Wanted to show you guys some card protectors...

[dealerbuttons.com]

Quite a few of you have purchased or been interested in custom designed dealer buttons and card protectors, so I thought I'd post a quick update and show you what we've been up to! Very cool stuff. The brass and steel buttons have the brass pressed permanently through the button. We can custom make just about anything you want. I've been making the card protectors in varying thicknesses, from .2" to .25" to reduce the weight a little from the dealer button size. I've also updated my site with some new information at http://www.dealerbuttons.com. I'm always around the board so feel free to reply here!

Here's some that I've done in the last couple weeks.. let me know what you think!

Adam

[JohnnyCache]

"Limpin ain't easy" almost garnered a spit-take.

How much complexity can you handle?

[dealerbuttons.com]

I'm glad someone actually gets the Limpin' Ain't Easy button... that's mine

Shoot me an e-mail with an image and I'll let you know if it's doable. Obviously the brass cutouts would need to be simpler than the custom engraving, but sometimes we surprise ourselves with what we can do!

Take care,
Adam

[LAFYRWMN]

I like the "limpin ain't easy" button too- can you send me an email as to how much that would be?

thanks
Linda

[Replic]

My father is an ingenious wood worker, so I simply asked him to make me a simplistic dealer button- thought you'd like to see it. Nowhere NEAR as cool as yours, of course, but pretty damned cool. If you contact me, I'll send you an image of it, I don't have any place to host the image right now.[/img]

[dealerbuttons.com]

That would be cool! I'd like to see a wooden dealer button. Kind of hard for our CNC machine to work on oak or I'd make one myself

[JohnnyCache]

E-mail it to me, replic. I'll throw it up.
Hmm . . . If I wanted, could you knock a cutout out of gold or silver? And/or fill engraving with it? And do you have enamel?

[dealerbuttons.com]

I've been jonesin to do one in gold or silver, and sterling silver or even pure silver would be cheap (it's like $7.50 an ounce or so right now) but I've been unable to find suitable stock. Pure silver comes as predesigned bars, and trying to get coin blanks has been near impossible. I think there's regulation on coin blanks of any size to deter people from making their own currency. At least that's as much as I can tell... if you know of a source of gold or silver bar stock or blanks let me know and we'll get some going!

Take care,
Adam

[JohnnyCache]

What kind of workroom do you have? Silver has a pretty low MP doesn't it? You could make some, with a pewter kit and a pottery kiln, I bet. Just make cylydrical mold...

If you don't have the facilities, I have a friend that could probably do this . . .he made a hollow titanium baseball bat half filled with loose lead shot!

[Leo]

those are beautiful man! good work, i would buy one if i could afford it. i really need to start collecting my poker-debts
i would love to see one in silver and gold too.

[JohnnyCache]

I was thinking more the stamp out of gold or silver . . . these are aluminum, right? Or steel?

[dealerbuttons.com]

These are 303 Stainless Steel. We're talking serious stuff. EACH disk for each button takes over 28 minutes just to wire EDM cut from the bar!

We could easily do aluminum, but then it would be lighter than the plastic buttons, which kind of defeats the purpose IMO, plus aluminum likes to oxidize if you don't Anodize it, which is a mistake many people make when making things out of aluminum.

It's cheaper and easier on the tooling though, so if anyone wants aluminum let me know and I'll make some up I'm doing my personal card protector in steel and bronze, with a bronze Independent Trucks star in the center (if any of you know what that is... old skateboard thing from when I was a kid and was semi-pro!) I'll post a picture of it when I get it done if people promise not to scream spam!

Ok now I gotta go find some silver to work with. This has got me really curious!

Adam

[JohnnyCache]

Hmm . . . could you tool the button out of AL and then scoop or bore the back and fill it with something cheap but heavy? Like the safe lead/pewter subsitute they use for wargames minis? That could potentially cut your time . . . also, you should consider hollowed out ones that come apart somehow. . . you could sell a set of a big dealer button and seven chip covers that fit inside it!

And yeah, I remember Independent. A skateboard was never anything but transportation to me, but a lot of my buddies still skate . . .