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Old 08-14-2007, 07:27 PM
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Progen samples arrived

So I figured I'd grab a sample set of the Progen's, just for s***'s and giggles. Not bad, not clay, but not bad. Say almost a cross between R&T plastic and a clay chip. I'll take some pics in a few.


One of the big pros of these chips is that I feel safe that since they're made in China, they are surely lead free.
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Old 08-14-2007, 07:30 PM
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So I figured I'd grab a sample set of the Progen's, just for s***'s and giggles. Not bad, not clay, but not bad. Say almost a cross between R&T plastic and a clay chip. I'll take some pics in a few.


One of the big pros of these chips is that I feel safe that since they're made in China, they are surely lead free.
Bizarre... so they're not made of the same material as the Palm Imports "Wallson" / "Solid Wall" chips? My solids look, sound, and feel like a clay chip (legitimately comparable to Paulsons in those regards).
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Old 08-14-2007, 07:38 PM
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Re: Progen samples arrived

I got a sample set of wallsons and although they felt clayish and sounded ok, when looking at them close they seemed to be missing something to their overall appearance that didn't appeal to me. I agree with Evil in this respect.
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One of the big pros of these chips is that I feel safe that since they're made in China, they are surely lead free.
Yeah they are lead free, they took out all that dangerous stuff and replaced it with mercury and depleted uranium for your safety.
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when looking at them close they seemed to be missing something to their overall appearance that didn't appeal to me. I agree with Evil in this respect.


Then dont look at them close- look at them from afar
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Then dont look at them close- look at them from afar
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Old 08-15-2007, 01:36 PM
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Re: Progen samples arrived

I received a sample of 10 of these chips. Overall, not bad. I liked them.

The only rumor I heard is that they are a bit thicker than regular chips. that you cannot fit 20 in a rack. i wished I had ordered 20.

Can anyone verify this? Much appreciated.
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I received a sample of 10 of these chips. Overall, not bad. I liked them.

The only rumor I heard is that they are a bit thicker than regular chips. that you cannot fit 20 in a rack. i wished I had ordered 20.

Can anyone verify this? Much appreciated.
had the SAME problem so we had bigger acrylic chip trays made--
Now everything fits
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Where can I order these bigger racks? Oops I mean acrylic trays.
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Old 08-15-2007, 02:16 PM
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Yeah, I can barely squeeze 19 into a Chipco rack.

The one thing I don't care for is the edgespots, too friggin' busy. The 4 spots is too much IMO, even on paulsons. The edgespots on these also have colors from other chips, further making hard to tell what chips are in the stack...I forgot to take pics like I said I was going to, oh well....maybe later. I hate when chips are too busy, it's not bad if it's one denom or two with busy edges, as long as soem values are different you can make them out. These don't feel bad, a tad light probably 8.8g-9g and the diameter is a bit larger by about 1/2 mm.

They really need labels though, the centers are very smooth and plastic-like with injection type points on some...or maybe just the injection points tranferred from the molds. They'd be a decent set for a non clay set, if you could get some labelled for a total of 35¢ chip it would be a good econmical set, better than NExgens and Fauxs (Gasp! though I was never too impressed with fauxs...but they are cheap, that's all they have going IMO) In solid format like PI has I bet they'd be decent...I'm such a friggin' chip snob now though....I couldn't play with them...I know I would wander to something else( like I typically do...hell I've gone through paulson, ASM, TRK and BC too, so it's not like I'm saying they're trash, just know I would be unsatisfied in a week).


Further on the chip snob topic, I shuffle these Progens for a few minutes and something just feels ..not right, I feel dirty. Then I swap over to my T-mold tournies and ...ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...that's the way a chip is supposed to feel...and those suckers are so chalky and not worn in yet, but they still feel better...not sure what it is.
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