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TylerMason wrote:But on the plus side, it has afforded the opportunity to make some gimmick books for book tests. I've wanted to do it with a magicians text for a while now, but haven't been able to bring myself to start tampering with my existing collection of magic books.

Do you mind me asking what the particular appeal of a book test using magicians' tomes is? I don't mean it in a negative way at all, but I would have thought that the average spectator would prefer a book test using something more recognisable? Perhaps I'm just missing something though...

This is how magic books should be presented to the public.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4kZodCELrs

[/quote] Do you mind me asking what the particular appeal of a book test using magicians' tomes is? [/quote]

Not at all - the reason behind it is essentially a magician fooler. I have a good friend who's been into magic for over a decade too, and claims that before he became a magician, that he never would have fallen for a book test.

With some strategic switching of his own books, accompanied with a little time misdirection, i'd like to prove him wrong and catch him out by having him think I'm using one of his own books out his collection - I've even managed to replicate the creases on the spines and the dog eared top & bottom right corners (which are a destinctive characteristic of most his texts - I keep telling him to take better care of his magic books too, oh well)

Hopefully he won't see it coming, and afterwards I might give him the last left over copy of ECT, as a gesture for being a good sport (maybe he'll take better care of that copy then too)

TylerMason wrote:

Do you mind me asking what the particular appeal of a book test using magicians' tomes is? [/quote]

Not at all - the reason behind it is essentially a magician fooler. I have a good friend who's been into magic for over a decade too, and claims that before he became a magician, that he never would have fallen for a book test.

With some strategic switching of his own books, accompanied with a little time misdirection, i'd like to prove him wrong and catch him out by having him think I'm using one of his own books out his collection - I've even managed to replicate the creases on the spines and the dog eared top & bottom right corners (which are a destinctive characteristic of most his texts - I keep telling him to take better care of his magic books too, oh well)

Hopefully he won't see it coming, and afterwards I might give him the last left over copy of ECT, as a gesture for being a good sport (maybe he'll take better care of that copy then too)[/quote]

A man after my own heart I must say!

It reminds me of when I pick-pocketed a magician's deck of cards, an dput-pocketed my own marked, stacked deck of cards in it's stead...

Allowed the world's cleanest mind reading

Klangster1971 wrote:However, your post did prompt me to head into my local copy of The Works at the weekend.

Does that mean I can send you the bill for all the cr*p I ended up with, having gone in accompanied by my six year old?

AND there was no sign of either Bobo or Expert Card Techniques either...!

Sean

Thats because the OP bought them all

You both obviously live in the same place ;-p

dP

Blapsing_Beard wrote:
It reminds me of when I pick-pocketed a magician's deck of cards, an dput-pocketed my own marked, stacked deck of cards in it's stead...

Allowed the world's cleanest mind reading

Sweet - I luv it! Fair play, and hats off to you indeed sir. I love bold moves, and ballsy set-ups like that.