me_simon wrote:Can anyone recommend a good TT book? Cheap, preferably.

I bought one a couple of weeks ago and don't really have a great many ideas plus I'm pretty sure I'm using it all wrong. Not mention I probably need to get a paler one as it does look a little like my thumb is being Al Jolson.
Two books: 50 Tricks with a TT by Milbourne Christopher and 101 TT Tricks by Gary Darwin.
I have two TTs and neither of them match my skin. It doesn't matter because the audience should never see it from the side.
Some years ago I showed the vanishing silk as part of an after-dinner speech. An elderly man came up to me afterwards and commented that he'd been into magic as a child - he'd even had a plastic t****. He had no idea that that's what I'd used.
My favourite effect is (naturally) one that I invented. You can find it in
The Linking Ring, January 1998. It only works with a hard TT.
Barry