Gearing up

Built up a new setup for pulling sets of collated cards.   Same setup on the other side.  We’ll walk around the stand pulling cards to make up base sets.  I have designed a carousel to do the same job, but where the bins rotate around, and we can sit and pull.  Like a lazy susan on a table.  But I have not built that yet, so this will do for now.

Buying back a sketch card

I just bought this card on Ebay.  It is so cool, I wanted it for my own collection.  A great rendering by Scott Tolleson, of a Suckpax 1 card, done for a Suckpax 2 sketch card.  A trading card moebius strip.  Two great tastes blended in one.

Weird looping, it literally passed through our hands here at SideKick, and now is back after passing through the packaging, shipping, buying, collecting, reselling, process.

The words of Tony Montana were in my ears as I clicked the bid button on Ebay:  “Don’t get high on your own supply”.  Oh well.

Vintage Trading Card Boxes

I was looking through my archive of vintage card boxes, looking for ideas for the upcoming Tractor series.

While I had them laid out, shot some photos to share.

about 1/3 of the boxes above are full with packs from their series.

These are all published in the early 90’s by FPG.  I am fascinated by the company.  They did foil packs, which is a neg, but what I love is that they were completely focused on Fantasy Art.  Each series was focused on one artist.  I believe they put out about 120 different series, from 1991 to 1995.  A trading card dealer at the Philly show told me that a divorce caused the end of the company.

I have about 25 full sealed boxes so far, and the complete-ist collector inside me has accepted the challenge to get a full set of every unique box they produced.

Bin Boxes for pulling sets

Spent the day making up more bin boxes:

Each bin holds about 800 each of 6 different cards.  Pieces of 1/8″ masonite are used for back and long dividers.  The short dividers are slices of house siding, trimed to 2-1/4″ deep, and 2-5/8″ wide.  liberal glue, and clamping put them together in minutes.  Final step is to wipe the inside corners to remove excess glue.  Otherwise, card corners might be dinged.

The Donald is pulling base card sets (for Suckpax series 2).  We set out enough bins to hold all the different base cards, and then pull one from each slot to make a set. He walks down the line, pulling cards, and then walks back gathering up the cards.

I am designing a large carosel, like a lazy susan, that will hold a ring of outward facing bins.  That way, whoever is pulling sets can sit and spin the carosel in front of them instead of walking along a line of bins.  Possibly use a car rim/bearing as the hub, set vertically on a tripod.