Any way to soften card edges?

[Grizabella]

My Green Witch is one of the most gentle to shuffle. I never had any problem at all with it even when it was brand new. It's been used a lot now and is wonderfully worn so that it shuffles like a dream. Over the years I've found that separate printings can be really different, even from the same publisher so maybe they switched to a different card stock after I got mine.

I hope you find a solution that will work for you. If nothing else works, at least I think it will soften up pretty quickly for you just from shuffling it a lot. It did for me.

 

[Tigerangel]

Yes, I believe emery paper is what I meant. Even the ultra-fine grit sandpaper doesn't go that fine, if I recall correctly.

You can get emery upto 2000 grade, but that is so ultra fine I don't even use it in my silver work, max I've ever used has been 1200, for card smoothing though I would think anything between the the rage of 600 to 1200 would work, you just need to repeat with a new piece once the bit that's bing used has worn down.

 

[MaeWasteland]

My Green Witch is one of the most gentle to shuffle. I never had any problem at all with it even when it was brand new. It's been used a lot now and is wonderfully worn so that it shuffles like a dream. Over the years I've found that separate printings can be really different, even from the same publisher so maybe they switched to a different card stock after I got mine.

I hope you find a solution that will work for you. If nothing else works, at least I think it will soften up pretty quickly for you just from shuffling it a lot. It did for me.

Yeah, I believe Llewellyn has changed their card stock/boxes - it's my first Llewellyn deck so I've nothing to compare it to, but that's what I've read and the box has a sturdy insert so I'm assuming it's the new one!

Thanks for all the suggestions, everyone, I'm going to look for some emery paper - I vaguely remember something about dampening the paper making it less likely to split edges of stuff, so I may experiment with that with my blank card...

 

[SarahJoy]

Hardware stores don't always stock the really fine sandpapers (not sure about the difference between emery and sand papers), but auto parts stores often have up to 2000 grit sandpaper -- it's used for wet-sanding when painting cars.

Here is an inexpensive pack on Amazon with grits from 400 to 1500.