Recommendations for fully customisable chips (1 Viewer)

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Hi Guys would appreciate if anyone could share their experience with their favourite poker chips vendor etc. Would like to look around and see which are the best ones that suit my design.
 
I talked about all the different options here:
Yes, the Classic Poker Chips are expensive :(. Unfortunately this isn't a supply chain things but CPC chips are compression-clay chips that are very labour intensive. While they keep the process partially secret, it involves mixing the clay and aging it for several weeks, cutting the edgespots manually and inserting them into the chip, and then using a combination of heat and pressure to actually press the chip. They're also a smaller operation compared to Paulson/GPI, and so they have lead times of a year or more, depending on what mold you want. This is very much not a knock at CPC, I have CPCs that I LOVE, and am currently in the process of ordering more to expand my set. If you want completely completely-custom casino-quality chips, they're the only company that sells to the public.

However, if you are dead set on compression-clay chips, hope is not lost. A great way to get them in the $1/chip or less range is from @TheChipRoom. He's a member that buys up chips from defunct casinos and resells them here in quantity. However, since the prices are very fair and compression-clay chips are in high demand, they usually sell out in minutes. He usually has a sale every few months or so. Here's a link to the last one so you can get an idea: https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/black-friday-sale.81599/. They also get traded alot at the classifieds, and you can usually find $1 chips

Depending on your budget, here are some other options that will be cheaper than compression clay:
  • 0.60 - $1/chip - Semi-custom or completely custom ceramics from @ABC Gifts and Awards (https://brpropoker.com). They have some stock designs you can tweak, or you can get whatever you want printed on blank chips for a lead time of 3 weeks or so
  • ~0.50/chip - "China Clays" which are plastic chips with a more premium feel to metal-slugged "dice chips". A few good examples are Milanos, Pharoahs, Majestics, and Dune Tributes. I think all these and more are available off the shelf from @Apache (https://apachepokerchips.com). You can also get them blank to put your own labels on to customize
  • ~0.40 - $1/chip - Non-clay used casino chips. A few examples of these would be ChipCo ceramincs, Bud Jones roulette chips, and injection-molded plastic chips like Abiattis, Gemacos, B&Gs, etc. These pop up alot in the Classifieds section from other members, as well as form various site vendors like @Stas (https://www.pokerchipforum.com/forums/russian-casino-chips.109/).
  • ~0.35/chip - Chinese "Cards Mold" ceramics, which are custom ceramics ordered in bulk from Chinese manufacturers. While the chips are good and the price is great, the whole process takes about a year from start to finish, as it involves finding other people to get in on your buy to hit the 10,000 chip pricing structure, having everyone in the groupbuy find an artist and prepare the design files, waiting for the chips to be produced, waiting for the chips to be shipped to North America on a very slow boat (and incurring the pain of supply chain shipping issues), and waiting for a member to unpackage all the fregit, sort the chips out, and reship them all to the appropriate members. I've gotten a set, and I'd recommend it, it just requires patience.
  • ~0.30/chip - Stock ceramics, like sold at Apache Poker Chips and from various other sources online, like Nile Clubs or Scrolls
  • ~0.20/chip or less - Metal-slugged ABS plastic chips, like dice chips. I know most of these are sketchy, but there are a couple good options options like the Casino Royale tributes or to a lesser extend the Monte Carlo Poker Clubs

A couple more things to note when buying chips:
  • Definitely get samples, there's a huge variety in how chips feel, and it has a huge impact on the set. There are some samples that people lend out to new members for free, like these ones: https://www.pokerchipforum.com/thre...y-for-new-chippers-see-inside-for-rules.52550
  • There is no such thing as "official casino weight". Most casino chips nowadays are somewhere around 9g per chip, whereas the "official casino weight" chips you see online usually have a metal slug and are around 13g.
  • Most of the chips advertised online as "clay" aren't actually clay, they're mostly plastic. The only manufacturers of compression-clay chips are Paulson/GPI, and CPC/ASM, and some older defunct ones like BCC.
  • In addition to all the great info here, member @Chris Manzoni has a youtube channel where he shows his samples of chips, discusses how to form set breakdowns and starting stacks, etc. It's a great resource: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpOtRc3qrrEKXXV7jFAfgVQ
  • If you want China Clays or Ceramics and don't mind gently used, they pop up often in the Classifieds for very cheap or sometimes even free from members looking to upgrade to compression-clays
If you want customs that aren't "dice chips" or similar quality ABS slugged chips, your options are custom or semi-custom ceramics (either from BRPro or from China), custom labels on either blank china-clay chips or true-clay casino (or ex-casino) chips like Paulsons, or custom true-clay chips that can only realy be aquired from Classic Poker Chips.

I LOVE my CPC customs though. Just did an addon at $3-$5/chip plus shipping, and they should come this summer. I bought the base set third-hand, and have no regrets.
 
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Hi Guys would appreciate if anyone could share their experience with their favourite poker chips vendor etc. Would like to look around and see which are the best ones that suit my design.
what design idea do you have? some contribute better to ceramics, others to clays.
 

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