Poker Zombie
Royal Flush
We're all familiar with eBay, and Craigslist has it's place, even though items there tend to be a bit questionable. But I decided to take a road less traveled, and went hunting on Letgo.
Letgo is like Craigslist on Windows 10. It's like strolling through a searchable garage sale - mostly junk, but there may be a treasure buried inside. That's when I found 480-500 poker chips for $20.
Yep, 480-500. Because counting is hard.
Now I know what you're thinking. They're going to be metal-slugged dice-chips. You'd be mostly right. They were World Poker Tour chips. Non denominated, metal-slugged and 11.6 grams. But I wasn't buying them for the chips. I was after the chip holder. The pic from the ad...
I've seen a lot of wooden carousels, but never one that could hold roughly 500 chips. The little card drawer was just a bonus.
Of course, I didn't realize this find was most of the way to Atlanta before I fell in love with it. I contacted the buyer and asked if he was willing to ship it. I'd of course pay for a MFRB or a LFRB if necessary. Over the course of 2 weeks The seller finally determined it wouldn't fit, and he would look into another way to pack it up. This is when I start to worry. 500 heavy-ass chips that I don't really want being shipped at true weight cost - not worth it. Since it was in Rome GA, it wasn't really close enough to a known chipper like @Mr Tree or @BGinGA to ask them to pick it up and hold onto it until I could swoop down and pick it up (I have been known to head to Atlanta just for dinner).
Then I caught a break. A friend of mine was driving from Florida to Michigan, transporting a vehicle for a couple of snow-birds that fly south for the winter, then back north for the summer and they have my friend bring up their car and extra luggage. He was going to stop off at my place for the night. I asked if he was game for a detour, and he was.
The chip carrier arrived, but it was filthy. Not "used for years and was gunky" filthy, but more "sat in a barn that didn't have a door for 8 years" filthy. It took a lot of cleaning and scrubbing to clean it up. Lot's of nooks and crannies in each tube made the process much longer than expected. I also dumped the chips into a bucket of water to clean them up as well.
As I was pulling the chips out and drying them off, I was pleased to find they don't have that hard plastic dice chip feel. The plastic has some sort of rubber-like component to it, giving it the feel of something different. Like 10% clay/rubber and 90% ABS. Other than the weight, they're not bad. Not CPC quality, but maybe china clay good. Also, during the cleaning process, I noticed a label popped off. My eyes lit up. This was a chance to order even more labels from @Gear ! I already have 4 projects in the works though, so this one is back-back burner.
There's the start of the cleaning project. The Cutaway IPA is one of the breweries I'm sampling for @Ben 's Meet-up in October. Multi-tasking makes both projects go much easier.
Yes, I'm sitting on the floor doing this. Lots of water, lots of gunk (the carrier looked brown in the first photo), and shorter distance to fall when I'm on my Nth beer.
Letgo is like Craigslist on Windows 10. It's like strolling through a searchable garage sale - mostly junk, but there may be a treasure buried inside. That's when I found 480-500 poker chips for $20.
Yep, 480-500. Because counting is hard.
Now I know what you're thinking. They're going to be metal-slugged dice-chips. You'd be mostly right. They were World Poker Tour chips. Non denominated, metal-slugged and 11.6 grams. But I wasn't buying them for the chips. I was after the chip holder. The pic from the ad...
I've seen a lot of wooden carousels, but never one that could hold roughly 500 chips. The little card drawer was just a bonus.
Of course, I didn't realize this find was most of the way to Atlanta before I fell in love with it. I contacted the buyer and asked if he was willing to ship it. I'd of course pay for a MFRB or a LFRB if necessary. Over the course of 2 weeks The seller finally determined it wouldn't fit, and he would look into another way to pack it up. This is when I start to worry. 500 heavy-ass chips that I don't really want being shipped at true weight cost - not worth it. Since it was in Rome GA, it wasn't really close enough to a known chipper like @Mr Tree or @BGinGA to ask them to pick it up and hold onto it until I could swoop down and pick it up (I have been known to head to Atlanta just for dinner).
Then I caught a break. A friend of mine was driving from Florida to Michigan, transporting a vehicle for a couple of snow-birds that fly south for the winter, then back north for the summer and they have my friend bring up their car and extra luggage. He was going to stop off at my place for the night. I asked if he was game for a detour, and he was.
The chip carrier arrived, but it was filthy. Not "used for years and was gunky" filthy, but more "sat in a barn that didn't have a door for 8 years" filthy. It took a lot of cleaning and scrubbing to clean it up. Lot's of nooks and crannies in each tube made the process much longer than expected. I also dumped the chips into a bucket of water to clean them up as well.
As I was pulling the chips out and drying them off, I was pleased to find they don't have that hard plastic dice chip feel. The plastic has some sort of rubber-like component to it, giving it the feel of something different. Like 10% clay/rubber and 90% ABS. Other than the weight, they're not bad. Not CPC quality, but maybe china clay good. Also, during the cleaning process, I noticed a label popped off. My eyes lit up. This was a chance to order even more labels from @Gear ! I already have 4 projects in the works though, so this one is back-back burner.
There's the start of the cleaning project. The Cutaway IPA is one of the breweries I'm sampling for @Ben 's Meet-up in October. Multi-tasking makes both projects go much easier.
Yes, I'm sitting on the floor doing this. Lots of water, lots of gunk (the carrier looked brown in the first photo), and shorter distance to fall when I'm on my Nth beer.
