slithytoves
Hello all!
I had my large Thoth deck for about 10 years, but I just picked up the small size and thought I would finally trim my large one. I didn't have a paper cutter so I cut out all the images by hand, then used a corner punch to round the corners. Then I used the candy apple red Distress Ink on the edges because I thought that would look neat.
The end result is gorgeous, and I absolutely love it, but...I'm finding them totally unusable now!
Its been weeks but every time I touch the thing, the red comes off on my fingers, and with the edges all being relatively uneven, shuffling never seems to separate all the cards from eachother enough to get a really good shuffle. When I overhand shuffle, I find that the areas where I had to use a dampened paper towel to remove the excess red ink is causing friction so the cards don't slide away from eachother easily. I can never seem to feel confident that they are properly mixed, and that I'm getting the necessary cards, and not just some that clumped together.
I used fanning powder on another deck a long time ago that had gotten sticky just from natural use and finger oils, but I found the results less than satisfactory, and am hesitant to try again. Perhaps I didn't get the good stuff? It was pretty cheap stuff, actually. Has anyone tried more than one type/brand and found that there is a significant quality difference?
I'm really disappointed, what is the point of having a beautiful deck if it isn't functional.
Has anyone used a bright/dark color on their edges and had issues? If so, does that go away eventually? I didn't realize until after I bought the distress ink that it was water based, and I thought that might be an issue, but all the threads and videos I've seen about deck edging, people gleefully use the distress inks like they are the best on the market. I guess they never tried red?
How do you others who use altered decks get along with them? How have you compensated for how you handle the cards to get around these issues? I can always buy a new large deck if I need, I'm not sentimental about things like that, but...these are just so much more beautiful and I don't want to give up on them yet.
I had my large Thoth deck for about 10 years, but I just picked up the small size and thought I would finally trim my large one. I didn't have a paper cutter so I cut out all the images by hand, then used a corner punch to round the corners. Then I used the candy apple red Distress Ink on the edges because I thought that would look neat.
The end result is gorgeous, and I absolutely love it, but...I'm finding them totally unusable now!
Its been weeks but every time I touch the thing, the red comes off on my fingers, and with the edges all being relatively uneven, shuffling never seems to separate all the cards from eachother enough to get a really good shuffle. When I overhand shuffle, I find that the areas where I had to use a dampened paper towel to remove the excess red ink is causing friction so the cards don't slide away from eachother easily. I can never seem to feel confident that they are properly mixed, and that I'm getting the necessary cards, and not just some that clumped together.
I used fanning powder on another deck a long time ago that had gotten sticky just from natural use and finger oils, but I found the results less than satisfactory, and am hesitant to try again. Perhaps I didn't get the good stuff? It was pretty cheap stuff, actually. Has anyone tried more than one type/brand and found that there is a significant quality difference?
I'm really disappointed, what is the point of having a beautiful deck if it isn't functional.
Has anyone used a bright/dark color on their edges and had issues? If so, does that go away eventually? I didn't realize until after I bought the distress ink that it was water based, and I thought that might be an issue, but all the threads and videos I've seen about deck edging, people gleefully use the distress inks like they are the best on the market. I guess they never tried red?
How do you others who use altered decks get along with them? How have you compensated for how you handle the cards to get around these issues? I can always buy a new large deck if I need, I'm not sentimental about things like that, but...these are just so much more beautiful and I don't want to give up on them yet.