Month: December 2013

What a Pretty and Clever Effect!

This is one of the early Collector’s Workshop items that is often overlooked. You can still get it today and you should! When you see the price you will be even more excited to get one as it is great value too!

Briefly the effect is this: You show five brass napkin rings each with a different colored silk passing through. You take each brass ring and remove the silk and place it in a supplied blue bag. As you remove each silk you can clearly show the brass ring is empty and you assemble each ring together to form a tube. The tube remains in full view all the time. Then, you have a silk selected from the bag and this silk vanishes leaving just the other 4 silks. You now turn to the tube and push a wand or pen or similar and the chosen, vanished silk pops out from the end of the tube.

This is easy to do though the handling takes a little practice and nothing is added or taken away. You will be delighted with the way the gimiick works so well.

I really like this hidden gem and I think you will too.

Highly recommended

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One of the Tenyo Classics!

As a young teenager I used to perform this effect all the time. It was my go to effect at the time. It takes a knack but no real skill. I mastered it easily as a boy and if it takes a bit of practice to master that doesn’t mean it needs any special skills. If you follow the routine it becomes more and more unbelievable for the spectators.

I love this effect and would highly recommend it.

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Wonderful Utility Device

So you have to admire Magiro’s mind – many of his items are really clever, and this utility device is no different. It looks like a simple envelope stand but it can be used to create some amazing predictions.

The most basic prediction allows them to select any one of five cards (no force) and you simply pick-up the envelope, and rip it open and there is their card. No double envelopes or double faced cards either. And before you open the envelope you can show it on both sides too – nothing is hidden in your hands or behind the envelope, the chosen card really is inside the envelope.

But what is even more impressive is they can choose 1-5 cards and you can still end up with the multiple cards in the envelope, so this takes it way beyond just 1 in 5. It can be used for playing cards, ESP cards, business cards and billets too.

Something a little different – no electronics and nothing to run out – and works every time.

Great for Magician’s and Mentalists.

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Amazing Die Box Effect!

This is the latest in the wonderful recreations of magic of olde from Joe Long and his Limited Editions Magic series. I have never even heard of the original and have also not seen a die box with anything but dice and cubes so this one was a real surprise.

In effect you show the tea chest to be empty by opening both doors at the front. Then you take the tea caddy and place it in the red tube. From here it quickly disappears and is found inside the chest by opening up the left hand door. Here you can go in to the familiar sliding routine as the caddy slides back and forth. Eventually the caddy vanishes from the chest. You then take the lid off and the chest "explodes" into a tray with 6 Sake cups and a full size Sake bottle, way bigger than the height of the chest. You then proceed to pour 6 drinks from the bottle and wish everyone good health!

A very visual and exciting climax to a more familiar die box type effect. This was made in a very limited edition of 12 pieces, so they are pretty hard to come by.

Highly Recommended for Magic Collectors everywhere!

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Peak Ken Brooke Entertainment!

So I’ve had this trick for about three years and it wasn’t until this weekend that I actually performed it to lay people. And boy were the reactions great!

This is one of those items that does not appeal to magicians as much as to some of them it seems obvious. But performed correctly it is a real surprise and not once did anyone ask to look at the cards.

It is easy to do and you get a good supply of cards with the routine. Ken Brooke knew all about how to entertain the people, and this is surely one of his most overlooked classics.

Because everything is done in their hands the impact is intensified. This is a perfect walk around trick – you do use up a card each time, but just have a plastic wallet with ready to go sets and you can work all evening without issues.

Highly Recommended for close-up and walk-around performers everywhere!

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