Looking for some input. I perform a routine where I have someone sign a silk, I disappear that silk using a TT and a dollar bill, and it comes back inside of an object later in the show.

I want a new and exciting way to disappear the silk...but I need to be able to produce the silk later in the show using a TT inside an object.

Any suggestions would be great, thank you.

Justin! "disappear" is an intransitive verb. It cannot "take" an object.

One can "make" something disappear, but,one cannot "disappear" something.

It appears to me that you want a "new and exciting" way to VANISH a (signed) silk to satisfy your own desires. I suggest that you forget about YOU, and concern yourself with the SPECTATORS, especially if you are going to employ a TT to l**d the (signed) silk into an "object"

If you are performing for your own "amazement/amusement", you are as the old professionals say, "masturbating on stage.".

Of course, you could do what many "magicians" do: Buy one of those RED velvet bags on a stick!

Spellbinder has an old and exciting way (old is new again) to make a signed silk disappear, and if your plan is to make it reappear inside an apple or a loaf of bread, then it would work for you - no TT needed. It's found in his Dollar Store Magic Book 2 under "Vanishing Silk Gimmicks" - specifically, the Coin Bottle Vanisher. The best part is that it happens in the hands of the spectator who signed the silk and poked it into the bottle. The spectator opens the bottle to discover the silk has disappeared, at which point you can reach into a dinner roll (or something) and "find" the missing signed silk.

Dye tube, pull, hank ball, Palmo ball?

But if you're going to use a TT to reproduce it later, stick with the TT for the vanish. Otherwise, you're going to need to retrieve the signed silk and load it into the TT anyway.

You can always tie a small knot in one end, roll it between your hands into a ball, and vanish it via sleight of hand. Then you'd still have to ditch it somewhere, retrieve it later, load it into a TT...

And thank you, Dick, I violently agree with you on a grammatical error made by far too many magicians. It's like fingernails on a blackboard when I hear magicians say they're going to "disappear" something. Kinda like the word "irregardless". <Shiver> Or the guys who talk about their "grand fee-nal" instead of "finale".

Now if I can only start saying "handkerchiefs" instead of "silks". You're right on that one, too.

Hello Steve!
When the late Burling Hull (aka: "HURLING BULL" by old timers) first "invented" the "Elusive Silk" (Vanish)about75 or 80 years ago, he suggested that knot in the corner of the silk to facilitate rolling it into a "ball". Few magicians were able to accomplish a false placement with a loose ball of silk. It was compared to palming a wet cake of Ivory soap! I can't recall ever seeing anyone use Hull's idea.

About 40 years ago, when I wanted to do the 20th Century Silks in my school program, I "invested" some time in developing a technique so that I could use the Elusive method to vanish the rainbow silk for the 20th Cl. It had to be 100% "surefire". After a week or two of trial and error,--and a major rethinking of the concept, I was successful. The 20th C is strong enough that it is next to closing in the elementary school program.

I also use the modified Elusive Vanish as a "stand alone" when I do an occasional strolling job. When the vanish is over, there is no reset. I can repeat it immediately.

You are certainly not alone when you compare such grammatical errors to fingernails on a blackboard!

KEEP IT SIMPLE--MAKE IT FUN!

P.S.: I wrote up my adaptation of Volta's (Hull's stage name) Elusive Silk Vanish in "the" book.

Just combine it into Silk to Egg.