Fanning powder helps card flourishes and old decks

Fanning powder is pretty useful if you like learning card flourishes. It makes the cards easier to work, and helps keep decks in service longer.

Fanning powder is mostly zinc soap (zinc stearate) and some other magic filler. It fills the gaps, cracks, scratches and other imperfections that develop on playing cards as one obsessively shuffles, reshuffles, cuts, and manipulates them. — Read the rest