flipperjane
I find these cards difficult to shuffle because they are so big. Does anyone else find this difficult and have you any tips on shuffling? I can shuffle half the pack at a time but find the whole deck a bit of a stretch!!
Hi, again.
I think this is a common problem for users of the DruidCraft. (You may be able to find this discussed in another thread somewhere.) I have found that if I hold half the deck in each hand, and shufffle them "length-wise" it works better. In other words- instead of shuffling the shorter ends together, hold them so that you are shuffling the longer ends together- does that make sense? Just sort of turn them sideways to how you normally shuffle a regular deck of playing cards.
Otherwise, you could just swirl them around the table and pick them as you see fit.
Lots of people trim the borders off this deck - I did it with mine and I loved the deck afterwards - it was a bonding experience and made it feel more mine.
Some trim down to the borders and other people trim right down to the images. I started off leaving the borders and titles on mine then went the whole way and trimmed those off too.. The deck looks great trimmed. There are some pictures of some trimmed DruidCraft decks here: http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=98688
Wow - what a terrifying prospect. My partner who is incredibly good at jobs like this said he wouldn't do it if I asked him to. He said I would need to find a guillotine - you could never do it with scissors.
Some of those images look great - with curved corners!!!
What method have people used to get such a neat finish - i am terrified of botching it.