Myrrha said:
Thorhammer, just to clarify, you did the table-top Umbrae treatment on one of the printed in Italy plastic-coated US games decks? And you sanded the cards?
Yep. Twice. ROUGHLY.
Myrrha said:
I've been wondering if somehow scratching up the surface of the plastic-y cards would help but I thought it might make them look sort of foggy, like you'd be seeing the image through a network of tiny scratches. I also wondered if the table-top treatment might make the cards crease.
Yeah . . . it was a gamble, but hey, I had four copies so it wasn't too bad. I used a nail buffer to begin with, because that was really really fine. Thing was, that gave out after about ten cards
and I couldn't find another one the same. So yes, I found some really really fine sandpaper (I think it had 600 or 800 written on the back, tho not sure how that would translate abroad). It was wet/dry stuff, so you could wash it. I quickly rubbed each face of each card, concentrating on the edges because that would be where most of the wear occurrs naturally. But I made sure to wear away some of the lamination over the whole face of the card. If you rub really gently and quickly, you just scar the lamination; a bit longer or harder and you start to rub away the colour, as you can see I've done. I wanted that worn look.
Myrrha said:
Do they feel weird now when you shuffle? Wondering because these plastic-coated cards really bother me. I feel like the deck clumps together and doesn't have life or liveliness.
Yeah, they do feel weird, not so much to shuffle as to slide against one another, like you do when you're just searching through the deck for one card, you know? But the shuffling is lovely now. I think a bit of talcum powder would fix the sandy feeling when sliding through the deck.
Myrrha said:
Your cards look beautiful!
Aw, thanks
I think they're pretty hot, too
\m/ Kat
