On 2008-07-22 23:49, CaptainKid wrote:
Rmendez: I do the bill switch barehanded too, but I also use a TT for different effects. I find that if people see thew barehanded switch way more than once they have a tendency to really burn your hand, even grab it.

I find it amazing people will say "a pro does this or that". Pros do all sorts of things. I find it funny that anyone would saddle themselves with anything but a somewhat realistic thumb tip. I think it is ego.

Yes, you need to be able to misdirect, but why limit yourself? Much of what I do would not be nearly as good or impossible with a "green" TT.

Also, just because your audience does not say they see anything does not mean they don't. I often am working surrounded with people breathing down my neck - literally.

Funny story. I once saw a fellow magician demonstrate how the color doesn't matter. I didn't tell him it may be true, but not for him. I saw it in a reflection on his glasses. Also, he did not perform surrounded and up-close.

Note there are no unrealistic TTs for sale, as much as people say it doesn't matter, the bright red ones just don't seem to sell well . . . you have to paint them yourself.


There is so much more you can do with one - but I think the TT is one of the most under used magic props today. Typically at a restaurant I do a water pour, chain link, bill in dinner roll, miss made bill, paperclip link, streamer from shoe, sugar packet trick, key bending, mind reading (using it as a writing instrument), Paper tear, Hanky burn, leaking (squirting) glass, smoke from ears, and, of course the cigarette in to tie and occasionally a goldfish routine with a Beta. Can anyone name some other great routines?