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Kainoa Elite user NewArk, Delaware 424 Posts |
One of my favorite Brother John Hamman ideas has always been the faked deck, and on a few occasions I've just bunched up some of my favorite packet tricks (with enough indifferent cards as filler or for a McDonald's Aces style effect) just to have them all handy.
I was wondering if you wouldn't mind suggesting a few tricks that can be a) gaffed to the hilt, yet b) "practical" in as much as they should appear to come from a "regular" deck of cards (i.e. not a bunch of jokers or blank cards--I don't mind color changing backs, but then I'd be compelled to change the rest of the deck as well). |
Larry Barnowsky Inner circle Cooperstown, NY where bats are made from 4770 Posts |
Kainoa, while Curtis is thinking this over, I'll give you my opinion. I carry a DB card in my card case. I use it to perform Darwin Ortiz's "Back Off" which was originally described in Darwin Ortiz at the Card Table and later revised in his Scams and Fantasies. This is a very powerful effect for lay audiences where 4 cards that were "misprinted" having only backs are shown one by one with some very pretty changes to be the four kings. At the end you drop the packet face up on the deck and spread the cards and they can examine those face up kings. His new version is done in the spectators hand.
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Curtis Kam V.I.P. same as you, plus 3 and enough to make 3498 Posts |
Well, you know one of my favorite things for newbie magicians is to ring in the cards for the old packet trick, was it called, "Flipped out"? You can use a Vernon add on to apparently upjog the poor victim's aces, and go into what appears to be a twisting routine. Once the victim has suffered through that, however, the backs of all the aces turn color (say, blue) except for the last, and still reversed ace. Then the back of the last ace turns blue, but all the others turn red. Then the backs become all mirrors, and the faces become all the same ace. The look on their faces is a beautiful thing.
Elmsley's handling of Bro. John's Ace routine fits your premise well, as it should, since that's the way Bro. John did it. You really wanna know? Some version of the "Elongated card" See Richard's Almanac for handlings, and Aldo Colombini has a very interesting version using not the normal gimmick. What about that thing Jennings was so fond of, where the card visibly rises from the bottom to the middle of a three card packet? And, lots of people swear by the Skinner Monte rouine. I never tried it, and never saw him do it. Want a real management problem? Figure out how to use your fake Deck to do "visually yours", and see if you can find one of these. Michael Ammar used to sell them. AS I recall, a card was forced and signed on the back. Lost, and then the face card of the deck was color changed to become a three of hearts. Wrong, the card was the two. The middle heart then visibly travelled along the face of the card, transforming the three to a two. You're then in a situation easily solved through a one-hand bottom deal. Do Daryl's "Crossed thoughts" or the variation of "Printing" come in Bicycle? (I know Crossed does) These are very cool. "Limited edition" also plays well, and looks innocent initially. What, you need to buy more things?
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Kainoa Elite user NewArk, Delaware 424 Posts |
Yes!....I just got the Aronson set of gaffs for his routines in Try the Impossible and I also wanted to use that Q-something gimmick by Hollingsworth that makes his twisting routine quite easy. I've got that Eye Exam routine I wanted to do just to produce the eye ball at the end. I was also thinking of throwing in a reworked gaffed version of Elmsley's Steamboat Sam that has a visual change of the last five indifferent cards to five aces.
Toys toys toys....I so seldom get to play with them, it makes me happy to just dream.... |
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