About soaking cards

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Posted By: E, Daniel

It sounds as though in your last post removing wrinkles/creases in not a big deal in your mind for the cards you collect......
It seems intriguing with every post, the line on what is fair game for 'working' on a card gets moved along a little further, or at least opened for discussion.
So, if allowing soaking, erasing, spooning or other pressing methods for removal of creases and wrinkles, what becomes so different with the remaining methods of altering cards?
If, for instance, you could re-back a card with another original back from the same card example, so that in essence you had two original sides now mated, how different would the card be to what was intended at manufacture?
And then, re trimming, if simply removing some of the card and the remaining portion has not been added to in any way, why is that not as the manufacturer would have designed it?
We all know cards were cut to very unexact dimensions, cards were also hand cut, so if what is left after trimming is the same original card, just slightly different sizes - where is the foul?

Just asking, and not at all having a go at you, as I'm just interested to see how far the line might become blurred once wrinkle/crease removal becomes accepted...


Regards
Daniel