The Effect
Various coin effects during the 85 minutes running time.
Thank You For the Tip
One Way
The Glove
I Want You
Cash Money
Fire
Dr Kard & Miss Money Surprise
Cocktail Matrix
Smile Land
Cost
As with Volume 1, the cheapest I could find online was £19.99 at:
http://www.magicmagic.co.uk
Incidentally, this is where I bought mine! Average price found elsewhere was around £27 per volume which is a whopping £14 more than you'll pay at MagicMagic if you buy both volumes
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Difficulty
(1=easy to do, 2=No sleights, but not so easy, 3=Some sleights used,
4=Advanced sleights used, 5=Suitable for experienced magicians only)
Most definitely a 5
Review
Start by reading the review of volume 1 here:
http://www.talkmagic.co.uk/ftopic19950.php
The format is the same – watch the routine and then the explanation and the DVD was filmed around the same time as volume 1. The routines each last for around 15 to 20 seconds with the longest coming in around 30 seconds.
At this point, I recommend that you revisit volume 1 again and ask if you’re good (or worthy) enough to progress to this level as this is coin magic at it unbelievable best. It’s free flowing and high impact stuff that will take you to a new realm but beware, this isn’t stuff that you will learn quickly. Lock yourself away in a monastery and devote years of study to the master that Stone is. If he was this good in his early 20’s then I dread to think how good he will be now.
A number of the routines within this volume involve a spectator with coins appearing in and vanishing from their hands – yes theirs! The sleights themselves are variations on some the basics taught in volume 1 and a few new ones. The Pely’s secret coin turnover is pure genius, particularly when used with a shuttle pass. However, many of the sleights used in these performances are executed with multiple coins instead of a single coin.
This obviously requires much more precision and skill when performed at speed, and speed is part of making these routines flow! For an example, being able to shake hands with someone whilst palming four coins in the same hand without them noticing. There are also routines that require multiple simultaneous sleights in the same hand such as a classic palm AND a back clip (taught), as well as coin sleights combined with other objects. Hopefully you can now appreciate that this is not your run of the mill coin work but the result, if you can make it flow as well as Stone does, will leave your audience thinking that the only explanation for what they have seen is sorcery.
Overall
Start by watching the performances only section instead of the ‘watch and learn’ sequence and I challenge anyone to keep up with Stone and spot his sleight of hand, even after watching a few times. This is a truly awesome display of coin magic.
Volume 2 is an obvious companion to volume 1 and can provide you with the inspiration and motivation to keep practicing but you’re going to have to be good to master this content and get it to performance standard. The complexity between volume 1 and 2 is more of a leap rather than a step. Despite this, if you're buying volume 1 then you just know that you're going to get volume 2 as well
To use a phrase from Hitch Hikers Guide – watching Stone perform these routines is like being hit around the head with a slice of lemon – that’s wrapped around a brick. Have someone close by to help you back into your seat, have an optician on stand-by to put your eyes back into their sockets and a medic to assist after you’ve turned that putrid shade of green through envy of what you will see Stone do. I kid you not!
but there again, so is volume 1 
