Not Mine These would make great tertiary Empress $1k's (1 Viewer)

[Psypher1000]

Even with the costs of full inlay replacement by @Gear, these could still end up being cheaper per chip than the real thing.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Stratospher...t-/281956867378?&_trksid=p2056016.m2516.l5255

 

[ovo]

I always wanted to get some of those, but not 8.50 a chip

 

[BPTDirector]

Please do not lathe away a $4 drop chip. It takes so much effort just to get a single drop chip from a dealer please don't waste them with a relabel.

 

[BGinGA]

No lathing material required for a simple re-label job (that can be easily reversed).

 

[Don Clay]

They would also make some nice Aruba PB 1K chips @bentax1978.

 

[BPTDirector]

No lathing material required for a simple re-label job (that can be easily reversed).

However full inlay replacement was what I was referring to as being the wrong thing to do. Full replacement implies lathing.

 

[BGinGA]

Full replacement implies lathing.

Actually, no. Gear just removes the original inlay and replaces it with a laminated label one cut to size. That's why he only does a hub inlay replacement on chips that originally have hub inlays, etc.

And the machining operation used when removing material to make space for a laminated label is usually a milling operation. Although it is technically possible, I don't think anybody is currently lathing chips to create a recessed center area..... although the outer edges of high-end compression-molded chips are lathed during the manufacturing process to remove excess mold flash and create a uniform diameter.

 

[luckbox]

Even with the costs of full inlay replacement by @Gear, these could still end up being cheaper per chip than the real thing.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Stratospher...t-/281956867378?&_trksid=p2056016.m2516.l5255

ummmm no....and am i the only one that had to look up "tertiary" ?

this one was a steal..

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Rare-Vintag...884836?hash=item33af3603e4:g:XsIAAOSwKtlWhh-u

 

[chipjoker]

^^ I was watching this one and I checked it like 10 seconds after it ended, I was soo mad at myself....

 

[Gear]

For the record, that is most emphatically NOT my work. I can't say anything nice so I'm not going to say anything else.

 

[BPTDirector]

Sorry BG I meant milling just made a slip there. However all my stance is that doing irreparable damage to the original drop chip would be a damn shame. Cover it with a label
Ok, damage it no way.

 

[Psypher1000]

For the record, that is most emphatically NOT my work. I can't say anything nice so I'm not going to say anything else.

I will. That chip is travesty on multiple levels.

 

[BGinGA]

my stance is that doing irreparable damage to the original drop chip would be a damn shame.

Totally agree with you on that point. Drop chips are simply too rare an item (in collector hands, anyway) to permanently alter. But Psypher's point about it being cheaper to do so than buying original $1000s is also accurate, though not advisable for those particular chips.

 

[Psypher1000]

Someone please educate me: What are drop chips, and why are they made of unobtanium?

 

[Gear]

Drop chips are the chips used by dealers to rake poker games (among other things.) For example if the max is $4, it's easier to rake $4 with one chip than 4 x $1 or whatever. They are technically live, but players aren't supposed to have them. Essentially the only way to get them is to bribe dealers into selling them to you.

 

[Psypher1000]

They are technically live, but players aren't supposed to have them.

I find this curious. Is there a security risk involved? If yes, how so? Also, what would they use for a $4/$8 game? And would those also be frowned upon walking out the door?

 

[slisk250]

I say do what you want with the chips, inlay, label, whatever. They are not old classic Vegas with no history involved. That said, I bet Chris could make those babies look great.

 

[Jeff]

Drop chips are the chips used by dealers to rake poker games (among other things.) For example if the max is $4, it's easier to rake $4 with one chip than 4 x $1 or whatever. They are technically live, but players aren't supposed to have them. Essentially the only way to get them is to bribe dealers into selling them to you.

Casinos usually have a limited number of these chips and don't want them walking off. This one happens to be about as nice a chip as can be made. The metallic gold in the spot is awesome!

 

[bentax1978]

Drop chips are the chips used by dealers to rake poker games (among other things.) For example if the max is $4, it's easier to rake $4 with one chip than 4 x $1 or whatever. They are technically live, but players aren't supposed to have them. Essentially the only way to get them is to bribe dealers into selling them to you.

I managed to pickup a few drop chips this weekend. Each time I believe the dealer screwed up when making change for the rake and put two $1 chips in the drop instead of a $1 and a $3 chip. I just happen to win those pots and the chips. This was at Bellsgio.

At Aria I'm sure it's a lot easier to get a $3 chip since they spread s 9/18 limit game with stacks and stacks of mint green $3 chips.

 

[BiGGyT]

So here is a question for the purists, is it wrong to mill a hot stamp drop chip?? Let's say I had a lot (600) drop chips, would it be sacrilegious to mill 300 of them? I appreciate keeping them as originally made, but who needs 600 $3 HS chips when they could be made into something more useful? I would appreciate your opinions, I am kinda torn as I like to leave things as were made, but at the same time, if you can't get something and can make something with what you have that will work, is that kosher?

I feel like I need to go to the stratosphere. Only been 10+ years since I went the one time.

 

[Psypher1000]

would it be sacrilegious to mill 300 of them?

Mill them & don't think twice. If someone really want to "save" them bad enough, they can pay you for them. Otherwise, make your art & make them your own.

 

[derekdd23]

Milling a live casino chip is no big deal, you can always get more. Milling a Mapes $1 chip might get you assassinated since they are rare beautiful and no longer produced.

Either way its your money so do whatever you want and everyone else can suck it.

 

[BGinGA]

Yeah, I'm sorta of a 'save the endangered species' kinda guy. Wouldn't mill an out-of-circulation casino chip, but live casino chips and anything out of ASM/CPC is fair game, because they can be easily replaced. In fact, my only milled/relabeld chips are ASM A-molds*. Lots of relabeled casino and fantasy Paulsons, but none with permanent changes.

* with the exception of one rack of inlay-replacement BCC TSP-mold GCOP chips, but those aren't technically milled, nor are they real casino chips....