How where t206's cut?

[steve B]

It's anyones guess how a grading co would handle a rough cut. It's a gray area, as a rough cut could be trimming, or just rough.

Here's the Needham I sent in. Sov 460, correct size, just rough top and bottom borders. The more I think about it, the more comfortable I am that they wouldn't assign a grade.
A really close look will show it's not trimmed, but if they slab borderline or oddly made stuff it's trouble with people that arent familiar with some of the tecnical aspects of how things got made. I'd love to have seen it in maybe a 60 or more likely a 50 holder, but I can understand why they wouldn't.

I wonder if they'd slab it with the MIS flip they printed? I've never seen one done that way and I figure I only got the MIS because I opted for no A slabs.

I'd hope someday there will be a more detailed grading service that could make allowances for cards like this with factory but odd cuts, or cards that are factory but undersize.

Steve B

[Ronnie73]

Miscut and Trimmed are two different things. PSA uses the qualifier (MC) for miscut cards. A miscut would be a factory cut. Maybe better luck with a PSA slab since SGC doesn't have qualifiers and would only give an A grade.

[Sterling Sports Auctions]

How are the diamond cuts explained?

Lee

[Ronnie73]

A diamond cut is a cut that slants at an angle usually left to right on the top and bottom of a card. So the card have a diamond shape. It happens because there is not enough surface area to clamp the cards down to cut them and they sometimes fan out at an angle when cut. Now when the next card is cut, its at an angle too because the cards are positioned smooth against the fence as explained in my first post. Usually once a sheet is cut at an angle, the rest are at an angle too. Just like building a house, if the first wall is tilted and everything else is measured from that tilted wall, then the whole house will be tilted.

[FrankWakefield]

Lee... If you took a dozen index cards, held them stacked together, then tried to cut them all at once with scissors, then you'd see them shift a bit so that all 12 aren't cut exactly the same. That shift is what resulted in the slight diamond cut. In looking at that old paper cutter, that wheel at the top would be turned tight against whatever you were cutting to avoid shift. The other thing to do was to cut a few sheets at a time, instead of a bunch.