Welcome to Story Hill (CPC) (1 Viewer)

Welcome to the Neighborhood!

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Background
I am beyond excited to publicly reveal how far down the rabbit hole I have fallen in two short years on this site. Like many of you here, I quickly fell in love with the idea of making a CPC custom set, and today I am thrilled to show off this set that I am so proud of. I wanted a theme that was meaningful to me and arrived at the idea of making a set based on the neighborhood that I grew up in and then, many years later, bought my first home with my wife.

I grew up in a wonderful little neighborhood called Story Hill. Not too far from downtown Milwaukee and a short walk down the hill to Miller Park (then County Stadium) where the Brewers play, the neighborhood is filled with charm. The neighborhood is known for its variety of houses that have so much character - many of which are Tudor style and feel like they could be in a storybook. The hand drawn font of Story Hill on the chips aims to mimic a storybook flair.

This set depicts a drawing of my childhood home on one side and a drawing of the first home my wife and I bought as newlyweds on the other side. I wanted the drawings to be cohesive in style, but uniquely capture the charm of each of the two houses.

The Set
I originally was thinking a traditional cash set. But my game tends to be very very small potatoes with friends and family. We would likely only use fracs and $1 chips and maybe crack into $5 chips if we were feeling wild. That obviously limits the functionality and usefulness of the higher denom chips. But a 3 chip set is boring! So I decided to make a 7 chip set that could be used for cash, a T5 base 2-table tourney, and a T25 base single table tourney. Obviously a cash game and a tourney would not be held on the same night, and I know the risks. I know there are strong opinions on this, but knowing how my games work and our usual stakes, I was comfortable with it and allowed me to make a larger set that we could use a variety of chips.

Breakdown (1,200 chips):
$0.25 x 200
$1 x 300
$5 x 200
$25 x 140
$100 x 160
$500 x 80
$1000 x 120

The Chips
There was one chip that I had my heart set on - a Marquette University themed $1. This would be our workhorse chip and I love the navy, baby blue, and yellow combination. The other thing I wanted to include was a classic hub shaped $5. I have collected several singles of different casino red $5 chips with the hub inlay. I think I achieved that classic hub red $5. The rest of the chips I played around with for over a year to find a set that in my opinion was cohesive and had good edge spot progression. Thanks to @Irish and @72o for being a sounding board throughout the process.

Samples?
I chose not to do a full blown sample set thread. Sorry in advance to those that may be interested. I ordered a few extras that I might find ways to give out in the future. But, you do currently have 4 ways that you can try to get a sample set if you'd like one.

1) I will be doing a sitewide free giveaway through Tommy - https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/story-hill-sample-set.64903/#post-1287558
2) I will be giving away a set in a Masters (golf) giveaway this week - https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/story-hill-giveaway-masters-edition.64913/#post-1287569
3) I will be doing a charity auction for a sample set - https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/story-hill-sample-set-charity-auction.65149/
4) I would trade a set for @72o 's Knollwoods sample set FOUND! and/or @RainmanTrail 's Lucky Buddha sample set FOUND!

The pr0n!
Now what you've really wanted to see! Sorry to keep you waiting. Without further ado - Welcome to Story Hill!
(Note: for the individual chip stacks, the stack on the left is chalky from the factory and the stack on the right has been oiled so people can see the difference in color)

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$0.25
Bright White / Light Green / Imperial Blue
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$1
Retro Blue / Bright White / Canary / Dayglo Peacock
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$5
Mandarin Red / Dayglo Pink / Light Blue

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$25
Dayglo Green / Black / Bright White
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$100
Black / Dayglo Yellow/ Light Blue
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$500
Retro Lavender / Dayglo Arc Yellow / Dayglo Tiger / Blurple
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$1000
Dayglo Peach / Dayglo Peacock / Retro Blue
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Traditional Cash Game Set
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T5 Base 2-Table Tournament Set
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T25 Base Single Table Tournament Set
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Where/by who did you have these fantastic chips made?
Link?
Looking to design my own cashgame chips for my local pokerclub in Copenhagen
 
Incredible!

Beautiful inlay, superb color choices. And a wonderful backstory to boot!

A unique idea, perfectly executed. Congratulations!

This is all that is best about the PCF community.
 
Where/by who did you have these fantastic chips made?
Link?
Looking to design my own cashgame chips for my local pokerclub in Copenhagen
Classic Poker Chips

Here is the link to the design tool:
http://www.pokerchipdesigntool.com/

Apologies in advance for all of your lost time spent playing with the design tool and potentially your much lighter wallet. But have fun with it!
 
Incredible!

Beautiful inlay, superb color choices. And a wonderful backstory to boot!

A unique idea, perfectly executed. Congratulations!

This is all that is best about the PCF community.

Thank you for the kind words! Wow!

I couldn’t agree more that customs sets and peoples creations are the best part of being part of the PCF community.
 
Any chance we could see your proofs? Looking to order a limit set myself at some point and am turn between arc yellow and peach as the base color.
No, sorry. I'm not posting the proofs yet. Both are good colors though. You should get a sample set so you can see them in person though. Definitely don't order a set without having seen samples in person first. The colors are different on the real chips from what they look like in the mockup tool.
 
Not sure why I'm just seeing these for the first time but CONGRATS... these are beautiful
Love the back story and the house drawing in the inlay is awesome

Well done all around
 
Classic Poker Chips

Here is the link to the design tool:
http://www.pokerchipdesigntool.com/

Apologies in advance for all of your lost time spent playing with the design tool and potentially your much lighter wallet. But have fun with it!
Yeah, spent a few hours, together with my daughter, Yesterday, and you are right, Its going to take some time
However, we got a good feeling of What I want
We are going to have 5 different chips
5, 25, 100, 500, 1000
Since we play in kroner, the 5 chips is gonna do a lot of work and the 100 chips is also u
We play 5/5 max 1 straddle

Got to make a layout for the 25
Inspired by WTHC
 

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Was lucky enough to be voted to get my set in the 2022 PCF Calendar. I was long overdue for some new and improved pr0n, so this was a great catalyst to get it done. I added some to the OP and putting here as well. Enjoy!

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Was lucky enough to be voted to get my set in the 2022 PCF Calendar. I was long overdue for some new and improved pr0n, so this was a great catalyst to get it done. I added some to the OP and putting here as well. Enjoy!

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One of my favorite customs ever! Absolutely stunning job... and my favorite mold! Absolutely deserving not only of a calendar spot but also first round HOF as well!
 
What a superb set…. Nice color combos and a great classy inlay… I hope that more will vote for this set to receive the HOF status…. For me, it’s without a doubt among the top 3….
 
What a superb set…. Nice color combos and a great classy inlay… I hope that more will vote for this set to receive the HOF status…. For me, it’s without a doubt among the top 3….
Much appreciated! Very kind words!

Whether they vote for my set or not, I hope more people get to see the Hall of Fame voting thread to see the great sets people put together. I love all the backstories and inspirations for their sets. I think some of the custom stuff gets missed by some members which is a shame because its my favorite part of PCF.
 
Well, honestly, most of the sets in this voting ain’t something that „I“ would love to have as a personal custom set :cool Beside the fact that it’s obviously always based upon personal preferences, there are -in my eyes- only 2 or 3 sets that are really worthy to be lifted up into HOF. :) The background storys are cool and inspiring and I love to read through all the history behind, but the chips should speak for themselves in the end.

btw: man, your red chip and the dark blue one are amazing!!! I really appreciate your choice of base colors!
 

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