Cutting out box bottom cards???

metalmike20

HI,
I'm sure this has been discussed before but can anyone give me some tips on cutting cards out for grading from box bottoms. What does PSA look for when grading? What are the best methods/tools?? Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!!

Thanks,
Mike

WinPitcher

Hi Mike, from what i understand you will need to cut them out and leave the dotted lines. do not cut along the dotted lines.

others may have more advice, but the dotted line thingy I have heard here many times.

good luck


also some keep the card(s) in panels too.

best you describe what you have so others can give you the proper advice.

SD

metalmike20

Thanks Steve,
What I'm trying to cut out is a 87 topps Walter Payton box bottom. Now the 87 football don't have dotted lines just a solid black line on two sides of the card and then nothing on the other two. What a pain but I need it for my Payton registry set.

Mike

WinPitcher

stay outside of any lines for sure.

sd

jackstraw

Well Mike I have tried this with a few Nolan Ryan cards and they have rejected them everytime? I am not sure what they are looking for?
I would suggest cutting a full 1/16 of an inch outside the black lines and see what happens. I personally think it looks stupid but I think that
is what they are looking for on the box bottoms. I don't see why the lines have to be there but who am I , the reason they are there are for ???????????????????????????????? oh cutting the card out of the box bottom. Sorry for the rant but I spent 12 man hours cutting out cards at office max to have them rejected.

metalmike20

Thanks for the info guys, I might send in a few others just to see what happens before I cut the Payton out. I would have thought to cut ON the black lines not around, go figure. We'll see what happens.

Thanks,
Mike

jackstraw

Mike
On some of the Baseball box cards, like 88 and 90 Topps, they only have 2 black lines so I thought cutting it out 2.5 x 3.5 would have got them through? I don't think PSA even knows or cares about these cards? I think they are great for player collectors but they probably won't see a ton of submissions with them in there. I don't know too much about the Football ones but the Hockey bottoms are the same also with 2 black lines and I believe that the 90 doesn't have any black lines at all.