Custom Poker Chips
A reflection of your personality Many casinos use custom poker chips to emphasize their exclusive brand name and also for the more mundane compulsion of trying to avoid theft. An individual, on the other hand, want such chips because they can be made to conform to his/her own taste and liking. You can create them yourself, or get them made for you.
How to buy and which one to buy
Making custom poker chips is not a difficult job. Buy clay poker chips or ceramic poker chips which have no printing and use stickers on top of them to personalize them. Create your own design with the help of a graphics program and have them printed on the stickers. The process is extremely simple and would cost you little.
Custom poker chips also make excellent gift items. If you are going to marry soon, buy some clay or ceramic chips from the market and customize them according to your own liking. Gift them to groomsmen and ushers. They would like it much more than the routine stuff people use as gifts on such occasions.
For those who organize poker games at their homes with known friends on a regular basis, custom chips will give them a distinct identity as a group. They can also be used by you when you join a casual poker competition or you host one on your own.
A nice gift to receive
On a more personal level, you can avoid receiving repetitive and often useless gifts from your near and dear ones by dropping them a hint that you would love to have custom poker chips saying what you want them to say. You can even design the chip with your own favorite artwork and wording and give it to them on a disk. This will ensure that you get exactly what you want from them.
As has been mentioned earlier, these chips can be made quite easily by using your favorite designs on stickers and then pasting them on either clay poker chips or ceramic poker chips. Another option is to send your chosen artwork and wording to a company which will print the stickers you intend to use on your custom poker chips.
It is a great advantage that these labels do not last forever. If they no longer look attractive after some years, you can just avoid using those stickers on your chips. But doing it yourself is much cheaper than if you have the customization done by a company or someone else.
Go for do-it-yourself option
If you choose a company and send it the chosen design, artwork and wording of the chip, it will get back to you with a set of custom poker chips with your own design permanently printed on them. Remember that it isn't just a label and your design has now become a part of the chip. Expectedly, it is more expensive than the do-it-yourself option; but the end product is certainly more beautiful and worth the additional cost.
So all you need for making custom poker chips yourself are clay or ceramic poker chips and stickers with your chosen artwork and wording. If you find it too difficult, get a company to have the job done for you. You’ll get a good product either way.