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You know that round here at Phatus Magic we are all about saving you more time in your creations. From printing 6 gaffs at once to easier methods of creation. Here is one more spice on the rack to assist you should you share that same philosophy. A full set of 52 Playing card scans so you will never have to waste anymore time trying to scan in your cards for gaffs. The following are 2.5″x3.5″ scans at 200 dpi.
Enjoy!

We are now releasing a public re-distributable copy of our Gaff Card Creation Guide (aka PGCGC) in PDF format. This guide is much more extensive and detailed than any of our current public projects regarding gaff card creation. There is even a chapter involving an experimental method of applying a new finish to your gaff should you use loose the old finish in the blanking process. It also includes a section at the end that we will use to append information and advancements obtained from the community. This will be an on going, updated document with more future releases to come. Please feel free to re-distribute this document as much as you like. We only ask that you credit the Phatus Magic Community if you do.

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If you would like to add information and experiments to this project, please feel free to email us or post something in the forums.

Give this a try
3 Files (all are in OpenOffice’s Calc format)

1) MiniDeck-Faces

2) MiniDeck-BlueBacks

3) MiniDeck-RedBacks

3 Steps
1) Get your favorite cardstock paper and print file 1.
2) Flip paper and print either file 2 or 3 (note: your paper may already be flipped after the printer gives it back to you).
3)Cut.

If you are feeling really creative, try applying a finish to the sheet as per the “Finish It!” chapter in the PGCGC before cutting.

If you do not have openoffice see this post.

Here are the files in OpenOffice’s xls export 1 | 2 | 3

You know round here at phatus we like ourselves some free any chance we get. Well heres 2 for the weekend. Happy Easter!
First freebee is openoffice.org - OpenOffice is a full suite of “open source” office applications. It supports many formats and best of all its FREE. The Main application of interest at the moment is OpenOffice’s “Calc”. Calc is OpenOffice’s substitute for Microsoft Excel. And quite the substitute it is.

This brings me to my next links. I say if you are gonna print some gaffs, then print some gaffs. Here are two files. Both are “Calc” files that I have created. The files have their cells set to the exact dimensions of a standard playing card and fit 6 cards per sheet.

(One with borders) and
(One without borders). We suggest a thick cardstock paper for the next steps. Simply open the first file with borders in calc, mark the bottom left of the first paper in the printer tray, and print it out. Now cut out the space(s) you would like to print in with a razor knife and straightedge. Now your blanks should embed themselves perfectly in your cutout(s). Now just Tape the back around the perimeter covering as much of the card as you like and as a bonus the face is completely exposed(use laser labels instead of tape for easy peeling). Next, load the second borderless file into Calc. Click the mouse once in the cell that you would like to insert your gaff into. Next From the file menu select (insert, picture, from file), then select your gaff card file. Assuming you cropped your borders good on your image, Calc will automatically scale and center the gaff image in the cell leaving you with 5 other bays available. Use em up, and print it!. Remember to make note of the “BL”(bottom left) that you marked in the first print. The cards should peel easy out of the cardstock (like a sticker), and plus you can save the cardstock as a template for your next 6. This will save you much ink in the long run on test prints.
Here is an attempt at an export to Microsoft excel (no guarantees) Borders | No Borders
Hope you enjoy this.

Note: This is new and experimental, If you have troubles with the template’s sizes or alignment please email us.

Here is a better look at the Ellusionist Red gaff deck. Discountmagic.co.uk has the higher resolution images of the entire deck, you know, the one ellusionist used to let us see. Ellusionist actually still has a link too but thats for another day. This will give you a much better look at a great gaff deck and should spark plenty of gaff card creations.

If so please do not hesitate to email them to admin@phatus.com where we would love to post them to the gallery. They are selling the deck here where you can also view the whole deck or…

The URL to the deck is simply….
http://www.discountmagic.co.uk/redgaffdeck.php

sorry no link, you’ll have to cut and paste that one.
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Pyro222 has released his latest video on how to mark a deck of cards.

If you are a magician of any level I imagine that this video would prove usefull.

DIY Marked Cards - Funny video clips are a click away Here is a link to the instructable for it which contains the images for his method of marking although I recomend you come up with your own.