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I'm on the hunt for a silk to snooker ball gimmick, but can I find one? No chance, so I don't supose anyone here knows anywhere that sells them?

Thanks

Never heard of it but what's the effect you're after, could just just vanish the silk to a TT in a hand also palming a ball? Do you want the silk to become the ball? or would it be enough to produce the ball from the silk?

well basically it's quite an old fashioned gimmick that changes a silk into a ball. I'd imagine the older guys on here would have come across it.

It's quite hard to describe what I'm looking for without giving too much away, but it's a gimmick that changes a silk into a ball. I've thought about doing it with the TT but that would mean I'd have to carry a heavy ball around with me, this gimmick means that I don't need to.

is it anything like the classic egg and silk trick?

kems wrote:is it anything like the classic egg and silk trick?

Yes.

The only ones that seem to be commonly available are Vernet ones, and they look more like glitter balls than billiard balls.

There's a red one here (incredibly expensive): http://www.luckysclownsupplies.com/MAGI ... magic.html

I think that might be the Viking one. If it is, I don't think it's currently available, but they might have old stock.

http://www.trickproduktion.com/plaintex ... f5915.html (Ignore the misdescription on the webpage and look at the .pdf).

Thanks part-timer, that's the sort of thing. Im wondering if it might be easier just to make one, if I can find the right ball.

I've seen one guy do silk to pool 8 ball - the difference being that the colours and numbers on a pool ball helped to hide the fact that it was home made from a cheapo plastic ball and then painted/decorated like an 8 ball.

You may want to think about a hank ball. It is used to vanish a silk without a TT I think you could paint the hank ball to match a billiard ball and work it that way. I'm sure you can find one where you usually buy your magic but here is a link to one so you can see what I'm talking about.

http://www.perfectmagic.com/p-1149-hank-ball.aspx