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<blockquote data-quote="jamesmanhattan" data-source="post: 6394617" data-attributes="member: 75838"><p>Chessex is hands down the best quality. They have some really cool out-of-print colors and swirl combos that you can still find on ebay. </p><p></p><p>Crystal Caste is poor quality, they look cheap next to Chessex. </p><p></p><p>Gamescience is a scam. You ever walk by one of those guys on the street selling his new wingdingy carrot peeler, the one that slices, dices, and is better than all the rest. Well it's not. Actually the Slap-Chop is a perfect example, it's all marketing, scam marketing at that. </p><p>You know how casino dice have really sharp edges? They have some of the highest quality production values to maintain very high requirements. All the pips are of the exact same material as the die itself. If you cut the plastic out of one side of the die to make the number 20, and only cut a 1 in the other side, it becomes an unevenly weighted die. </p><p>If you don't replace that divot with the exact same material it is technically a weighted die. </p><p></p><p>Plus, every single time you get a gamescience die, you have to sand off the extra elements that are always on them. It's like they were all molded on a large rack and then broken off, so there's extra bits of plastic on them, that you have to sand off. The end user sanding off plastic, doesn't sound like it would do a very good job at ensuring the dice get a scientific outcome.</p><p></p><p>If Chessex uses a process of: molding, then cutting, then polishing, then inking the numbers. </p><p>Gamescience only does two of those, then somehow tries to convince you its better.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jamesmanhattan, post: 6394617, member: 75838"] Chessex is hands down the best quality. They have some really cool out-of-print colors and swirl combos that you can still find on ebay. Crystal Caste is poor quality, they look cheap next to Chessex. Gamescience is a scam. You ever walk by one of those guys on the street selling his new wingdingy carrot peeler, the one that slices, dices, and is better than all the rest. Well it's not. Actually the Slap-Chop is a perfect example, it's all marketing, scam marketing at that. You know how casino dice have really sharp edges? They have some of the highest quality production values to maintain very high requirements. All the pips are of the exact same material as the die itself. If you cut the plastic out of one side of the die to make the number 20, and only cut a 1 in the other side, it becomes an unevenly weighted die. If you don't replace that divot with the exact same material it is technically a weighted die. Plus, every single time you get a gamescience die, you have to sand off the extra elements that are always on them. It's like they were all molded on a large rack and then broken off, so there's extra bits of plastic on them, that you have to sand off. The end user sanding off plastic, doesn't sound like it would do a very good job at ensuring the dice get a scientific outcome. If Chessex uses a process of: molding, then cutting, then polishing, then inking the numbers. Gamescience only does two of those, then somehow tries to convince you its better. [/QUOTE]
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