[erikk]

So there's been a bunch of threads lately about using rock tumblers, pillowcases in dryers, spoons and the like on Paulsons to break them in. Well I just got my set of Pharaohs and have been spending an inordinate amount of time riffling them and such. Partly because I want to break them in a little and partly because, well it's a fetish (hi, my name is Erik and I'm a chiptalker... hi Erik). I've been taking stacks of 10 and riffling them wherever I've been sitting. After a couple hours of riffling the edges dull a little and I move on to the next set of 10.

Well today I went even a little further in my obsession and started bringing stacks with me to riffle wherever I was. But I noticed that a brand new stack of 10 that I brought with me were basically broken in by the time I got around to riffling them. I had put 10 chips in my front jeans pocket with nothing else in there of course. I think that the movement of the chips in a pants pocket is a gentle rubbing back and forth like riffling without any of the destructive damage associated with a dryer or a tumbler or something like that.

So anyway if you're trying to break in your chips give it a try and see if it doesn't work well for you also. Granted you might end up with multi-colored pockets but hey what are washing machines made for?