Pokémon repair - Dents and Scratches

All right, let's do a before video here. So, PSA 6, you know, from the auction, it just looked looked pretty good. I mean, I thought it would be a good project card. Has a little bit more whiter on the perimeter than I thought, but you also I noticed there's a binder dent. So, I'm going to throw the card in the humidor. So, let's humidify it. Then, we'll heat press it. And then uh we'll clean it all up too because there's a there's a lot of little scratches on the on the surface. So we'll take good care of it. Here's where we're at right now. So humidity and it's right about 70 70%. And I started this last night at 11:00 p.m. It's almost 400 p.m. So less than 24 hours. It's taking on quite a bit of humidity. It looks good. Looks good for a heat press. So, what I'm going to do next is uh put the card between our press setup. And I've done this enough now where I'm going to say that when you press a Pokemon card, it's probably always a good move to use some parchment paper because the older ones like this and even the newer ones too could, you know, you don't want to pick off any of that gentle paper uh or the gentle color around the the perimeter. And right there, if you guys can see it, we got a little remnant of that binder dent. But I think the humidity is going to really be the winner here. And it's still in there. I think we'll get it. All right. So, I'm going to set this up. So, my point is parchment will make sure that it doesn't stick to the to the uh pads. But the pads are awesome because they create a nice safe flat surface. So, that's the stack. backing boards, foam, and parchment. So, now I'm going to heat press it. We'll do 165° F for 30 minutes. And then I'll do a 4hour cool down and we'll take a look at it together. All right, we're at my favorite part. So, let's take a look to see if we were able to get the card flat again and relieve those dents. And it was a little wobbly and out of shape. And um then I'm going to give it a clean up. It has a little bit of light scratching on it and um it needs to be final cleaned up. So, we'll do a little recovery, little card polish, and we'll see if this is a good practice to use. So, the humidity and heat press that is uh I'm happy. Very happy with that. All right, let's do a final little cleanup here and we'll take a look together. Heat. Heat. M hm. And I only want you to do like two applications of recovery because it's a real light finish. But if you just do a light application of it, it looks amazing. And I need to do a little bit of recovery on the back because when I hold it at an angle, there's just little light scuff marks all across the back. So, we're just going to do a little scratch remover on the back, too. Let's check it out. The finish looks fantastic. I'm very happy with that. I'm happy with reducing that binder dent over there. I can just I can still see where it was a little bit, but jeez, I'll I'll take that all day. Way better. Then got the holographic in the front looking real nice. Removed as many as those little light scratches as I could. This one turned out great. I appreciate you watching. Good luck with all your projects and I hope this helps. I'm Kurt with Kurt's Card Care.

Poke Repair - Binder Dent & Scratches Put the card in humidor at 75 to 80% humidity for approximately 24 hours Heat press at 165°F for 30 minutes/4 hour cool down Card Polish + Recovery to clean and take out the scratches I will get the card re-graded and post those results when it’s available. But in the meantime, use these valuable teachings to take care of these issues that you will surely run into. Easy stuff that you can do. 🤘🏼 Kurt #pokemon #snorlax #tcg #thehobby #kurtscardcare