nonkelgans wrote:Just ordered 2 packs of 50 bills on the Eagle Origami site, for that price it's hard to make them yourself. Bills are protected by a special layer that makes scanning/copying them difficult (hence the colour shift). And with real bills the paper is a speciality, I don't know how close the ones of Eagle Origami are in terms of paper, I will have to see that when they arrive. You could always order a pack on the EO site, scan those and use that for practice, that's what I gonna do.
I didn't know they had a protective layer. The colours look alright on my screen, so I assumed that it was more a printing/ink issue.
I'd be very interested to know how the bills are, so if you could post back after you've got them, I'd be grateful.
As for practice, I just use copy paper, cut to size. I'm not worried about practice, it's more about the fact that - aside from dollar bill folds looking better with dollar bills - many models utilise the design in some way, which is completely lost when done with other paper.
In the end, I will be getting some notes from EO anyway, because they come with the book, so I'll get some experience with them. But if people knew of another site which sold better bills for less money, then I'd obviously be more likely to use them.
LeafPiece wrote:I know you need help from outside the US, but in the US you can buy play money from stores that sell novelty items and children's stuff. Usually, the size is wrong and the paper is terrible, but I have seen fairly realistic money with higher quality paper before. Maybe there is something similar in England?
That is one idea that I didn't consider. Although, I'm not sure of the availability of dollar bill playmoney in the UK, or the quality. I could probably find something online, but again, there's an issue of quality. I'd have to buy some to see how good they were, and I was hoping for people to have recommendations for me.
LeafPiece wrote:That just made me think of something. What do police do with confiscated counterfeit bills? Are they destroyed? What a great source of folding material that would be!
I'm pretty sure that, yes, they are destroyed. That's if they're not clogging up some evidence room somewhere.
But I wonder how many counterfeiters make $1 bills. It might draw less suspicion, but you'd need 10-20x more, which would be riskier, and less cost effective.
