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I am messing around with the following idea...........

Have a spec select a card, sign it, and lose it back in the deck......in some fasion, I throw the deck in the air, and stab into the cloud of scattered cards with a knife, fork, etc......and manage to stab the previously selected card.

My problem is this......I am not working from a trick, I am looking at my own ideas/routines/etc.......I was wondering if anyone knew of a place to get (not looking for a freebee) any info on existing ideas, routines, etc, or even a link to someone performing a version of this type of effect. I am trying to find some performance ideas with it, or ways to refine and polish the idea I am working with.

If anyone knows anything about an existing effect, or could help me out on expanding this idea, please let me know

Any help would be appreciated!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i have heard of the effect. I can't remember where from...

Ill get back to you...

Here is a link to one. It isn't incredibly cheap - but the effect is good and it comes with a pen-knife and everything needed to create the effect...

http://www.thelittlemagicshop.co.uk/Pages/General/M/midaircardstab.htm

Hope it helped

This is quite an old standard and is usually done as a Sword Stab which may, or may not, involve a gimmick! There's an Irish TV series called Close Encounters with Keith Barry (programme credits include Kenton Knepper) which I believe is sometimes shown in the US and Canada on Cable somewhere and he does a marvellous outdoor version where the one deck out of 12 or so are selected, one card is selected, signed, and returned to the deck. All the decks are loaded into two cannons and Keith then does a bungee jump with a Sword from sevral hundred feet down into the cloud of cards as they're fired into the air. Naturally the signed card is found to be impaled on the sword!

Moodini,
One way you can do this is use a pen knife with two blaes, one at each end.
Open one (the other is already open but concealed), have a card chosen, signed, returned, and controlled to the top of the deck.
Lay the pen knife on top of the deck and, as you do, spear the signed card with the open but hidden blade. As you toss the deck in the air, close the blade at the other end.
The cards flutter down, except for the signed one which is impaled on the knife.
Well, that's one possibility, anyhow.

Hi

Have you checked out Malini and his magic by Dai vernon as it covers Malini's card stabbing routine where he does the trick with several selected cards.

The is normally a copy on EBay somewhere and its a fabulous book full of great info and some wonderful routines.

Dean

Can you say "Card Sword"?

There's a plethora of methods but something based on one of the upper-end Card Sword systems might prove the simplest. I even adapted this method to a Chain Saw for a friend of mine some years ago (Fielding West).

The neatest and most entertaining "Card Stab" I've ever seen (and even considered putting into my collection) is Ted Lesley's... I don't think it's available through Ted any longer but I know Stevens Magic was carrying it... it's worth every penny!

In one of The Young Magicians Magazines, it tells you how to make one with an umbrella