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How about making an ID from jumbo-cards? Easy to do and with the right presentation you can make it as long as you want. Or get a good rope-trick like Pop Haydn's Mongolian pop-knot or the professor's nightmare, that is a sure winner too.

What happens the other times?

So you are a paramedic, are you? I have a good one for you. If you ever had any doubt about the effect of a TT and think it looks amateurish, just have a good look at my face and think thumb-tip. Forget the glasses. They are camouflage. It is my daily routine and i never leave home without it...

Hello Arconik, I am Gustav Dubh and i'll try to save you a lot of trouble, time and money. Magic doesn't work with gimmicks only, they are just tools we use. We also use smoke, mirrors and trained hamsters. You seem to mix up things a bit so don't buy any of those items before you know what...

Thank you, for me he was just uncle Bram, a nice guy who came to our house a few times a year.

Working with IT is not easy, and christmas is only a month away so i would not chance it. It takes months before it looks good and it has a lot of restrictions. If you are dressed-up as santa it will be next to impossible to use it. I don't want to disencourage you but those copies are not very...

A few short answers: 1) 53 years, 32 as a professional. 2) My mothers uncle's name was Bram Bongers, he gave me a Scotch&Soda for my eight birthday and that started it all..... His stage-name was Fred Kaps. He is dead a long time but i still have and use that S&S and it is not for sale. 3) I...

Just get a vernet-set. They work very well, cost around a tenner and come with peas and instructions for the basic moves. Learn them. That will take about 15-20 minutes. Practise with shells for a while until you get the 'feel' for it, then get three bottle-caps and use them. See what happens. I...

Well, what do you do at the moment and what do you have in mind? I've been using sponge-rabbits for more than 30 years and i still do. A bit of coin-work goes a long way and a good torn and restored card can make your reputation. A few good, short card-tricks and perhaps a chop-cup, whatever you...

As far as i know, Bob's bootcamp is the only one special for bottle-caps. It teaches you all you ever need and then some. It is not about the handling, bottle-caps are not easier or harder to handle then custom-made shells. The technique is easy enough, the venom is in the presentation...

Do you have a sven-pad? I don't use them but they can be very usefull for a mentalist i believe.

School for scoundrels is the way to go for sure. An introduction to the shell game is a good starter and the boot camp is the best way to learn the caps. There is also a book with patterns by Peter Woerde that i can recommend.

You could try to contact Eric Chien and ask him, it is his work. Maybe he will give it away to a total stranger but somehow i doubt it. He is just unbelievable creative, i think. All i know about the flux deal is that it can only be done with a special electrostatic gimmick that functions as a...

I don't name my tricks, i just do them. The spectator doesn't care and neither do i. I do not perform on you-tube or any video, if they want to see me they will have to come to a performance. Internet-magic is nice for those who like it, but it doesn't pay the bills.

This is getting stranger by the minute. That electronic stuff looks like some motor that slowly spins the square bar. The switch is hidden under the cards. Maybe to make a chosen card vibrate or there could be metal studs in it to influence the pendulum. But what about that handgrip or whatever...

Thanks for that, it is a very strange thing to hear him talk, and he has a good voice too. I would buy a second-hand car of him if he was a salesman. I am glad he isn't. Penn & Teller are not that well known in Europe, like most American magicians, so we don't know much about them here. He...

My pleasure.

I mixed them up indeed, but i didn't know he could speak. I'll look it up, thank you kindly.

Put a few layers of transparant nail-varnish on the inside of the ring and let it dry. This makes the ring a bit smaller and less slippery. That is what i've been doing for the last 35 years. Works for me.

Call me Gustav please. That dot looks like a printing error on the box. The blue bar with 'standard size standard face' looks a bit off to the right. These are seconds. That are decks that didn't pass casino quality standards. My dealer sells them for 2/3 of the price. Sometimes the print on...