Dealing with imperfection

Na for jungle you want grass debris, fossil you want a dead insect, ex sandstorm - sand haha

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I’ve never found a solution beyond buying a new binder every so often. :skull:

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I have a solution I use…it makes flipping through the pages a bit annoying but you know those pieces of thin tissue paper stuff you get in brand new binders? There’s usually one at either end and one in the middle. I just bought some more similar paper, cut pieces to size and put them between each page. Stops the plastic of opposing page sleeves rubbing against each other in storage and causing the scuffing :+1:

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Is this flaw eregious enough?

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Several of my PSA holders have this exact error. It is on the surface of the plastic, I assume it is something from the manufacturing process. It is funny because those spots will actually catch light in weird ways, like fiber optics do. If you shine a light on the back of the card, sometimes it’ll actually illuminate those square spots. It almost makes it look like there is a hole in the card. :joy::sweat_smile:

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Fortunately, I haven’t gotten cards with that error or issues on the artwork itself. I would probably consider reholdering in this case.

I actually just found an old pic on my phone showing this phenomenon.

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Wow that doesn’t look pretty

First you have to understand how slabs are made and why they have those “imperfections”.

Those plastic slabs were moulded in mass quantities, in which molten resin is injected into a mould to form each half of the slab. No matter how precise the engineers calculated, the volume of resin injected will often have some tiny amount of excess resin. With nowhere else to go, those tiny amounts of excess resin will form tiny patterns on your slab which you called “imperfections”.

Anything manufactured in mass quantities, will have some imperfections or flaws. It is expected. Chill.

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