... to put words in my mouth for some time regarding:

>> ... the stuff DW does.

One more time: David is engaged in two entirely separate activities. On one hand, he repairs damaged chips. On the other, he produces "non-genuine" brass core chips. There is a small area of arguable overlap, which I will address below.

>> You're the one who continues to call his work "repairs" -- thus the use of
>> quotation marks when some of us refer to what he's doing; We've been quoting you.

If so, you've been mis-quoting me. I have never characterized the production of the "non-genuine" brass cores as "repairs". I have made a point, over and over again, of differentiating between the "non-genuine" brass core chips and David's work "repairing" damaged chips. When I make a post regarding chip "repairs", that's what I'm talking about -- repairs, not the production of the "non-genuine" chips.

>> A Brass Core chip that's taken down to the core to fill in a drillhole
>> that a casino put there for a very good reason is not a "repair" ...

This is the area of overlap of David's repair work and his production of "non-genuine" chips. Because the process by which this type of "repair" is accomplished is in fact the production of a "non-genuine" chip, I would characterize these chips along with the rest of the "non-genuine" brass cores, rather than calling them "repaired".

>> ... it's a disguise; camouflage. Why can you not admit it?

I agree. It's a disguise. It's camouflage. I have no problem "admitting" that and have never said otherwise. As far as I can recall, no one has ever asked me to "admit" such descriptions before. If you can point to any post I have ever made in which I have said anything to the contrary, I will retract it, post an apology and eat the paper on which I print it out.

By the way, no such chip alteration was the basis of any complaint during the brass core inquiry (at least not that part of it which I conducted), though I did obtain information about the production of such chips for individual collectors for their own collections. Frankly, I think they diminished the value of their chips by having this work done because they converted a genuine, though cancelled, casino chip into a "non-genuine" Whalen chip.

----- jim o\-S