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  1. leecreighton

    Adding a coating to cards

    A friend of mine thought she was doing me a favor (and, truly, she was). She did a stint teaching in China, and she found a magic shop that sold gaffed cards. The guy at the shop showed her...well, it goes by a lot of names. Million Dollar Monte, maybe? It's a version of the classic three-card...
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    Learned Pig, Tarko the Great, and Public Domain Magic Books

    Thanks ID4. That's good information. I've found several of the dover editions on The Internet Archive (archive.org) Open Library, and I found several versions of the Tarbell course in my looking around. The Magic Bunny site just gives me a "Coming Soon" screen. Is there another way in?
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    Learned Pig, Tarko the Great, and Public Domain Magic Books

    I do appreciate the work that they’ve done in compiling the work. I’m a bit of a para pod about books and books sites, having more than once had a source for a book and it disappearing. So, I started collecting the PDFs myself, and was hoping to do the same for these—with no offense meant to...
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    Learned Pig, Tarko the Great, and Public Domain Magic Books

    Hi all, ]If you don't want to read this entire post, there's a red, boldfaced question toward the bottom that tells what I'm looking for.] Perhaps I'm a purist. Maybe I'm dragging some of my physical book collecting hangups over to my e-book collecting. Regardless, I seem to be flummoxed by...
  5. leecreighton

    Very dry hands

    My thanks to everyone. I've been using Neutrogena Nordic every day for a few weeks, and my hands are as good as when I was 18. Were that the rest of my 50-year-old body were as easy to salve.
  6. leecreighton

    Labeling your decks

    So let's say you carry several decks of cards to your gigs. A couple of regular decks, maybe a Svengali and a Brainwave deck, and a Si Stebbins stacked deck. Does anyone have a method of labeling these decks so that you know one from another? I've noticed some magicians used several deck...
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    What is the best iPhone trick?

    I truly cannot complain. I don’t know how hard it is to write an iPhine app, and to have the inspiration...wow. Back in the mid-80s, I worked at a magic shop, and it sharpened my mind and opened me up socially. I think it had a lot to do with me getting a Math PhD and French Lit MA. It’s now...
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    Advice on the Glide (from Royal Road)

    I’m reminded again why I chose to use bridge cards at 18 when I started card magic. Returning to it at 50, I am switching to Poker size. No going back. The glide as described in Royal Road (Left Hand holds the deck with thumb and index finders; the rest of the fingers are used to execute the...
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    Very dry hands

    What angle should the two decks make? Assume the cards in my left hand (the ones already pulled off) are vertical, which I know they aren’t really. But if they were, what angle would the right hand cards attack at? 90° would be silly, since that would make the two halves perpendicular. Would...
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    Very dry hands

    I’ll start doing this regularly. Tu for example, I put some generic lotion on my hands, and rubbed it in well. I tried practicing the overhand shuffle routine in RRtCM and I was unable to do more than 4–5 minutes of practice. I’m still not sure how to solve the problem of pulling off...
  11. leecreighton

    Very dry hands

    Hi all, I know I’m not the first person to have this problem, so I’m sure there’s wisdom out there. I’m returning to magic (mostly cards, since that’s what I used to do) after about 35 years away from it. I decided to switch to Poker-sized cards since, well, it’s the right thing to do. I...
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    Kennedy's Trick(?) Sticks

    I remember a bit. I had to learn all these little tricks when working at The Magic Corner in Raleigh, NC. With this trick, it started with the standard hotrod turnover move, tr inf che gold stick into what they (lamely) called a "magic wand"— the gold color with shiny blue color on each end...
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    Kennedy's Trick(?) Sticks

    Someone, please, remind me if the name of this trick. I remember learning it when I worked at a magic shop in the mid-1980s, but I've forgotten the name (which has decades off the directions). The directions are particularly unclear, so I'd like to see if I can find someone performing the...
  14. leecreighton

    Deck ID

    Yes. Like I said, I’m in the original deck order, which intermixed a red suit and a white suit as long-short-long-short in numerical order with the backs showing up-down-up-down. Reversing the card like I described above disturbs the alternating up/down pattern, and causes the slight...
  15. leecreighton

    Deck ID

    I did check if it was a stripper deck. I turned a card around and tried to get a finger break under it, cut to it, slide it out (like a Hindu shuffle, but hoping to grab one card) and none of that worked. With the card reversed, you can see that the deck looks a little odd, like the pattern of...
  16. leecreighton

    Deck ID

    Hi Guys, Here are translations of some parts of the deck: The front of the box (with the magician on it), the side of the box (which had four phrases on it), the opening paragraph, and a random trick. What's interesting to me: When I used an iPhone app to translate the Chinese to English (via...
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    French Bicycle Deck

    Does anyone know a source where I can get a French version of a Bicycle Deck? I’m sure you know that a French deck is marked using a 1 rather than an Ace, and uses French names for the court cards: Roi, Dame, and Valet. I’ve got a few decks that I bought in France, but they are sort of off...
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    Deck ID

    Wow, dude, you did yeoman’s work on this deck. Tons of what you did wouldn’t have occurred to me at all. What a great job figuring it out. I’ve had a few parts of the directions sent to a Chinese friend-of-a-friend, so we’ll at least know what the deck box says and what the major paragraph at...
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    Deck ID

    The shortening doesn’t show up in a photo. However, if tou’ll Look two messages absolve the pictures of the cards, you’ll see in the pictures taken from the directions that the red cards are shorter than the black ones in both directions. Now to figure out what tricks are intended for this...
  20. leecreighton

    Deck ID

    Unless I’ve made a mistake, the face up cards (from another poker-sized sticky-as-hell Bee deck) correspond to the back in the picture. Hard to take a picture of both sides at once. Which one is troubling? RealityOne figures most of this out using four cards, and even when I tried to throw him...
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