Grading tutorial? Advice before you submit?

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I use a card centering scale, black light, a magnifying glass (5-10x) as well as a digital microscope that has a display unit on it. Works on coins well and a bonus with cards too.

I am also experimenting with a digital readout manual caliper to try and gauge card H x W. I am a bit uncomfortable with this at the moment as I am nervous as to what it may be doing to the card edges. I have been searching for a complete digital measuring version of this that is calibrated well. But I have not found one just yet. There has to be an ‘app for that’ but I have not seen it yet.

Not sure if that meets the OCD bar, but I imagine it is in the ballpark.

With HOF cards that are older, it really does not come into play for me. Regardless of condition, I will tend to grade them. For newer cards in much better condition, I can get a bit more selective with what I will select.

I asked this question here about a year ago and it was pretty much ‘do what you like.’

So I came up with the above.