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Review on 🎰 Claysmith Gaming Desert Heat Poker Chips - Sleeve of 25: Premium Clay Composite with 13.5 Gram Weight – Authentic Casino-Quality Gaming Accessories by Aquarium Lanter

Revainrating 4 out of 5

Excellent chips, lame sticker

The chip is beautifully shaped. The stripes on the edges blend in well with the rest of the chip (doesn't move like King's Casino wheat pattern chips). The Greek pattern runs flawlessly through the edge stripes. The "tone composite," whatever it's made of, is slightly softer than the hard ABS plastic used for the various DaVinci brand cube design chips and doesn't have as high a pitch. a metal ring when dropped (although it still has a metal core). The chips barely touch, unlike DaVincis who like to slip out of the stack. I don't have any truly full-fledged pro chips to compare, so I can't say if they're a good alternative. I can only say that I like them best so far. The only thing that really stinks is the seal on the sticker. The numbers are crisp and solid, but the rest looks like a magazine print, with relatively low-resolution dots used for edge fading and color saturation control. Apparently they were trying to hide the blue and yellow background trees and the result was a very unfortunate spotty pattern on the printer. I ordered the Desert Heat set and the Bluff Canyon set. The edge shadow on the Bluff Canyon decal is fading and the mottling is not as noticeable. Maybe it's the nature of Bluff Canyon's design, which isn't as distracting (this drawing actually makes the detailed tree graphics look better, while Desert Heat's supposedly flat silhouette looks bad with blemishes). However, what I like about the Desert Heat Chips is that the insert doesn't have a rigid concentric design. All chips (even some real ones) have some insets that aren't printed exactly in the middle, and this spoils any round frame or text if it's off by even a quarter of a millimeter. Desert Heat's design isn't round (except for a faint shadow), so there's no obvious correct exact location, and none of the chips appear to be clearly misaligned.

Pros
  • Poker chips
Cons
  • I vaguely remember