...and looking for input. I am planning on using this thread for all ideas, thoughts, mock ups, etc throughout the process and I am not in any rush... it could end up being a year or more before I order.
Of note, they will be done by CPC on the FDL mold and J5 is going to be handling the inlay design.
Of further note, it will be a cash set in Cali colors using denoms .25 OR .50, $1, $5, $20, $100. I may wait on the hundos for a future add-on because I will have no use for them what-so-ever. It is 100 minimum per chip ordered right?
I have not even begun to seriously break down colors/spots, right now I am just looking for a name so J5 can start whenever he finds some time and it is on this front that I am looking for input.
When I first contacted J5 I mentioned I was toying with a mountain theme and playing around with the names Summit or Switchback because I love hiking and would rather be standing on top of a mountain than anywhere else at any given time but now am considering personalizing them a bit more (to be clear he has not yet started working on my project). I have one of those last names that, as a guy, just "becomes" your only name. My entire life 90% of people I know never use my first name and I guarantee half the people I knew in my seven years in Vegas couldn't tell you my first name if they had a gun to their head... I've always just been Fink and it's occurred to me this could look good on a poker chip. Fink's Poker Room? Fink's Cardroom? Rat Fink something-or-other (not a big rat fink fan but who knows).
Logically it seems my best option may be to use the name and still keep the mountains theme but I've been driving myself nutty the last few days over this and figured I would ask for a clear perspective. Thoughts?
Of note, they will be done by CPC on the FDL mold and J5 is going to be handling the inlay design.
Of further note, it will be a cash set in Cali colors using denoms .25 OR .50, $1, $5, $20, $100. I may wait on the hundos for a future add-on because I will have no use for them what-so-ever. It is 100 minimum per chip ordered right?
I have not even begun to seriously break down colors/spots, right now I am just looking for a name so J5 can start whenever he finds some time and it is on this front that I am looking for input.
When I first contacted J5 I mentioned I was toying with a mountain theme and playing around with the names Summit or Switchback because I love hiking and would rather be standing on top of a mountain than anywhere else at any given time but now am considering personalizing them a bit more (to be clear he has not yet started working on my project). I have one of those last names that, as a guy, just "becomes" your only name. My entire life 90% of people I know never use my first name and I guarantee half the people I knew in my seven years in Vegas couldn't tell you my first name if they had a gun to their head... I've always just been Fink and it's occurred to me this could look good on a poker chip. Fink's Poker Room? Fink's Cardroom? Rat Fink something-or-other (not a big rat fink fan but who knows).
Logically it seems my best option may be to use the name and still keep the mountains theme but I've been driving myself nutty the last few days over this and figured I would ask for a clear perspective. Thoughts?