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Hi, I've got the PDF Version of Torn Too by Daniel Garcia. I've got clear instructions covering presentation and explanation, I'm just missing the part of How to make the gimmick? Could someone please help?

Contact the retailer you bought it from. If it's missing something, they'll sort it out.

morrowsean wrote:Hi, I've got the PDF Version of Torn Too by Daniel Garcia. I've got clear instructions covering presentation and explanation, I'm just missing the part of How to make the gimmick? Could someone please help?

where did you get a pdf version from?

I got it off a friend of mine a long time ago, and he was missing how to make the gimmick so gave it to me. Ive got an idea but just unsure?

as far as i can tell, and from searching through a few online shops - its only a dvd release...so you'll have to buy it properly to find out how it works...

Poetic justice?

Eshly wrote:Poetic justice?

Don't you just love it?

So you got a knock-off version of an effect and would like some unsuspecting person here to help you rip it off fully?

For me, this underlines why I have qualms about magicians lending books and DVDs to others. Yes, I know it's all part of the brotherhood of magic, yadda yadda, but I think that creators are entitled to their due (where that is possible).

I feel that a performer who reverse engineers a trick has more right to use it than someone who's learnt it because a mate has passed on the method. I appreciate that this is very much a grey area, and that there is no 'correct' answer on this point. I am also not saying that I think the reverse engineer necessarily has the right to perfom the trick; just that he has a better right than the person who happens to be well connected. If I work out (or find out) how a marketed effect is done, I will buy that effect before using it. In most cases, however, I simply decide I won't use it!

And before anyone pops up about how some secrets must be shared because otherwise magic is a closed art, or somesuch, books, e-books and DVDs (as well as stand-alone props) are all available for purchase.

Theoretically, you can spend under £100 and get enough material for a career in magic. If you want what I think of as 'proprietary' secrets, you really should pay the creator for them.

The free stuff magicians should be handing out is advice on performing, presentation, routining, basic methodology and where more detailed methods may be found. Again, this is not set in stone. For example, sometimes you might want to know enough about a method to enable you to decide whether or not to buy the effect, but if you want to use it, you should pay the creator.

I've got a Top Secret Treasure Map at home that shows the entire Island where the treasure is buried and on the back describes in detail all the treasure and how much it is all worth. Unfortunately there is no X showing the precise location where the treasure is buried. Can anyone help?