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My Akumal Beach & Casino chips arrived today.

>>> Original design thread can be found here

Big thanks to Justin (for the order) and Cratty for the assist on finalizing the artwork.

Here are some quick pics - I haven't cleaned these chips, do I even need to clean and oil these? ...I just popped these on the kitchen breakfast bar. Will set up a better shoot once I have all of my wedding photo jobs out the door.

Yes. I shot these with my 58mm f/1.4. Kinda glowy and shallow. I was feeling to lazy to dig a different lens out of my bag...

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>>> Just a quick note - if you haven't done it yet, please shoot Jim @TheChipRoom a message for brand spanking new non-cancelled casino dice. Holy ballzzzzz. They dice are phenomenal. We are officially going to be the gaming enablers during the family holiday gatherings.

*****Back to the chips*****

If I could describe these chips/this set in one word, it would be...

Holyshitthesechipsarefuckingawesome!

I loved this set as I was designing them, the design really came together quickly and beautifully. But after I placed the order, I was sitting on pins and needles about the final production/product. Would they turn out as I had intended? The big concerns were...

Chip color printing - would the color come close to the original design colors? Or would they be too dark, to light, or just "off"...? I was really worried about my $5 "sun chip". Would the 'yellow on yellow' be enough of a difference to show up. Would the yellow be too dark? Would it be too light? Ugh! That drove me nuts.

Label readability - The original design/mock up on the Paulson Chip Design Tool was 28mm label. Tina's labels are 24mm - so you lose a good bit of size with shrinkage. And I wasn't entirely sure of the printing process for the insert labels, so worried the small type/details would break up with a low linescreen - if it even used a linescreen.

Did I make the radial color fade on the label too dark or too light?

The colors are freaking fantastic. In the photos, I just popped the photos on the counter with the lights off. In hand, these chips are BEAUTIFUL. The $20 green chip POPS a lot more in person than it does in these photos. Same with the $500 purple chip.

The edge spots, whether stacked or in the carrying case, look outstanding.

The tiny type on the bottom of the label is SUPER tiny - but it's actually readable...unless you have bad eyesight.

I do wish I had opened up the letter spacing in "Beach & Casino" a bit more. It's readable, but it opening up that letter spacing would have helped even more.

The "waves" illustration came out far better than I had hoped, with the printing.

The overall feel of these chips just ooze the Caribbean and the Riviera Maya/Yucatan.

The Greek Mold is 100% ON POINT!

Wish Tina offered 39mm chips with 28mm label insert/inlay.

I am just "Happy as all get-out" over these chips.

...Still waiting on my dealer button.


**** Sample sets of all 6 chips will be available - I'm selling 15 sets for $10 each, shipped in a bubble wrap envelope *****

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I have never felt the need to clean Tina chips. And they are plastic, so no need to oil either. Would probably just make a mess.
 
Cool design. From the pictures the 1 and 20 look a little close in color -- do you see any risk that they might get accidentally mixed up on the table?


That's a good question. The colors are more different in reality than in the photo. When I look at them in a very dark shadow area on my desk, the $1 blue chip is a bit lighter than the green $20 chip, and the spots also differentiate the two denoms. If I had the same spot pattern, that would certainly make it more difficult in very crappy lighting. But I chose the spot patterns and colors to help define those two chips.

We have much better lighting where we play in our basement activity space than I do in this dark area on my desk. This won't be a problem.
 
That's a good question. The colors are more different in reality than in the photo. When I look at them in a very dark shadow area on my desk, the $1 blue chip is a bit lighter than the green $20 chip, and the spots also differentiate the two denoms. If I had the same spot pattern, that would certainly make it more difficult in very crappy lighting. But I chose the spot patterns and colors to help define those two chips.

We have much better lighting where we play in our basement activity space than I do in this dark area on my desk. This won't be a problem.
Good to hear!
 

HA! I had to swap out my "Dice Chips" to store my "Akumal Chips". So right now, my dice chips are on the floor next to my computer chair.

Definitely need a new case, so I can throw these old dice chips back into the original case - which will be used when my kid's friends come over. I still have another 4 chips beyond the 500 in this cheap-ass case.

Thanks for the link.
 
HA! I had to swap out my "Dice Chips" to store my "Akumal Chips". So right now, my dice chips are on the floor next to my computer chair.

Definitely need a new case, so I can throw these old dice chips back into the original case - which will be used when my kid's friends come over. I still have another 4 chips beyond the 500 in this cheap-ass case.

Thanks for the link.

Oops! Didn't see this typo... make that 400 chips...
 
Looking at the sample set, I'm still astounded that the font for "Bahia Principe" came out so clear that small. The print work is really quite impressive.
Also, the colors all look better to me IRL than in the photos, especially the pink of the .25 and green/teal on the $20.
 
Looking at the sample set, I'm still astounded that the font for "Bahia Principe" came out so clear that small. The print work is really quite impressive.
Also, the colors all look better to me IRL than in the photos, especially the pink of the .25 and green/teal on the $20.

Yes. TINA absolutely NAILED these chips. The production is far better than what people would expect.

Regarding the one color point some chippers are trying to fabricate a "controversy" over: When I have these chips in hand, I have absolutely ZERO belief anyone would have issue with the $1 blue chip vs. the $20 green chip. The color is much different, as well as the spot color design and colors. I'd have more concern over having a standard red $5 chip and green $25 chip with people who are color blind.
 

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