I've been sending a lot of these oversea's latley. France, Germany, Ireland, Britain, etc.

I need Bob to break down and get back this way. Once I get a performance video of him doing silk to egg w/ 20th century, silkmagic.biz can do a DVD, like we do with the Improved THIS!

Has anyone purchase the egg to silk from seo magic before? if any one does, can you please pm me with your thought? I will be greatful.

Hey Bob,

Any tips for getting raw egg out of a sport coat?

Brandon

The best thing to use in cleaning up raw egg is Cold Water! That is true on most things from silk to leather. Protein simply cleans up best this way. One piece of good news is that egg liquids don't penetrate as effectively as plain cold water.

Good question! Egg accidents do indeed happen.

Bob Sanders
Magic By Sander

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdRPkzUzOH8 I love the way he uses patter to mask the switch it fooled me the firt time I watched it. Not only that but that he doesn't use any official magic pass. He just bunches the scaf behind the silk egg and well I can't give the secret away but you get the idea from watching the video. I should try something like what he does.

I've come a little late to this discussion and have not read every post so forgive me if somebody already made this suggestion. Brent, if you can't find white eggs where you live why not buy your own white egg laying chicken?

Great idea! I hope the other people in my apartment building understand!

Just make sure you don't get a rooster by mistake!

The silk to egg is a great trick. I do it early in my show. What about the rest of you?

The most common problem I hear from magicians who have performed Silk to Egg is that the real egg gets broken before showtime.

My solution is to use the plastic Easter eggs for kids as my "egg carrier". Real eggs will fit safely inside some of these. I also have my gimmicks stored in them.

Mine came from a dollar store!

Bob Sanders
Magic By Sander

I'm not sure if this has been mentioned, but I take an empty carton of eggs and cut it in half (1/2 dozen size) to use for carrying the gimmick and a couple of eggs. Putting it all in a plastic bag like you get at the grocery store to protect your props doesn't hurt either if one of the eggs does break. I always bring an extra spare egg or two just in case one breaks.

I'll be releasing my version of Silk To Egg on DVD in the months to come. On the DVD I go over every aspect of the routine...including transport!

Here is what I personally use to carry eggs to shows...never had a broken egg!

http://www.amazon.com/Coghlans-812A-Hike......1&sr=8-5

These can also be found at Wal-Mart in the camping section for around $3.00. They will hold your real egg, back up real egg, gimmicked egg, and silks all in one nice carrying case.

Hope this info helps!

Cody S. Fisher

I've just finished on Thursday a 15 min Promo show for 350 Girls at my daughter's High school. The finale was of course "Silk To Egg".
Needless to say as we all know who perfrom it - The response was Huge as were many nice comments after the event.

The more you perform this the more you fine tune the routine & it always gets the response that is real magic.

One comment I was given by a student was-
Everything she ever believed in was shattered when I broke the Egg...

It just couldn't be possible that happened!!!

I may even move the effect to Nos 2 in my cabaret/corporate show as my first talking effect after Music Intro etc. - Powerful stuff this effect..

Cheers

Just wondering what are your opinions regarding "Sucker" type effects, like silk to egg? Do audiences think we are insulting their intelligence?

From the posts here I can see that this isn't a problem, but still wanted to hear your thoughts.

I use this effect normally at the beginning 1 or 2 spot in my shows of 30-40 mins etc but for smaller events like this-

Tues night I worked the Local Classic Comedy Club here with some great other acts in a comedy magic show we've done over the last 5 weeks which was filmed

My finale after numerous gags & a bit of geek Razorblade magic was-

"Silk To Egg"-

Great finish-lots of comedy & ended the 12 min spot well with laughter & good applause.....

Click here to view attached image.

This is still the audience killer!

Bob Sanders
Magic By Sander

Not sure that this is entirely a "sucker" effect, as the explanation you give them for the first phase is, indeed, the true method. You just don't tell them that you're shifting methods. The audience wants to be baffled (why else would they be at a magic show?), so there's no reason they should feel insulted by the second phase. The overall approach of setting expectations and then adding a twist is common to all forms of entertainment, including movies, novels, etc.

I agree! It is a surprise but it should not be an insult to those there to be entertained.

Bob Sanders
Magic By Sander

After reading about this effect and seeing magicians do it, I've decided to put away the big props and go with the tried and true. This way I won't end up with egg on my face! lol

One of life's mysteries is how you can have $20,000 worth of props on stage and what the audience remembers is the ten cent egg!

Bob Sanders
Magic by Sander