Bought these chips for 150 CAD. Is it normal for this type of quality at this price range? I've been rubbing the edges on the cloth to slowly smooth out the edges. Is there any way to do this more efficiently without destroying the plastic?
I tried using a sanding sponge, but it scratched the chip all over leaving white marks. If someone knows a better way to do this, please let me know.
For one... your user name and profile pic are absolutely Epic!
What folks are trying to say is these are slugged plastic and should run about $.20 USD per chip.... current exchange rate is $.74 so about $111 USD should have yielded a 500 chip set, they're hoping you didn't get ripped off!
I own the series before these Monte Carlos and the edges were much better
I did order some of the series you have from Alibaba back about 6 years ago just to try them out and the edges were terrible and the chips were the most slippery I have ever seen. Almost impossible to stack 20 high without them falling over. I hope they changed the composition or atleast added some texture to the surface, but from seeing those edges... they look the same.
2000 grit sand paper around the edges and on the faces consistently will make tiny scratches but unfortunately kinda necessary if you want to use these, the surface is too smooth from the factory.
If you can I suggest grabbing some Tina samples from folks on here, the Greek mold, no mold Hybrids, web mold. I would stay away from the Cards Molds... but there are some pretty decent chips for around $.40 each that should hold up and serve your game better than the ones you have. Unfortunately even if you sand them down and give them a bit of texture, it is going to wear back down to flat quickly with any type of regular use.
People here have spent thousands on chip designs they weren't happy with, a $150 lesson sucks and they will do their job, they are better than dice chips... just not a lot better.
Also if you spend some time on here you will learn about denoms and which ones are most useful.... typically for cash we use $.25/$1/$5/$25/$100 and for tourney T25, T100, T500, T1000, T5000. Some custom sets people go with $.50/$2/$10/$50 but generally we don't use a "50" denom... not saying it's wrong, just a normal mistake by new buyers. They want more chips in more colors and when you start playing you realize having extra denoms in play winds up taking more time for chop pots, calculating all in's and pay out time while the game is still running.
May seem like man... these guys are brutal on here. But really just trying to help as we have seen many make the same choices and just try to help steer in the right direction. No one is saying buy a $5,000 leaded
THC set, but lots of resonable options fir under a dollar a chip out there!
Best of luck with your chipping journey Thicklog and may Canadian underwear companies be ever up to the task of containg such a threat from being released into the wild!!
Always around if you ever need assistance.
Fellow Chipper
Ben
