From what I have seen online, double sleeving and using a toploader is recommended for storing and grading. Does this look ok? Is the fact that the sleeves look wrinkled and tightly pressed against the card a problem? Before I move some of my better vintage from boxes and binders I wanted to get informed opinions.
by McChickieTendies
8 Comments
You have the right idea, but make sure that sleeve goes all the way into the toploader. Knock it on a hard surface to make the sleeve slide down
Is this not overkill for a $13 card
First of all, you should be able to assess on your own whether you think your card is safe…
The semi-rigid card saver sleeve you used here is very tight. If you stick a card in a penny sleeve into it, you could probably just smooth out those wrinkles.
That looks safe enough to me, but top loaders are rigid plastic and offer way more protection
Use a perfect fit for the inside sleeve, and a normal penny sleeve for the outer. putting it in two same size sleeves will make it ripple like that. I like to put the card upside down in the perfect fit flip it right side and put in the penny, than toploader or cardsaver as normal.
I personally prefer the hard top loaders. They’re both thicker and you can tuck your sleeved cards all the way in!
Not a fan of Card Savers, more for just when sending into Grade. Also i feel a card if it wanted to could still warp in them. Plus the card saver is bendy, thus the card can still get damaged. Plus odd size to them, depend how youd like store. I think after reading some other comments you should get Toploaders. They are much more harder. Better protection long term. Just the penny sleeve and slide in, tap a roo down and their good. Some of my cards ill even get KMC perfect fit sleeves, kmc sleeve from Top down. Then Penny sleeve normal from bottom up gives a full locked in 360 protection. Even makes them more snug and secure in toploders to not slide around in penny sleeve within the toploader. Also protects any spills, dust, cards slipping out top edge getting exposed. But thats going one step beyond you dont really need to do. But the best part about toploaders, there is Topload binders out there now, you can slide the whole toploaded card into bigger sleeved binder pages. I use FunGuys binders, can find on Amazon. Many out there tho. Might be something youd like to fully store them with the full protection and still be able to browse and look instead of loading up old etb boxes with toploaders. Might interest you. Basically thats what i did with all my Rare Holo and Non holos from Base set, jungle, fossil, rocket, some neo, some expedition, aquapolis, skyridge i had from my Childhood. Then I just bought cpl boxes of new ultra pro 9 pocket page sleeves, couple Strait D Binder and Re-stored all my Commons and Uncommons into individual sleeves. Most cost effective way for the sheer amount of duplicates, these days people would consider bulk, glad i kept. I had multiples of same cards stashed into their pockets. Pages were ready to bust! Dunno why as a kid i felt i had to keep so tightly, instead of expanding pages and binders. But now i got like full pages of each pokemon, its kind of awesome. Didnt really know how much i really had until i went through all this process of re homing them in something fresh and better protection. Long reply lol Hope it helps, Cheers!
Semi rigids are great for submissions. But storing long term I prefer toploaders
i hate how tight the ultra pro card savers are