Proud to reveal my custom sets of both cash and tournament chips.
“Lupton Garage” as a theme was born out of a quest to create a set that reflected and paid respect to the town/village I grew up in, Lupton, MI. The garage was in business from the 1940's until just a few years ago. It was one of the last businesses that were open in the town proper. The garage was closed for a few years and falling apart. It was razzed this past spring.
This was a true labor of love in all aspects of this project. From the chips to the design.
The chips-
Got 2 sets of starbursts off of facebook marketplace. One set was sold by a few brothers whose Dad played a bunch of low-ball back in the day.
The second set came from a junk guy outside of Baton Rouge, LA. He found them at an abandoned backyard craps game. He said the chips were still stacked up on the table and there were drinks that were sitting with booze still in them. It was as if they got raided and the place didn't get touched for years. The chips were dusty and some were stained but they were in really good shape otherwise.
Two other add-ons were 160 peach starbursts and around 200 pink starbursts. Thanks to @inca911 @JWJ and @ChipFinderSK for the sales on those chips. And a rack of random colored roulette chips I picked up on marketplace.
These all got milled by me. I had to soak some of the reds, greens and whites in peroxide. All the chips went thru the ultra-sonic cleaner and mineral oil treatment.
The design-
I reached out to a friend from the hometown to come up with the design. She is a graphic designer by trade so I figured it wouldn't be too hard a project. I sent the idea of 1940's tow truck along with some pictures of custom chips for reference. Thanks to everyones feedback on which of the 5 designs to go with.
The labels-
I saw a thread here where @Okku offered his label services thru @Spinettis Gaming. I contacted them thru their website and within a week Oscar had my labels shipped out to me. Very happy with their services and prices. I went with the non-laminated labels to save some of the cost.
Now the chips!
“Lupton Garage” as a theme was born out of a quest to create a set that reflected and paid respect to the town/village I grew up in, Lupton, MI. The garage was in business from the 1940's until just a few years ago. It was one of the last businesses that were open in the town proper. The garage was closed for a few years and falling apart. It was razzed this past spring.
This was a true labor of love in all aspects of this project. From the chips to the design.
The chips-
Got 2 sets of starbursts off of facebook marketplace. One set was sold by a few brothers whose Dad played a bunch of low-ball back in the day.
The second set came from a junk guy outside of Baton Rouge, LA. He found them at an abandoned backyard craps game. He said the chips were still stacked up on the table and there were drinks that were sitting with booze still in them. It was as if they got raided and the place didn't get touched for years. The chips were dusty and some were stained but they were in really good shape otherwise.
Two other add-ons were 160 peach starbursts and around 200 pink starbursts. Thanks to @inca911 @JWJ and @ChipFinderSK for the sales on those chips. And a rack of random colored roulette chips I picked up on marketplace.
These all got milled by me. I had to soak some of the reds, greens and whites in peroxide. All the chips went thru the ultra-sonic cleaner and mineral oil treatment.
The design-
I reached out to a friend from the hometown to come up with the design. She is a graphic designer by trade so I figured it wouldn't be too hard a project. I sent the idea of 1940's tow truck along with some pictures of custom chips for reference. Thanks to everyones feedback on which of the 5 designs to go with.
The labels-
I saw a thread here where @Okku offered his label services thru @Spinettis Gaming. I contacted them thru their website and within a week Oscar had my labels shipped out to me. Very happy with their services and prices. I went with the non-laminated labels to save some of the cost.
Now the chips!
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