Its great to see more and more gaff card creation guides showing up all over the net. Mrfuzz @ Instructables has posted his “Ultimate Guide to Making Gaff Cards“. Nothing that has not already been covered in the “Phatus Guide to Creating Gaff Cards” but nonetheless this proves that more and more people are making their own gaff cards using similar techniques. Link to instructable…
Cards4magic.co.uk Is selling a product called Stick-A-Pip® in which you can purchase a sheet of pips which contains 30 large pips, 20 small pips, 4 A’s for aces and 2 of other symbols for just £7.50 | The pips “are made of very thin and removable PVC film which is durable, water-resistant and has a matte finish that is a perfect match for your poker sized Bicycle 808® Cards”. Its very cool to see new methods of creating gaffs and this one is definitely original. Check it out here or at the manufacture’s website here.
[via bicycle-cards.co.uk]
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.
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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.
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.
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.
How To Make Gaff Cards
(By Phatus Magic)
