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I think they like the short card but they are big fans of it, so they are a BIG Shortcard fan.

I've been wanting to start using short cards for a while. Can I buy them or do I have to DIY it? I really don't want to have to shave them myself

MasterCyde wrote:I've been wanting to start using short cards for a while. Can I buy them or do I have to DIY it? I really don't want to have to shave them myself

Why not? Take a pair of scissors and cut a 1.5mm sliver off the end, and then use the scissors to round the corners. Badda bing, badda bang. Literally a 1 minute job.

In fact, forget I said that. It's incredibly hard to make them. I'll sell you some for a fiver each...

Hello again, i would like to thank all those that wrote in with mixed views about the locator card topic i posted. I would like to add just one point, the locator cards i talked about, only refered to certain effects which i perform and do not get handed out. It is not the only way i handle cards. I also use thick cards, short cards, corner cards etc, and roughed cards.Many thanks from a 72 year old .

queen of clubs wrote:

MasterCyde wrote:I've been wanting to start using short cards for a while. Can I buy them or do I have to DIY it? I really don't want to have to shave them myself

Why not? Take a pair of scissors and cut a 1.5mm sliver off the end, and then use the scissors to round the corners. Badda bing, badda bang. Literally a 1 minute job.

In fact, forget I said that. It's incredibly hard to make them. I'll sell you some for a fiver each...

trust me, the rounding of the corners is a problem for me, I'm too much of a perfectionist. Just practiced on some jokers, no good. haha.

MasterCyde wrote:

queen of clubs wrote:Why not? Take a pair of scissors and cut a 1.5mm sliver off the end, and then use the scissors to round the corners. Badda bing, badda bang. Literally a 1 minute job.

In fact, forget I said that. It's incredibly hard to make them. I'll sell you some for a fiver each...

trust me, the rounding of the corners is a problem for me, I'm too much of a perfectionist. Just practiced on some jokers, no good. haha.

You can buy corner cutters (http://www.magicbox.uk.com/shop.php/shop/magic-accessories/new-essentials/corner-punch/p_990.html), but at £7.50 it's probably best just to keep trying on different decks of cards as you could buy 10 bicycle seconds decks for that price.

Theres a wee section about shortening cards in Mark Wilson's Complete Course, but as mentioned by somebody else, I am a perfectionist and never happy with my shortened card corners!

buy a round corner punch from any craft suppliers, or from cards for magic.

though seriously. just nip the corner off diagonaly.
it will work just as well, and will be just as invisible as a rounded off corner.


or follow craigs advice, and investigate the possibilities that can be had with a breather crimp in play.

The easiest way to get a nice round corner is not to try to cut it round. Instead make a diagonal cut across the corner, then make another diagonal cut across each of the 2 new corners you've got. Keep going and soon you'll have a nice, even, round corner.

Hope that makes sense.

queen of clubs wrote:

MasterCyde wrote:I've been wanting to start using short cards for a while. Can I buy them or do I have to DIY it? I really don't want to have to shave them myself

Why not? Take a pair of scissors and cut a 1.5mm sliver off the end, and then use the scissors to round the corners. Badda bing, badda bang. Literally a 1 minute job.

In fact, forget I said that. It's incredibly hard to make them. I'll sell you some for a fiver each...

I'll take ten.

I tried tonight a trick for the first time with a shortened corner "in the real world" its quite a nice effect that relies on using that corner short a couple of times.

To me it was really obvious but guess what? no one spotted it at all as you probably expect, even when I spread the cards out as opposed to riffling down them.

I butched my own and they don't look too neat but I really don't mind now I've gotten away with it a few times. I'll give it another test run tomorrow night at the unoffical london meet

I prefer to use an emery board.

Then, once I've done my nails, I start shortening cards.

Seriously, try filing the cards if you want even corners, using a regular card as a template.

Also, you get better edges using a trimmer that works up and down, rather than a rotary trimmer, and they are better than scissors (but even scissors are fine for making a short card).

i was gonna say, just use nail clippers to round off the corners...easy peasy...