I have spent way too long agonizing over this dilemma and would like some feedback from other chippers.
If you're unfamiliar with the Parkers chips, they are Bud JonesS/S2 V6/V6N chips . I love them:
I bought Pat's (@AK Chip) microstakes limit set as an incomplete relabel project: 800 $3 browns plus labels to make them all quarters, and 200x naked yellows plus labels to make them all fives. Then added a ninth rack of browns. The labels are @Gear replicas of the originals, and very well done (duh!).
The browns are now nearly all relabeled, but as I was about the begin the yellows, I had an idea to expand the set to a flexible limit / no-limit set and adjust the remaining denomination colors. Completing the limit side of things is the priority; I can build up the no-limit side at leisure. But must decide now which path to follow.
With the holidays coming up, I'm a little **ahem** over-budget on chip purchases (YES, that's a thing!) and hadn't planned investing much further into this set. On the other hand, I don't want to shortchange the opportunity to assemble a superior set.... if it is.
Option A (original plan):
> immediately relabel 200x yellows as $5 ($0)
+ in future add 100x browns relabeled to 25c (~$80)
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= immediate limit set @ $0 .... 900x 25c brown / 200x $5 yellow
= future limit set @ $80 .... 1000x 25c brown / 200x $5 yellow
~OR~
Option B (revised plan):
+ find and add 200x $5 red unaltered (~$100)
+ in future add 100x browns relabeled to 25c (~$80)
+ in future add 200x $1 blue unaltered (~$100)
> in future relabel 100x yellows to 5c ($30)
- sell or trade 100x yellows (~$40 back)
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= nearly immediate limit set @ $100 .... 900x 25c brown / 200x $5 red
= future limit set @ $180 .... 1000x 25c brown / 200x $5 red
= future no limit set @ $270 .... 100x 5c yellow / 200x+ 25c brown / 200x $1 blue / 200x $5 red
Factors favoring Option A:
> easier/quicker/cheaper/ready to go
> The $5 labels won't go to waste (can't imagine much demand for them)
> I have red felt so the brown/yellow contrasts nicely against the table
> I love me some yellow $5s
> I have three other no limit sets ready or nearly ready to play
> yellow to brown progression of 5c to 25c in Option B no limit set "feels" backwards
> 1200 chip storage solution is ready to go
> 1500 chip set does not play well with my preferred pelican and/or birdcage storage
Factors favoring Option B:
> brown and reds have better contrast with each other than brown and yellow, for the limit set
> MOAR CHIPES!
> flexibility is pretty cool
If you're unfamiliar with the Parkers chips, they are Bud Jones
I bought Pat's (@AK Chip) microstakes limit set as an incomplete relabel project: 800 $3 browns plus labels to make them all quarters, and 200x naked yellows plus labels to make them all fives. Then added a ninth rack of browns. The labels are @Gear replicas of the originals, and very well done (duh!).
The browns are now nearly all relabeled, but as I was about the begin the yellows, I had an idea to expand the set to a flexible limit / no-limit set and adjust the remaining denomination colors. Completing the limit side of things is the priority; I can build up the no-limit side at leisure. But must decide now which path to follow.
With the holidays coming up, I'm a little **ahem** over-budget on chip purchases (YES, that's a thing!) and hadn't planned investing much further into this set. On the other hand, I don't want to shortchange the opportunity to assemble a superior set.... if it is.
Option A (original plan):
> immediately relabel 200x yellows as $5 ($0)
+ in future add 100x browns relabeled to 25c (~$80)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
= immediate limit set @ $0 .... 900x 25c brown / 200x $5 yellow
= future limit set @ $80 .... 1000x 25c brown / 200x $5 yellow
~OR~
Option B (revised plan):
+ find and add 200x $5 red unaltered (~$100)
+ in future add 100x browns relabeled to 25c (~$80)
+ in future add 200x $1 blue unaltered (~$100)
> in future relabel 100x yellows to 5c ($30)
- sell or trade 100x yellows (~$40 back)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
= nearly immediate limit set @ $100 .... 900x 25c brown / 200x $5 red
= future limit set @ $180 .... 1000x 25c brown / 200x $5 red
= future no limit set @ $270 .... 100x 5c yellow / 200x+ 25c brown / 200x $1 blue / 200x $5 red
Factors favoring Option A:
> easier/quicker/cheaper/ready to go
> The $5 labels won't go to waste (can't imagine much demand for them)
> I have red felt so the brown/yellow contrasts nicely against the table
> I love me some yellow $5s
> I have three other no limit sets ready or nearly ready to play
> yellow to brown progression of 5c to 25c in Option B no limit set "feels" backwards
> 1200 chip storage solution is ready to go
> 1500 chip set does not play well with my preferred pelican and/or birdcage storage
Factors favoring Option B:
> brown and reds have better contrast with each other than brown and yellow, for the limit set
> MOAR CHIPES!
> flexibility is pretty cool
"What to do ..... ?"
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I'll let you work out the math.
