Hi, I was wondering what kind of switch would be the best for letting the spectator handle the coins (regular) before switching the gaffed ones and start the routine.
I thought of starting with the gaffed coins in left finger palm and to do a fake transfer (shuttle pass type).Any other ideas?
Thanks

Shuttle passes and false transfers are solid "tools" for your idea. You could also try some kind of one-handed exchange, that would pretty much fool your audience. Maybe when you do a gesture?

Spherie

I do the non-sleight c/s in BoBos a couple effects before the halfs. I hand them out and make sure they get tired of looking at them. A couple effects later I pull them out and say Hey, you remember our old friends the copper and silver coins... and then you end clean with the halfs. It gets rid of all the suspicous moves till you master the sleights.

Never been called on it yet and both sets are getting beatup and worn.

Why use gaffed coins at all?
If you would prefer to use regular coins, keep an eye out for my No-Gimmick Hopping Halves in my Showtime column in the Linking Ring magazine.
Like my No-Gimmick Scotch and Soda, it eliminates the gaffed (and, in some cases, OBVIOUSLY gaffed) coins and, as such, needs no time for reset.

No matter what switch you do, timing is everything.

Make sure you do it on the off-beat...during the "pre-trick" set up time. You know, that time before the audience realizes the trick starts, but for you, the trick is already done?

Was that confusing?

Don't do a flying shuttle either...that wouldn't work with a hopping half gimmick.

Best,

I use the french drop as a means of swtiching the gimicked coins, its pretty useful and almost inflaible.

Magicman01462