First CPC Cash Set draft design (2 Viewers)

[WhiteMamba1646]

Beautiful set Kam! Thats an awesome lineup!

 

[OneGearManySpeeds]

Last update for this thread at least… last night I may have bought another BR Pro Poker sample set, then found myself wandering aimlessly through the classifieds, as one does…

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And found some glorious chips I haven’t seen yet! Offer was graciously accepted by @WhiteMamba1646 this morning and picked up an IG cash set in person today with some bonus chips:

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The $1 and $5 workhorse chips in this set are really similar to the colors in my CPC drafts… and they’re in excellent condition so very happy. Now my next learning will be on fracs to get a 25c chip, something about ‘murdering’ chips…

Thanks for all the input and guidance so far on this thread everyone much appreciated - helped me get to this point. Time to build!

Cheers,

Kam

Just read your journey... surprisingly since January I took the same journey designing CPC sets only to stumble onto JACKs and ended up with Paulson. I look back now at my old posts designing CPC with the design tool and feel totaly different about the CPC order. Learned so much and so glad I'm almost done with the JACK build. Great to see I'm not alone. Glad you found what you love! This set looks amazing

 

[Kam]

Just read your journey... surprisingly since January I took the same journey designing CPC sets only to stumble onto JACKs and ended up with Paulson. I look back now at my old posts designing CPC with the design tool and feel totaly different about the CPC order. Learned so much and so glad I'm almost done with the JACK build. Great to see I'm not alone. Glad you found what you love! This set looks amazing

Awesome - any pics to share of your JACKs set? Sounds great, and I’m in the same boat with CPC to Paulsons. Will likely go back to the CPC design at some point in the future, but I was surprised at the lead times as I was looking at a specific mold that wasn’t coming up. I keep finding new (old) chip designs on the classifieds as well with designs I love and also looking at others customs - definitely the right although impulsive call to go down a different path. I’m planning to do a relabel of the cash set, and loved @MrRossKeys Tina Hybrid set as well - so my next chip adventure will be a collaborative custom tournie ceramic set based on @tallsbutler Kodiak design. Early days on that one but very excited once I get some more spare time to work on it. And then I’ll be done…

@tallsbutler ’s Kodiak Lodge & Casino design, planning to do a custom label and some minor denom /color mods. Not sure if will be Tina or BRPRo yet though:

Cheers -Kam

 

[OneGearManySpeeds]

Awesome - any pics to share of your JACKs set? Sounds great, and I’m in the same boat with CPC to Paulsons.

That sounds like a great plan man Love how the set's looking. And love the fracs you picked. How did you find paris 2s with the right label on them already? or did you relabel them? Great minds think alike. The Paris 2 makes a great frac.

This pic is a few weeks old. Since then I got 30 more hundreds and 10 more 500s. Next step relabel the fracs.

 

[Kam]

I got lucky through the forum and @harrysallout reached out offered his Paris $2s that were already relabeled from his below project (think he ended up going with the IG snappers instead for the 25c):

I think a yellow based frac would work as well, but they are like gold dust and I’ve not seen many in the classifieds (or I should say not within my budget).

So many nice chips in your set, the $25 watermelons are epic congrats!

 

[OneGearManySpeeds]

I got lucky through the forum and @harrysallout reached out offered his Paris $2s that were already relabeled from his below project (think he ended up going with the IG snappers instead for the 25c):

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I think a yellow based frac would work as well, but they are like gold dust and I’ve not seen many in the classifieds (or I should say not within my budget).

So many nice chips in your set, the $25 watermelons are epic congrats!

Thanks, Ya I’m so excited to label my Paris 2s. Yours look insane. You and I are proof you can do it right even a few months into PFC.

 

[Kam]

Ok, ok… so I read something about chip efficiency. But for every thread on chip efficiency there’s 5x on MOAR. And this is America and this is a chipper forum after all, therefore MOAR wins.

Thanks to @Hunt247 for responding to my wanted poster as I decided after reading the debates over 2/3/4x $5 racks that what the hell, get a third rack and sit in the middle. So picked up a very clean additional rack of $5 IG primaries.

Then there was a speculative DM discussion about other chips and one thing lead to another… @Hunt247 graciously offered a rack of $2 Boulder stations in an awesome deal after sharing that I was thinking about a yellow or blue frac chip. Plan is to relabel these as 5c.

Now my cash set is done. DONE I tell you. At least from a quantity & chip perspective. I tell myself this as it’s now an even thousand and that’s all the Versa case can hold. Gives me full flexibility for fun family microstakes up to low/mid stakes that I’m comfortable playing at now and in the future. Next step is label design and to get in line for labels.

Will share the label and ceramic design stuff here as well. Then will try to do a better photo shoot of all the chipz…

Cheers - Kam

 

[quixotemi]

Save yourself some money:

Personally, I would consider DG yellow or canary for the frac and light green for the 25.

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Those yellows look awesome! I might steal the design

Third. Customs. Here comes the echo chamber. Tastes, wants and needs change. A lot. What you like one day, will change the next, you need that one idea that you let stew and stew, that festers til you can't get it out of your head - that's your custom set. This is my latest iteration, it's been with me for months and I haven't moved on it yet, because I'm still not certain.

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This was my first iteration (well 10th after some seriously righteous criticism my other nine got here on the forum), that I was CERTAIN of.. until the next thing popped into my brain. It's crap.

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Happy chippin' dude.

Those designs are awesome! Do you mind sharing where you got the label design from? I love the font!

And honestly... you're setting me back to square 1 for what I've been planning

Now my cash set is done. DONE I tell you. At least from a quantity & chip perspective. I tell myself this as it’s now an even thousand and that’s all the Versa case can hold. Gives me full flexibility for fun family microstakes up to low/mid stakes that I’m comfortable playing at now and in the future. Next step is label design and to get in line for labels.

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Will share the label and ceramic design stuff here as well. Then will try to do a better photo shoot of all the chipz…

Cheers - Kam

Gotta say its pretty awesome seeing your evolution in this thread going from wanting custom CPC's to getting these instead. Congrats!

 

[aaron2786]

Those yellows look awesome! I might steal the design



Those designs are awesome! Do you mind sharing where you got the label design from? I love the font!

And honestly... you're setting me back to square 1 for what I've been planning



Gotta say its pretty awesome seeing your evolution in this thread going from wanting custom CPC's to getting these instead. Congrats!

I did the label design, the font , the script portion anyway, was a hand draw by myself. Thanks I appreciate it

 

[quixotemi]

I did the label design, the font , the script portion anyway, was a hand draw by myself. Thanks I appreciate it

Do you do commission work? Its incredible to see what an actual designer can do with a custom set... compared to my very bad designs

 

[aaron2786]

Do you do commission work? Its incredible to see what an actual designer can do with a custom set... compared to my very bad designs

I do, typically I do designs for table tops and have to only dabbled in inlays, I'm actually going to probably use someone who's not me to do mine lol, as I think an outside perspective is always refreshing and really, almost necessary

 

[drdr]

Deleted.
Responded to the first threads thinking they were recent. Virus fever or something.

 

[Kam]

After a hiatus due to life, now have some time to continue the journey. Which started in the Classifieds, and one thing led to another. Decided to change from my Paris $2 relabels, to a Rivers $2 that I’ll change to the 25c. Slight change up to my cash set that I think works better. I’ll be selling some of the other racks / slim down the $25/$100 and also the sample chips I bought along the way.

Next step is label design, and plan to get the new poker table this year.

Cheers

Kam

 

[Kam]

Courtesy of @dp68094 who accepted and executed perfectly a harvest mission, I received another rack of the Rivers $2 today. Started cleaning with dawn soap and some warm water + microfiber towel, clean up very fast actually. One barrel done, will get through the rest:

Next big items are label design & new table.

Cheers

Kam

 

[Kam]

Here’s the line up after adding the harvested Rivers $2 rack, and picking up a rack of milled yellow solids (believe used to be C&E monogram chips that were milled).

Label design is in work, and in line for @Gear labels.

Cheers
Kam

 

[Kam]

Purchased some tools tonight, thank you to @grantc54 for his ‘how to’ posts and youtube video’s to remove inlays - helped me decide to try it at least.

 

[TX_Golf_N_Poker]

Good luck! You will need it...

 

[allforcharity]

Purchased some tools tonight, thank you to @grantc54 for his ‘how to’ posts and youtube video’s to remove inlays - helped me decide to try it at least.

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I think you bought too much. I X-acto knife and a few small box cutter blades and needle nose pliers is the bulk of the equipment you need. The rest is just curses and sweat.

 

[Kam]

I may have recruited my wife to help, so doubled up a little. She also made some purchase suggestions at Joanns - ‘sure! You’re going to help right…?’

 

[Jeevansluck]

I think you bought too much. I X-acto knife and a few small box cutter blades and needle nose pliers is the bulk of the equipment you need. The rest is just curses and sweat.

Yep!

When @grantc54 showed me the way, I didn’t buy anything, except a nail manicure kit.

He already had purchased an extra bottle of NPR (non acetone type) and sat me down, showed me what to do…

**I was very lucky, I didn’t have to watch YouTube, I got a private lesson at the man’s home***

I use an exacto knife, many replacement blades, needle nose pliers, and a few of the nail scraper tools to help lift off stubborn label stuff.

Enjoy the journey most of all. Don’t have a timeframe. Take it chip by chip. I’ve definitely hurt myself multiple times but in the end, IT IS WORTH the time. IMO!

It does wear on ya though. Not sure how some folks keep going. I reached an endpoint and now, I don’t ever want to do it again.

Good luck!

 

[Kam]

I did get a very quizzical and skeptical stare last night when I asked, “hey honey, is your nail polish remover non acetone?”

Going to practice on a few cheap Jumers and go from there.

Appreciate everyone’s input and recommendations!

 

[Kam]

Practice time. Apart from almost stabbing my finger a few times and not being able to find any needle nose pliers, went well. Gouged the chip a bit in the middle.

 

[Kam]

Aaaand the Jumers sample chips of course are 5x easier than my actual chips…

The hardest part I’ve found so far is get the first edge up that you can pull away.

Jumers had a single laminate layer, the IG has two, outer thick laminate and the ‘art’ layer. Should get the acetone free NPR tomorrow, so going to continue slicing away.

 

[Kam]

Some of the backing comes off in one piece (no NPR) if you’re able to catch a clean edge and peel:

One down, 799 to go!

 

[Kam]

Ok, we’ll see if this works. Learning as I go.

I’ve found if I pierce quite deep at an angle with the Xacto knife, then pull back up at angle of ~45 deg, I can force both the laminate and art layer to come up at the same time together and come off in one go:

 

[Kam]

Not bad for first hour. About a 1/3rd have annoying labels that shear off and will need NPR, rest take off in one:

Just did the math on how long it’ll take me to get this done… hopefully things speed up. Good couple of months worth if I have an hour or two a night.

 

[Kam]

Update: rest of the set labels comes off fine except for the Snappers Palace, wonder if it’s due to the age vs the relatively newer IG/HSI chips.

Also bought bent nose pliers, and one of the dogs got to the brand new Xacto knife handle…

 

[Kam]

Received the NPR. Lessons so far:

1. Think I read somewhere leave on for 30 seconds - looked like it took a layer off the chip - can definitely see a reaction, almost as if the surface melts slightly. Now as soon as it’s applied I just put a mini-screwdriver tip underneath and the the vinyl layer floats off
2. Less is more. I put too much in the pipette and it dripped all over the first IG chip before I even put it on the face/label area - lifted it up and there was a ring left on the mat underneath the chip
3. I need to be careful when drying off the chips, since it allows a thin chip coating to come off, it can transfer base color to edge spots (that then needs cleaning)
4. To be fair, not one post said this would be easy
5. The Gear label removal /prep/ label quote is actually really reasonable if you can afford it

 

[Kam]

Well shit. I need to read up on this a little more - any tips with the NPR to avoid my rookie mistake?

Only done a few chips, but I’ve noticed that if I touch the edge of the chip it can smudge the edge spot or transfer base color onto the edge spots. I’m typically having to rotate the chip around to get under the vinyl label left, not sure how you handle it.

 

[Kam]

For anyone that’s read this thread from start to finish, and you’re considering CPC or murdering chips to make your own custom setup…

After only a few barrels of this murder progress, my initial thoughts are:

1. Just go for the CPC (especially with potential closure)
2. Overlabel vs relabel - do you really need to relabel?
3. Pay someone else to do it…

Maybe it’ll get easier.