The fracs are Rivers Casino Schenectady $1s. They were harvested by a good friend as the casino was opening their doors on opening night so as close to mint as one would get.
Great design @ChaosRock! Two potential suggestions on the inlay:
On the "swampy" side, the inlay has either graphics or color fade everywhere except the upper right portion, so it feels a little empty in that spot and off balance. Considering the other inlay side has the denom, maybe consider removing the denomination from this side to help balance the design a bit more. Or maybe move the denomination to that upper right corner, shift the Jim Kelley's Nugget text down a bit and remove the location from this side.
Then on the inlay side with no graphic, I'd just recommend edging the denomination font with a black line to make it easier to read and make the denominations a tad larger.
All just my 2¢!
Totally agree with you, man. It does seem a bit empty on the upper right side on the Swampy inlay. However, that's how the original chip is. I matched all the other inlays to the original, since I'm keeping all the 7 racks of the original $5s intact. Having said that, I can always change the labels on all the chips (but the $5s), possibly. IT won't match the $5s but it might not be a big deal.
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Regarding the outline on the back inlay, that is vermin possible, and I had already thought about it. Again, the $5s do not have any outline so I wanted to match that. I'll definitely try the outline here though.
First up: I think the design looks great!
As far as tweaking, the Swampy-side inlay does have a bit of a jarring blank white space on the upper right. My suggestion would be to move a couple of the cards that are in the air (specifically the heart and the club) further to the upper right, so that all the cards in a row somewhat follow the curve of the inlay. Then, I think you'll have plenty of white space to move the text up a bit, maybe even expand the size, and then also increase the size of the denom.
Totally agree with you, man. It does seem a bit empty on the upper right side on the Swampy inlay. However, that's how the original chip is. I matched all the other inlays to the original, since I'm keeping all the 7 racks of the original $5s intact. Having said that, I can always change the labels on all the chips (but the $5s), possibly. IT won't match the $5s but it might not be a big deal.
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Regarding the outline on the back inlay, that is very possible, and I had already thought about it. Again, the $5s do not have any outline so I wanted to match that. I'll definitely try the outline here though.
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Agreed! @Irish had the same comment. Here's my response to him in case you missed it:
Great choice P
Does look great, I like a label over on an RHC chip. I think the key to a good label over is having a whitish colour label, so you can't see the underneath sticky edge, like you would with a darker label.