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Well I'm half way through putting my labels on the new Desperados I recently purchased. Ordered Friday morning and received today via US Priority. Pretty quick from Iowa to Massachusetts!
Here's the long and short of the chips:
Weight - standard Blue chip 8ish gram chips
Slippery or not - not slippery, but the Blue Chips always seem "harder" than your standard Paulson or ASM chips. They have a linen finish to them which helps them stack and grip.
Do they take standard 1" paper labels? - Yes. I've applied close to 200 labels (my fingers are pretty tired right now!) and the 1" label fits the ample recess just fine...could take an even larger label if there was one in the 1 1/8" size.
There are the occassional different color flecks in the chips that Yeltzen mentioned in one of the posts here on Chiptalk but they don't bother me at all. These amount to small specks on the occassional chip.
Are the actual chip inlays/labels misshaped? - yep, but honestly they aren't as bad as some I've seen. They are, however, rarely round. When the new 1" label is applied, there is always a little layover from the inlay underneath. Typically this just leaves a little white ring outside the 1" label I just applied. A label with a white outer edge should flow very nicely.
I plan on adding pictures tomorrow in either the custom chip section or the label section, whichever you guys prefer...you'll find it without a doubt either way. I need to rest and take pictures tomorrow. Any questions, please feel free to post them here or pm me.
I have noted a few spinners in the bunch, but most colors I received were spinner free. The sky blue/baby blue (with three x2 edge spots) is the only color so far with any spinners. I only received a handful of green and black chips, so the verdict is still out on those colors, but the ones I received were spinner free in those colors.
The spinners in the baby blue color were due to the inlay area of the chip almost bulging slightly from manufacturing. I can deal with 8-10 spinners out of 500 hand labeled chips. But it's something you might want to ponder before your order.
Here's another curiosity of this Blue Chip Desperado set (I'm still putting labels on them)...
Every single yellow chip's inlay is PERFECTLY round! I have 100 Yellow chips and each and every one is perfectly round. This is the only denomination that has this unusual feature of a Blue Chip chip. Why can't all of their chips be perfectly round if all these yellows are? Hmm...oh well.
A "spinner" is a chip that sits on top of one or a stack of chips that you can spin freely on it's label/inlay on top of the other chip(s)...think of a record spinning on a record player! I have only come across a few of these examples in my 500 set.
Yeah, you kind of missed something from last week.
The short version:
There was discussion of getting Blue Chip blanks and applying labels to them since they are the only compression molded chip that readily accepts off the shelf labels with some degree of latitude. In the discussion of potential cost for the blanks and whether or not they were available, it was discovered that Lee Weber's site was apparently liquidating the Desperado chips for 50¢ each in quantities of 100 or in 300/500 sets. Some bozo came up with this hairbrain scheme to stick labels over the inlays (it may have been me ). The chips themselves were pretty well panned by several review sites and there was a thought that this might be an opportunity to breathe new life into these unfortunate mistakes.
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Originally Posted by warewulf
Why are you putting labels on chips with inlays? Did I miss something?
). The chips themselves were pretty well panned by several review sites and there was a thought that this might be an opportunity to breathe new life into these unfortunate mistakes.
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