There have been many threads about cleaning dirty clay chips, and I wanted to show you some before and after pictures.
These are white $1 chips in the classic Paulson TH&C standard inlay mold, with kinda cool edge spots for a $1 chip. I picked them up while playing poker at the Grand Casino in Gulfport MS last night -- after a week working out of town I can't quite seem to make it past Gulfport without stopping, but that's another story.
I culled through my rack and picked out 20 good chips - nice square edges, nearly new, good surface, no nicks, etc. Even though they were the best chips, they were still pretty dirty from poker play. Here are a few representative chips:
So after taking them home, I cleaned them by hand with Orange Clean and a toothbrush, and they came out pretty well. Here they are clean and oiled:
