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Baseline Decks The Baseline decks: These are the decks that I use as a basis to evaluate all the other decks that I review. Bicycle 808 Rider back: Where to buy: http://www.theory11.com/playingcards/bicycle.php http://www.ellusionist.com/playing-cards/regular-decks/normal-decks...

Achilles Heel, Size, and Surface Achillies Heel: Those of you who have read my In-depth reviews also know that I give a weekly update on the progress of the deck. That won’t happen in this consolidated review. Instead I’ll give one rating for each category. This rating indicates the deck at its...

Methodologies and Chart interpretation ***Those of you familiar with my reviews and methods may have an intuitive idea of how to interpret the tables I will post. I recommend skipping ahead two posts and you will get into the actual buyers guide portion of this thread. If you do get confused...

The Card Buyers Guide Welcome to my card buyers guide. The information you will find within represents a synthesis of over a year and a half of in-depth reviews and over a decade of experience with various cards for use in magic and flourishing. This will represent an ongoing project that...

For $60 bucks you can get a brick of Steamboats! LOL...Seriously that seems a little high for me considering he admits it isn't the real deal.

Probably a fake. If USPCC was making a reprint it would cost what most reprints cost....about the same price as the average custom deck. $5:00-$7.00

DON'T TRY it until you NEED to! You will notice from my reveiw that I didn't wash mine until after a month....and I mean a month of serious abuse. I went out of my way to trash that deck and it still took me a month before I felt it was ready for a cleaning. I just wanted to make that VERY...

It is looking really good. I only saw it once but I certainly didn't catch any finger movement. All I can see is a little jerk in your wrist as you execute the move. Inspires me to get to practicing this one!

Looked great!

In Richard Turner's "Shifts, Hops, and Magical Passes" he teaches an in the box deck switch. I think with a bit of practice it should be able to be adapted to a standard tabled deck switch.

Use the ignition system from a model rocket kit.

Dang....seems like I misplaced my troll spray.

Bulldog Squeezers (4th week Update)Wow! The First USPCC cambric style deck, and only the second USPCC deck, to make it to the end of a full month. That fact has immediately placed this deck in league with the Steamboat. I will honestly pit this deck against most of the USPCC custom decks on the...

Image aside...Imagine and V2F are some awesome effects. Looks as if V2F is on this DVD and I also like the linking bracelet deal. I'm certainly interested...Unfortunately "Limited release" and "for charity" says to me, "going to be expensive." We'll see.

Good luck finding Steamboats. His recommendation is valid though. I worship that deck. I find the casino grade Bee stock a bit thick for my tastes with gambling moves(Just my opinion.) For me, soft, flexible, and thin is where it is at. Thus anything on Bee Aristocrat stock is great. Also, the...

I thought it looked real nice. I liked it. Ditch the ad card and use two jokers though. Other than that I agree with you reasoning on switching up the last two productions.

John Bayme posted a week or so ago that T11 will do another run of Propogandas but that there would be a few changes to them. Not sure if that means a change in design or a change in stock and finish. Guess we will have to wait and see.

605s are the same stock and finish as the 505s but the cutting job is supposedly more precise. I assume the difference between them would be similar to the difference between Bee Club Specials and Richard Turner's "Gold Seal" Bees. Basically the sort of quality difference that shouldn’t make a...

The Lee Asher Booklet's are great source material and some of his techniques have helped influence the "modern" wave of flourishy card magic. Also he has a lot of great PDF downloads on some of his techniques(Diving Board Double, Thunderbird, Losing Control) For modern passwork I highly...

Washing. 1. Don't bother washing until they really need it. I was pretty abusive, cards were dropped on floors, I didn't always wash my hands before practice, and so forth, and I still didn't wash them until after a full month. 2. When washing the cloth should be "moist" not wet! Wet a clean...