Love your work, I took a raw 5.0 Hulk #181 I bought from a reputable grader and after a clean and press got a CGC 6.5 After watching many of your videos ( grade bumps on CBCS books ) and always trying to perfect the craft of clean and pressing, I decided to crack a few CBCS slabs and give it a whirl... unfortunately, batman #181 went from a 6.0 to a 5.5 and House of Secrets #92 went from a 5.5 to a 5.0 a raw ASM #50 I predicted to be around a 5.5 came back a 4.5 conserved (cover cleaned) a ASM #129 a solid 5.0 came back a 4.0 All this while cracking / cleaning / pressing a few more CBCS books in much higher grades hoping for 9.8's because they look to be very good candidates and were graded at 9.2's to 9.6's. Now I don't know what to do, even with the submit price down (missed the last submit by a week LOL) Should I just keep' em raw ? It seems raw sales are close to slab prices. Any advise??? Thanks Todd
Hi Todd, thanks for the comment! Sorry to hear about your troubles. Every case is case by case. If you watch the two crack or not to crack videos, you can see that there are a lot of books that might dip if cracked because they were currently over graded. Unfortunately there is error in grading at both companies Because grading is somewhat subjective. To be more specific you have to look for the defects and estimate what grades you think you can achieve. One of my early lessons in this was a four 337 that was a 5.0 copy it had all kinds of dirt grime light staining And was clearly never pressed. After putting hours of work into the book, I was lucky enough to get it up to a 5.5 where the single issue crease down the front cover was the limiting defect. So even after removing all kinds of problems from it, it was never gonna get higher than that one flaw. Dips do happen and it’s nothing to be ashamed of as long as you learn from it. So I would take care note of what the defects are, and train your eye.
Really enjoy these case studies. Looking to get into cleaning and pressing myself and these are right up my alley. Awesome video once again!
Awesome! Thank you!
Enjoyed seeing the process and the book looks a lot better!
Glad you enjoyed it!
You can't win them all. If anything, it does look a bit better, it's in a newer holder and the grade didn't go down.
Still a beautiful book. I need one. Cleaner and as free of unnatural defects as much as possible is better either way.
Love your work, I took a raw 5.0 Hulk #181 I bought from a reputable grader and after a clean and press got a CGC 6.5 After watching many of your videos ( grade bumps on CBCS books ) and always trying to perfect the craft of clean and pressing, I decided to crack a few CBCS slabs and give it a whirl... unfortunately, batman #181 went from a 6.0 to a 5.5 and House of Secrets #92 went from a 5.5 to a 5.0 a raw ASM #50 I predicted to be around a 5.5 came back a 4.5 conserved (cover cleaned) a ASM #129 a solid 5.0 came back a 4.0 All this while cracking / cleaning / pressing a few more CBCS books in much higher grades hoping for 9.8's because they look to be very good candidates and were graded at 9.2's to 9.6's. Now I don't know what to do, even with the submit price down (missed the last submit by a week LOL) Should I just keep' em raw ? It seems raw sales are close to slab prices. Any advise??? Thanks Todd
Hi Todd, thanks for the comment! Sorry to hear about your troubles. Every case is case by case. If you watch the two crack or not to crack videos, you can see that there are a lot of books that might dip if cracked because they were currently over graded. Unfortunately there is error in grading at both companies Because grading is somewhat subjective. To be more specific you have to look for the defects and estimate what grades you think you can achieve. One of my early lessons in this was a four 337 that was a 5.0 copy it had all kinds of dirt grime light staining And was clearly never pressed. After putting hours of work into the book, I was lucky enough to get it up to a 5.5 where the single issue crease down the front cover was the limiting defect. So even after removing all kinds of problems from it, it was never gonna get higher than that one flaw. Dips do happen and it’s nothing to be ashamed of as long as you learn from it. So I would take care note of what the defects are, and train your eye.
I’m fully in on CBCS CGC is too inconsistent
Sad you didn’t get the bumpski.
It happened
At least it gets a fresh new case!
Doesn’t the erasing remove the sheen the white have?
No. Makes the gloss shine more by removing dirt.
The randomness of the page quality ie white/off-white is crazy to me. I guess it is truly just a judgment call of the grader.
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