm still not sure which is which... LOL!

 

[CdnBeerLover]

I got my sample set from the new CPC and did not get the list...

That's my fear. I already know I have issues with shades of red and green. I have two sample sets of the Key West roulettes that I really like, and I already know that for my dream solid set
- I can't use light green and light blue together. If I'm not holding the chips within arm's length, they look exactly the same.I can't tell them apart, and I have no hope of seeing a dirty stack.
- I can't use blue and lavender for the same reason.
- because there are people in our game with much more severe colour issues than me, the chips must be denominated with a large denom.

At this point, it's going to be a drastic difference between denominations.I'm thinking light green, black, imperial blue, canary yellow, and orange as a good start. But I'm still concerned about imperial blue and light green. If/when the time comes, I'll be looking for a labelled color set to borrow to confirm my choices.