I've not got the red of blue Quality deck... I may get one at some point, and if its handling is anything near that of the classic twins, then I'll definitely be impressed!
It's not the red or blue Quality Bee decks that feel like Classic Twins. It's the BROWN Quality deck - minus the "Bee" part, because they aren't Bee-branded and didn't come from USPC.
Oh... well in that case Don, I couldn't disagree more -- the Brown Quality deck feels nothing like the classic twins (or any other deck with the classic finish).
The Brown Quality deck feels actually feels like decks which use the master finish (the older master finish decks, which have less of a slick/glossy feel to them than current master finish decks such as the NOC V3 range). It probably uses the same imported card stock as what LPCC and EPCC use for their diamond/master finish decks.
Classic Finish decks have more of a papery feel to them, where as the Brown Quality deck doesn't. It's a totally different card stock altogether.
The closest thing I've felt to the Brown Quality deck is the Play Fair deck by Kei Izumi.
Classic Twins have a Master Finish on them. Says so on the box.
The one thing I can say definitively is that the brown Quality deck uses a stock nothing like USPC's present output.
Wrong!!
Unless you have some special prototype classic twins, there's absolutely NO WAY the classic twins have the master finish.
The classic twins were the first mass produced/mainstream release for the classic finish... and so it makes no sense for EPCC to claim that the decks use the master finish.
The Sharps had diamond finish written on their box, despite being the very first deck to utilise the classic, but that appears to be purely because the term "classic finish" had not been coined yet. That wasn't the case with the classic twins though.
Forget the box, just touching the cards alone should be enough to determine that the classic finish has been used and not the master finish. Unlike USPCC, where linoid finish, air cushion, cambric, and half a dozen other names mean exactly the same thing, master finish and classic finish are nowhere near the same.
But yeah, I do totally agree that the Brown Quality deck is nothing like anything from USPCC. Definitely a lot more like LPCC and EPCC output.
