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Originally Posted by locutios  I keep thinking this is what you do when you don't have money and you have lots of time on your hand. |
I agree...That's really how I approached it, that was the challenge...spend as little money as possible, and just work on it as a long-term project in my spare time.
I might have spent $100 for everything in this project (chips, gear, dye, ink, labels) -- and for a set of 1000 labeled chips. Hard to beat that deal.
The way that I did the dyeing and edgespots, it was only a few minutes actual work followed by a lot of time soaking or drying...and I just did my normal things then. If I had something else to do, then I skipped the project and worked on it the next day. And I stuck the labels on the chips over a couple of evenings while watching sports. I probably worked on this for 3 weeks, but this way, it really didn't seem like a lot of work. But I did ask myself a few times, when was I ever going to finish this.
If I had worked on it continuously, I could have done everything in a lot less time. I would have dyed more chips at the same time, stamped all the chips in one sitting, etc. But knowing myself, if this had gotten to be too much like work, I would have lost interest or not done a good job on them.
And I enjoyed watching them progress slowly, and taking pictures of them through all the steps...I think that was half the fun, I know I will enjoy looking back at their development now.
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