Half-pie: what denom? (1 Viewer)

[binoclard]

Hi,

I think I need to have a half-pie in my future custom dream set. They are almost always insanely cool. Love the face, and the stack effect.

So, what do you think is the best place in a 5 chips line-up to have a half-pie?

.25: I like the idea of making the half-pie the small blind, as it is half a blind. Problem is, I absolutely love other one-spot patterns that I need to have as frac…

1: That could work well with a one-spot pattern frac, simple but cool workhose

5: Middle of the set, good visual separation between frac and 1, and more complicated denom

20: Mmmh… half-pie as 20, and then quarter-pie as 100?

100: As The Bold Big Denom Chip…

Curious about your thoughts, thanks

 

[OfficerLovejoy]

The obvious answer that is not represented in the poll:
.50

Half-pie = half a dollar

Just like the quarter pie makes a good quarter.

 

[mattross1313]

Just like the quarter pie makes a good quarter.

 

[mipevi]

Personally I think the most interesting aspect of CPC half-pies is the dovetail joint in the middle. Inlays cover it, so I'd pass on the half-pie unless it was hotstamped. That means I'm voting for frac.

 

[binoclard]

The obvious answer that is not represented in the poll:
.50

Half-pie = half a dollar

Just like the quarter pie makes a good quarter.

Yeah… I know. But I do not need a .50 chip. My psycho-rigid tendencies make me consider the quarter-pie as .25, but I think that if I have to choose, I would prefer the look of the half-pie.

And I console myself with the "half-pie = half bb" half bullshit argument to use it as frac

I'll eventually post mockups, but I do have a WIP set with the half-pie as the 5, that works quite well as a bold middle of the set separation between the lower and upper denoms.

 

[chippitydoodah]

The obvious answer that is not represented in the poll:
.50

Half-pie = half a dollar

Just like the quarter pie makes a good quarter.

I agree and yet the quarter pie has 4 sections and half pie has 2.
4 is greater than 2 so half pie as .25 and quarter pie as .50.
It's an OCD Catch 22.

 

[MeridianFC]

Depends. What do the other chips in the set look like?

 

[binoclard]

Don't know yet. Depends. Where does the half-pie go?

So. Many. Cool. Options. I need to open a business that sells custom sets to rich chippers, so I could make them without having to worry about my hypothetical future pension fund.

 

[warma]

Personally I think the most interesting aspect of CPC half-pies is the dovetail joint in the middle. Inlays cover it, so I'd pass on the half-pie unless it was hotstamped. That means I'm voting for frac.

I toyed with a half-pie hotstamp. The dovetail joint can present a problem when stamping if the alignment and colors don’t work out favorably. I was 80% pleased, but in the end, it didn’t do it for me.

As for half-pie with inlays, call me a fan.

I used it in my non-denom limit set. In a cash set, half-pies usually work best as a frac, but there are some amazing vintage examples of higher denoms. All depends on how you use them.

 

[upNdown]

The obvious answer that is not represented in the poll:
.50

Half-pie = half a dollar

Just like the quarter pie makes a good quarter.

This is correct. It is unfortunate that half-dollars are the worst chip. Quarters for life!!

 

[joeyshin]

for microstakes....nickels like Dunes Matchplay

 

[binoclard]

I toyed with a half-pie hotstamp. The dovetail joint can present a problem when stamping if the alignment and colors don’t work out favorably. I was 80% pleased, but in the end, it didn’t do it for me.

As for half-pie with inlays, call me a fan.
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I used it in my non-denom limit set. In a cash set, half-pies usually work best as a frac, but there are some amazing vintage examples of higher denoms. All depends on how you use them.

Gorgeous. Super fan of your inlay.

That's my solution: a limit set. I have been wanting to go back to Stud anyway…

 

[binoclard]

So… vast majority for the 0.25 so far. I'll have to ponder if I go with the popular opinion, and thus push my "one-spot" pattern chip as the 1. And trash my super nice Blue 418+. Or use is as the 5. But Blue 5 is weird.

Honestly, I had not imagined for a second that designing a nice poker chip set could be so challenging. Granted, I tend to overthink these kind of things, but still. So cool and interesting, and the more I dig, the more I learn, the more interesting it is. And I have just scratched the obvious surface.

 

[warma]

Hahaha… that’s the challenge!

Think $5 can’t be blue? Think again…

Those are just some of the land based casinos, never mind the card clubs in California and elsewhere.

 

[MeridianFC]

there are some amazing vintage examples of higher denoms. All depends on how you use them.

True dat. Borlands have always burned into my mind that 1/4 and 1/2 pie were high denom chips.

 

[binoclard]

Lol… moral of the story, it seems that both regarding colours and spots, there are "traditions" and "rules", and as much examples of great exceptions. Noted. My set, my rules.

 

[svickn]

Proud member of the half pie frac club!

 

[BPTDirector]

I couldn’t decide so built a small tourney set. I have used both for cash fracs, .25 quarter pie and .50 half pie