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Russell Davidson Inner circle Hampshire, England 1108 Posts |
Apologies if this is in the wrong section.
I have John Kennedy's shrinking card case but I am hoping that there is one on the market that you can show the entire box rather than hide half of it in your hand whilst you remove the cards. Henry Evans seems to display the whole box on his palm in Tribute to Varone & that is what I'm after. I'm happy to buy that routine but if I could just get the case that would be better. Anybody got any other suggestions? |
Paul Inner circle A good lecturer at your service! 4409 Posts |
I think you'll find John Kennedy's version is actually John Cornelius's version, and credited as such, with a minor alteration to stop it coming apart. However, this alteration stops you being able to show the full back of the box as you originally could. I'll not go into further detail here, but I'm sure John still sells his version (though I thought it was better when it wasn't plastic).
The original "effect" was Peter Kane's and his version can be found described in one of his "Sessions" booklets. His version was fully shown although the idea is not to draw too much attention to it anyway, you're simply taking out a cardcase and removing cards from it, it wouldn't withstand much looking at, none of them do really. In my view the Cornelius method is the best, and I have seen a few others. Paul. |
Robert M Inner circle 2482 Posts |
I don't think John Corneilus is selling this anymore. He told me that the guy who made them passed away a year or two ago. So, I think the ones available at most shops are inferior knock-offs. I bought one and it was pretty crummy.
Paul knows much more about this than I do, but I think the best version right now is John Kennedy's. In fact, I think he just released a new, slightly improved version of this, didn't he? Check his web site. I also like Henry Evan's "Tribute to Varone". It's an excellent trick, and it comes with a very realistic, tiny Bicycle card box. These two versions of the shrinking card box are my personal favorites. Robert |
MerlH Loyal user Carolina Shores, N.C. 272 Posts |
If you take apart a regular card box and put it in the scan section of your printer and print it at half scale on heavy photo paper you will get a card case that can hold a card folded into quarters, pieces not money!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Merl Hamen Old dog-- New tricks
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Zebaztian Special user The Netherlands 655 Posts |
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On 2011-01-19 07:10, MerlH wrote: That's handy. Never thought of it. (I'm not fond on that many exclamation marks.)
My mind reading routines: http://www.basjongenelen.nl/goocheltrucs/. Scroll a bit down to the English routines.
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