by Part-Timer » Apr 14th, '14, 22:04
Before I knew any better, I made the mistake of buying some "Golden Shells" from a website (not one I use now). These were not the School for Scoundrels ones I had expected, but a Magic Makers "knock-off", for want of a better expression. They didn't even work correctly.
I had a bit of an interest in the Slydini Silks several years ago and found it a bit "knacky". Sometimes everything worked like a dream, others, well, the knot stayed knotted! I was moving towards mentalism at the time and never got my technique down.
Bearing in mind the quality of the products from Magic Makers, it may be that the silks are not good enough, one of the silks might lack the "something" that is not essential, but useful, or it might just be that the basic instruction is inadequate. I'm afraid that sometimes in magic, you just end up buying something that doesn't do the job and you might have to buy, say, the World's Greatest Magic DVD (if your silks are OK, but the instruction is lacking) or perhaps Tony Clark's Sly Scarves, which includes the silks and instruction from one of Slydini's students (oh and Tony teaches other handkerchief routines too).