VivasTable
Two Pair
First off, I love Poker. We have a weekly Thursday night friends game thats been running for some 18 years.
You can read about how our chips walked out in my first thread posted on PCF here
https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/newb-here-chips-walked-away-from-an18-year-long-weekly.89265/
My chipping journey and time here has been rather short but I'm quickly getting deeper and deeper (in debt, haha j/k)
My first set of non-dice chips are an awesome 1000 chip set of Bud Jones CIC's that I purchased from this site only a month ago.
My group loves them and I love them. I just can't see myself hauling them around (They heavy) week to week at whatever house our game ends up at, so they will stay and play when I host at my place.
It's really hard and time consuming (haha only been at it a month) to piece together a full set of Bright colored THC's with edge spots I like or BTP/RPC's and murdering them for my own desire seems like a waste of perfectly awesome looking chips (No offense to all the murderers on this site.) I get that the chase is part of the hobby but so far, I only like chips, I don't "collect" them. I'm sure that will change, I do have some barrels on the way of BTP T100 & T500 chips but the quantity needed in lower denoms to get a playable set is just crazy $$,$$$.
So my journey continues but quickly realizing I need to go full custom and just get something done
I wanted to create a design that meant something to me. I was always on the water in the summer months growing up in Michigan. My younger years were spent cruising the Detroit river or traveling to Toronto to visit family near Lake Ontario. In college I lived in Kalamazoo and spent a lot of time on Michigans West Coast on Lake Michigan and in my late twenties my in-laws had a home on Lake Erie that I had free reign with all their water toys. Fishing in Saginaw Bay for some amazing Walleye fillets took me to Lake Huron often. Our Deer camp in Baraga/Lanse Michigans Upper peninusula was right on Lake Superior and I've jumped in during the frigid months of November as a Camp initiation. Now the wife and I like to visit the area's Lighthouses when we travel around different parts of Michigan.
So the Great Lakes theme is where I landed and since Michigan has more Lighthouses than any other state with 150, that is incorporated into the design.
I came up with about 5 different idea/iterations and finally fell in love with this last one. I have not finished all the denoms yet, or the colors/edge spot design/color. I wanted to put it out here for constructive feedback first so I could finish. Each Denom Chip will have a different lake name at the top (or bottom?) by the size of the lake as the denom goes up. What should be tweaked, moved, deleted, etc?
I want to thank @Eloe2000 for the inspiration and the Tropic Club Ai file to start with for which I could build on. I know it draws some design elements from Casa Mango's as well, but I think it's different enough to be classified as "my own" design.
So here it is are a few mockups of slightly different designs.
Fresh Coast Club
You can read about how our chips walked out in my first thread posted on PCF here
https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/newb-here-chips-walked-away-from-an18-year-long-weekly.89265/
My chipping journey and time here has been rather short but I'm quickly getting deeper and deeper (in debt, haha j/k)
My first set of non-dice chips are an awesome 1000 chip set of Bud Jones CIC's that I purchased from this site only a month ago.
My group loves them and I love them. I just can't see myself hauling them around (They heavy) week to week at whatever house our game ends up at, so they will stay and play when I host at my place.
It's really hard and time consuming (haha only been at it a month) to piece together a full set of Bright colored THC's with edge spots I like or BTP/RPC's and murdering them for my own desire seems like a waste of perfectly awesome looking chips (No offense to all the murderers on this site.) I get that the chase is part of the hobby but so far, I only like chips, I don't "collect" them. I'm sure that will change, I do have some barrels on the way of BTP T100 & T500 chips but the quantity needed in lower denoms to get a playable set is just crazy $$,$$$.
So my journey continues but quickly realizing I need to go full custom and just get something done
I wanted to create a design that meant something to me. I was always on the water in the summer months growing up in Michigan. My younger years were spent cruising the Detroit river or traveling to Toronto to visit family near Lake Ontario. In college I lived in Kalamazoo and spent a lot of time on Michigans West Coast on Lake Michigan and in my late twenties my in-laws had a home on Lake Erie that I had free reign with all their water toys. Fishing in Saginaw Bay for some amazing Walleye fillets took me to Lake Huron often. Our Deer camp in Baraga/Lanse Michigans Upper peninusula was right on Lake Superior and I've jumped in during the frigid months of November as a Camp initiation. Now the wife and I like to visit the area's Lighthouses when we travel around different parts of Michigan.
So the Great Lakes theme is where I landed and since Michigan has more Lighthouses than any other state with 150, that is incorporated into the design.
I came up with about 5 different idea/iterations and finally fell in love with this last one. I have not finished all the denoms yet, or the colors/edge spot design/color. I wanted to put it out here for constructive feedback first so I could finish. Each Denom Chip will have a different lake name at the top (or bottom?) by the size of the lake as the denom goes up. What should be tweaked, moved, deleted, etc?
I want to thank @Eloe2000 for the inspiration and the Tropic Club Ai file to start with for which I could build on. I know it draws some design elements from Casa Mango's as well, but I think it's different enough to be classified as "my own" design.
So here it is are a few mockups of slightly different designs.
Fresh Coast Club