Hi Common Magician, Thnx a lot for this amazing DIY tutorial ! I just made my stripper deck, following your instructions (I already had a cutter for my photos). Great :-) It's clean, flawless and works perfectly. Although it's almost undetectable with a Bicycle deck, I would suggest to rather use a borderless deck, like Bee. Thnx again.
Nice! I've been meaning to try making one of these. Saw the scam school video, and I am a sucker for using power tools, but I figured the sanding would produce results as you mentioned. When cutting the second side do you find it's better to square the card along the previously cut edge or the top uncut edge?
You should square against the cut edge and push the card all the way to the top where it stops. Also note that the Scam School method actually worked properly by hand sanding with sand paper (I have done it with metal files). Brian concluded in that episode that a power sander did not work. This method here makes for a MUCH cleaner and professional result.
Hej hej, great input. I never used a stripper ... I am sure I have one from a magic shop, but I do my routines with regular decks... But I am happy to try anything new. Would the cutting also work with a smaller and shorter pull blade? Like on the small and cheap cutters? Thank you and cheers,
Stripper deck is actually the best card controlling system in card magic. Almost everyone knows when doing card tricks, you'll have to control the card to the top or the bottom. The stripper system will let SOME of them think like 'huh how he controlled the card to the bottom or the top'? Or 'I know he controlled the card to the top of the bottom, only how'?
Good tutorial, only that cutting less than 1 mm on either side is too difficult and you need a very precise cutter, it's way easier to cut 1 mm or a bit more in just one side and it works just the same
I have no experience with those. I don't even really use regular strippers for much. My understanding of the n-stripper concept is that cards are bowed on the edge leaving specific, predetermined control cards (like the aces) in regular condition. By doing this, the cards can be handled by anyone and even table washed because the control cards are accessible in any orientation. I think the n-stripper is more of a one-trick (or one type of a trick) kind of concept.
@@thecommonmagician Jason England released a work on them and I came upon that but man, that was hard to get the feel. I think you are wrong about "one trick". Yea, you have pre-determined cards you can control, but you can have lets say aces, kings and queens if I recall correctly. And you are able to pick what you want to control by positioning of the fingers on the deck. You cant control any card tho. But you can pull countless tricks/routines/gambling demonstrations by using that principle. I just couldnt get the tilt of the deck to be able to strip the wanted cards, and in the same time to do it all looking natural.
@@jasonsilbermanmagic yes that helps thank you 😊 can you make the same tricks with different hand moves or whats the difference? should be a sense for long or short edge right?
Sinceramente lo trovo inutile creare un mazzo stripper deck fai date, invece di comprarlo direttamente, per due motivi: 1) a livello di costo tra un mazzo normale e uno stripper deck (comprati tutte e due) è di un 1,5€, già solo la piccolissima differenza di prezzo, non vale la fatica che vado a fare. 2) il lavoro manuale che uno fa per tagliare le carte non è mai preciso rispetto a quelle costruite con macchinari industrializzati, che sono di precisione, anzi addirittura facendolo in modo manuale si rischia di sbagliare e di rovinare un mazzo di carte. Quindi in conclusione ne vale la pena fare tutta questa fatica rischiando che il mazzo non risulta fatto bene quindi rovinato per un a misera somma di differenza?
Well, you don't have to buy a new cutter each time you need a deck, of course. Lots of people may already have this type of cutter and creating decks on your own allows you to customize your taper... etc. This also allows you to have a stripper deck in any graphic design that you wish to buy and in in any combination of additional gaffing. Lots of benefits to this DIY... but if you work exclusively with Bicycles, absolutely, buying a fresh gaffed deck every now and then can be more economical (in time and money).
Great video BUT a constructive criticism is I may the sound you make when swallowing your spit or I dont know why is veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery annoying
Great explanation of striper deck.
Hi Common Magician,
Thnx a lot for this amazing DIY tutorial !
I just made my stripper deck, following your instructions (I already had a cutter for my photos). Great :-)
It's clean, flawless and works perfectly.
Although it's almost undetectable with a Bicycle deck, I would suggest to rather use a borderless deck, like Bee.
Thnx again.
Nice! I've been meaning to try making one of these. Saw the scam school video, and I am a sucker for using power tools, but I figured the sanding would produce results as you mentioned.
When cutting the second side do you find it's better to square the card along the previously cut edge or the top uncut edge?
You should square against the cut edge and push the card all the way to the top where it stops. Also note that the Scam School method actually worked properly by hand sanding with sand paper (I have done it with metal files). Brian concluded in that episode that a power sander did not work. This method here makes for a MUCH cleaner and professional result.
Hej hej,
great input. I never used a stripper ... I am sure I have one from a magic shop, but I do my routines with regular decks... But I am happy to try anything new.
Would the cutting also work with a smaller and shorter pull blade? Like on the small and cheap cutters?
Thank you and cheers,
Stripper deck is actually the best card controlling system in card magic. Almost everyone knows when doing card tricks, you'll have to control the card to the top or the bottom.
The stripper system will let SOME of them think like 'huh how he controlled the card to the bottom or the top'? Or 'I know he controlled the card to the top of the bottom, only how'?
Hey man ! Thank you so much for your videos ! You really upload amazing videos . Where can I find this card cutter ?
Good tutorial, only that cutting less than 1 mm on either side is too difficult and you need a very precise cutter, it's way easier to cut 1 mm or a bit more in just one side and it works just the same
Love this thanks!
How long did it take you to shave one deck?
i would have never thought to cut both sides. was that mostly an aesthetic decision?
A small trim to both sides makes a single card quite examinable. It's twice the work for 100x the payoff in close up use.
@@thecommonmagician would cutting the opposite side of an existing stripper deck work just as well?
@@ESPecialEntertainment it might make the taper too drastic. Cut small on 2 sides to make it just right.
The cheapest cards I can find are buying a brick at a time from Sam's Club (or BJ's or Costco's). $16/12 decks!
nice video . i am making one of this now!
Wow i want to make this
Could you teach the ultra move by Lorrayne pls?
More stripper deck tricks please. :)
Thank you
Cool 👍 👍
Have you any experience with negative strippers? How easy/hard is get handle on that?
I have no experience with those. I don't even really use regular strippers for much. My understanding of the n-stripper concept is that cards are bowed on the edge leaving specific, predetermined control cards (like the aces) in regular condition. By doing this, the cards can be handled by anyone and even table washed because the control cards are accessible in any orientation. I think the n-stripper is more of a one-trick (or one type of a trick) kind of concept.
@@thecommonmagician Jason England released a work on them and I came upon that but man, that was hard to get the feel.
I think you are wrong about "one trick". Yea, you have pre-determined cards you can control, but you can have lets say aces, kings and queens if I recall correctly. And you are able to pick what you want to control by positioning of the fingers on the deck.
You cant control any card tho.
But you can pull countless tricks/routines/gambling demonstrations by using that principle.
I just couldnt get the tilt of the deck to be able to strip the wanted cards, and in the same time to do it all looking natural.
can anyone explain me the difference between side stripper deck and end stripper deck? :x
Side strippers are cut on the long side of the cards and edge strippers are cut on the top of the cards. Hope that helps!
@@jasonsilbermanmagic yes that helps thank you 😊 can you make the same tricks with different hand moves or whats the difference? should be a sense for long or short edge right?
Sinceramente lo trovo inutile creare un mazzo stripper deck fai date, invece di comprarlo direttamente, per due motivi: 1) a livello di costo tra un mazzo normale e uno stripper deck (comprati tutte e due) è di un 1,5€, già solo la piccolissima differenza di prezzo, non vale la fatica che vado a fare. 2) il lavoro manuale che uno fa per tagliare le carte non è mai preciso rispetto a quelle costruite con macchinari industrializzati, che sono di precisione, anzi addirittura facendolo in modo manuale si rischia di sbagliare e di rovinare un mazzo di carte. Quindi in conclusione ne vale la pena fare tutta questa fatica rischiando che il mazzo non risulta fatto bene quindi rovinato per un a misera somma di differenza?
Any turorial on making belly stripper ?
nice tutorial, but having 5 minutes of talk before the actual tutorial is a bit long
card cutter is more expensive than a stripper deck but i liked it XD
Well, you don't have to buy a new cutter each time you need a deck, of course. Lots of people may already have this type of cutter and creating decks on your own allows you to customize your taper... etc. This also allows you to have a stripper deck in any graphic design that you wish to buy and in in any combination of additional gaffing. Lots of benefits to this DIY... but if you work exclusively with Bicycles, absolutely, buying a fresh gaffed deck every now and then can be more economical (in time and money).
Great video
BUT a constructive criticism is I may
the sound you make when swallowing your spit or I dont know why
is veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery annoying
That's a new one.