demonnic
3 of a Kind
With the announced selling of CPC and a cut off date for orders I have gone from feeling like I had a couple years to save up for and create my custom sets to only having a few months to get everything in order. Mainly because that's what happened. I may have to adjust the overall order size but I want to try and get both a cash and tournament set, with some extras for samples and just-in-case. Single table tournament set because that's all I ever host and I can keep the tourney set small that way. Cash set to spread mostly $0.05/$0.10 to maybe $0.50/$1.00. I have not yet gotten a color sample set, will be ordering that soon. In the meantime I've been spending some time in the chip design tool anyway.
Backstory/lore:
I have been going to a yearly camping music festival with the same group of people for 15+ years now. It's invite only in order to keep it small, and my dad started going to it before getting me in on his invite, and subsequently me getting my own after several years. We do one or two other camping trips a year with the same people (or did before COVID, but trying to get back there). For years before he passed he would talk about wanting to do a geodesic dome one day. Wouldn't a geodome be nice? He even bought a couple of parachutes to hang as a sort of roof/shade for when he did it. Some day. Always some day. And then he died. So that year, I decided to say "Fark you old man, I'm making a dome" and we did. It's been through several refinements, and for the last many years has been about 15' tall, with a custom programmed light show using LEDs at each vertex. At some point early on my wife, a friend who helps us run it, and myself decided it needed a theme of some sort, but just "Tiki Bar" seemed too lame. So, we decided it would be the tiki bar open nearby to Milliways (The Restaurant at the End of the Universe) which catered to a less exclusive/rougher crowd and have been calling it the Tiki Bar at the End of the Universe ever since. We keep it stocked with homebrew apple cider, mead, and occasionally liquor of dubious tax status (Look, I don't ask ok?).
The last few years, I have been working on getting a poker game going in the tiki bar off and on over the course of the main event each year. And I've been wanting to get custom poker chips as part of that, in order to punch up the experience a bit, even if only for me. I have some tiki heads art which I picked up from fiverr a while back while daydreaming about it and decided to see what I could mock up in preparation for making the order. None of the colors are set in stone, especially until I get the color sample in hand, but I've some idea of what I like and can tweak from here but it should at least get me in the general direction. I will probably also seek out a designer to help me finalize the inlay design as well as design a Tiki head hot stamp (more about that in a bit.)
Cash set:
So, this is what I've come up with so far for the cash set. I quite like the 312 spot pattern but I'm not married to it. I want to keep the spots consistent and simple though for my cash set. I've largely gone with darker base colors and bright spots. Taking suggestions for the spot colors but the tiger/brown/black/red/green basic progression I intend to keep. The three molds I'm considering in my current order of preference are HHR, FDL, and CSQ. I like the idea of using HHR with tiki heads, and it's a really nice mold. But FDL is classic and has more room for inlay, and CSQ is also really nice. I want to use one with a single repeating element, or else DieCar would be in the mix. Anyway, everything is setup on the HHR mold in the mockups but I'm open to ideas. The solid in this set will be a non-denom hot stamp usable as an extra frac, drink chip, etc. My cash game is probably never going to need hundreds, but if it does I'll get some plaques made in a group buy or something. I want to concentrate on denoms that are likely to see play in my games.
I want the inlay to be the star for this set.
I like the progression of tikis from angry to happy here but also looking for opinons.
I would like to represent the geodesic dome on here somehow and the lines on the background were the best way I came up with to do that. But it's also kind of busy and it makes the denoms harder to read.
I think maybe the denoms should be a different color to counteract that, but not sure what would be best. Maybe white, with a black outline? Considered changing the color of the denom to go with the chip color but I feel like that could be hard to match well?
Tourney Set:
For the tournament set I'm thinking T500/1k/5k/25k/100k denominations. Totally separate from the denoms I play in my cash games, and tournaments are a great way to enjoy playing with big numbers. For this set, I want to use a simple hot stamp with a single, consistent tiki head and the denomination. Maybe "Tiki Bar" or "Tiki Dome". Not sure "Tiki Bar at the End of the Universe" is realistically going to fit on a hot stamp though. This may be something I have to do after getting the chips with a third party for cost considerations (IE breaking it into two costs so I can recover between.) If that's the case I'll likely hold off stamping the non-denom from the cash set as well. This set I wanted to have some fun with the spot patterns and colors and I'm definitely open for suggestions.
Current thinking is alternating 3 and 4 for the spot numbers, with 6 for the very top denomination in order to stand out even more.
The colors are just ones I like and thought would stand out. Taking suggestions for consideration. Tweaking the designer is good fun.
And now I think I'll go find my flame retardant suit fire extinguisher and return to check the thread some time after dinner and a drink. Thanks in advance for any feedback, positive or negative =)
Backstory/lore:
I have been going to a yearly camping music festival with the same group of people for 15+ years now. It's invite only in order to keep it small, and my dad started going to it before getting me in on his invite, and subsequently me getting my own after several years. We do one or two other camping trips a year with the same people (or did before COVID, but trying to get back there). For years before he passed he would talk about wanting to do a geodesic dome one day. Wouldn't a geodome be nice? He even bought a couple of parachutes to hang as a sort of roof/shade for when he did it. Some day. Always some day. And then he died. So that year, I decided to say "Fark you old man, I'm making a dome" and we did. It's been through several refinements, and for the last many years has been about 15' tall, with a custom programmed light show using LEDs at each vertex. At some point early on my wife, a friend who helps us run it, and myself decided it needed a theme of some sort, but just "Tiki Bar" seemed too lame. So, we decided it would be the tiki bar open nearby to Milliways (The Restaurant at the End of the Universe) which catered to a less exclusive/rougher crowd and have been calling it the Tiki Bar at the End of the Universe ever since. We keep it stocked with homebrew apple cider, mead, and occasionally liquor of dubious tax status (Look, I don't ask ok?).
The last few years, I have been working on getting a poker game going in the tiki bar off and on over the course of the main event each year. And I've been wanting to get custom poker chips as part of that, in order to punch up the experience a bit, even if only for me. I have some tiki heads art which I picked up from fiverr a while back while daydreaming about it and decided to see what I could mock up in preparation for making the order. None of the colors are set in stone, especially until I get the color sample in hand, but I've some idea of what I like and can tweak from here but it should at least get me in the general direction. I will probably also seek out a designer to help me finalize the inlay design as well as design a Tiki head hot stamp (more about that in a bit.)
Cash set:
So, this is what I've come up with so far for the cash set. I quite like the 312 spot pattern but I'm not married to it. I want to keep the spots consistent and simple though for my cash set. I've largely gone with darker base colors and bright spots. Taking suggestions for the spot colors but the tiger/brown/black/red/green basic progression I intend to keep. The three molds I'm considering in my current order of preference are HHR, FDL, and CSQ. I like the idea of using HHR with tiki heads, and it's a really nice mold. But FDL is classic and has more room for inlay, and CSQ is also really nice. I want to use one with a single repeating element, or else DieCar would be in the mix. Anyway, everything is setup on the HHR mold in the mockups but I'm open to ideas. The solid in this set will be a non-denom hot stamp usable as an extra frac, drink chip, etc. My cash game is probably never going to need hundreds, but if it does I'll get some plaques made in a group buy or something. I want to concentrate on denoms that are likely to see play in my games.
I want the inlay to be the star for this set.
I like the progression of tikis from angry to happy here but also looking for opinons.
I would like to represent the geodesic dome on here somehow and the lines on the background were the best way I came up with to do that. But it's also kind of busy and it makes the denoms harder to read.
I think maybe the denoms should be a different color to counteract that, but not sure what would be best. Maybe white, with a black outline? Considered changing the color of the denom to go with the chip color but I feel like that could be hard to match well?
Tourney Set:
For the tournament set I'm thinking T500/1k/5k/25k/100k denominations. Totally separate from the denoms I play in my cash games, and tournaments are a great way to enjoy playing with big numbers. For this set, I want to use a simple hot stamp with a single, consistent tiki head and the denomination. Maybe "Tiki Bar" or "Tiki Dome". Not sure "Tiki Bar at the End of the Universe" is realistically going to fit on a hot stamp though. This may be something I have to do after getting the chips with a third party for cost considerations (IE breaking it into two costs so I can recover between.) If that's the case I'll likely hold off stamping the non-denom from the cash set as well. This set I wanted to have some fun with the spot patterns and colors and I'm definitely open for suggestions.
Current thinking is alternating 3 and 4 for the spot numbers, with 6 for the very top denomination in order to stand out even more.
The colors are just ones I like and thought would stand out. Taking suggestions for consideration. Tweaking the designer is good fun.
And now I think I'll go find my flame retardant suit fire extinguisher and return to check the thread some time after dinner and a drink. Thanks in advance for any feedback, positive or negative =)
