also, I'd like to bring up something. First of all, If I ever meet Woody in person, I'll buy him a steak at whatever steakhouse he wants. XD!
I've stated earlier that most of my friends aren't chip collectors. They're people that listen to heavy metal and talk about sexy celebrities from time to time. Honestly, I can assure you with 99.9% certainty we'd rather talk about topless girls in a pool than poker chip molds, if we do play, it'll be low stakes, maybe a $20 game or so. Hell, my friends would talk about game shows before they talked about poker chip styles. TBH I would bore my friends inside of five minutes if I talked about chip molds or inlays.
I even showed them the holy grail of chips and it was my friend Sierra that said it looked like something out of the '70s, while most of my other friends said it looked like every other chip they had ever seen. Yet I've been showing them these mockups and the praise is
universal. Also, I am extremely young at heart. I don't derive joy from making a ton of money or talking about glory days of anything. (to be honest, I find people who do that make themselves old prematurely)
When I started with the idea for this set, that was my goal, basically to have a 20-year old look at the set of chips and say "I gotta get me one of those". This has happened before with the Wicked Spades and the Dia De Los Muertos where one of my friends who is about that age openly said exactly that "Those chip sets will do the trick". With me already owning two sets of ABC ceramics, I wanted to expand to another product line, hence the Sunfly's. Matter of fact, like I stated previously, I picked up a sample set of the WS and when I brought them to a poker game, a girl who was 26 got so into them that she made me promise to buy an entire set and bring it to the poker game instead of the Desert Palace chips my sister-in-law was using for the game. She even literally said to me at the end of the night "You're gonna bring those wicked spades, right?". So that's how my journey truly started going into high gear with chip collecting.
TL;DR: I think Woody has done the impossible and struck a balance between the younger people that enjoy flashy and modern style chips and the traditionalists that collect chips. I will be taking sample set orders. Just so everyone knows, both
@p5woody and
@timinater will be receiving sample sets for free, the former for absolutely crushing this design and it being even cooler than I imagined (I probably will give 2 or 3 sample sets because of the exceptional job he has done), and the latter because he had planned to take the idea when Covid-19 made his backlog massive, I figured I will be nice to him for even entertaining my idea and he will get a free sample set.
For everyone else, I will be taking sample set orders once this is complete, and once I find out the price on them, I will take quotes.