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Playing Card Plethora / Weed and Playing Cards - A Case for Hemp
« on: June 02, 2017, 03:02:22 PM »
I don't really care if you smoke weed or if you don't like drugs or whatever. Just here me out.

Hemp paper was used to make the Gutenberg Bible. Hemp paper was used to write the first two drafts of the Declaration of Independence. Hemp, the stalk of the plant that has been the center of the drug war for a century, is finally reaching a point where it can have an impact.

I want to ask what you all think about the idea of taking hemp paper, with fibers that are noticeably stronger and longer lasting than normal paper from trees, and using them as part of card stock. Has anyone thought about the potential use it would have? Not only is it a negative carbon footprint, but it also offers for the potential to control the process of playing card manufacturing even further.

Think about it. With recent developments, paper thickness has become a varying degree to such an extent that you can get custom made Bees with the thickness of Bikes, and vice versa.

So I ask, is this a future that we could see?

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Playing Card Plethora / Conjuring Arts Decks - Pre-2012
« on: April 16, 2017, 08:34:12 AM »
I'm a magician that loves playing cards. They're some of my favorite things to use when doing magic, and there's often something about a great deck of cards that makes you want to practice and use them that's indescribable.

Yet, today's market doesn't offer that quality you once had in the days of Vernon and Miller.

Which is why I'm so curious as to why Conjuring Arts stopped making decks through USPCC.

Red, Green, Black Acorn Backs, with the choice of Cambric and Ivory (my personal favorite being Ivory), along with amazing cards like the Erdnase 216s, Professional Bicycles, and the original Skull & Bones, Conjuring Arts was a powerhouse in pushing out great decks. Bill Kalush was a monster with his releases.

So why did they stop? Those decks were incredible. The Professional Bikes makes sense, as Richard Turner took over that market with a cheaper deck, but those other decks were great. I'm sure they could have done more runs of those decks and they would have sold out. Even decks like the Exquisite Bolds were groundbreaking when they came out.

I know that CA works a lot with ECC and Legends, and a lot of their new decks are great (lookin at you Superior Brand), but those old decks.....I miss them.

Anybody else feel the same way? Anyone know what happened? Thanks ahead of time.

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The Conversation Parlor / Whatever Happened To DealingDeuces
« on: March 19, 2017, 10:45:16 AM »
I have been saving up literally hundreds of dollars to buy the Arrco Tahoe reprints they were selling, and I just searched them and their website isn't showing up. Does someone know something I don't?

I'm asking because I've wanted the Tahoe Black and White decks for years now, and being a 15 with no job didnt really help.  Now that I have one, I've been wanting to buy their stock of Tahoes for myself, as well as the other decks they had to offer.

Can anyone help me out here?

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