From the workshop
How we source and finish
We choose felt, cards and chips the way a dealer reads a shoe — carefully, and without shortcuts.
Our workshop sits on Danks Street, in Sydney, where every table, cloth and chip set passes through our hands before it reaches yours. We deal directly with felt mills, chip manufacturers and card printers. No middlemen, no guesswork.
If a material doesn't hold up to a long night of play, it doesn't make the catalogue. Everything here is built for the long night, table after table.
Speed cloth or wool-blend: choose your pace
Speed cloth
Speed Cloth Layout, 9ft ($220) is woven for pace. Cards glide, chips slide, and the felt itself becomes part of the deal. It's built for tournament nights, where every second at the table counts.
Wool-blend baize
Wool-Blend Baize Roll ($340) holds cards and chips with more friction, more resistance underhand. That's a deliberate, slower feel — the cloth of choice for a traditional card room, quietly high-stakes without ever needing pace to prove it.
The deck, the shoe, the cut card
A standard deck holds 52 cards, plus one or two jokers depending on the game. Bridge-size cards run 2.25 in by 3.5 in — 57mm by 88mm — narrower than poker size, and better suited to a hand that needs to fan tight.
Our Eight-Deck Dealing Shoe ($165) is built to hold six to eight decks — 312 to 416 cards — for blackjack-style games where pace and count matter equally. That many decks stacks to roughly 96mm to 128mm of card, each single card about 0.3mm thick.
Near the bottom of every shoe sits a cut card — a blank plastic card that stops players tracking or seeing the last cards in play. It's a small detail, but it's the kind of detail that keeps a table honest.
Paper-based casino cards use 300-330 gsm stock, laminated with cellulose acetate for stiffness and glare reduction — good for around 50 to 100 hands before they start to show wear. Plastic cards take more than 1,000 hands before they soften at the corners.
Bridge-Size Paper Cards, Dozen ($54) suit a bridge night or a casual social table. Poker-Size Plastic Cards, Pair ($38) suit a long night of Texas Hold'em, hand after hand.
Three ways to mould a chip
Chip weight and material change how a set feels in hand, and how it holds up over years of play. We stock all three main types.
- Clay composite — compression-molded from clay, chalk and other fillers. Print detail stays to an inlay label. Our Clay Composite Chip Set, 500pc ($260) sits at 11.5g, the weight most home and club tables use.
- Ceramic — injection-molded from clay and polymer blends, which allows full-colour, edge-to-edge graphics. The Ceramic Chip Set, 300pc ($480) carries that detail right to the rim.
- ABS plastic — the lightest and cheapest option, usually 8g to 10g, molded in a single piece. Our ABS Starter Chip Set, 200pc ($85) is where most new game rooms begin.
Edge spots — the stripe pattern around the rim — let a dealer read denomination and stack height at a glance. Most Sydney tables still lean on the old casino convention: white for a dollar, red for five, green for twenty-five, black for a hundred.
Before anything reaches the floor
- Check 1
Material intake
Felt rolls, chip resin and card stock are inspected against spec sheets before they're accepted into the workshop.
- Check 2
Edge-spot and inlay review
Every chip batch is checked for consistent edge-spot patterns and inlay alignment — the first sign of a manufacturing slip.
- Check 3
Felt tension and seam test
Cloth is stretched and seamed to fit exact table dimensions, then checked for even tension across the rail.
- Check 4
Card and shoe fit
Decks are tested for a clean run through the shoe, cut card included, before they're boxed.
- Check 5
Final finish
Timber edges are oiled, hardware is torqued, and the whole piece is wiped down under workshop light.
We check felt tension the way a dealer checks a shoe — every single time, before the first card is dealt.
The last details
Finishing is where a good table becomes a great one. We oil timber rails, hand-polish chip trays, and press every cloth seam flat before it ships. Nothing leaves Danks Street without a final look under workshop light — the kind of look a dealer gives a fresh shoe before the first hand.
It's not a long list. But it's the difference between a table that survives a house party and one that survives a decade of long nights. True to the felt, stacked right, ready for the next deal!