Soak + Grade 

HOLY COW!! Gem mint 10!?!?🤯 from those crazy damages that would definitrly drop it way down in grade, to getting it like that, thats just damn incredible 👏🏽 im so glad i found your channel and am looking forward to getting a kit of yours and a humidor to really start restoring a bunch of cards that really need it. Vintage don mattingly's, ryne sandberg's, mark mcgwire's, jeter's, etc. Cant wait to see them come back to life!

You beat the system. That's awesome. PSA are such sticklers for perfection and they are so quick to either ding minor blemishes or hit you with an "altered" designation. The way you got rid of the "zipper dent" on the back was nothing short of genius. Eventually, PSA wi'll find ways to disqualify "card cleaning". But for now, keep fighting the good fight.

YOU THE MAN KURT! Nice work. Got my humidor all setup today. Letting it set over night. After church it’s go time. (Josh)

Lovin these card soak vids - thank you!

what are you soaking it in? the card spray? sorry if i missed in the vid

If Panini wants to sell cards for an arm and a leg, they should have an intricate quality control.

It's okay for a printing company to produce that but not okay to fix?? Gimme a break

more like Merlin's Card care. ;-) nice work Kurt. looks great!

Absolutely loving the products from your store and significantly increasing my grade values. One thing I have been struggling with is reusing the wax applicator and microfiber towel. Can you give a piece of advice on cleaning these tools to be able to use for a longer period of time. Thank you for all your knowledge 🙏

The work you do it truly an art. Unreal results to fix the imperfections that folks receive all day long due to poor QC from these manufactures on product delivery. I watch these videos and am just blown away with the results you get. I know some folks have acted like this is a concern but I think it is truly an art. Kudos!🔥

What are the plates and clamps you use called? Thanks Kurt!

Any comment on the jackie getting decertified ? Interested to know your feeling as my full time gig is comic pressing and ive been doing it 10 years now. Great videos very informative... if i would give u advice its to probably always stay side of caution dont push envolpe of the graders our industry is going through a change as we with stain removal techniques im not a huge fan of chemicals and peroxide and lights being used it make the paper quality feel and look unnatural.

Is there a way to flatten out warped/bent prizm cards? Like when they get that annoying bend to them, most the time right out of the pack they are like that. Do you have any vids on that issue?

What’s your suggestion with numbered cards like this?

Fantastic video. And I believe in magic that I looked at this video

Awesome I’m going to soak all my cards in water!

wow

Wow thats great

I did this technique with a Chrome Sapphire. Sandwiched it between directly between two flat and smooth pieces of plastic, then clipped with laundry pegs. Left it for a week to dry out. Result came out even worse as I believe pressure from the pegs may have’d been too high so dipped it again and let it lay flat with the face(plastic) up. Thought the weight of the plastic face will put a pressure on its own, while the moist evaporates at its own pace in room temperature. Unfortunately the biggest issue is a water damage on the Sapphire background, all around the edges and at this point I completely don’t know how to fix it. Any advice and help would be appreciated 🙏🏻

Do you use a pseudonym to grade your cards

The reflection of your lights predicted the 10. 😄

HEY KURT! Is there anyway you could show fixing surface scratches on the clear Rookie ticket autos? If possible? Great videos! Keep it up! 💪😎

For vintage is it also about the same time to soak like time lapse?

Had some edges splitting around the card but still followed the steps and after a day between pads and then a day between just the plates it came back to normal! I even tried pulling the edges back apart by dragging my thumb across them back and forth and they were solid and wouldn’t come back apart! This was on a base card for practice people of earth! Don’t try on a Mahomes rookie first try like the guy down there 👇 did

If a card split or a corner split, is it still fixable? Also do we have to use card spray for the soak? Would there be an alternative?

Did you dry the card in the humidor or just let it air dry between the two plates & pads?

Is that water? Or your card care spray? That it’s soaking in?

This man is a genius! #CardGuru

So scared to do this. Lol. Hit a 2014 Mookie Betts /50 and it has a dent on the front bottom left corner.

what did you soak it in...

Just Pulled a cool mcgwire insert from a 91 upper deck box. Same zipper mark. Going to try it since the card isn't worth a lot but it'd be cool for my pc if it was better than it is now.

Go Kurt! great video

Great stuff Kurt thanks man!

This is Amazing! I have a Ja Morant Select Auto with a similar problem. What can I do to fix it? Can I soak it with the sticker Auto?

What do you soak the cards in? I just got a kit

Keep up the good work

Bought my first shipment and received it today. Looking forward to trying it myself. Could you do an autographed sticker card? That's what I have the most of right now that I would attempt to grade.

I'm new. What did you soak it in? Your cleaning solution or plain water?

Is there anything i can do for a vintage beauty with, what i believe is, a water mark on the corner?

Just ordered a kit off your site today! where did you get the glass plates and what size were they? Any tips on maintaining your polishing swabs?

What kind of water did I soak it in? Distilled water? Or the liquid from your spray

cool, supportive of what you do and share TY

I’m trying this on my Joe Burrow 2020 optic but only half the scratches are coming off. Do you think I should resoak it in after it dries?

Sorry , I'll never do that in a million years . Mine are all old vintage . I'm sellin like they are

Kurt please don’t make the mistake I did and soak a normal rated rookie card that’s not optic. I ruined a Patrick mahomes rookie card by that. And please don’t make the same mistka

Is there any way to get those roller lines out of the back? Even after the soak they're still there.

Wow

The Wizard!! 🙌🙌

Didn't work, my card got absolutely destroyed genius!

Does anyone know if this can be done on 1994 topps finest cards, or the 90’s, 2000s, chromium type cards in general??

Hey Kurt, do you have a video of how to get rid of the same kind of surface damage on Pokémon cards? I’m pretty sure we can’t soak but maybe I could use the spray you sell for certain areas?

Would that work on tcg cards

Do u soak in distilled water?

What did u soak it in? Water?

Can wait to try this with my 52 Mantle

Would that work on the chrome front the same way? I always seem to find a few Panini cards with factory roller indents.