...The New Bright Yellow Ultimate Chess Pieces - Thoughts

@ShelbyLohrman

There are many people who bought those V2 Butters from you with the impression the Ultimates would not be produced again in that distinct color. If that color is used again, well, lesson learned I guess. 

Is the buyer open to maybe a variant Butter color with a very very small subtle color tinge? Subtle greenish "keylime" color? Or orangish? It'll be distinct. Unusual. Unique. If that's what the buyer is after. If the buyer is interested in Butter and only Butter that's a different story.

From a strictly business perspective, if you have an open wholesale order for 2000 sets of V3 Butter yellow, go for it. That's money on the table. And uhhh,,, get paid up front 

Timmy,

Here is the difference...the weighting system.  The V.2 has the standard weighting system where the weights will eventually loosen up and rattle.

The V.3 system has what I call the infinity weighting system in it.  This is a very rare system (for weighting chess sets) to use where the weights cannot come loose or fall out due to the manufacturing process.  It is very slow for the production and costs around 30% more to manufacture this way.  This is part of the reason on the higher price for the set compared to lesser weighted sets out there.

thanks

Shelby Lohrman

American Chess Equipment

Besides the different color of the "White" pieces of each version, the V3 pieces are slightly larger than V1 & V2 as well.  And thus heavier, I believe.

V3 King height = 3.75 inch.  King Base diameter = 1.625 inch.

Russ, The V1and V2 have the same mold, just different weights.

Shelby

Thanks Shelby.  Good point.  My essential point was that the V3 was larger and heavier than V1 & V2.

I might also have mentioned that V3 is currently the best plastic set on the market, in terms of overall playability and durability (IMHO).

Keep up the good work!

You are not alone. The appliance white ultimate is my least favorite of the bunch, at least from an aesthetic perspective! I'd gladly take v1 or v2 coloring with the v3 weighting tech.

Y'know, I don't know anyone who paints miniatures (mainly because I don't have the time for D&D or the money for WH40K), but I bet there's someone out there who would custom paint them a color you prefer. Looking at some painted minis on r/3dprinting just now I remembered this thread and it got me thinking. There was a bit of discussion on the reddit post about what paint and primer goes with what kinds of plastic and so on, plus airbrush setups and other minutiae, which led me down a bit of a rabbit hole, so there is a solution. I guess the question is does one DIY or have it done custom?

Well, I do want a set of v3 Ultimates and it's sounding less likely that there will be v3 Butters, so this might be something I can add to my [increasingly long] list of [expensive] craft projects [with which I have no experience]. Hmm... [adds repainting chess pieces to list of get-rich-quick schemes that definitely won't make me rich] 

I like the appliance white.  I prefer it to the pure white of most plastic sets.  If there was a v3 butters, I would definitely buy a set or two.  At first disliked, now considered a classic by a lot of people now.  You could tell, from across the room, who had the Ultimates.

I like the appliance white too and I'm totally happy with my V3 set.  In my opinion, the appliance white thing has been a bit exaggerated.

A true (new) classic would be Avocado Green.  Just sayin'... 

Just want to say I was playing in Washington Square Park last weekend and half the sets used were the new appliance white Ultimates. So the quality and durability of the sets is becoming well established.  

Major butter sighting!

https://twitter.com/mechanicschess/status/1669458190134652929

More photos in the twitter thread.

Cool sighting! I would have expected the butters to be paired up with Clay instead of Steph.

alexVM_esq,

Chesshouse sells the individual peices for these sets. They may be out of stock on some peices though.

Even the dog doesn't like them.

That´s not bright yellow. This is bright yellow!