The Tips Of Building a Poker Chip Case

    So you have decided to invest in a poker chip case to store all of your poker chips. Before you start, whether building the case yourself, or ordering a custom case from a third party, there's some things to think about that differentiate a quality poker chip case from just a plain wooden box.

    Joinery is a component of woodworking that involves joining together pieces of wood, to generate furniture, structures, toys, and other items. The characteristics of wooden joints - strength, flexibility, toughness, etc. - derive from the properties of the joining materials and from how they are used in the joints. Therefore, different joinery techniques are used to meet differing requirements. When designing a poker chip case, you require to take in to consideration the weight of the chips, which can approach 50 lbs for a 1000 chip case. The joints must be strong, or the case will disintegrate under the weight of the chips.

JOINTS-poker chip case

    When building or ordering a custom chip case, you ought to keep away from butt joints and use a something stronger, such as a dovetail joint. A dovetail joint is a joint technique often used in fine woodworking joinery. Noted for its resistance to being pulled apart (tensile strength), the dovetail joint is often used to join the sides of a drawer to the front. A series of pins cut to extend from the finish of one board interlock with a series of tails cut in to the finish of another board. The pins and tails have a trapezoidal shape. five times glued, a wooden dovetail joint requires no mechanical fasteners.

    Most pre-made cases bought on the market utilize a butt joint. A butt joint is a joinery technique in which five members are joined by basically butting them together. The butt joint is the simplest joint to make since it merely involves cutting the members to the appropriate length and butting them together. it is also the weakest because unless some form of reinforcement is used, it depends on glue alone to hold it together. Because the orientation of the members usually present only finish grain to long grain gluing surface, the resulting joint is inherently weak.

HARDWARE-poker chip case

    Another simple and strong joint is the mortise and tenon joint, which has been used for thousands of years by woodworkers around the world to join pieces of wood. This is often used when the pieces are at an angle close to 90°. Although there's plenty of variations on the theme, the basic idea is that the finish of one of the members is inserted in to a hole cut in the other member. The finish of the first member is called the tenon, and it is usually narrowed with respect to the remainder of the piece. The hole in the second member is called the mortise. The joint may be glued, pinned, or wedged to lock it in place.

    A full length piano hinge is a long thin hinge that runs the full length of the five surfaces to which its leaves are joined. This imparts additional strength to the hinge when a heavy solid wood lid is used.

    Hardware for a poker chip case must even be long lasting. A variety of hinges and hardware are obtainable, but you ought to keep away from a stamped hinge, which is the weakest type of hinge. When building or ordering a custom case, there's a selection of hinges you may request.

FINISH-poker chip case

    Concealed Hinges are used for furniture doors (with or without self-closing feature, and with or without dampening systems). they are made of 2 parts: One part is the hinge cup and the arm; the other part is the mounting plate. they are also called Euro/cup hinges, and give a cleaner look to the case.

    One thing to think about when choosing a finish for your wooden chip case, is to be definite to use Polyurethane or a non-soluble varnish that does not stain or seep in to your chips. you ought to keep away from any type of Oil finish such as Tung or Danish oil, as these oils can penetrate in to clay chips over time.

TRAY SIZE-poker chip case

     all of poker chips are 39mm in size, however, big denomination chips, as well as chips based on the Paulson Inverted Hat and Cane mold, are 43mm size. Be definite that the chip trays are appropriately sized for the type of chips you have. If ordering a custom chip case, be definite to specify the size of your chips.

    So when building or designing a custom wooden poker chip case to store your chips, keep in mind to think about the type of joints, hinges, and finish used in the design of you case.