I spent quite a bit of time designing and developing my Barrel House tourney set, and honestly created that set with the intention of never creating a complimentary cash set. Right around the time that set finally arrived, the number of PCFers playing in my home game grew exponentially. Once the initial clamor around the new set faded a bit - the questions started popping up: "Hey Matt, when are you getting a Barrel House cash set???". I explained my initial thoughts, that I never planned on getting one, didn't think I'd be able to make it work, yada yada yada lots of excuses. That did not temper the requests, subtle hints and not-so-subtle hints, lol. A couple of years later, a saw a thread somewhere on here about progressive bounty tourneys and was intrigued, so I decided to add a T5 chip onto the tourney set to allow for such games. I've always wanted to make a chip with butterscotch as the base color, and found the perfect color combo for a T5 chip for the set. When they arrived this time last year, I completely fell in love with the chip, and decided this would make an incredible starting point for a Barrel House cash set......
I wanted to design the cash set such that it would look like it belonged to the same family as the tourney - but not too close. As I noted in the original design thread, for tourney set, I tried to pick spots that allowed lots of base clay to shine through and define the chip, while complimenting the base color with splashes of high contrast spot colors. The butterscotch chip somewhat followed that trend, but to a much lesser extent, and the end product was something more subdued. And given that chip had a 2A12 spot pattern, any kind of "typical" spot progression wasn't going to work here. So I reversed course just a bit. I still wanted chips that would be easily distinguishable (ie - that's a BLUE chip, that's a RED chip). And I wanted chips that had big, rich base colors like the butterscotch fiver. For spots, I decide to go with a kind of reverse spot progression - starting with a quarter pie frac, and progressively making the spots fewer and smaller. I really like CPC's regular blue as a base for a dollar (another under-rated color!), so that was set pretty early. I originally had numerous mockups for the quarter using retro lavender (probably my favorite CPC color), but after playing with @ReallyGoodUsername 's Lakeshores this past summer, I totally fell in love with the brick red quarters in that set and decided to use it here in the quarter pie. I went through many iterations on pretty much every other chip (maybe I'll post them in the mockup thread at some point), and ultimately ended up with the lineup here. The most difficult one was the hundo - and after batting around 100 different ideas, I remembered that I already have the colors for my perfect black hundred chip, so I just tweaked up the design a bit to distinguish it from the tourney set. And oh yeah........ #TeamGreenTwenty!!!!
I want to thank all my PCF locals who poked and prodded me over the past few years to ultimately get this set - @sgago84 @JMC9389 @CantSpellPoker @Phish1321 @Nuhockey @theewpice @randy2310 @juankay20 . While I really love how this set came out, this is really a set for you and our group - so I hope you guys all enjoy it too. I look forward to many future games taking all your monies with them
Anyways, enough banter - onto the pron:
25¢ - Red 1/4PIE3C with Charcoal / Gray spots
$1 - Blue 3A916 with DG Peach / Bright White / Light Blue Spots
$5 - Butterscotch 2A12 with Canary / Maroon spots
$20 - Light Green 2V12214 with Green / DG Arc Yellow / Green spots
$100 - Black 414418 with DG Peacock / DG Green spots
25¢/25¢ starting stack
25¢/50¢ starting stack
I also took the opportunity to get a fun, odd-denomination chip made. We have lots of "tree fiddy" bets at our games, so I commemorated that with a special $3.50 chip......
For the backside inlay design, I commissioned my son to create some loch ness monster artwork - South Park style. He did an fantastic job with my request, even color matched portions to the chip! Scanned his artwork and CPC's incredible printing did the rest:
I wanted to design the cash set such that it would look like it belonged to the same family as the tourney - but not too close. As I noted in the original design thread, for tourney set, I tried to pick spots that allowed lots of base clay to shine through and define the chip, while complimenting the base color with splashes of high contrast spot colors. The butterscotch chip somewhat followed that trend, but to a much lesser extent, and the end product was something more subdued. And given that chip had a 2A12 spot pattern, any kind of "typical" spot progression wasn't going to work here. So I reversed course just a bit. I still wanted chips that would be easily distinguishable (ie - that's a BLUE chip, that's a RED chip). And I wanted chips that had big, rich base colors like the butterscotch fiver. For spots, I decide to go with a kind of reverse spot progression - starting with a quarter pie frac, and progressively making the spots fewer and smaller. I really like CPC's regular blue as a base for a dollar (another under-rated color!), so that was set pretty early. I originally had numerous mockups for the quarter using retro lavender (probably my favorite CPC color), but after playing with @ReallyGoodUsername 's Lakeshores this past summer, I totally fell in love with the brick red quarters in that set and decided to use it here in the quarter pie. I went through many iterations on pretty much every other chip (maybe I'll post them in the mockup thread at some point), and ultimately ended up with the lineup here. The most difficult one was the hundo - and after batting around 100 different ideas, I remembered that I already have the colors for my perfect black hundred chip, so I just tweaked up the design a bit to distinguish it from the tourney set. And oh yeah........ #TeamGreenTwenty!!!!
I want to thank all my PCF locals who poked and prodded me over the past few years to ultimately get this set - @sgago84 @JMC9389 @CantSpellPoker @Phish1321 @Nuhockey @theewpice @randy2310 @juankay20 . While I really love how this set came out, this is really a set for you and our group - so I hope you guys all enjoy it too. I look forward to many future games taking all your monies with them
Anyways, enough banter - onto the pron:
25¢ - Red 1/4PIE3C with Charcoal / Gray spots
$1 - Blue 3A916 with DG Peach / Bright White / Light Blue Spots
$5 - Butterscotch 2A12 with Canary / Maroon spots
$20 - Light Green 2V12214 with Green / DG Arc Yellow / Green spots
$100 - Black 414418 with DG Peacock / DG Green spots
25¢/25¢ starting stack
25¢/50¢ starting stack
I also took the opportunity to get a fun, odd-denomination chip made. We have lots of "tree fiddy" bets at our games, so I commemorated that with a special $3.50 chip......
For the backside inlay design, I commissioned my son to create some loch ness monster artwork - South Park style. He did an fantastic job with my request, even color matched portions to the chip! Scanned his artwork and CPC's incredible printing did the rest:
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Very nice set, I liked the 25c $1 $20 & the $100 being my favourite
