Custom Chipset for a Friend’s Birthday - Need Advice on Materials and Holographic Labels (1 Viewer)

[Kraken]

Hey everyone,

I’m working on a special birthday gift for a close friend who’s a regular at Casino de Montreal (CdM). He loves poker and blackjack, so I’m looking to create a custom chipset of around 500 pieces for our poker and blackjack nights with friends. I want to replicate the overall feel and colors of the chips from CdM, but I’ll be changing some details to make them more personal (like swapping out the city name with his own and adding details he loves without saturating the chip with too many designs).

As someone who’s really new to this world, I’m hoping to get some guidance on a couple of things:

1. Material: Does anyone know what material Casino de Montreal uses for their chips? I’m not looking to exactly replicate them, but I want to get as close as possible to that same high-quality feel.

2. Holographic Labels: I’ve noticed some CdM chips have holographic inlays, and I’m curious how that process works. Is it even feasible for a custom home set?

I’ve attached some pictures of the chips my friend has collected over the past few weeks if that helps. Any advice or direction would be appreciated!

Thanks in advance for the help!

 

[LeLe]

Those chips are Made by Bourgogne et Grasset (B&G), one of the highest casino grade plastic in my own opinion

 

[Colquhoun]

You may be able to have the outer chip replicated using a no-mold hybrid ceramic chip in one of the Broken Arrow monthly group buys, but as far as a holographic label? I haven’t seen them produced on the China chips (yet).

 

[allforcharity]

Hate to break it to you. Of the 4 main suppliers of high end casino grade plastic chips, only two sell to the public, Abbiati and Matsui. Their minimum order volumes are in the the thousands or tens of thousands of chips or else you incur crippling art fees. I don't even know if they have a holographic label equivalent, which would probably add a bit more to the cost.
Search Crowne Plaza and Park Place to get an example of past group buys the PCF membership participated in with Abbiati some years ago.

 

[Nymor]

Tina hybrid No Molds and a separately printed label would be the route I'd look at. Having the label printed separately opens up more potential supply for the holographic requirement. I don't know if @Gear label can help with that?

Do you have a budget and/or deadline?

 

[TX_Golf_N_Poker]

Tina hybrid No Molds and a separately printed label would be the route I'd look at. Having the label printed separately opens up more potential supply for the holographic requirement. I don't know if @Gear label can help with that?

Do you have a budget and/or deadline?

This is what I was wondering. If @Gear is able to produce holographic labels like that. I'd be very curious if he could.

 

[Santa123]

Hate to break it to you. Of the 4 main suppliers of high end casino grade plastic chips, only two sell to the public, Abbiati and Matsui. Their minimum order volumes are in the the thousands or tens of thousands of chips or else you incur crippling art fees. I don't even know if they have a holographic label equivalent, which would probably add a bit more to the cost.
Search Crowne Plaza and Park Place to get an example of past group buys the PCF membership participated in with Abbiati some years ago.

@Pinball can you share some information regarding Matsui pricing?
As far as I understood its not too expensive if you use denominations on the chip and use the same label design for all chips correct?

 

[Kraken]

Tina hybrid No Molds and a separately printed label would be the route I'd look at. Having the label printed separately opens up more potential supply for the holographic requirement. I don't know if @Gear label can help with that?

Do you have a budget and/or deadline?

I didn’t set any budget, I’d be interested to see what are my options. His birthday is on October 31st but I told him it will take some time before getting his gift ready. I have a clothing brand so I’m pretty familiar with the process of manufacturing oversea, but it looks like poker chips is a completely other game.

 

[buzzmonkey]

I didn’t set any budget, I’d be interested to see what are my options. His birthday is on October 31st but I told him it will take some time before getting his gift ready. I have a clothing brand so I’m pretty familiar with the process of manufacturing oversea, but it looks like poker chips is a completely other game.

You're probably looking months for delivery on most chips. You could do @BR Pro Poker custom ceramics in about 2-3 weeks, but they're very different texture than the CdM chips.

 

[Pinball]

@Pinball can you share some information regarding Matsui pricing?
As far as I understood its not too expensive if you use denominations on the chip and use the same label design for all chips correct?

The rang is sround $0.8 to $ 1.5 depending on how many colours and size of the chip. There is a 15% charge fir every denomination below 500. If you use the same inlay general costs are too high

 

[Pinball]

https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/matsui-black-diamond-ranch-set.121507/

 

[Colquhoun]

These replicas from China look interesting:
https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Luxury-Custom-Casino-Name-Poker-Chips_1600883115024.html

 

[LeLe]

These replicas from China look interesting:
https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Luxury-Custom-Casino-Name-Poker-Chips_1600883115024.html

You can try searching them under “Lange” in PCF

 

[Colquhoun]

You can try searching them under “Lange” in PCF

Ahh, I just happened upon them...didn't realize they were "known" here.
I guess I shouldn't be too surprised.

 

[Okku]

If you really wanted to get something similar to those and wanted to get the real thing I'd recommend trying to go with Matsui chips.

They have all the options to make similar style labels with security features, they can do the edge spots, the wording and everything else that you see similar to B&G. Those are nice chips and happy early birthday to your buddy!

 

[iLogik]

These are kinda holographic

 

[maxim_666666]

@Pinball can you share some information regarding Matsui pricing?
As far as I understood its not too expensive if you use denominations on the chip and use the same label design for all chips correct?

I thought so too...

Their fees, small batch tax (less than 500 chips) and hefty shipping costs (355€) added 38% to the total order. And all in Euros.
For a set of 1000 chips the price will be comparable to CPC...

 

[maxim_666666]

1, 5, 25, 100, 500 - 40mm
1000,5000 - 50mm
This is not an exact mockup, but I just wanted to understand how the prices are formed.

But Matsui's chips are actually amazing. Both in quality and feel.

 

[Santa123]

1, 5, 25, 100, 500 - 40mm
1000,5000 - 50mm
This is not an exact mockup, but I just wanted to understand how the prices are formed.
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But Matsui's chips are actually amazing. Both in quality and feel.

But they look damn sexy!