A few years back at our forst meet up a couple guys were talking about TRK small crowns. I had seen some hype but also seemed like a "secret society" of collectors. I asked one guy "man what is it about TRKs that is so amazing?" He told me "it's not about the feel of TRKs, it is more about the amazing colors!" So I bought a few just to check them out and Man oh man was he fibbing. The soft feel and heavy lead literally define the term "shuffle like butter"
But again late to the game, most of the good chips and sets had been gobbled up and (mostly) locked down for years. Not to mention next level expensive compared to many other options on chips... but another one of those situations where "once you know you can't forget or go back!"
The Pick Hobson chips have the absolutely beautiful neon pink $5, the frac is one of the best chips ever made, and at the time they were the only TRKs that seemed to be moving around. Lacking a $1 like everyone else I headed to Spinettis asking for the best NL quarter pie $1s. Those, the $5s and $25s could be found at the time... the Fracs and Hundos were definitely a bit more difficult.
As I mentioned intrest a chipper reached out that I didn't know at the time would literally become my best friend! @ducktold me he had some run good and wanted to share the chip Karma and send me a little package
Again obsessed and all in but also tons of other builds. Balancing the life of a broke chipper I had to make it happen.
In the pursuit of starting a rack of the $.50 yellow beauty fracs in the singles world is no easy task and very expensive, likely taking years but didn't matter how long it took. The other issue was that with the hobby growing in epic numbers and lots of people catching the TRK band wagon suddenly the chips I was finding for $12 - $15 stared running $20 - $25, after a couple years I had gotten up to 67 chips but it seemed bleak finishing the rack and that's when @rifound a huge score of chips including the beautiful yellows.
it was easter morning two years ago, i hadn't really known Danny and he had been ruffling feathers and I had no idea if he would even want to help some random dude on internet forums... standing in the Blatimore Zoo with my family Danny responds "sure Ben, i would love to help you finish your dream rack! Just let me know what you need and what you want to pay!" I literally started crying and Yelled out loud "YES! YES!! YES!!!" Brie says what in the world is going on? "Danny is helping me finish my dream rack!!"
And somehow in just 2 1/2 years my dream rack actually became a real thing.
But more than chips, we started a friendship... a guy I talk to almost daily and for hours! It is amazing what this hobby does.
Also whilst hunting the yellow fracs I found the Fushia Overland Dimes, we absolutely love playing circus games with $40 buying and $.10/$.20 stakes. The lack of a quarter in this set meant an open door to adding a dime for micro. But a rack of dimes from 1958... would that ver be possible. Well a few big chunks from a friend and a bunch of singles I also managed to put together another outrageously expensive rack. I found my hundos and managed to finally build what I thought was a trully impossible task!
All packed up in there forever home!
Just a regular old Ben pulled off the a playable set of TRKs even years late to the game.
Always a hit everywhere they go and definitely forever chips!
That's my TRK story.
But again late to the game, most of the good chips and sets had been gobbled up and (mostly) locked down for years. Not to mention next level expensive compared to many other options on chips... but another one of those situations where "once you know you can't forget or go back!"
The Pick Hobson chips have the absolutely beautiful neon pink $5, the frac is one of the best chips ever made, and at the time they were the only TRKs that seemed to be moving around. Lacking a $1 like everyone else I headed to Spinettis asking for the best NL quarter pie $1s. Those, the $5s and $25s could be found at the time... the Fracs and Hundos were definitely a bit more difficult.
As I mentioned intrest a chipper reached out that I didn't know at the time would literally become my best friend! @ducktold me he had some run good and wanted to share the chip Karma and send me a little package
Again obsessed and all in but also tons of other builds. Balancing the life of a broke chipper I had to make it happen.
In the pursuit of starting a rack of the $.50 yellow beauty fracs in the singles world is no easy task and very expensive, likely taking years but didn't matter how long it took. The other issue was that with the hobby growing in epic numbers and lots of people catching the TRK band wagon suddenly the chips I was finding for $12 - $15 stared running $20 - $25, after a couple years I had gotten up to 67 chips but it seemed bleak finishing the rack and that's when @rifound a huge score of chips including the beautiful yellows.
it was easter morning two years ago, i hadn't really known Danny and he had been ruffling feathers and I had no idea if he would even want to help some random dude on internet forums... standing in the Blatimore Zoo with my family Danny responds "sure Ben, i would love to help you finish your dream rack! Just let me know what you need and what you want to pay!" I literally started crying and Yelled out loud "YES! YES!! YES!!!" Brie says what in the world is going on? "Danny is helping me finish my dream rack!!"
And somehow in just 2 1/2 years my dream rack actually became a real thing.
But more than chips, we started a friendship... a guy I talk to almost daily and for hours! It is amazing what this hobby does.
Also whilst hunting the yellow fracs I found the Fushia Overland Dimes, we absolutely love playing circus games with $40 buying and $.10/$.20 stakes. The lack of a quarter in this set meant an open door to adding a dime for micro. But a rack of dimes from 1958... would that ver be possible. Well a few big chunks from a friend and a bunch of singles I also managed to put together another outrageously expensive rack. I found my hundos and managed to finally build what I thought was a trully impossible task!
All packed up in there forever home!
Just a regular old Ben pulled off the a playable set of TRKs even years late to the game.
Always a hit everywhere they go and definitely forever chips!
That's my TRK story.
