Posted Fri Jan 07, 2005 3:48 pm GMT by yeltzen
I just got the little sample set I ordered. They're not the new Paulson ones, they're the clamshell or whatever ones. I think the chips are just great looking in terms of design, but all of the stickers with the denominations on them are off-center and too small for the circular area they're supposed to fit in. On top of that, some chips have defects in the edge spots, as if someone (or the machine) just forgot to paint there. Or as if someone put a tiny little piece of tape where the edge spots were being painted and then removed it.
Anyone else have these? If so, is this how yours are?
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Posted Fri Jan 07, 2005 7:05 pm GMT by PocketRocket
I have some Blue Chips without spots, but real edge spots on casino grade chips aren't even either unless they're a ceramic chip, and they aren't painted on, but molded into the chip during the manufacturing process; they may however appear to have been painted on freehand with uneveness. The Blue Chip home chips, both plain and spotted have a 1.2 inch diameter recessed area for the inlay, maybe they used 1 inch labels on your samples?
| yeltzen wrote: | I just got the little sample set I ordered. They're not the new Paulson ones, they're the clamshell or whatever ones. I think the chips are just great looking in terms of design, but all of the stickers with the denominations on them are off-center and too small for the circular area they're supposed to fit in. On top of that, some chips have defects in the edge spots, as if someone (or the machine) just forgot to paint there. Or as if someone put a tiny little piece of tape where the edge spots were being painted and then removed it.
Anyone else have these? If so, is this how yours are? |
Posted Fri Jan 07, 2005 8:18 pm GMT by pokerchipreviews
Yeah...the edge spots are not paint. They go all the way through the chip.
Remember that the chips are all hand-made...so if Blue Chip has a moron on the machine that day...the chips he/she makes may be less than ideal. Note: One particular vendor out there hand-sorts through all his chips to weed out the crummy ones...which get returned to Blue Chip. Quality Control. Love it. Live it.
Cheers,
John
www.pokerchipreviews.com
Posted Sat Jan 08, 2005 12:57 am GMT by yeltzen
I'm sorry but they just feel very poorly made.
They are lighter than 10g. The labels are not the right size. The top of the chip just looks horrendous. The area around the label where a correct-sized label would cover is all faded and it looks like someone scraped the paint. I dunno if 5 Star sent me a bad batch, but I would never consider these.
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