Re-labelling advice needed (1 Viewer)

[Damo]

Hi all.

Does anyone have experience with re-labelling? I’m considering buying a set to re-label but am unsure of how to go about it.

How difficult are labels to remove comsidering there’s a set to do?

Where are labels purchased from? Here on PCF or somewhere else?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

 

[MC_CPA]

Labels are purchased at https://www.gearlabels.com/

They can be removed once you apply them.

What set will you be labeling?

 

[Machine]

There are other vendors you can get labels from; there are a plethora of endorsements you can find for Gear in this 30-page thread dedicated to their work. Gear labels while ran by an awesome member, Gear, Gear Labels is only viable because of his team

Removing labels is a scale, it ranges from easy to finding yourself being visited by your wife in a 'Wellness Center', depending on the chips. Photos or more info on the chips can help us give advice.

Gear will also remove and replace inlays as a professional service, that is to say, significantly better and faster than you can lol regardless of chips, provided they take the commission.

 

[Himewad]

There's a big difference between removing labels and removing inlays. And even inlays have differences. Labeling is easy. Removing inlays can be the bang-your-head-against-a-wall part. Especially if the inlays are on older chips.

 

[Damo]

Guys thanks for getting back to me.
I haven’t bought the set yet. I’m considering putting tournament labels on a cash set. Cash sets are more readily available on here hence my interest.
I’m in the UK so posting a set for them to do the work for me would be expensive.

 

[TripleRangeMerger]

Guys thanks for getting back to me.
I haven’t bought the set yet. I’m considering putting tournament labels on a cash set. Cash sets are more readily available on here hence my interest.
I’m in the UK so posting a set for them to do the work for me would be expensive.

I’ll plug StickerApp (https://stickerapp.com/). Had a fairly good, cheap result with them because I didn’t want to pony up the money for Gear and they are based out of Europe.

 

[Damo]

Thank you, I’ll look into that.

 

[SwissChip]

It‘s cool once all the inlays are removed.
Just don‘t underestimate the work and time it takes.
Newer chips like Tiger Palace are relatively easy but older chips can be close to a nightmare!

Gear labels are simply the best.
Had good results with Stickermule too.

Good luck and lots of patience!

 

[Damo]

Thanks for that.
I’m starting to feel it’s a bigger job than I first thought and maybe too much of an undertaking.

 

[dizzyChipper]

Thanks for that.
I’m starting to feel it’s a bigger job than I first thought and maybe too much of an undertaking.

I’m in the middle of overlabeling a few hundred chips - not even removing anything. And it’s a good bit of time…. No regrets but it’s slow going.

 

[Damo]

Every comment here moves me closer to abandoning the idea and leaving it to the guys with skill and patience.

 

[dizzyChipper]

Every comment here moves me closer to abandoning the idea and leaving it to the guys with skill and patience.

Yes but maybe you find a normal stakes cash set with $1+. You can run T1 base or run T5 base and just relabel the $1s.

If you find a set with 0.50 and 1, 5, 25 you can run t500 base structure with no relabels.

But really I’d encourage you to do what I often don’t: exercise patience. Your tourney set listed in Europe will be listed at a great price tomorrow, I’m only not sure of which tomorrow.

I would encourage you to do what I do rare

 

[NotRealNameNoSir]

Every comment here moves me closer to abandoning the idea and leaving it to the guys with skill and patience.

Na, screw that. Murdered my own and it took forever, bought the labels and putting them on took forever. But its a goofy meditation that I enjoyed. Saved some money, learned some new tricks, and got it down. I had others mill some of the other chips because I couldn't be bothered to setup the milling rig and they were better at it, but don't regret anything about the delabeling and relabeling.

 

[dizzyChipper]

Na, screw that. Murdered my own and it took forever, bought the labels and putting them on took forever. But its a goofy meditation that I enjoyed. Saved some money, learned some new tricks, and got it down. I had others mill them because I couldn't be bothered to setup the milling rig and they were better at it, but don't regret anything about the delabeling and relabeling.

@Damo but he’s a modern day bearded monk.

 

[NotRealNameNoSir]

That's actually how I met @dizzyChipper ! Bought a cleaner to get the gunk out of these hats after I was done fighting with em. This was surpisingly fun to do though.

 

[TripleRangeMerger]

I recommend you try a few if you're not on a real timeline.

Seems you've previously looked at Tina's and Apache Majestics. I think that's a good start since Majestic labels come off very easily, and you can try one of the cheap label options above. It's quite rewarding to label chips with your own design, and you can get into a real meditative flow state during the process of removing and applying labels.

You don't have to decide right away, just look into the different options and see which way you end up leaning.

 

[dizzyChipper]

That's actually how I met @dizzyChipper ! Bought a cleaner to get the gunk out of these hats after I was done fighting with em. This was surpisingly fun to do though.

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What a cool inlay you murdered!!

 

[Jers28]

I currently have over 4,000 chips I’m in the middle of relabeling. Some will be overlabels, some were milled and labeled and some will be manually removed and relabeled. Depends on the chip as to the why, but trust me when I say…you get faster. A lot faster. The first label I removed probably took me 20 mins, I wrecked the chip and damn near sent myself to the ER. Now I can get through a rack in an evening. Labeling milled chips is stupid easy. Can easily do 4+ racks per hour. Overlabels take slightly longer, but not much. 2+ racks an hour, only because they have to be a teensy bit more precise on placement without less margin for error.

I’ve done thousands of chips and continue doing so. How bad can it really be? I’m not a huge fan of waiting, which you definitely will be doing if you pay someone else to do it. Gives me something cathartic to do in the evenings. And I find little more rewarding that seeing a set my own hands were involved in creating. I dig it. I can’t even seem to finish one set, before my brain starts thinking about the next. With 6,000 labels more already on the way, I just procured the next 1,200 chips for a new project when this one is complete.

I’d at least give a rack of the Majestic’s a go, as suggested, and see what all the fuss is about. If you’re down for doing more, great! Tons of well practiced people on here to advise you with any questions.

 

[Jers28]

Got three racks of these done in an evening. Granted, @pokercole did the milling…

What they started as

Removing the left over burrs after milling

Labels from @Gear applied and chips freshly oiled. All in an evenings work. 300 chips. This was my Tuesday evening.
Apologies for the glare from kitchen lighting in freshly oiled chips. They look amazing after rubbing the excess oil off.

 

[Jers28]

The set they will live in and you can see the T100s are still on my list to knock out.

 

[dizzyChipper]

My royal high denom relabel. I’ll admit that these labels are nothing to put on and not terrible to take off (like your majestic).

Agreed with @Jers28 that labeling milled chips is quick and painless.

 

[Damo]

Thanks for all the input everyone. I’m going to look at the suggested sites and take it from there. Slow and steady wins the race.
Or so they say.

 

[Kam]

I shared my journey with my relabel set here (first time doing it):

'First CPC Cash Set draft design' https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/first-cpc-cash-set-draft-design.102904/post-2588983

GL!