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Adam Keisner Veteran user London 335 Posts |
Have any of you guys played around with the coin thru silk using blue tack and other coin routines in Chris Kenner's TOOC? If so how do you feel about using the smurf turd with the coins?
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27297 Posts |
Yes, and it got popular in the 1980s, then published by Kenner in the 1990s. It makes a great way to manage stuff where you want to go only one way with the coins, and (if you must...) can reset with a napkin and supply of the gunk out of sight.
...to all the coins I've dropped here
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S.Segal Special user San Diego 949 Posts |
John Carney, Doug Brewer, and Troy Hooser have some good applications using blue tac worth checking out... Carney's can be found in Carneycopia, Brewer's is in The Unexpected Visitor and Hooser's in (I think) Destroyers and/or The Silver Surf lecture notes.
S.Segal |
zombieboy Special user Connecticut, USA 889 Posts |
Eugene Burger's old coins through table routine, one of the best and most direct, uses blue tac a lot. You can check it out on the Steven's video tape.
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Glenn Godsey Special user 737 Posts |
Many years before "blue tak", John Cornelius showed me his use of "Silly Putty" to simultaneously vanish four coins without a sound.
Best regards, Glenn Godsey |
James Harrison Special user Ontario, Canada 762 Posts |
And if you want to spend the money, you could use Silly Putty and a lot of preset for John Born's routine for a matrix climax on the Coin Classics video from Stevens magic.
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mike gallo Inner circle 1341 Posts |
If I remember correctly...Mike Rubenstien did some very good effects with it!
Mike |
TheGreatDane Regular user White Plains, NY 183 Posts |
Rubinstein's effect "Twilight Zone Wild Coin" uses the tack, and it works beautifully. He came up with that trick in the 80's some time and it is still one of, if not his #1 favorite trick to perform, bar none!
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Ben721 Veteran user 314 Posts |
The Now You See it Now You Don't notebook by Bill Tarr has a whole chapter devoted to Blue Tack, and a lot of it is using coins. He has a whole stand up flurry routine using Blue Tack. If you are interested in Blue Tack, pick that book up. It has a lot more very interesting stuff in it also.
Check out my new effect "As Good As It Gets" a gimmickles pencil or pen through bill effect. It closely mimmicks the slow motion phase of "Misled." About "As Good AS It Gets" for no gimmicks and everything being borrowed.
http://www.magic-notes.com/th |
Rob Johnston Inner circle Utah 2060 Posts |
How is Blue Tack on the actual coins though? Is it easy to get off, or does it leave a mess, etc? I ask because I don't use Blue Tack.
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27297 Posts |
The gunk is fine on the coins. Just gets smeared after a while. Will not eat the coins though. Silly Putty works okay. Makes a nice almost impromptu Slydini clip.
This stuff dates from the late 1970s though was in print by the 1980s. It's kind of an extension of the Down's idea so he could make a reliable coin star. Most of this stuff should still be in print.
...to all the coins I've dropped here
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Curtis Kam V.I.P. same as you, plus 3 and enough to make 3498 Posts |
I was in the toy store the other day and picked up some silver/grey Silly Putty that would be darn near invisible when smeared on the backside of a reasonably worn silver coin. Makes the Troy Hooser material even more attractive, but it's not as tacky as the Blu stuff.
Yes, the toy store. You gotta problem with that???
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Karl Miller Elite user 494 Posts |
The putty that comes with the John Kennedy Card Stab works really well with coins. I use it or the Kenner Cloth and Pence routine. It sticks really well, and it leaves zero residue on the coins. Great stuff!
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magicgetsgirls Regular user 171 Posts |
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--- "The Now You See it Now You Don't notebook by Bill Tarr has a whole chapter devoted to Blue Tack, and a lot of it is using coins. He has a whole stand up flurry routine using Blue Tack. If you are interested in Blue Tack, pick that book up. It has a lot more very interesting stuff in it also." ---------------- Ben, where is this? I own the book and I thought I read everything! If you know the page/ section, I'd love to hear it, the flurry routine sounds interesting. -Peter
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owen.daniel Inner circle England 1048 Posts |
The Hooser Effect: Coin Melange, is really great. I advise you learn it. The use of the blue tac is great, not only using it as a way to vanish the coin, but also as a clip (if you can really call it a clip). it really makes the method of the routine easier to learn and to perform.
Just for those who are interested in magic with blue tac in general, then check out Bob Kohler's lecture from International Magic, there is a great routine on here that he calls "Yellow Corporate Putty" (he uses yellow tac). But that is a card routine. owen |
Michael Rubinstein V.I.P. 4665 Posts |
In addition to the mentioned Twilight Zone Wild Coin routine from my 1985 video (now on L&L DVD), I have an interesting two silver one copper routine that uses blue tac (on the same DVD). I also have a coin move on the encyclopedia DVD series that uses blue tac.
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Dave Le Fevre Inner circle UK 1666 Posts |
Another Blu Tack idea is in Bobo, called Stewart Judah's Half Dollar Vanish, on page 417.
Dave
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Ben721 Veteran user 314 Posts |
Peter, make sure its the now you see it now you don't notebook, the one published by Kaufman and Company. I don't know if you might be confusing it with his other Now you see it Now you don't books, which are differernt then the Notebook. But if you do have the notebook, its on page 178, Chaper 6.
Have fun, Ben
Check out my new effect "As Good As It Gets" a gimmickles pencil or pen through bill effect. It closely mimmicks the slow motion phase of "Misled." About "As Good AS It Gets" for no gimmicks and everything being borrowed.
http://www.magic-notes.com/th |
magicgetsgirls Regular user 171 Posts |
Aha! That's what it is. I simply had the books confused. Thank you ben.
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