Fun With Soaking...

[Harliduck]

I took a couple of doubles of cards I had upgraded and out of boredom the other night I took the tutorial from here on net54 and soaked a few for fun. Thought I would share a couple of before and afters. I soaked a 55, 60 (sucked), 61 (so-so), 62 (not bad), 3 63 Fleers (um, wow), and a 63 Topps (meh).

Here is the 55, a nice creased Moose -



After a nice bath...wow. I'm sure a crease with chipping would have been different, this was more of a big wrinkle...but it came out amazing.




Here is a nice 63 Maury Wills with a solid crease to the bottom right corner -



Here it is "doctored" lol -






I also did a Jim Kaat and Ken Boyer in the 63 Fleers...wow...they certianly look the best for whatever reason. Turned VG cards into EX. I did notice the "smell" changed a bit, smelled cleaner (for all you card sniffers for authenticity, of which I am one). But after proper pressing very hard to tell.

I really don't care about the ethics of this personally as these are cards that were replaced in my PC, I am not a seller/dealer...and wouldn't trade or sell a card I knowingly soaked without calling it out...but certainly is fun to do when bored. My 63 Fleer set is EX+ with no creases (especially after I replaced those cards, lol), but dang, if I did have a creased card I certainly would be dropping it in the water!

Thought I would share...