Hi all,
As I've finished the chip purchasing phase of the Av8tion Poker chip sets I thought it would be cool (and possibly instructive) to turn it into a photo story thread with pictures documenting the progress. As most of you know, creating a custom chip set from scratch is a very long and complicated process filled with second-guessing and mind-changes, as my previous threads have demonstrated.
PHASE ONE: What Chips Should I Buy?
This is a multi-part question. Should I get a fully custom set from CPC or should I buy a bunch of Paulsons and have custom labels created? If I go for the Paulsons, what design? What mold? The list of questions goes on, and there are other threads that deal with the pros and cons for each. The bulk of my set ends up being re-labeled Paulson RHC mold chips taken from several different casinos, pictured below:
Chips and Denominations of the above are:
Cash Set
25c: Horseshoe Cincinnati $1 Chips (200 chips)
$1: Santa Ysabel $1 Chips (500 chips)
$5: Isle Cape Girardeau $5 Chips (600 chips, 200 pictured)
$25: Aransas Queen Casino $25 Chips (300 chips)
Tournament Set
$100: Kash Casino (Full Tilt) $100 Chips (240 chips)
$500: MGM Springfield $1 Chips (150 chips)
$1,000: Santa Ysabel $2 Chips (200 chips)
In addition, to give the tournament set a more upscale feel to it, I decided to make the $5,000 and $25,000 denominations plaques instead of chips, courtesy of MSK Gaming:
Thanks to many of you, I have completed purchases for all the required chips to complete this set, and as I am typing this first post, I just received word from MSK that the plaques are on the way from Korea to arrive the first couple days of August, about a week before my birthday (great present for myself). I still have 400 of the $5s still to come in this week or next, but there's still plenty to do while I wait for them to arrive. The next post will begin the next phase, preparing the chips for custom labeling.
As I've finished the chip purchasing phase of the Av8tion Poker chip sets I thought it would be cool (and possibly instructive) to turn it into a photo story thread with pictures documenting the progress. As most of you know, creating a custom chip set from scratch is a very long and complicated process filled with second-guessing and mind-changes, as my previous threads have demonstrated.
PHASE ONE: What Chips Should I Buy?
This is a multi-part question. Should I get a fully custom set from CPC or should I buy a bunch of Paulsons and have custom labels created? If I go for the Paulsons, what design? What mold? The list of questions goes on, and there are other threads that deal with the pros and cons for each. The bulk of my set ends up being re-labeled Paulson RHC mold chips taken from several different casinos, pictured below:
Chips and Denominations of the above are:
Cash Set
25c: Horseshoe Cincinnati $1 Chips (200 chips)
$1: Santa Ysabel $1 Chips (500 chips)
$5: Isle Cape Girardeau $5 Chips (600 chips, 200 pictured)
$25: Aransas Queen Casino $25 Chips (300 chips)
Tournament Set
$100: Kash Casino (Full Tilt) $100 Chips (240 chips)
$500: MGM Springfield $1 Chips (150 chips)
$1,000: Santa Ysabel $2 Chips (200 chips)
In addition, to give the tournament set a more upscale feel to it, I decided to make the $5,000 and $25,000 denominations plaques instead of chips, courtesy of MSK Gaming:
Thanks to many of you, I have completed purchases for all the required chips to complete this set, and as I am typing this first post, I just received word from MSK that the plaques are on the way from Korea to arrive the first couple days of August, about a week before my birthday (great present for myself). I still have 400 of the $5s still to come in this week or next, but there's still plenty to do while I wait for them to arrive. The next post will begin the next phase, preparing the chips for custom labeling.
