A new, interesting thread... Do you still use an Okito Box, and if so, which ones, and what is your favorite routine?

I use a Boston box! I have a book of 10 routines on it!

I just recently got my hands to it. I use routines from Expert Coin Magic; for example, Out In Out.

I use The Slot Box, as well as The Boston Box. I have my own routines, but if I may suggest....check out Roth's work, as well as Mike Gallo and Mr. Neighbors. Another noteworthy routine is one by Tom Stone.

Rannie

I use the Okito box, and the favorite routine I do is by Greg Rostami called "Houdini". It combines the use of the Okito box with Scotch & Soda and is a killer routine.....

Hi,

I use the Okito box from David Roth's Custom set. My favorite routine is the Mohammed Bey routine from the old Tannen's book, a great routine, and also the Ken Brooke one (The Art of Close Up Magic - Lewis Ganson).

Effects are direct in these routines.

For me, the best routine with 4 coins is the Out With Five with Okito from Roth, very clear.

I only perform these 2 routines, since 15 years.

BYE


PS:

A few words to David Neighbors... A friend of mine gave me, last week, the number one of EGO with 3 routines from you. Great, especially the Matrix effect with the handkerchief.

I use an Okito box and a Boston box, both are the "Buddha Boxes" and look identical. These boxes are a precise fit for half dollar size coins, but not big enough for a shell.
I begin with an Okito box routine, during which the spectator sees and handles the Okito box, and in the process sees the smooth bottom of the box.
When I follow this by switching to the Boston box, their brains fall out on the table.

My favorite Okito box routine is the one by Alex Elmsley in his Collected Works, called The Boston Two-Step:
http://www.themagiccafe.com/forums/searc......=4956491

It uses a Boston Box and is a not hard to do, but a very powerful and quick routine.

Larry

I have the Roth set and currently only do his Triple Change. Rannie does some very cool stuff with these little brass containers, including a ring, string, and coin trick with the Boston box that I have yet to make work for me!
Mick

What is Greg Rostami's HOUDINI effect, and where I can learn the effect??

http://www.infinite-image.net/gone/Houdini.wmv

Great and clever use of those props, Podcastrant....

Yes, I still use boxes... Sometimes, I use both dollar and half dollar sized coin boxes at the the same time.

My favorite is one I have put together using various sources from Bey to Kam. The latter was a 3 for 3 idea.

Lately, I have been playing with using the box as a running thread with things occasionally appearing in the box...such as first it has the Liberty coins...which change to brass washers, and the Liberty coins are found back in the box. Later, Chinese coins are found in the box, and later...___ is found... You get the idea.

Harris

Just to be clear, that was Greg Rostami doing his Houdini routine, not me.

Hi Franzis,
Thanks, man! Glad you liked them!

Ken Brooke's combined routine with an Okito which is nicely switched in half way for a Boston. The FULL routine is called One-Twenty and uses some excellent handling.

It's the best routine EVER with a coin box; these aren't my words, but a quote from OKITO (Theodore Bamberg) himself when Ken performed this in Chicago at a lecture in 1957.

Just the Ken Brooke Okito Box routine was written up by Lewis Ganson, as outlined above. You can see the routine (performed well) by clicking this link:

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

Lewis Ganson also wrote up a similar routine in the Supreme Teach-In Series on the Okito Box in 1978 using a Coin Unique. Although it's basically the same routine, no credit is given to Ken Brooke (maybe because during their Lecture Tour of the USA in 1957, Lewis Ganson died on his *** and Harry Stanley had to put Ken in to recover things)!

Hi Folks,

Here's the one I designed - my favorite! (I love Okito box magic).

http://www.shufton.com/Magic/Okito_Box/okito_box.html

Best to all of you!

A slot Okito Box gives a certain freedom of handling when vanishing a marked coin for a Nest of Boxes presentaion...

Julie

Julie - you use the slot okito just for a coin vanish?

Don't they ever want to see inside once you make the move/tip it upside down?

If you use the box as a coin vanish, isn't it better to just use a bare hand vanish?

Hi Essex

No, just vanishing the coin in your hand is not a good idea. If it's not in one hand, spectator logic is it must be in the other hand...direct movement towards the Nest of Boxes is suspect.

The SLOT version is a special Okito Coin Box that enables you to do "the move" without the need to immediately remove the coin.

You can then shake the coin inside the box after the fact, if you feel the need.

This clean handling with no rush to get possession of the coin is just the extra touch that makes for a clean vanish after introducing the Nest of Boxes.

These little extra nuances in presentration can add so very much to the success of a performance for today's discriminating and all-knowing(?) audiences.

PLUS the little brass "pill" box looks so innocent when compared to a rattle box or other tricky-looking apparatus.

Of course, this is just one approach to a vanish for this effect, but the original question was current uses for the Okito Box.

Julie

Thanks for clarifying it Julie - I used to use a slot Okito but just felt it looked fake and actually had the slot inside commented upon on a few occasions (in the Ken Brooke Routine, I actually prefer to let the spectator put the coins on the box).

Take your point about the bare hand vanish; but I use a lot of sleeving. Let's be honest, what's the point of showing a vanish of ANY item if you can't show both hands empty!