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Only family and friends, may well dig it out again

jon_kent wrote:Only family and friends, may well dig it out again

Certainly give it another go. Play around with it and see what you can come up with. There are some really amazing effects possible with this prop, its a great utility item.

jim

Hello all...I'm still pretty new to all this, but recently did my first TT tricks - £10 note from envelope, silk from note & disappearing sugar in the coffee shop went down well in the coffee shop for the kids - then did the disappearing fag outside with the Dads...any suggestions as to where I can get more inspiration for TT please ?

There are books with titles such as , '101 Tricks with a TT' available from many dealers. A lot of the tricks are variations on each other but there's a hard core of excellent ideas, especially where they suggest locating it on a different digit!

A very useful thread as I've just bought my first TT. When I first seen them I thought they were for kids but now know that many of the well known magician use them.

Mine is slightly to tight and is quite difficult to remove so might put a small split in the end.

I perform the "passe-passe salt" (Tarbell V1) routine to the "pledge/turn/prestige" speech from the start of "The Prestige" (movie version). It goes down very well, if you time the presentation right.

One of the things that appeals to me most about TT is the brazenness of what youre doing ! Not in a cocky way, far from it, but that your presentation - the chat & the movement - conceals what's going on, your practice has paid off. It was the first thing I ever showed anyone (after the basic self-working card stuff) and gave me the confidence to try other things and hopefully progress...and it's such a simple thing !

Streamer or silk vanish / production.

Nothing more basic, nothing more baffling to spectators

Some of the best reactions that I've ever had have come from vanishing a borrowed sweet wrapper.

A trick that was published in Abra a few years back. Cannot remember the creator but somewhere I do have his name & instructions on file.Will look for it.

I think it was called something like -- Fire Tunnel

The idea was--where do people dispose of the 'nub ends ' of the cigarettes. Name a few.
But in Buckingham Palace they are inserted into a £10 note of the Realm then --no one knows where it goes!

A £10 note is borrowed, rolled up. Half a cigarette or a 'nub end' --not lit--is pushed insde
A wave of the hand
The note is unrolled--the end has vanished BUT there is the Queen with a cigarette (drawing of) in her mouth.
The lender will keep that note for ages and talk about you.

NOTE: if you find the instructions, which I have somewhere--you do not need 3 TTs as suggested.
Simply, in the story say--a £10 note of the realm is used.

Allen Tipton

Yes it was called Fire Tunnel by BOB BURNS--appropriate name eh?

Do not the Abra date but on the bottom of the instructions was a news item about a Magic Auction of Houdini material, in New York, to be held on 31st October

So I guess it was in an October Abra
Get searching you Magic Detectives!!

One more addition. After showing HM I'd ask if they wanted to her really smoke. The answer would always be 'yes'.
Then I would put a Pixie cigarette in her mouth--light it and watch their faces as she often blew smoke rings!!

And yes guys I am a great respecter & admirer of our Queen.
This was a harmless bit of fun ALWAYS performed in that spirit--NEVER as anything disrepectful.!!!!

I suppose you could always do it with the famous figure on the back of the note.

Allen Tipton

It's a very easy and effective way of doing Bank Nite.

Barry