First Custom Set (1 Viewer)

[Ched44]

Thanks to those who answered

my questions the other day in the Newbie thread in the other sub forum. I have a better idea of what I'm after now. So I've started getting the outline for my design.

Just for background, the game I am making these chips for is a 10p/20p cash game. We usually have 8 players playing, mostly starting with £20 stacks. Occasionally some players buy in for £40 at the start. The game can grow fairly big compared to the blinds with people ending up being in for £60-£80 regularly.

The breakdown I have initially decided on is...

10p - 350
50p - 100
£1 - 100
£5 - 50

After looking through the forum and seeing Phantom's Blades set and watching a lot of Poker After Dark, I have near enough decided on the 10p and 50p chip with the below designs.

Then for the 50p, the flag.

The inlay shown is an old inlay I had made around 4 years ago when I first thought about doing this, I just put in on for the time being so it wasn't blank. I'm unsure on my inlay at this time, the likelihood is this will be a shared set between two houses that host the game, so I might need help with the inlay, I know some people have mentioned that there are people who may be able to assist with this?

As for the 50p and the £1, I'm open to any suggestions you guys may have. The below are the first ideas I have had after having a look through my samples. But I think the DG chips have an extra surcharge for being used as the main colour?

£5

Is it unusual to have the higher amount of spots on the lower denom chips? I have done this because they are the most active chips in the game and I wanted them to be on show as much of the time as possible. I also feel like these stack well and look awesome.

Any suggestions welcome, especially on the £1 and £5 chips.

Thank you.

 

[trever]

Value each chip in the opposite order to what you have now. Eg make the 5 your 10p chip, etc

 

[Krony]

Looking what you have atm i would make the 50p chip the £5 chip if you weren't bothered about following any standard base colour rules.

changed the blue spot for DG Peacock as it's awesome.

 

[chipjoker]

Edge spot progression is very important to a lot of people around here, I say make your favorite chip the one you will use all the time and go from there.
The most important is that you like the chips..
my set was made around my $1 chip and I picked what I liked with a bit of spot progression: https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/notes-from-the-music-shack.16231/

Let me know if you want any help on graphics or anything else, but there is a lot of great designers on this site...

Have fun.

A lot of people like lots of chips on the table, however a nice happy medium could look like this:

100 - 10p
130 - 50p
120 - £1
50 - £5

You could add higher denoms for rebuys..

I do a .25/.50 game once a moth for the last 5ish years and we have people buy in for $100 my min breakdown was this (worked really well)
bare min.

100 - $.25
100 - $1
100 - $5
20 - $20 (25)
10 - $100

I now like this breakdown for my large game:
100 - $.25
120 - $1
130 - $5
40 - $20 (25)
10 - $100

When I made my custom set I endded up doing this incase I run 2 table cash game
200 - $.10
200 - $.25
200 - $1
200 - $5
100 - $20 (25)
40 - $100

 

[kmccormick100]

Updated spots for better accuracy in my opinion, I like this progression. Ship it.

 

[crussader]

Chips are looking good. Breakdown needs some work. There is no way you need 350 of the lowest denomination chip. Really don't need any more than 10 per player of a 10p chip.

 

[Krony]

 

[Kain8]

Ooo, I quite like the red chip, different edge spots than you usually see.

 

[crussader]

Is it unusual to have the higher amount of spots on the lower denom chips? I have done this because they are the most active chips in the game and I wanted them to be on show as much of the time as possible.

It is somewhat unusual to have the higher level spots on the lower denominations, but plenty of people (including me) do it for exactly the reason you stated. You just have to be aware of how big of an impact that will make on the overall cost of the set.

 

[Ched44]

Edge spot progression is very important to a lot of people around here, I say make your favorite chip the one you will use all the time and go from there.
The most important is that you like the chips..
my set was made around my $1 chip and I picked what I liked with a bit of spot progression: https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/notes-from-the-music-shack.16231/

Let me know if you want any help on graphics or anything else, but there is a lot of great designers on this site...

Have fun.

A lot of people like lots of chips on the table, however a nice happy medium could look like this:

100 - 10p
130 - 50p
120 - £1
50 - £5

You could add higher denoms for rebuys..

I do a .25/.50 game once a moth for the last 5ish years and we have people buy in for $100 my min breakdown was this (worked really well)
bare min.

100 - $.25
100 - $1
100 - $5
20 - $20 (25)
10 - $100

I now like this breakdown for my large game:
100 - $.25
120 - $1
130 - $5
40 - $20 (25)
10 - $100

When I made my custom set I endded up doing this incase I run 2 table cash game
200 - $.10
200 - $.25
200 - $1
200 - $5
100 - $20 (25)
40 - $100

I may need some help on graphics. Do most people go with a black background for the inlay as opposed to a white? Or does it depend on the chip colour?

Updated spots for better accuracy in my opinion, I like this progression. Ship it.
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Really like that first chip, really pops.

Also really like that last chip with the Mandarin Red.

It is somewhat unusual to have the higher level spots on the lower denominations, but plenty of people (including me) do it for exactly the reason you stated. You just have to be aware of how big of an impact that will make on the overall cost of the set.

Yeah the cost is quite different if I go that way, I'm just thinking about the chip that is most in play looking the best. But some of these designs are making me think twice now.

 

[Krony]

Also really like that last chip with the Mandarin Red.

Only problem with that spot pattern is it's level 8 which increases the cost quite a bit depending on how many you would be getting.

 

[crussader]

... The game can grow fairly big compared to the blinds with people ending up being in for £60-£80 regularly.

If you have a big night and 8 people wind up putting in £60, that's £480 in play. However, your proposed breakdown only has £435 in total bank. That's a problem. With only 500 chips instead of 600 (saving you some money) you can build a set that will let 10 people buy in at £40 each with 3 re-buys available for each player with the following breakdown:

Use starting stacks of

10 x 10p
8 x 50p
15 x £1
4 x £5

(If a player wants to buy in for £20, just leave out the £5 chips)

Making 3 re-buys per player is 30 re-buys. For the first ten, give out 8 x £5. For the remaining re-buys give out two £20 chips.

Adding all that up for ten players gives you

100 x 10p
80 x 50p
160 x £1
120 x £5
40 x £20

This will give more than enough for your current game with plenty of room for growth. It has the added bonus of letting you add another level of chip to the set.

 

[chipjoker]

I may need some help on graphics. Do most people go with a black background for the inlay as opposed to a white? Or does it depend on the chip colour?

This depends really depends on your design and what you want.. I would say most have a mainly white label, althogh, latlely more black labels have been created. Again this depends on what you like and the graphics and words you use. We can make your graphics work on either..

For black labels, look up
Black Cat: https://www.pokerchipforum.com/media/group-shot-2-black-cat.10966/
Metronome:https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/the-metronome.20836/
Copperhead has black and white
The Signal
Colony Club
Bourbon Basement
Krony's Card Room Just to name a few

 

[Krony]

Some Mandarin Red Pr0n to wet your appetite

 

[Toby]

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Did someone say "Mandarin red" / "black inlays"?

 

[Toby]

Check out the Resources for some examples of some strong custom designs:

https://www.pokerchipforum.com/resources/

Also, check out the designs in the 'gone but not forgotten' thread - some super awesome sets in there:

https://www.pokerchipforum.com/thre...en-pr0n-now-with-pr0n-of-over-200-sets.13031/

...and not forgetting the pr0n threads

https://www.pokerchipforum.com/forums/poker-chip-pron.36/

Some great places to get ideas/inspiration