Posted these on the blue wall a few years back, but since I'm getting the itch to do either an add-on or completely new CPC set, figured it'd be worthwhile to re-post and get some thoughts.
Quick backstory: Bo Manor is the name my friends gave to my humble abode when I bought my first place - a single family townhouse in the Baltimore suburbs. There's actually a Bohemia Manor area and schools - often referred to as Bo Manor for short - in Maryland, but that connection is merely coincidental. This set was somewhat of a wedding/30th birthday treat to myself, and I believe this was one of the first sets out of ASM Vegas. Luckily these were done during the Michael D. days before things really went down the toilet, though there were still a few issues with the quality of the chips that I'll note here.
The Mockup:
These went through a few iterations over a couple of months, playing around with the chip tool and doing my own amateur PhotoShop work, before finally settling on this for the main lineup (nickels and hundos not shown):
The Chalky Arrival:
These managed to show up on my doorstep a few hours before a planned home game, though I don't think I put them into play that night.
The Issues:
You may have noticed in the pictures above that there was a pretty substantial issue with the product I paid good money for. There were actually quite a few, but mostly minor stuff:
(1) The chips were delayed due to an inlay discoloration issue that Michael spotted before sending them out. Three of the denoms had to be partially redone. The white rings around the inlays also came out much thicker than I intended, but I don't mind the different look. No ring probably would have looked better, but oh well.
(2) It's pretty clear in the shot of the orange $5's above that I got two different variations of orange, and you may be able to see it better in the pic below with orange and DG orange samples. Apparently some of the paints were mixed during production and quality control did not pick up on this obvious difference before packaging and sending them off. Most of the error chips also had pretty bad split spots on the edges. Michael agreed to replace about 90 of the chips that were affected, and I threw in an add-on for an extra 100 since I realized 200 $5's was just not going to cut it.
(bad $5's on left, good on right)
(3) There was also a bit more variation in the thickness of the chips than I anticipated, both between and within denoms, though some more than others. Most affected were probably the $1's, then the hundos (not that they would see enough play in stacks to notice), and a little in the quarters. I mentioned this to Michael but never got much of a response, probably because the $5's color variation was the big topic at the time. Since I kind of see it as a minor thing that doesn't really affect the playability of the set I just tried to disregard it, but there have been times where it gets annoying (i.e. having 3 barrels of $1's and not being 100% certain that they're exactly 20, or matching stacks after a big all-in).
(4) Some of the chips, particularly the $1's again, had split spot issues. I recently did a tally with the $1's and it's a little more than 25% of the chips I received. It's not pretty ($20's shown are 2nd place in split-spot frequency):
So the question I'm contemplating now, after seeing the top-notch sets coming out of CPC, is whether I should redesign and replace the $1's (and maybe throw in a new denom or variation), or keep the set as is and spend a little more for a whole new set. I'm in no rush, but have been playing around with the design tool and will post some thoughts in a new thread here: http://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/bo-manor-possible-cpc-add-on-mockups.7895/
Enough talk, now here's some more pr0n:
Oiled-Up Goodness:
Credits to my photog friend with a much better camera.
Live Stacks:
Pics from my best game at the Manor (.25/.50 $100 max). Within the first half hour or so AA>JJ aipf, KK>QQ aipf, and then 77 flops a set on the very next hand and gobbles up another fresh stack. Later on AJ>44 on a 42AAJ runout where almost all the chips went in on the river for a nice big pot.
In for $100, out for a little over $700.
Most of the soldiers on the battlefield by the end of the night.
Quick backstory: Bo Manor is the name my friends gave to my humble abode when I bought my first place - a single family townhouse in the Baltimore suburbs. There's actually a Bohemia Manor area and schools - often referred to as Bo Manor for short - in Maryland, but that connection is merely coincidental. This set was somewhat of a wedding/30th birthday treat to myself, and I believe this was one of the first sets out of ASM Vegas. Luckily these were done during the Michael D. days before things really went down the toilet, though there were still a few issues with the quality of the chips that I'll note here.
The Mockup:
These went through a few iterations over a couple of months, playing around with the chip tool and doing my own amateur PhotoShop work, before finally settling on this for the main lineup (nickels and hundos not shown):
The Chalky Arrival:
These managed to show up on my doorstep a few hours before a planned home game, though I don't think I put them into play that night.
The Issues:
You may have noticed in the pictures above that there was a pretty substantial issue with the product I paid good money for. There were actually quite a few, but mostly minor stuff:
(1) The chips were delayed due to an inlay discoloration issue that Michael spotted before sending them out. Three of the denoms had to be partially redone. The white rings around the inlays also came out much thicker than I intended, but I don't mind the different look. No ring probably would have looked better, but oh well.
(2) It's pretty clear in the shot of the orange $5's above that I got two different variations of orange, and you may be able to see it better in the pic below with orange and DG orange samples. Apparently some of the paints were mixed during production and quality control did not pick up on this obvious difference before packaging and sending them off. Most of the error chips also had pretty bad split spots on the edges. Michael agreed to replace about 90 of the chips that were affected, and I threw in an add-on for an extra 100 since I realized 200 $5's was just not going to cut it.
(bad $5's on left, good on right)
(3) There was also a bit more variation in the thickness of the chips than I anticipated, both between and within denoms, though some more than others. Most affected were probably the $1's, then the hundos (not that they would see enough play in stacks to notice), and a little in the quarters. I mentioned this to Michael but never got much of a response, probably because the $5's color variation was the big topic at the time. Since I kind of see it as a minor thing that doesn't really affect the playability of the set I just tried to disregard it, but there have been times where it gets annoying (i.e. having 3 barrels of $1's and not being 100% certain that they're exactly 20, or matching stacks after a big all-in).
(4) Some of the chips, particularly the $1's again, had split spot issues. I recently did a tally with the $1's and it's a little more than 25% of the chips I received. It's not pretty ($20's shown are 2nd place in split-spot frequency):
So the question I'm contemplating now, after seeing the top-notch sets coming out of CPC, is whether I should redesign and replace the $1's (and maybe throw in a new denom or variation), or keep the set as is and spend a little more for a whole new set. I'm in no rush, but have been playing around with the design tool and will post some thoughts in a new thread here: http://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/bo-manor-possible-cpc-add-on-mockups.7895/
Enough talk, now here's some more pr0n:
Oiled-Up Goodness:
Credits to my photog friend with a much better camera.
Live Stacks:
Pics from my best game at the Manor (.25/.50 $100 max). Within the first half hour or so AA>JJ aipf, KK>QQ aipf, and then 77 flops a set on the very next hand and gobbles up another fresh stack. Later on AJ>44 on a 42AAJ runout where almost all the chips went in on the river for a nice big pot.
In for $100, out for a little over $700.
Most of the soldiers on the battlefield by the end of the night.
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. Nice set, sorry to hear of your issues.
