I believe he used the marketed effect called Quardriflex... it comes with the mismade bill attached so you can't give it out, but you can display it how he did on the show. If you have a copy of the tape watch what he does with the bill and how he handles displaying it. You can get the trick from Hollywood Magic, Hank Lee, etc.
Greg

I have recently discovered the $1,000,000 bill at my local magic shop. The quality is high, it almost looks like a real bill. I'm going to start using this for my bill switch routine and see what kind of reactions I get. I was told that a local magician uses it by asking to borrow a $10 or $20 bill and changing it to 1 million dollars. When the spectators see the new bill they sometimes want to keep it, which leaves the magician with the money he borrowed! Think about it: the fake 1 million dollar bills cost $1 each, compared to about $10 for a mismade bill. Plus, seeing how novel the 1 million dollar bill is, sometimes spectators don't want you to change it back, which leaves you with some tip money. Pretty cool!

Here's an idea that just occurred to me over the weekend while attending party assembly (political). One candidate for county treasurer had a $1,000,000 bill made with her image in place of the president. Also had some printing somewhere that said, "XXX for Treasurer" and some other stuff. Why not find a printer that makes such an animal and have your image and business data and give it out as a business card? People are sure to keep it (hey, it's a million bucks, isn't it?) and will always remember the magic that went with it...

Jon

[quote]On 2001-10-09 11:26, Scott F. Guinn wrote:


Murphy’s will be publishing a bill switch book in the very near future. It is written by my friend John Lovick, who I just spent the weekend with, and he tells me it will be around 400 pages, profusely illustrated, and contain contributions by all the top bill switchers, as well as a few you’ve never seen. I, for one, will be snatching up a copy!

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Scott,
Is there any way or place in the Café where users could be notified when this book and other highly anticipated works become available for purchase?

Thanks to Randy for the history on the bill switch... Got my instructions from a routine John Cornelius put out at the Blackpool convention soooo many years ago.
I Did it on Greek TV when I was living in Athens and had phone calls from folks asking me to do it to their money. Its one of the best illusions around, close up.
Vernon.

I first learned the bill switch from Mike Koslowski's $100 dollar bill manuscript a couple decades ago. It seems a lot of people forget that two versions were taught in the book, the gimmicked and non-gimmicked. It seems to me several "new" versions (i'e.the one in Pocket Power") are just rediscovering what was originally published. I have wondered if "Money Morph" or other "new" ones on the market are significantly different? One that is quite different that I like came before that published by Mike Koslowski is taught on one of Paul Diamonds tapes. You don't need to fold the bill into such a tiny package. The bill only folded into thirds, then into sixths and can be held by the spectator.

I belive the best bill switch today is Richard Sanders Visi-Bill. It's very clean and the bill is only folded in quaters, then the miracle happens......

and it is much easier than other methods mentioned,,
vinny

Visi-Bill is very good except you need the newer US bills with the large numbers or the effect is not as pronunced..
Don

So far, the best bill switch I have used is
Money Morph (Kevin Kings)I love it, the bill stays in full view of the spectator the entire time, (so they think) and it has never failed me.. excellent trick! I have not seen too many other versions of the bill switch, but find it almost impossible to improve on the version mentioned above..
Take it easy
Tom

I must admit that I've only scanned through this rather long thread, however I don't believe that I saw anyone actually mention the David Regal $100 bill switch from his 2nd video ("More Tricks! The Magic of David Regal"). His routine is called "The Origami Bill."

An extremely clean routine and mostly easy handling where you can make the first switch during the off-beat but are still able to switch back while everyone is burning you. He makes use of the "out to lunch" principle to show that you only have one bill and completely empty hands. On the switch back, he invites the audience to closely watch the bill while he uses a Baker billet switch-like move.

All very clean and (as David would be...) extremely entertaining. If you haven't seen David Regal's 3 videos -- get 'em. They're GREAT!

All of these posts seem to refer to the $100 bill switch. U.S bills are all the same size and colour so when folded are difficult or impossible to tell apart. Can the bill switch routines work on British currency notes which are different sizes and colour for each denomination?

Bill

Hi Bill,

I had the same thought for Australian currency -- in fact I was just discussing the topic with a friend the other day. I bet it could be done, however specifically the handling I just noted from David Regal would not allow it.

The switch back to the original bill using the Baker billet switch move could do it but it'd be tough to get away with that twice in the same routine.

Ahh... the price we pay (pun intended!) for living outside of the USA...

Steve dushek (spelling)also has a really nice piece of magic called dollar punch put out years ago. it is worth taking a peek at. I like this routine personally and think it is one of the finer bits of magic as far as bill swithes go. it has all of the most appropriate motivations and some very cool stuff happens.
cheers

After changing $1 to $100, has anyone ever asked you why you would want to change it back?

Hey Bill,
to answer your question, YES you can use money morph by Kevin King with any color currency.. In fact, for clarity kevin teaches the effect with 2 peices of flurescent colored paper.. I thought that was pretty cool in itself, so I cut out some dollar size peices of paper at work, one bright yellow, and one bright pink.. LOTS OF CONTRAST! and practiced with it.. I got kind of risky and thought I would try it out on a co-worker with the colored paper instead of bills.. and you know what? they didnt have a clue! it had the same amount of impact and mystery, it worked great, AND WORKS UNBELIEVABLY GREAT WITH THE SAME COLOR BILLS!
Good luck
hope this helps
Tom

Did anyone comment on Hypno-Bill?
http://members.chello.at/brainshifter/hypnobill/billg.wmv

The effect is very visual, but may not suitable for quite some countries, as most do not have same sized bank note in different value/color.

Well, you can do some trimming.

Yeah, that's what I'm going to do

After seeing Johnny Paul do the bill switch... and NOT KNOWING WHAT THE HECK HAPPENED... I figure the sleight of hand is the best.

Never liked the TT method.

I then developed what I call the BILLION DOLLAR BILL SWITCH.

Setup: Gigantic magnet in rear trouser pocket. Bill folded to about 1x1 inch with large steel paper clip on it in right sleeve (or finger palm).

Borrow a bill, fold and attach paper clip (clip needed for weight and...)

With borrowed, clipped bill on left palm, do switch, sleeving in right sleeve. Put hands palm-to-palm and rotate so when opened RH is palm up.

Let spectator take bill and open. Meanwhile, unsleeve bill and get into left finger palm.

Have bill switched to refolded and clipped. (Make sure clip on same as on other bill).

With LH (orig. bill palmed) grip the visible bill by the clip, holding it vertically.

Now, do Channing Pollock dove vanish in tails, actually tossing bill back and let magnet grab it, and you TOSS UP the original bill into air spinning it. Toss to loaner and say, "Catch."

That was very brief description... it will fry some brains... timing and choreagraphy are important.

I am only familiar with a couple variations of the switch, but I like the kevin king money morph method for the simple reason that there is a constant rhythm and that makes 'the move' even more difficult to detect and that is what makes it seem impossible.