Nope, I was referring more to the artistic style than the actual person depicted.

Ah, I see what you mean. This is only his second deck with custom faces, and it's been a while since his last one, so were bound to see him stick to a style hes comfortable with.

I remember from the UC boards that he had announced at least 6 months ago.. Doesn't look like much progress has been made since then

It was over a year ago since he posted the back design on facebook. It's also the same picture from facebook, so if changes have been made, they haven't been posted about yet. On the other hand that queen is just a few hours old.

To be honest I'd like to think him being so quiet these past few months means good things are coming, we will soon find out though!

Lance is back to cards it seems! Check it out!

Banknote wins!

EDIT Apparently I don't know the difference between, "Quote" and "Modify"...

Which deck do you love more?


Aladdin


Bank Note

On a side note, do you guys like the pictures?

Quote from: john on December 27, 2013, 10:19:36 PM

Cool, glad to hear you will work with USPC again! About test print runs, have you ever had a run go well and sold it? Such as one of Erdnase decks or other USPC CARC decks? Also what do you do with the remaining decks from a test run?

Hi John,
The test runs I have done I've used standard backs (Bees and Bicycles) and most of the results were excellent. But since they don't strictly conform to what Bee and Bicycle retail feels like we agreed not to retail them. So I just use them myself! (and the Bees especially were terrific). These tests were how we created what I call the "Erdnase Finish" for our Erdnase 216 deck. I would say the Erdnase 216 came out about 85% as good as the results of our most successful test run.
Hope these few details help.

bk

Interesting, thank you for that! Is there a reason why they were only 85% as good?

Also you mentioned before in your previous post that a Smith Back v3 would be happening eventually. Any idea when? Why no smooth finish? Lastly is it safe to assume they will be Bee Casino and the regular ol' finish?

Gaff decks tie!

Which one do you feel is better?

Title says it all, which do you like more?

We definitely will work with other factories and are actively searching for them everyday. As long as they are better than what we are doing or can do innovative things we will work with them.

We sincerely love USPCC. Not so pleased about their Skull project but the brand manager that did that to us is gone and that's water under the bridge. I have made so many decks with USPCC that I understand their process very well and will definitely print with them again. I have an order in with them as we speak but it's primarily for research and I probably won't release them retail. But I have several other decks in the works that can only be printed with them and I am also consulting with friends who are printing there. I'm helping them get the exact feel and cut they want. It's a surprisingly difficult thing to get USPCC to do precisely what you want. You have to be able to tell them exactly what you want and then follow through so that don't leave anything out. It's a big place and lots of moving parts.
I can also say that since Bill Schildman took over and has now made Ashley and Tiffany his point people on custom they have greatly improved how things work over there.

bk

If you were to find a better factory, would all your non USPC decks then be printed through them until you found another better factory? Or would you still use the other factories?

Cool, glad to hear you will work with USPC again! About test print runs, have you ever had a run go well and sold it? Such as one of Erdnase decks or other USPC CARC decks? Also what do you do with the remaining decks from a test run?

Sorry for the questions but as I said before, SUPER interested in the workings of CARC and how run things.

Which crown would you want on your head