What is the point of cracking a card out of a holder?

[pclpads]

Originally Posted by begsu1013

table saw* straight thru the middle of the flip, pliers, short-handled flat head screwdriver and gloves.

Re: table saw - How do you hold a "freed" card with stubbies for fingers, when your four fingers and thumb are lying on the floor next to the busted slab?

[begsu1013]

Originally Posted by pclpads

Re: table saw - How do you hold a "freed" card with stubbies for fingers, when your four fingers and thumb are lying on the floor next to the busted slab?

obviously, youre not a golfer.

[pclpads]

Originally Posted by begsu1013

obviously, youre not a golfer.

Never used a sand iron to open a slab either.

[CW]

No worries with SawStop, guys.

[Den*nis O*Brien]

.....be in my head all week. What a great post. I'm pulling out the vinyl now. I'm not sure that the "Young Sprouts", on the board got the source of your inspiration "Off The Bat" but...the "Geezers" sure did. Thank you!!!

[steve B]

I must be the only one that really doesn't like binders.

I started working at putting all my cards in binders in the 80's. By about 88 I figured I'd need 30 ft of shelves to fit just the Topps regular issues. So I started removing them all gradually. (Not to mention some of my pages were the old PVC ones )

Along the way I've seen a lot of otherwise nice cards with a nice neat crease right down the center from having gotten a bit stuck in a sheet. And the ones with the three ring dent either at the side from the pages not going back quite right, or in the middle from people not using D ring binders and not being careful turning the pages. Or curled from being in the #9 spot and the pages slumped.

Yeah, stuff looks nice in a binder, but I'll take toploaders over binders pretty much every time. I'm down to maybe 3 binders.

Steve B

[unamuzd1]

For a lot of the low-grade t206s I buy, the holder adds little to no value, and I find them generally clunky. I also keep my t206s in a binder, but I use one of the least efficient means possible. I use 4-pocket pages, with each raw card in its own penny sleeve and toploader in a slot on the page. As it happens, 4-pocket page pockets are big enough to accommodate a slabbed card as well.

Here's a fairly random page with 4 slabbed cards tucked away. (Sorry for the blur - my scanner hates scanning cards in slabs...)



Short form: I crack the card out when the holder doesn't add value and/or gets in the way of my ability to appreciate the card.