Chipco quality control

[Hardmix]

I recently received a shipment of Chipco's. They look great however when I inspected a small sample of the shipment I noticed a sharp ridge on the side of some of the chips, big enough to catch your fingernail on. In addition there are some with a small nipple on the side of the chip from the manufacturing process but I expect those will go away with play.
Have any of you Chipco owners experienced either of these issues?

[Johnny5]

Common problems. The 'nipple' issue is well known, but I haven't seen the 'ridge' problem mentioned on here yet(though I have noticed it myself).

In my experience, there are typically 2 ridges about 1/2 inch apart (a 1/2 inch depression is a better description) on the rolling edge . It isn't consistent on my chips (some only have 1 ridge), and the casino Chipcos I have are slightly different still (both ridge & nipple). It has something to do with the way the rolling edge is applied to the chip.

Both the ridge & nipple will not go away with use, and since the chips are 'white' inside, messing with the nipple will only make it worse.

There are several other obscure issues with Chipcos, but most of these problems can be overlooked because of other Chipco advantages...

J5

[toots]

What Chipco advantages?

The ridge and nipples drive me nuts. I'm completely non-plussed at the total lack of "molding" on the face.

The Egyptians are neat looking, but I'd love them if they were real clay.

[warewulf]

Usually nipples are a good thing! Oh wait, we're talking about chips... /images/graemlins/grin.gif

[slavic]

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What Chipco advantages?

The ridge and nipples drive me nuts. I'm completely non-plussed at the total lack of "molding" on the face.

The Egyptians are neat looking, but I'd love them if they were real clay.

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Art, durablilty, and quite a few security features that you can't do as well with clay.

[TenPercenter]

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What Chipco advantages? The Egyptians are neat looking, but I'd love them if they were real clay.

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The only factor that helped my decision was graphics. There's no other chip (casino quality) that would let me do the level of art I wanted except Chipco. I like clay chips too, but my goal was a beautiful Egyptian set, with photographic quality graphics. I could have used clipart/silhouettes on ASM clays, or made labels, but it just wouldn't have been the same.

Ten

[warewulf]

Like the Egyptians, I don't think the suits would come out as good on anything else. I didn't like chipco chips much until I saw the suits. If you sit there and stare at any chip, you will notice imperfections. Clays routinely have off center or crooked inlays, irregularities with the edge spots etc. You only notice these things if you're sitting there examining the chips.

With the Chipcos, these are all just part of the manufacturing. I have never noticed any of these things unless I REALLY look for them.

[toots]

I notice them every time I touch a stack of chips.

[Fins]

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I noticed a sharp ridge on the side of some of the chips, big enough to catch your fingernail on.

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I haven't noticed this. This is on the edge of the chip? So if the chip is sitting flat on the table the ridge is perpendicular to the table? Or is it your running your finger nail across the face and it catches on the edge?

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In addition there are some with a small nipple on the side of the chip from the manufacturing process but I expect those will go away with play.

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This is part of the mfg'ing and the nipple is annoying. I'd think they could (should) fix this before they print the edges. It's more prevalent on some chips and not on others. J5 is right that the nipple will not go away... you could probably file it down but you'd be left with a white spot. The ridge I've not noticed so I'm not sure what it is? It seems the edge printing over laps so maybe this is where the ridge you're speaking of occurs??

Can you see the ridge in a pic? Post if you can.

- Fins

[Hardmix]

Fin the ridge is indeed on the side, I will try to post a pic.

[tomb1]

I've always called the little injection holes "pimples" but "nipples" works even better!

Yeah, that's one minor issues with Chipcos. But I've never really noticed any ridges before, either on samples or actual casino chips....

[Slow Play Ray]

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But I've never really noticed any ridges before, either on samples or actual casino chips....

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Look closely - the ridge is there on every Chipco chip. It's simply the location where the two ends of the edge spot "wrap" meet when they attach it to the main chip. Many of them are well-concealed - you can't feel them, and can barely see the outline of it. Others are a quite obvious raised ridge in the edge of the chip. I have noticed the Suits are much cleaner than the Crystal Oyster samples I have in this aspect.

[TenPercenter]

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Look closely

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That's the key.

The most pronounced ridge I have found is on an actual Luxor $1 chip. On almost all of my Chipco chips the ridge isn't there at all, just a light discoloration where the wrap meets (like he said).

Ten

[jojobinks]

i have samples of the egyptians, crystal oyster, rounders, and the apaches, for a total of 17 chipcos. i'd say the pimple is big enough to notice in the course of everyday use on about half of them. the rest are easily found when i just looked for them.

it's annoying, considering how nice the chips are otherwise. the pimple is not why i decided to buy clay, but i leave that for another thread. /images/graemlins/cool.gif