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Im looking for a bicycle deck with a single short card in but can't find one anywhere. It seems I either have to have Svengali deck or a deck of judt short csrds. Can anyone help? If your answer is make your own can you explain best way how.

Thanks

Benjamin_Jones wrote: If your answer is make your own can you explain best way how.
Thanks

Get some fine sand paper, & gently take the card down to your desired size.

CArl...

Make your own.

I just use a pair of scissors and trim a milimeter off the end of the Queen of Hearts.
No need to get fancy with cutting mats and stanley knives

A specialist piece of equipment called a pair of scissors. You can find these for sale in magic shops for between £30-£40.
Or at the Poundshop.

V.E. Day wrote:Or at the Poundshop.

How much are they there?

I used scissors, and made a wonderfully short card with great ease.

Sandpaper, really?

Tjex

If you boil wash one of your playing cards for half an hour it should shrink it.
It'll save you going to the Poundshop.

Or if you're super-lazy, take one out of a SV deck and replace the matching card in the regular deck.

I love it how beginners ask a perfectly valid question and get nothing but sarcasm.

OP: You can buy a pre cut card, or you can buy a corner shorting machine, or you can use nail clippers.

If you get stuck, feel free to PM me.

Dye Vernon wrote:I love it how beginners ask a perfectly valid question and get nothing but sarcasm.
OP: You can buy a pre cut card, or you can buy a corner shorting machine, or you can use nail clippers.

If you get stuck, feel free to PM me.

There were also sensible suggestions. Try reading a thread more thoroughly in future.
Thanks

Little tip if you make your own though, do it with a brand new deck. If you shorten a card from an already used deck, you will find you have a nice little white line showing along the side you've
shortened.

hds02115 wrote:Little tip if you make your own though, do it with a brand new deck. If you shorten a card from an already used deck, you will find you have a nice little white line showing along the side you've
shortened.

Unless you go the sandpaper route (and we're talking the really fine, wet & dry stuff here, BTW) ....quickest way to refresh dirty/well-handled edges and corners

Maybe I'll have to give that a go next time. I usually always have a short card in my deck, the 3 of diamonds. I normally just skim a little bit off the end of the card when they're fresh out the box with a sharp knife.

Here's an advice you will really like:

Go and inspect your bicycle cards. You will find some off center cards, which is what I realized in most Bicycle Seconds cards. I loved them for that single reason.

So find a card that is off the center to the bottom maybe. Which means that one pip will have a bigger gap with the short side of the card, than the other pip. This helps when cutting the card. It will still look like a normal card even when cut shorter.

You like the card up using a right angle ruler to hold the side of the card, and a regular ruler to draw a pencil line along where you want to cut. This way the card will still stay normal looking.

Now you will need a round corner for your short card, so with scissors all you do is estimate and make a round cut.

However, if you can't do an estimate and afraid of ruining your card, go to the architecture supplies. and get this apparatus ( comes in transparent green and transparent yellow ) which has holes in it. Actually, here's how it looks like: http://s3images.coroflot.com/user_files ... abSJrd.jpg" target="_blank

See the corners of it ?? They come in different radius sizes, on each corner. Line it up with your card and see what corner best fits the cut on your card. Trace it with a pencil, and now cut it with heavy duty scissors, which happen to be steady and do not cut fast.

How about just corner shortening the cards? Not so easy to spot and, provided you riffle down the deck using the corners rather than the edges, it'll work in the same way.