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I've been kind of mia for the past week or two because I'm trying to iron out some details on a large project I'm working on. I took a break from that, and remembered how cool it was to grab a 1993 Finest Canseco refractor for fairly cheap because the seller spelled his name Conseco. It was one of the big card selling companies around too!

I was very happy with it, but have always wondered what it would look like if there was a pic of him on the gorgeous green refractor in an A's uni, instead of the Rangers.



Then I was wondering what about gold?



I admit, my dream of the card with Jose in an A's jersey didn't get me going. It was my thought of what a 1993 Finest BLUE refractor would look like. Here it is:



How / why they didn't do the gold and blue (and others ... red? pink? purple? mustachioed?) is beyond me, but I'm glad they are doable. The 1993 Finest set, while the first refractor set made by Topps, is probably my favorite refractor set around - especially in different colors!

The design took probably 2-3 hours to rebuild, and the cards, at this point, probably an hour or so to construct - which is faster than normal. On paper, it ALWAYS looks like it is going to take a lot quicker, but the production always ends up taking 1-3 hours or more, depending upon the how everything is laid out.

In any event, while I do have some tweaks I would like to make, here they are together: