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Allen Tipton wrote::) Back in the 1950's..Oh lordy! Douglas Hood, the BMS, Birmingham, (A Penny For The Waiter trick) used to market END strippers. I've never seen them since but think about it guys.

Allen...

These are what's referred to as Belly Cut strippers, see my post above

when i say "dont drop them..."

my point is simply that sourcing out one or a few cards is very different to re orientating an entire deck! i am a little "tongue in cheek" here... the key thing is the stripper deck i bought from Neil Lester is so well done with the gimmick at both sides of one end (and therefore very "minute") means that it still looks very normal. even when a spectator studies the backs of the cards, you really dont need to be concerned because the white boarder around Bicycle decks is still quite parallel.

sure when using a stripper deck it is not common to show off the backs, however i like to roll from different kind of trick to trick and this stripper deck allows you to do various slights that require a normal deck, and have the spectator freely scrutinise the deck. then roll into a routine that requires a stripper deck... no deck switch required.

Bobby_cat wrote:

my point is simply that sourcing out one or a few cards is very different to re orientating an entire deck!

I'm not sure if I've missed the point here but it's not really that different to re-orient a deck. My triumph effect is based purely on stripping the unequal cards in the deck with one cut. I don't think this looks suspicious and neither do any of the lay people I've shown it to.