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Folks, I'm about to pull the trigger on my second CPC project.
Granted, this one certainly is less imaginative than my first set, the Matrix-inspired Club Hel (link: see signature), but nonetheless I'm thrilled to have these made.
Some of you will hate to read this again, but the design is final. There will be some minor finishing touches like slight color adjustments to match the chip base colors as closely as possible, but that's about it.
This has been in the works since March - which is much less time than Club Hel took me, but on the other hand I've drawn a lot of inspiration from other chips with this set which saved me some lengthy refining work. Zero shame here; why pick some totally weird random colors to be individualistic just for individualism's sake when there already are some truly awesome combinations out there? And as they say... imitation is the highest form of flattery.
The name/logo is as generic as can be; there's no deeper meaning in it. It's all about the colors and inlay style.
Motivation
I wanted a second set of cash chips, mainly to have a bright and happy contrast set to the very dark, tech-y, depressing look of the Club Hel chips. What would serve this purpose better than Cali colors?
Design
The Horseshoe Cleveland/Cincinnati designs have already been a personal favorite, and it turns out that they apparently hired the same designer for the new JACK chips. I'm a sucker for black inlays, and I don't mind faux shaped inlays if done well (they screwed that up with both casinos' new $100s though). When I saw the new Cincinnati $2 chip, first thing I thought was this would make an awesome $1 in a Cali set.
This was point zero. I have then taken close or a bit less close inspiration of three more JACKs: the snapper (Cincinnati snapper), the 5¢ (Cincinnati $5) and the $100 (Cincinnati $1). The quarter is heavily inspired by the Crystal Park $3 secondary, the $25 by the primary Horseshoe Cleveland $25,000 and the $5 by @72o's Knollwoods $5 - not consciously though, as the similarity only struck me when I randomly checked out his set again after I already received my manufactured chips; never actively thought about it during the design phase. For the denomination label on the snapper, I borrowed from Aurora Star instead of sticking to the JACK/Horseshoe layout because it looked so much nicer to me.
The $25 is the chip I am particularly proud of. Yes, despite the fact that it's not a fully original design, just like the other denoms in the set - because I found a way to put a beautiful rainbow spot on a denomination that should actually see some meaningful time on the felt, and in a way that actually looks classy and fits the rest of the lineup very well. (Even if used as a tournament set, getting the original Horseshoe $25,000 in play would require either a large amount of players, or starting stacks so big that 25/50 level one blinds would no longer make any sense - and in both cases it'd only be visible for a short time towards the end of the tournament.)
I have learned from my mistake with the Club Hel inlay design and brightened up the purple colored denomination label on the $25 way more than I did with the $500 Club Hel chip to ensure the actual print won't get too dark. Also, since the overall design is basically a 1:1 copy of the JACK chips, legibility of the denomination labels even for wearers of glasses should be ensured already - and then, even if that doesn't quite work out for some people, the chip base colors are much brighter and hence easier to tell apart.
Size
The set will cover one table for NL games. I've started with the popular 800 chip cash breakdown (100x25¢, 200x$1, 400x$5, 80x$25, 20x$100) and then added some extras to bump it up to 1000 chips. Sort of last-minute I decided to bolster the set even further, so this is what I'm going to get now:
- 5¢ x 200
- 25¢ x 200
- $1 x 220
- $5 x 400
- $25 x 200
- $100 x 60
Samples - Original set
I don't expect too much interest in this given the low degree of originality, but offering anyway for collectors. (Edit: Oh well... obviously I heavily underestimated it. Nine people in less than 24 hours - wow!)
Sample orders were open until May 10th, 2018, and are closed now.
There will be no separate marked chips this time.
A full 7 chip sample set is €18, shipping not included.
Shipping is €3.70 international untracked plus €0.50 for the bubblewrap envelope. Add €2.50 if you want tracking. Fellow German chippers: national shipping is €1.45 untracked; optionally +€2.15 for tracking.
=> Germany tracked: €22.10 / untracked: €19.95
=> Rest of world tracked: €24.70 / untracked: €22.20
Orders:
- @superchromix | paid
- @v1pe | paid
- @Outkicked | paid
- @ThinkingFold | paid
- @Forty4 | paid
- @Psypher1000 | paid
- @mabel.5 | paid
- @ejot | paid
- @tiltedfish | paid
- @Jeff | paid
- @krafticus | paid
- @ka1spade | paid
- @arch3r | paid
- @RowdyRawhide | paid
- @RichMahogany | paid
- @cookiemonster | paid
First Add-on - January 2019
There was no $500 chip in the first run. I had designed one, but that was about it at the time. I ordered an add-on that was delivered in summer 2019 in which I included a bunch of $500s. Main motivation for the add-on was to bump the number of $1s. No samples were offered, and I only ordered a minimal number of extras for myself.
- $1 x 80 (total 300)
- $100 x 80 (total 140)
- $500 x 60
Second Add-on - October 2020 (new 1¢ and revised 5¢)
Over time I realized the spot pattern for the 5¢ was suboptimal because I reused an x14 type spot in two adjacent denominations. While this was fine as long as there was halfway proper lighting, it became hard to tell the 5¢ and 25¢ apart in darkness/under UV light because, effectively stripped of colors, the shapes on the rolling edges were very hard to tell apart.
The 1¢ chip is mostly for fun. Edge spot pattern on rolling edge is unfortunately very similar to the $1, so it appears that I'm repeating the mistake from my 5¢. However I really wanted a tri-moon spotted chip. The only real alternative pattern in this regard would have been a 3A18 and that doesn't look remotely as nice. Plus, I can simply use snappers instead of $1s for the value chip in such micro games. There will be more than enough quarters in the game to ensure the bank can always make change for a single snapper.
- 1¢ x 100
- 5¢ V2 x 200, complete replacement - might use both designs at the same time though on 1¢/2¢ and perhaps also 2¢/5¢.
Samples - Second Add-on
Rien Ne Va Plus!
Deadline was Saturday 17th October 23:59 UTC+2.
Chips are estimated to be made late spring/early summer 2021.
Orders:
- @BarrieJ3 | paid (ships to @arch3r)
- @davislane | paid
- @Phish1321 | paid
- @arch3r | paid
- @Forty4 | paid
- @superchromix | paid
- @Ben8257 | paid (ships to @arch3r)
- @mnebesny | paid
- @Jeff | paid
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