Year: 2020

One more from the talented Kent Bergmann! Before Kent became the king of 3D printing he created quite a stir with his Z-Wood (Zebrawood) line of magic. This is a rare beauty from those times. Anything from his Z-Wood Magic line is highly sought after by collectors.

Pieces of Eight is a themed collection of magic that is rarer than his Paddle-Works and even more sought after – just ten of these were produced and Kent only released nine to the public, keeping one for himself.  This is the only set I have ever seen.  The collection comes with a 20 page booklet of instructions and eight certificates of authenticity (one for each effect).  Kent spared no expense on this beauty and the box and contents weighs more than 6lbs – you can feel the quality dripping from this bad boy.

Housed inside the beautiful box are eight unique effects:

• Pegged
• Sea Sense
• Swiped
• a “Reale” Penetration
• P-King’s Ring
• Commodore’s Cards
• D.J.’s Locker
• Hooked

The Woods used in this stunning creation are:

• Zebrawood –the heavy grained wood mainly used.
• Bloodwood – the red colored wood.
• Wenge – the black colored wood.
• Maple – the white wood.

Kent’s line of 3D Magic is really amazing but nothing beats the feel, color and smell of genuine wood, and it is hard to find another collection where so much care and attention to detail was poured into it’s creation.  Excellent job Kent!

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Originally created c. 1995, this is the second release c. 2001 and it is my favorite Fabrice Delaure creation. You know when something is your favorite because you buy and sell it multiple times – this is my third set of these little guys and like the previous two it works perfectly, even though Fabrice has not made these for well over a decade.

In fact, Fabrice no longer makes magic like this – it is all white board and iphone related gadgets. Whilst some of these are cool, I don’t think they are as magical, since there are so many screen transmission systems available to the general public anyway.

What I like about the box is that it is not high tech or glitzy and certainly looks devoid of any electronics. There are no switches whatsoever on the box – you simply use one of the giants to turn the box on and off by placing it in one of the slots facing to the back instead of to the front. The transmitter and receiver work 100% of the time and are very reliable even 20+ years later. It uses standard 9V batteries available everywhere.  The receiver is about the size of a deck of cards and has ten LEDs representing one for each slot in the box so it is very easy to see which giants are removed.

Highly Recommended for collector’s of fine old school electronic miracles!

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One of Alan’s rarer items from his early painted period. This is a very effective and easy to do transposition of two wooden chips. If you are familiar with Al Baker’s and Nate Liepzig’s coin box c. 1934 then you might have a clue to how this works. Otherwise it will fool you every time. A very fast transposition without any sleights or tricky moves. You’ll be happy with this simple and elegant beauty.

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This is one of Alan’s very first Mini-Magic effects and he stopped making it over 30 years ago. It is a clever and very well engineered beauty that performs a single color change very smoothly. Once the change has been made there is nothing to see and everything is self contained.

This set comes with TWO dominoes (instead of the usual one) for twice the fun 🙂

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This is one of the smaller Alan Warner items but it is still effective with a simple, but convincing selection process and an amusing patter story. Even for his simpler items Alan still manages to squeeze a lot out of them. For example in this effect the spectator will remember that they were able to change their mind at the end (which is 100% true), but although there is still a force and a great multiple out at play the routine seems very straight forward and clean with nothing contrived.

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It is hard not to love this wonderful effect from Alan. His items really come alive when he adds a little color to them! This is a perfect penetration effect that is easy to perform and easy to understand for the spectator.

The props looks as clean as a whistle with nothing added or taken away. You place the peg into the slot so that there is no way the mummy can penetrate … and yet it does. Right under their noses. You are left clean before and after!

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