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Get Yves Dourmergue's "Ripped and Restored." You get three torn and restored routines, and I think it was the original that "Torn" came from.

Lady of Mystery wrote:I use the one in Mark Wilson's book, it's very very simple but always goes down really well.

tried to look for this yesterday but could see where it is (why no index on such a large book?)

any chance you could point me in the right direction?

ta

I always use one of my own called Ripped at the Seam... it's a one-card, signed four piece Torn and Restored and is completely impromptu.

Relish wrote:

Lady of Mystery wrote:I use the one in Mark Wilson's book, it's very very simple but always goes down really well.

tried to look for this yesterday but could see where it is (why no index on such a large book?)

any chance you could point me in the right direction?

ta

It's on page 42, my dear

I used to be a big fan of these effects, but torn and restored to me just seems a lot of hassle for not much of a great ending..

They seem to go down least well with myself compared to a lot of my other card effects..

Anyone else have similar problems with this? Or am I just a T and R misery??

thebigcheese wrote:I used to be a big fan of these effects, but torn and restored to me just seems a lot of hassle for not much of a great ending..

They seem to go down least well with myself compared to a lot of my other card effects..

Anyone else have similar problems with this? Or am I just a T and R misery??

Try the one I mentioned. It sends them down the wrong path by using the 'prediction' cover. As I said it's a sort of throwaway effect after the transposition & happens in their hands so doesn't have the long drawn out one by one restoration which some T & R do.

Relish wrote:

Lady of Mystery wrote:I use the one in Mark Wilson's book, it's very very simple but always goes down really well.

tried to look for this yesterday but could see where it is (why no index on such a large book?)

any chance you could point me in the right direction?

ta

its a bit pants I.M.H.O,as it uses pencils, and handkerchiefs

russpie wrote:

thebigcheese wrote:I used to be a big fan of these effects, but torn and restored to me just seems a lot of hassle for not much of a great ending..

They seem to go down least well with myself compared to a lot of my other card effects..

Anyone else have similar problems with this? Or am I just a T and R misery??

Try the one I mentioned. It sends them down the wrong path by using the 'prediction' cover. As I said it's a sort of throwaway effect after the transposition & happens in their hands so doesn't have the long drawn out one by one restoration which some T & R do.

That sounds great Russ... only you gave us absolutely no clue as to where to find it

Yeah, i have looked for it but it must be in one of my books still in Sheffield not where I am at the moment. It's very simple & can be done with a little thought if anyone can help to the where-abouts please pitch in;

"I get them to pick a card, pop it in the middle of the deck, I attempt to make it jump to the top but fail. I tear the card up as it is wrong. I ask them their actual card, find it in the deck, wave it above the torn card & show that the two have changed places. I then get them to tear each torn piece in half leaving 8 pieces. They hold onto them while I explain that the person next to them will make a prediction on which piece they'll take out & hold up. When they try to take one piece out, they find it is restored. "

daleshrimpton wrote:

Relish wrote:

Lady of Mystery wrote:I use the one in Mark Wilson's book, it's very very simple but always goes down really well.

tried to look for this yesterday but could see where it is (why no index on such a large book?)

any chance you could point me in the right direction?

ta

its a bit pants I.M.H.O,as it uses pencils, and handkerchiefs

I think it's one of those effects that's really got to be presented well to go down well. It's one that I've had in my close up set since I first started and I've played with the presentation the whole time and really think that I've made a good effect out of it.

I agree that the use of the pencil is really rubbish, but I got rid of that very early on, and I make sure that the card parts are elastic banded in the hankie so 'that I can't get at them', gives the hankie a purpose.

I make sure that I have one spec handling the card and I give the deck to another just to hold. I reason that I really like it is that when you come to the reveal, there's a double whammy with a transposition and the restore.

I had a look, and thanks...

But I think Im a lost cause in the world of Torn and Restored

Though my mum did a good job of it when I used to tear my school trousers every other week as a little 'un!

I routine my torn and restored into my ambitous card routine, it goes at the end (it's David Williamsons of course) and really makes sense to what else is happening. It's on a great DVD called Urban (ha ha sorry for the plug) But the original effect is on one of Mr williamson's products, mine just shows the routine that i use (which also has a perfect way of practicing your classic force)

It would genuinely be a good sourse for a workable real world angle proof T & R routine.

Hope this helps
Richard

thanks your reply pals!!!
I will look forward for seeing some of the tricks....
.......hope i will find the best TNR for me.