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Hanman: Check out Tarbell Vol 7. Alan Alan's Dual Control gimmick (take you 5 minutes to make) listed as Rising card, page 108. The Rising Card from Evelope page 121 (uses 3 things you around the house) Then there is the Plunger principle ( I think it's in Tarbell but can't remember which one but it's detailed in Jean Hugard's Magic Monthly but not on the page in the Master Index) You can fix a length (about 18 inches) of IT to a card case ( with the flap bent back) have cards selected, Put deck in case, bring the thread across it. Replace the 2 or 3 selected so they depress the thread. A gentle pull but don't make it obvious and the cards rise. ALL these use an ordinary deck!
Allen Tipton

Hanman. I really think you should become familiar with the Plunger Method for impromptu Rising cards. I still cannot find it in Tarbell. In Bart Whaley's Who's Who In Magic, Lance Charles is credited with its invention in his 1933 book. In Hugards Magic Monthly Vol 13, it is credited/described by Lawrence Kam in the Sept. 1931 7 Circles Magic mag. HUgard wondered if this was a pseudonym for L. Charles. It was also popular in Genii. In Greater Magic by Hilliard it is credited (and fully described on page 400) to Jack McMillen and in UF Grants booklet, 25 Rising Card Tricks ,page 9, it is entitled The Hundred Dollar Card Rise and credited to Bill McCaffrey. It is also, with diagrams, fully described.I could have learnt it as a teenager from a borrowed copy of Greater Magic but I think I found it somewhere else. Others please help trace.
Allen Tipton

Hi Allen, and thanks for the very informative replies. Certainly some food for thought there, and you obviously know your stuff so I will definitely look up some of your suggestions and comments.
Its really good to know, as a new-comer to this forum, that there are people like you who are willing to share their knowledge and experience.
I'll definitely check out the Plunger with Tarbell, or elsewhere, and I'll ket you know how I get on.
Thanks very much for the interest and info.

Cheers.

Jack Mcmillen came up with the plunger card rise in 1928 and immediately showed it to his friends, Judson Brown,
Bill Larsen, Sr. and t. Page Wright. Wright wrote it up for a mooted book in 1929 as well as showing it to their mutual
friend bill McCaffrey. That same year, 1929, McCaffrey performed it for a select private gathering including S. Leo Horowitz and Nate Leipzig in New York. In 1928 Wright started using it in his professional performances. By 1930 so was Roland Hamblen. The articles appearing in Greater Magic (1938), Genii Magazine (1936), and My Best (J.G. Thompson), were all based on the article written in 1929 by T. Page Wright before his untimely death in 1930. I have a photocopy of an original carbon copy of the 1929 typewritten manuscipt of the mooted Wright book, including Wright's description of the plunger Rise, there entitled the J. M. Card Rise, in my possession. I shot it myself from the original carbon copy, which I got directly from Jack, while working on his book. For reference see The Complete Page Wright Manuscript (lybrary.com, pdf) or Jack Mcmillen (lybrary.com, pdf)

katrielalex wrote:You could try Kundalini Rising, by Jeff McBride - it's a 1-card gimmick that will give you a Rising Card deck.

Also, Ultimate Brainwave, I think, is a 1-card gimmick.

Kati

Kundalini rising does not have a gimmick in the way of a card. You can borrow a deck and perform Kundalini rising. I think you may be confusing effects.

But to the point you do not need a gimmick deck to perform rising card, (see Kundalini rising).

here is the trick, (pun intended) find the effects you like the best, learn them, become them and then perform them better than anyone else, make them yours. And the world will be at your feet...or so I am told.

What about getting yourself a stripper deck and a set of loops? With those, you'll be able to perform all sorts of different effects and the cards are pretty much totally examinable and can be used as an ordinary deck.