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Effect: You will borrow a note from someone in your audience (Promising that you wouldn't think of damaging it). Then, in an instant you will produce the note with the pen protruding through the note!

Price: Cost around £15

Rating: 1

Review: 8/10

Overall: Well just imagine the surprise when you produce the note with no hold completely in tact!

Hi Hawk,

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Happy Toad

"pen thru Bank Note" - I always put it as one word ha ha

Well perhaps, in the interests of accuracy for casual visitors, could you change it to 'Anything' please? Ta!

In your request I checked again and changed it to its proper title "Pen Thru Bank Note, however it will go thru anything, such as paper etc

Ta - also have a look at http://www.talkmagic.co.uk/ftopic1769.p ... ht=sharpie for a similar item. It's a very old effect but always seems to entertain folks - and that's what it's all about, m'dears!

I have the Perfect PENetration version of pen thru bank note but have modified the pen and the routine having seen my magic dealer's development of this (won't claim the credit for myself).

Much more effective and looks TOTALLY CONVINCING now!

Okay, I'll be the lone dissenter in this. Does anyone but me feel that buying knock-offs such as this hurts our industry? While I understand that saving a few quid is a good thing, is it so very good when it is at the expense of a fellow magician who's offered his wares and is now losing because of the knock-off industry?

What if you were the original creator and now were seeing dozens of knock-offs on the market that were taking the money right out of your pocket, without so much as a tip of the hat to you as being the originator of the item? Would you be so quick to give a thumbs up to this knock-off, under such a circumstance?

Just for the record, the original creator of the pen through bill is Doug Edwards and his pen is pricey at £30.

Mike.

to be perfectly honest its a trick thats so well used i dont know if it can be atrituated to anyone in perticular and more there have been so many changes and adjustments tothe trick, yes he may have orgianly provided the trick but i know paul danials used to do this and he was doing this over 30 years ago (so i've found out)!

i personally know of at least 5 versions i can buy in only 2 shops in london!

I hear what you're saying Michael Jay but in this instance the trick is being sold as it was originally intended and no credit is being taken away from the creator. It's a simple refinement that's given away. As I already had an original bought elsewhere I was still shown the refinement without any charge.

I do agree that someone else's hard labour is not a good thing and personally, If I knew that this was the case then I wouldn't buy.

I too hadn't used this for a long while but it did make me look for the trick and have a go myself.

None of the versions available today escape criticism. Virtually all of them use the same mechanism. Does this mean that unless Edwards improves the design, or approves another, we can't look forward to a better version of the trick?

It's a difficult question. Novelty devices, everything from electric drills to IT, are always being upgraded. But you won't find an acknowledgement of intellectual debt in the instructions to your Black & Decker (maybe you should).

caubeck wrote:But you won't find an acknowledgement of intellectual debt in the instructions to your Black & Decker (maybe you should).

Leave Black & Decker to their industry and us to ours. B&D has nothing to do with this discussion...

Mike.

This pen i must say can be handled before and straight after the tick to spector.

Michael Jay wrote:

caubeck wrote:But you won't find an acknowledgement of intellectual debt in the instructions to your Black & Decker (maybe you should).

Leave Black & Decker to their industry and us to ours. B&D has nothing to do with this discussion...

Mike.

But the word "industry" is the keyword here. Just because we know the names and locations of "the poor inventors" it doesn't mean things are any different. It's unfair and sad but true: inventors are very rarely the ones who profit from their ideas. We may not like it, but it's reality.