Hi where can I find gypsy tread and hindu thread thanx

Is it fine?
Great!!!

Well, you can't 'find' it..you have to spend your time in learning it well!!!!
You're UK based, so why not ask Ali Bongo or Pat Conway , just to name 2 of the well known UK-performers of it.

Why not use the search function of this forum?

Type Gypsy thread and also Hindu thread and you'll get lots of information.

There is a package available from the Camirand Academy of Magic/earlier Gary Ouellet with a video and a routine.
Lonnie Chevrie has a great version on the first vol. of his DVDs using dental floss and he explains a very deceptive and smooth handling..so what's your problem?..do you really want ppl explaining it all over and over again, just because you don't dare to do a simple search?

There is no reason for explaining the same stuff over and over again..the search function is GREAT and one can find almost anything has already been talked about....there is nothing new under the sun..
Ssearch and you will find!

Also, do the same search on the Genii Forum, also there is a lot of talk about the Gypsy thread and I understand why..it is an all time classic worth to be handled with respect and that means one has to study it well and not just read a description and then go out and do it (badly)..
To do it well is like doing a work of art..compare it with the paintings of Michelangelo
It took me 40 years to get it right, but OTOH, I'm a slow learner

Thanks you've been a great help

That's Ok..

Now it's your turn to make the best out of one of the greatest pieces of close-up/parlour and stagemagic!

A tiny tip..get the little booklet of the teach-in series written by Lewis Ganson, enitled:

THE HINDU THREAD TRICK
often refered to as
THE GYPSY THREAD

and study it well..

This trick neaded very good sleight of hand magic.
I saw different performancees of it, and I like David Blaines.

Let me comment shortly re this...but before -as all this is mentioned under Street Magic- Cellini has a very fine and very different handling of what he calls *gypsy-thread* for the street.

It's on one of his DVDs.

It is a very fine and very deceptive handling, that plays big and is highly suitable for the street, as well as the handling is entirely different, nevertheless very very clever and deceptive.

Re the remark:
*This trick neaded very good sleight of hand magic.*

TBH, it is not at all difficult to do and doesn't need special gifts re sleight of hand..in my own mind I call it a selfworking 'trick'..

BUT, what it needs is knowledge and accuracy in 'preparation', a good presentation and a fine handlingtechnic, as well as a good clean-up when finished.
Lonnie Chevri has a very fine clean-up, actually matching the one I used in later years.
Picking up the spool and getting rid of what's to be getting rid of.
IMHO it is 'the best' way to do a clean-up.

I recall, Michael Skinner, who also did the Hindu-thread, actually did a clean up in an entirely diff. way.
He could do it at the places he worked, but the one used by Lonnie Chevri is a REAL clean-up and can't be toppet in way of being practical and easy to do.

You can get it from malcolm at http://www.topsecretmagic.co.uk

The version Blaine did is called dragon thread, Malcom does indeed stock it, but when I inquired about it he refused to sell it to me and taught me gypsy thread instead. Absolutley fantastic, I use it all the time to great effect , and with a twist I picked up from scott penrose , using flash string instead you have the cleanest flash finish! try it !

I'm not surprised
Somehow he obviously hasn't the taste to step in the foodsteps of both Dough Henning and Dvaid Copperfield...

Dragon-Thread = illogical handling !

Wat's the difference of the gypsy thread from the other threads????
by the way wats the elastic thread??


thank you...

".... and with a twist I picked up from scott penrose , using flash string instead you have the cleanest flash finish! try it !" I'm not sure who came up with this tip but Henry Evans does market a trick called Torn and Restored Flash Thread. Here is one link to it:

http://themagicwarehouse.com/closeup12.html#lp3233

It does have a clean finish. One suggestion: I would use scissors to cut the thread as you're doing the trick should you choose to give away the thread to someone in the audience. Those who have or get it will know why I am making this suggestion.

Jimmy

Ho no no no,

David Blaine definitely did not do Dragon Thread. It was just a good old fashioned Gypsy/Hindu Thread routine. Maybe you thought it was Dragon Thread because he performed it for Asian men...

Yeah Blaine just did Gypsy thread from the looks of it, also people say that he did a really bad presentation of it, but if they watched it they would have realised he couldn't talk or anything because the people he was performing it to, wouldnt have understood what he was saying, at this point on the special he was showing that magic breaks the barrier of different languages, which it proved as they applauded.

You can also find it in Tarbel, I don't remeber which vol.

Craig

Does anyone know the name of it in Tarbell?

I looked it up in my copies of Tarbell. It is in Vol 7, Lesson 87 and is called "Milton Tropp's "Impromptu" broken and restored thread."

Craig

Thanks

Tommy Wonder also does a fantastic version of the Gypsy Thread. It's on his DVD set. Nice storyline that goes with it.
Bill

Anything Tommy Wonder does is outstanding!That is no news.News however is that Tommy Wonder on any DVD ever did perform the gypsy thread.It is easy to say so!It is a bit more difficult to point to on which DVD it is.Certainly NOT on any of the set from L&L.Your turn to let us know where it can be watched.
Your only out from giving wrong and misleading information here is to point to Daryls fooler doolers, because Daryl there does perform one version, Tommy Wonder never did on a DVD.Right?
Giving wrong and misleading information can happend to anybody,but it always should get put right and corrected!