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I've been playing about with my cards and came up with a trick. I've posted a video of it in F.O.V.C section-
http://www.talkmagic.co.uk/ftopic46650.php
It's abit bumpy performance wise, but the overall illusion comes over well enougth.
Any way do you think it's any good or got any potential or do you have and critisisms or improvements.
Here's the details of the effect.

>Spectator picks a card and can sign it if desired.
>Next you sandwich the card face up between two cards one face up and one face down.
>The signed card goes between them horizontal.
>You proceed to slide the card between the other two, but as it emerges from the other side it as impossibly twisted face down.
>You slide it back pulling it free and showing it is now face up again.
>the card is fully examinaible before and after the trick.

I liked it, it was very simple but also very visual. As you said, the handling was a bit bumpy but practice will smooth that out. I'm not asking the method of course but would it be fair to say you can't show the backs of all three cards? If so, there is a move you could use (depending on the method you use) where all the backs and faces could be shown.

Pickman wrote:I liked it, it was very simple but also very visual. As you said, the handling was a bit bumpy but practice will smooth that out. I'm not asking the method of course but would it be fair to say you can't show the backs of all three cards? If so, there is a move you could use (depending on the method you use) where all the backs and faces could be shown.

Thanks for the feedback,
the backs and fronts of all three cards can be shown. As I said its work in practice, the video was a early demo rarther than a polished performance. I guess if it was smoother and like you said better practiced then I would clear out all the glitches.

Would be really nice to see a 'polished' version of the same performance, if possible, please?

Very good. I like it.

Rob wrote:Would be really nice to see a 'polished' version of the same performance, if possible, please?

Yeah thanks, the real trouble is what I use for the method is just homemade and abit unreliable. It would look great if the key conponent was professionally made by someone who as the tools and knowledge and expertise too make a reliable decent version.

If the fronts and backs can be shown then it's better than I thought and a fooler. Once you get the smoothness it will be a great trick.

I have a fair old amount of experience in gaffing items for magic(k)al use (hence my lovely store...).

I'd be more than happy to see what I could do with this?

Drop me a PM if you'd like me to take a look

Rob wrote:I have a fair old amount of experience in gaffing items for magic(k)al use (hence my lovely store...).

I'd be more than happy to see what I could do with this?

Drop me a PM if you'd like me to take a look

Thanks, I've just PM'd you

There was a gimmick available about 10 years ago which did the same thing. It was used as a switch or transformation. I never bought it but had a fair idea of the method - yours looks very similar. I can't remember the name of the gimmick but perhaps someone here might, as you may want to have a look at it.


Jim

On the case, guys!

jim ferguson wrote:There was a gimmick available about 10 years ago which did the same thing. It was used as a switch or transformation. I never bought it but had a fair idea of the method - yours looks very similar. I can't remember the name of the gimmick but perhaps someone here might, as you may want to have a look at it.


Jim

I know the effect you're referring to, Jim; at first I was thinking about Starr's 'Push Thru' 2', but it's something different, which changes the back colours, if memory serves correctly? It's really going to bug me, until I can recall what it was

Its bugging me too. I can picture the damn thing in my head. I have a demo of it on a Magicbox product video from 2001/2002 but I'm not sure where the tape is.

Jim

The effect is brilliant. Well worth persuing. The handling however is pretty poor not just bumpy. I do appreciate that it is a work in progress. So here are some tips while working through the progress.

Don't fall into the trap that magicians fall into. Don't look at the effect from a magicians point of view. You don't need to keep turning the card over and over. You need to casually show the fronts and casually show the backs and you just have to do it once. Don't try to overproove.

I'm not even sure how the effect works but you need to work on the naturalness and fluidity of movement. To the audience it needs to look like you are putting one card between the other two. That is all nothing more nothing less. And if that is the case you should not have to re-position your hand so many times. You should not have to come at it from odd angles. You need to be able to slip one card between the other with no fuss.

For now just aim for that. Get it done and the entire effect is going to be a pleasure to watch and a real killer effect in your hands.

Keep up the good work. And it is good work.

Brian