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Playing Card Chat ♠ ♥ ♣ ♦ => Playing Card Plethora => The Pasteboard Bazaar - Sales, Trades & In Search Of (STISO) => Topic started by: JMMJ on December 21, 2011, 11:29:42 PM
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I am looking for a used ghost gaff deck, it always buggs me that if I don't buy new ghosts each time I get the gaff that the gaff cards stick out because they are cleaner.Name your price
Thanks,
Jeff
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E will soon release them again.
Edit : i thought you wanted a new one. Sorry for my mistake.
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Why don't you just play with your gaff deck to use them a bit so they match the main deck?
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I have a used Ghost gaff deck but they aren't as heavily used as a regular deck. It's an unfortunate fact that your gaff cards are a lot less prone to wear and tear unless you use them exactly as often as your regular deck.
Moon's idea is pretty good - spend some time shuffling and handling your gaffs like they were a regular deck and they'll start to match a worn deck of Ghosts. Only drawback to that is that you're adding wear and tear to an expensive deck of cards, reducing their shelf life.
Is the wear issue that serious, that your gaffs really stand out like a sore thumb? Sometimes, you'll see one thing because you know what something is supposed to look like, but your spectator will see something else because they have no idea what to expect. It's a popular idea among magicians - "Don't run when you aren't being chased."
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Very true on that last point, I was hoping that maybe some one who didn't really use theirs would be willing to sell me theirs so I wouldn't have to wait for E
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Oh, I see that E is out of stock. Try hitting up some of the magic shops like Tannen's. They sell the E gaff decks.
http://www.tannens.com/shop//cart.php?m=product_detail&p=7094
They're in stock. Check them out, they have a lot of other great stuff as well.
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I can deffinetly see why you would be worried, I get the same sort of thing when I make a gimmick from one deck and place it in another, but whilst it irks me a bit you shouldn't be to worried as I've never had a spectator say anything about that, its just one of those things that makes us paranoid :)
But I'm sure someone has one on here they'd be willing to sell to you :)
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Thank you mr. Sabacc, That was most helpful!
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You're welcome. Tannen's is a legendary New York magic shop that's been in continuous operation (with perhaps seven relocations) since 1925. The founder, Louis Tannen, published and re-published quite a number of the best magic manuals around - a fair percentage of the books at dananddave.com were published at one point or another by Tannen. His shop also creates and packages unique magic effects for anything from street illusions all the way up to major stage productions. The shop also operates a legendary summer camp for budding child magicians, one of the most famous attendees being David Blaine.
Anyone with any serious involvement with magic in New York has at least heard of if not set foot in Tannen's. I like to think of it as the best little store you're never heard of, because they don't advertise much beyond their own website. The store is on the sixth floor of a nondescript office building across the street from the Empire State Building; there are no storefront windows and no signs indicating that an 86-year-old magic institution resides within. If you have a desire to learn about magic, you'll hear about Tannen's from somewhere, and that's where the regular clientele come from - no looky-loo tourists looking for trinkets to bring home or kids cutting school to shoplift! There's a fair chance that at any given time during the store's short day - open only from noon to six on weekdays, even less on weekends - you'll find a few local magicians, perhaps a pro, perhaps a hobbyist, all milling about talking shop and showing off tricks to each other.
I'd be very surprised if during his "mecca" to New York, Alex doesn't stop in if only for a little look-around. He's probably been there many times before.