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magicofthemind wrote:

.robb. wrote:If you imagine that the top half of the deck is all black and the bottom all red, this shuffle would leave the deck B, R, B, R, B, R, etc.

Pack in left hand in position for overhand shuffle. Grip top and bottom cards and slip them off, top card onto bottom one, as you pull all the others out. Repeat until all cards exhausted.

I don't do card tricks, but that's how I'd do it if I did.

Barry

Genius in it's simplicity, Barry. The Overhand approach as opposed to the Charlier-esque is definitely the way to go. I've made this move over eleventy thousand times before in combination with injogging to control two selected cards to various positions. It never dawned on me to simply repeat the process 26 times to end up with what I am after. Even better, my target audience- absolute beginner- should be able to get it down fluidly with a lil' work.

Time for me to put down the Marlo and revisit the Fulves.

Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.

(You can run the top 26 cards and then faro which will produce the same order)

Perfect faro does not take years, it shouldn't take months, for most it doesn't even take weeks. Like a muscle pass there is a 'feel' you practice and practice and then one day when you are not expecting it, it just happens.

Then again we all learn things differently and what one finds 'easy' another may not.

The technique mentioned by Barry can be found in the Encyclopedia of Card Tricks and is credited to E. L. Whitford. It was used as a speedy method for setting a r/b/r/b sequence throught the deck. The idea however, was not an actual sleight to be used during performance, it was offered as simply a practical an swift method of setting the deck prior to performance.

jim

jim ferguson wrote:The technique mentioned by Barry can be found in the Encyclopedia of Card Tricks and is credited to E. L. Whitford. It was used as a speedy method for setting a r/b/r/b sequence throught the deck. The idea however, was not an actual sleight to be used during performance, it was offered as simply a practical an swift method of setting the deck prior to performance.

jim

I knew I must have read it somewhere - thanks!

Barry