Hi All—I thought I'd share some pr0n of the set I've been working on for the last few months.
I fell in love with Poker and chips in high school. My basketball team used to travel around the West for tournaments and we used to play poker on our trips. Then, it got me wondering about nicer chips, cards, etc. Had a decent set of ceramic chips in high school from a Chiptalk group buy after I learned that there were chips out there other than dice chips. But, that was about as nice as it got. I remember always drooling over everyone's custom ASM sets and always thought I would get one when I was older.
Fast forward to today... I have some new family and friends that I play cards with and so I decided to once again look into some nicer chips. Found that Chiptalk was dead, and then made my way over here. After lurking in the classifieds for awhile I decided to approach @bostonjoe617 about his "Sandpiper" ASM chips. I liked these for a few reasons:
1. They have a very clean, "timeless", almost "vintage" look to them. Which is very much my style.
2. It was a significantly less expensive way to get a full set as a "stepping stone" to one day doing customs.
So, Joe made me a good deal and I took them. Below is what he sent me.
Breakdown:
76 x Gray 50c (hotstamped)
290 x $1
410 x $5
50 x $25
826 Chips total
So, next step for me was to add a quarter, and see if I could reasonable even out a rack of the gray 50c chips. I ended up picking up 40 blank gray chips from Spinettis to help finish the rack of 50c chips, although not hot stamped. Doesn't bother me much... I'm not sure when I'll really use the 50c chips, but its nice to have a full rack
Next, was adding a quarter. I worked with @Gear to get some HH mold pink chips with a matching label. We mostly play .25/.25 or .25/.50 so I really wanted a quarter that matched the set well.
Finally, I oiled them up just before Thanksgiving and had a few really fun games over the break with family and friends. We played a little .25/.25 NLHE and some Open Face Chinese for .25/point. Lots of fun.
New Breakdown:
120 x 25c
110 x 50c (hotstamped)
290 x $1
410 x $5
50 x $25
980 Chips total
Anyway, here is some pr0n of the oiled up, added to, and finished (for now) set. Enjoy!
I fell in love with Poker and chips in high school. My basketball team used to travel around the West for tournaments and we used to play poker on our trips. Then, it got me wondering about nicer chips, cards, etc. Had a decent set of ceramic chips in high school from a Chiptalk group buy after I learned that there were chips out there other than dice chips. But, that was about as nice as it got. I remember always drooling over everyone's custom ASM sets and always thought I would get one when I was older.
Fast forward to today... I have some new family and friends that I play cards with and so I decided to once again look into some nicer chips. Found that Chiptalk was dead, and then made my way over here. After lurking in the classifieds for awhile I decided to approach @bostonjoe617 about his "Sandpiper" ASM chips. I liked these for a few reasons:
1. They have a very clean, "timeless", almost "vintage" look to them. Which is very much my style.
2. It was a significantly less expensive way to get a full set as a "stepping stone" to one day doing customs.
So, Joe made me a good deal and I took them. Below is what he sent me.
Breakdown:
76 x Gray 50c (hotstamped)
290 x $1
410 x $5
50 x $25
826 Chips total
So, next step for me was to add a quarter, and see if I could reasonable even out a rack of the gray 50c chips. I ended up picking up 40 blank gray chips from Spinettis to help finish the rack of 50c chips, although not hot stamped. Doesn't bother me much... I'm not sure when I'll really use the 50c chips, but its nice to have a full rack
Next, was adding a quarter. I worked with @Gear to get some HH mold pink chips with a matching label. We mostly play .25/.25 or .25/.50 so I really wanted a quarter that matched the set well.
Finally, I oiled them up just before Thanksgiving and had a few really fun games over the break with family and friends. We played a little .25/.25 NLHE and some Open Face Chinese for .25/point. Lots of fun.
New Breakdown:
120 x 25c
110 x 50c (hotstamped)
290 x $1
410 x $5
50 x $25
980 Chips total
Anyway, here is some pr0n of the oiled up, added to, and finished (for now) set. Enjoy!
