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With your Changing Glue, what pattern do you draw on your cards? I wonder if it's best to go around all the edges or to do a big X so you can separate more easily

Personally, I wouldn't go around all of the edges.

I keep them towards the centers of the cards, this way I can get a finger or nail in the edges to help separate.

Oh, reason I ask is I have trouble with edges showing as 2 cards, esp when you separate a pair, they get a big bend, then you stick another card on during the trick. You can't spend time checking whether the bends match while trying to misdirect

It depends on what you are doing with the cards. I have Whts Mine Is Mine, where you place the card on top, so you need it to be sticky all round. If you are doing an effect where you need the card to appear when it has been shown that it isn't in the deck, then you do need an unstuck part to make it easier to lift.

Thanks for the tips by the way, I want to make my own street prediction, using a different coloured card. I never knew what glue to use before.
One of the best money saving tips I've heard of in a while. Means I wont have to keep buying decks once the stickyness has gone.

Option wrote:With your Changing Glue, what pattern do you draw on your cards? I wonder if it's best to go around all the edges or to do a big X so you can separate more easily

The other totally surefire way is if you're Changin' the backs of cards with a white margin, colour the back all the way to the margin—leaving the margin clear.

Best of both worlds!

The other totally surefire way is if you're Changin' the backs of cards with a white margin, colour the back all the way to the margin—leaving the margin clear

I find a lot of it depends on the actual effect in question. If you are doing something that has to be split during the effect then I try to use as little glue as possible to avoid the slight scchhlllllliiccck as it rips apart.

If however doing an effect where they need to be merely stuck together to hide something at the end, then more glue is fine as the ripping apart can be done at reset time, away from lay ears.