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It depends on where your going to be working. If your learning to do Riffle Shuffle work then you will benefit from using a pad. If you plan on doing in the hands work then a pad won't help you. A pad will keep your coins and cards clean and make it easier to pick things up than if your trying...

Beyond what you wrote there is also a book by Jeff Busby about the Secret proerties of the back design for use in many magic tricks. Unlike the Jerry Nuggets it can do things that no other deck can do with no prep work whatsoever. The deck is still available right now in Canada despite what...

Karl Fulves has his take on it on a book callled Setting - Up Excersizes Vol. 2: Blocking Off. Using the blocking off technique is a logical solution. Scarne is on Video doing the routine but as usual with his technique there is not much at all to see, He does what he has described as the...

Aging Aging does nothing to the sound of the coins. Aging them darkens them so that can be distinctly seen. You darken or highlight areas of the coins and can polish or birghten up the raised surfaces of the coins so that light hits them a certain way. Getting them slick is a whole...

They are both by Tango so there is no difference between the two you posted links to. Try a Pro gravity one if you can. Smoother action on the gimmick will serve you better in the long run. Snorri

Flat muscle Pass I use a very old Morgan silver Dollar to do the muscle pass. It is much more effective for both Laymen and magicians if you get it to go flat because it looks like it floats rather than spins when going from hand to hand. I have been doing this slieght for over 20yrs. I...

Soft coins is a Magician term. They call them the following at coin shops: Junk Coins Junk Silver Slickers Slicks They normally melt down these types of coins for the silver and have a box of them for sale. Good luck, Snorri

Homer does not use a Deans set. He uses an expanded shell with Morgan silvers. He also uses Walking liberties. An expanded shell set will allow you to borrow the coins if someone has them where as a Deans set will not. Why would anyone use an unexpanded shell over an expanded one is...

the triple threat gimmick is quite versitile and has certain properties that allow you to toss it from hand to hand that the other gimmick does not. The notes that come with the TT by Troy are excellent. There is also another book that is 237 pages coming out this fall that will have a ton...

Wow I am curious as to what your trying to accomplish with your coin magic as I have seen it be very deceptive. Are you talking about coin magic from a purist standpoint or using gafus? I have been doing magic fro a very long time and coin magic was one of the things I have been doing the...

Sybil Chris popularized these style of cuts. Five faces of sybil was loosely based on the Ultimate Illogical cut by Troy Hooser that had 7 packets instead of just 5. There were other cuts of this type before and even Dai Vernon was playing with various flourishy cuts on the 1974 interview...

Tommy Wonder's routine always seems to amaze me. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Hgm4wZCACYg http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=MJ6qT8JvaMY Enjoy, Snorri

They are in the context of various routines in Bobo's. I use Kurtz technique all the time in my coin sequences. I also use various things from Sol Stone as well. The key to good handwashing is using the proper soap...lol just kidding. The key is to act natural..some people over do the...

Flipper Tango flipper will work if you learning to use it . I much prefer my gravity flipper though and have retired my johnson flipper and tango. About Charming Chinese Challenge. Troy is a friend and I have seen him do this many time for audiences all over the place. He taught the routine...

Nest of boxes I do this and yes you really do need to do this with two things. A borrowed coin A signed coin. Why you may ask? It is pretty simple. It is so impossible that most people believe that an unsigned coin that is not borrowed is just vanished and the coin was always in the...

Sybil There are several cuts within sybil that you can research. The Z -cut is one of them and is quite old. I believe that the illogical cut and Ultimate Illogical cuts by Bill Kulish and Troy Hooser influenced Chris in some way to create the 5 faces of Sybil. Chris is credited with...

Shells The style of coin you buy is dependent on the coins you like. I use Morgan's for most of my coin work but I also use regular halves (Kennedy) and Walking Liberty. A word of caution on the schoolcraft shells....if you order just a shell you will have a harder time getting them to...

The stuff in Troy's book is excellent. I enjoy Charming Chinese Challenge....great coin routine and not al that hard to do. Extroydinary is and has been a favorite in my act for over 13yrs. Also check out Charlie Justice's Covert Coins....good utility moves there and a nice solid...

Probably the Folio version if it is cointwo. What is the Callsic version?? Do you mean Classic? Snorri I just checked Homer's website. There is only the folio version limited edition to 1000 and the limited edition Coinone ....you can get both at a 15% discount at $54.95+S&H....there at...

Man, The 3fry without the extra coins is called Long Gone Silver and if your going to learn that than you might as well learn Menage Et Trois (3 Fly, VCA). I leanred three Fly first and found it very easy to learn if you already know basic slieghts and I follow it up with Long Gone...