[TenPercenter]

The group buy is over, but these chips can be purchased at retail price at many outlets. Two sponsors sell these chips:

NevadaJacks.net

HoldemPokerChips.com

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Use the "ORDER NOW" Form to buy your chip set

A Sexy New Chip Set:

We are building a unique set of chips with modern yet classic styled pinup girls. The chips with be produced by Nevada Jack using their casino grade composite chips. The original paintings are the highest of quality, and done by one of the masters of American fantasy art, Greg Hildebrandt.

What I was looking for in pinup art was something that could be both classic and very sexy. I wanted the style of a 1940's pinup, but with a touch of modern raciness. I wanted a set of chips that you'd love to look at but are classy enough to use at just about any home game.

I think we found the perfect art for this project, The hard part was narrowing down the 35 choices to eight or so. By eliminating all the nude paintings, we got it down to roughly 18. Now we will choose 8-12 of Greg's paintings for the final set. Each chip will have a different girl and will be a differently themed color.

The Chips!

Nevada Jacks works wonders, printing chips fast! Here are photos of the actual chips! Click on the thumbnail for a larger version.




Ordering Chips:

It's easy, just visit Nevada Jacks and use the "Order Page" to get your chip set.

The chips are all going to be shipped by Nevada Jacks only. Here are the current order details:

• 100 minimum total order
• 25 minimum increment per denomination
• Shipping costs to be determined by retailer at order time

[*]Chips will be shipped two weeks after group buy ends, approximately October 15th.
* Current "Promise Count": 31,410 chips

** Please Use the "Order Form" now to purchase your chip set at the group buy price! After September 30th, 2005 the price rise to retail and your chance is over.


Price:

Group Price is as follows. The chips will be available after the group sale is over. The retail price will be minimum $.75 for each chip due to licensing fees to the famous artist. It's completely up to Nevada Jacks and the market whether the retail price goes up or down.

ALL SHIPPING IS FREE FOR US AND CANADA!

Over 1,000 @ .50 each + FREE COA (Hildebrandt signed Certificate of Authenticity)
500 to 999 .55 each + FREE COA
301 to 499 .61
200 to 300 .67

300 piece set with high quality case, cards, dice $220 including shipping
500 piece set with high quality case, cards, dice $300 including shipping +++ COA


Time Frame:

The group buy takes place between the dates of 9/16/2005 and 9/30/2005. Orders will ship about 2 weeks after that approx 10/15/2005.

Tell your friends on other forums! Without breaking any rules, use the URL to this thread:

http://www.chiptalk.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1540

Here is the code for using the nice banner you see at the top of this post, with the link included: (great for forum signatures)

Polls:

We ran several polls in order to come to the current design. You can visit them and vote, or just read the discussions.

• Pinups - Brighter colors for all chips
• Choose the accents for the new BLACK chip
• Choose the accents for the new RED chip
• Different shades of RED
• Choose the accent color for Purple "Mint Julip"
• Please choose your favorite accent color for the Orange Chip with "Brandy."
• Which of these GREEN chips do you like best?
• Which of these BLUE chips do you like best?
• Which style should we make the American Beauty chip?
• Rays background or Tint-matched background?
• Which American Beauties background is best?
• Which American Beauties design direction is best?
• Pick your favorite Pinup Girl

The Girls:

These are the original paintings that we had to choose from. There are some very nice ones that you won't see here because they are nudes. Visit Spiderwebart.com for more "explicit" images.



Here are the final design mockups that we made prior to printing. The over-bright images were necessary to get the proper prints on the actual chips. Click on the thumbnail for a larger version.



About Greg:

Original paintings are done by Greg Hildebrandt. Greg has started the "American Beauties" series in his retirement. Before retiring he worked closely with his brother Tim on art and film since the 1960's. He is famous for work on Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Harry Potter, Marvel Comics and more. We have an exclusive contract to use Greg's American Beauties on high end poker chips!

Here are some great paintings by the Hildebrandts:






Spiderwebart Gallery, owned by Greg Hildebrandt, is the exclusive representative of Greg and Tim Hildebrandt's Artwork.
They are extremely proud to offer his original paintings, sketches and giclée prints for your viewing pleasure and for purchase.

*Note: While this is a collaborative effort among many poker chip enthusiasts, I retain all rights for the designs and decisions. Polls are for gathering opinions and usually the results are followed, but I can change designs at any time. - Greg Cagle

[PFunk]

I just recieved a small order of these (about 40), and I also had alot of spinners...this is my first purchase of custom chips, or ceramic chips, and I had never even heard of the term "spinner" for that matter...im pretty dissapointed needless to say...They dont stack well at all because of this and are pretty ackward..Im going to wait until I recieve the bigger portion of my order, but I might not want to keep these if this becomes a pattern with the rest of the chips i recieve...over %30 percent of the ones I have are like this...Perhaps, I am just too used to clay chips which this is never an issue....I dont understand how this could be such a problemwith their manufacturing, but very dissapointing-

otherwise they look beautiful, not trying to complain, just being honest..


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[tuff_gong]

I have a quick question about the beauties. Has anyone oiled theirs? And if so, what'd you use and how'd you like the results and would you recommend the process.Thanks for the help.

[austin5string]

Originally Posted by tuff_gong

I have a quick question about the beauties. Has anyone oiled theirs? And if so, what'd you use and how'd you like the results and would you recommend the process.Thanks for the help.

Uh.. Unless I've missed something, you don't oil ceramics.

[whitepotatoe]

Yeah, ceramics should not be oiled.

[Dwight87]

Originally Posted by CaptLego

I got a lot of spinners in my samples, too. The Bounty chips also had quite a few spinners. My older samples of Skulls and Desert Sands don't have so many spinners. What's up with NJ lately?

2_hotty mentioned that they're using a new stock these days. Thicker chips or something, have you measured them capt? If this is true, what's wrong with the old stock?

[tuff_gong]

Alright guys, thanks. I really didn't know if I needed to or not. They're good enough the way they are anyway.

[mcc235]

I see NJ is selling the AB again. I am a little suprised that a 500 piece set is only $359. I thought they would go for a little more when in production. (Or that the group buy would have been a bigger discount). Is anyone else suprised by this?

[TenPercenter]

Originally Posted by mcc235

I see NJ is selling the AB again. I am a little suprised that a 500 piece set is only $359. I thought they would go for a little more when in production. (Or that the group buy would have been a bigger discount). Is anyone else suprised by this?

I always guesstimated 75¢

[CaptLego]

Originally Posted by Dwight87

2_hotty mentioned that they're using a new stock these days. Thicker chips or something, have you measured them capt? If this is true, what's wrong with the old stoc