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03-06-2006, 02:53 PM
|  | Surfaced Warrior / Mod | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Starboard Bridge-Wing Age: 36
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The 100 and 1000 don't look quite right to me.
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03-06-2006, 02:58 PM
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Originally Posted by PhilTheThrill14 Please point out which of the above inlays is MIS-Shaped. I just don't see it. Maybe one of them is ever so slightly non-circular. Quite a few people have stated they are not round, yet not one has stated exactly which one(s) they are referring to. I'm just curious, not getting personal at all. | both the $100's and the Geisha side of the $25 is slightly...
I have said this before - long before the samurai's came out - I think peoples expectations for hand made chips is unrealistic and silly in many cases around here. Even Jim from ASM made a public post here at one time about how people were expecting too much. This from the man who makes the ABSOLUTE BEST chips on the market as far as over all quality and consistency. NO other (not even the infamous Paulson) goes as far as ASM when it comes to inlay alignment/perfection and still some people from here will criticize and complain about them... I just don’t get it.
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03-06-2006, 03:50 PM
|  | ChipTalk.net Article Writer | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Rochester, MA Age: 40
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Are we talking non-circular or just not centered?
Go look at some Dune's scans - the nice one's with the different shape inlays - there will be plenty of them off-cecnter. Go look at all sorts of Paulson inlays and you'll see they are not centered perfectly.
Here's some I gathered just going to a collector's site and cllicking on some chips - which one's are off-center?.... |
03-06-2006, 03:56 PM
|  | Westside Irish/Mod | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: The OC, son. Born and Raised. Age: 30
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Originally Posted by PhilTheThrill14 Are we talking non-circular or just not centered? | Probably both, but mostly the 'non-circular' inlays is what they are referring to.
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03-06-2006, 05:59 PM
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To my understanding the arguement from the begining was "NON CIRCULAR". Inlays that are "OFF-Centered" do happen quite often and i did point out that paulsons are a victim as well. Personally, i can live with slightly off-centered inlays but non-circular does get to me quite a bit. Not all of the Samurai shown are victims. The ones that turned out look great. |
03-06-2006, 07:16 PM
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I'm just not sure you can say these are non-circular. The old BC inlays were non-circular. These are just not exactly centered and that can cause a couple of them to not be 100% circular. They certainly aren't the football shaped inlays of BC past... Remember - these are 3x blowups you are looking at too.... |
03-06-2006, 07:31 PM
| | Final Table | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Natick, MA Age: 33
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I actually have a paulson chip from the Golden Broken Arrow Casino (Eastern Shawnee Tribe), which has an ever so slightly misshapen inlay. It looks very much like the Samurais people are complaining about. One of these days I'll figure out how to post a pic and I'll put it up so people can see once and for all that Paulson does let slip the occasional misshapen inly. Of course it is not as bad as old BC chips. I used to have a set of modern clays, and I can tell you that more than half of them had inlays that were more eggshaped than circular. From what I've seen these new BC's are noticably better, and I can't wait to see them in person. |
03-06-2006, 07:45 PM
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Originally Posted by PhilTheThrill14 I'm just not sure you can say these are non-circular. The old BC inlays were non-circular. These are just not exactly centered and that can cause a couple of them to not be 100% circular. They certainly aren't the football shaped inlays of BC past... Remember - these are 3x blowups you are looking at too.... | BC certainly showed much improvement from some of their earlier releases. |
03-08-2006, 10:28 PM
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FWIW I was just in Vegas and brought back a few cheques from the various casinos I played in (Mandalay, Bellagio, MGM, Frontier, etc.) all of which are Paulson, every single one of which has the inlay out of alignment, some more than others.
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03-08-2006, 11:04 PM
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Thats because casino's don't care.
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