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Pete Biro 1933 - 2018 18558 Posts |
Mine arrived and it is terrific.
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Merc Man Inner circle NUNEATON, Warwickshire 2537 Posts |
Ken Brooke's original version DIDN'T have the necessary within a gaffed deck BUT it did come with an excellent 'stripper' deck for an additional routine/ideas by Alan Shaxon (this was sent out as an 'After Sales' sheet - something Ken often sent to his customers). The instructions also had lots of other ideas for the prop - routines that originally accompanied the Bob Ostin trick called 'Beam Shot' (this was more or less the same effect but with a small torch).
The later version by Paul Stone's Ace Place Magic DID have a (very tacky and poorly made) gimmicked deck. Also, in the version that Ken marketed, the bulb DIDN'T have to touch the selected card and the bulb would even light when it was inside a glass - let alone a handkerchief. I don't know about the Tenyo version - isn't the bulb made of plastic? If so, isn't it a bit 'gimmicky' in its appearance?
Barry Allen
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adomac New user 15 Posts |
Exactly - Ken delivered no gaffed deck but two gimmicks, and the smaller was to be stuck between two cards (one being a Koornwinder Key Card) and used that way. I have just gone back to my files and read Ken's original instructions of February 28th 1977. Despite the fact that they explain how the scissors are to be used, he advised me to do what he did and 'blow it out' using the big gimmick in the tie.
As you say, 'Beam Shot' was essentially the same trick. It is wonderful to read the instructions after all these years and see Ken offering the 'BEAM SHOT BOOK' with many other tricks for it, for the price of £1.50 or $4.00 post free. Times have certainly changed! Ken credits Scotty with the idea, Dick Koornwinder with a lot of work on size reduction but the real manufacturing credit to Bob Swadling who spent endless time and money procuring the parts and putting it all together and who with his non-magician partner John Alner, made the finished products for Ken. I never saw Paul Stone's version so can't comment. My own one worked for very many years before failing. The Tenyo version is indeed plastic but looks perfectly OK and not to my mind at all suspicious - you would need to look pretty closely to realise it is plastic since it is pearl and shiny, so looks normal. Of course the question of having a duplicate arises if you happen to want to hand 'it' away as a souvenir, but since they are available or could not have been made in the first place, presumably they can be sourced if necessary - I don't hand them out so am not concerned. It works completely reliably, having myself put mine though its paces many, many times as I always do before using anything in action, as it were. I got mine from Merlin Magic who gave excellent service. I will perform it for the first time for years this weekend and feel very comfortable with the Tenyo version. As with Ken's, the Tenyo version works without touching the cards - I have this minute tested mine and it lights half to three quarters of an inch above the cards, which is very good. It works perfectly with my ring, both on and off with no discernible movement, and so its uses are extended greatly. I hope this helps. |
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Pete Biro 1933 - 2018 18558 Posts |
Yes your message (and others above) DO HELP. My Ken Brooke one is in storage so I got the Tenyo one. There is a real bulb available here in the colonies that is ALMOST the same size. I think if you do the switch and casually place the ungimmicked bulb aside for a bit, nobody will note the slight size discrepancy.
You could start with the ungimmicked bulb and switch for the Tenyo when you get the handkerchief... so they only see the Tenyo bulb inside the handkerchief, then you switch back at the finish.
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adomac New user 15 Posts |
Thanks very much - I like that idea, if I can source a close enough match, though as I say I never usually gave one to be kept, just casually pocketed it as if it was nothing special. Clearly for table hopping that is the only solution, though for a private dinner party performance it would be perfect. A Topit solution also springs to mind, where it dramatically vanishes totally, in full view, from both hands which are clearly empty, only to be "retrieved" from a pocket, when the switched in one may be given out. If both have an obvious mark in the same place, the subterfuge will be concealed. This would also allow one to Topit it whilst still alight, and if wearing a PK ring, light the substitute in the pocket as it is removed, so a lighted one vanished and a lighted one was removed from the pocket, tacitly "proving" they are the same bulb. This of course can only be done when it is presented as magic rather than mentalism, where your method would be ideal.
I do urge you to also play with it with a PK ring, as so many excellent new possibilities arise from being able to innocently have it apparently switched on by a third party agency and 'blow' it off with no visible movement (the larger movement of the hand or whatever - their finger touching it for example - covering the smaller one of the fingers). I am sure you will come up with some really good new ideas. I am working on a number of things. Just one idea I came up with as an example is using it as a lie detector. Knowing what a selected (forced) card is, you can tell a spectator they may lie or tell the truth about colour, suit, value as you question them; you then narrow it down to the selection by the fact that every time they lie the bulb stays unlit, and every time they tell the truth it lights up (or vice versa). They must give their answer each time, then lightly touch the bulb in your hand, giving you the millisecond to know whether it should light or not, whilst their movement to touch it allows for any movement you must make, 'blowing" it out each time it lights. You then "discover" what the card was by the actions of the bulb responding to the truth or falsehoods of the spectator. I am sure that will be very impressive, though I haven't tried it yet as it is a new idea. The principle is sound though, and one may devise any number of effects that suit one's style. Very little practise with a ring allows you to turn it on and off with tiny movements. Posted: Mar 24, 2011 8:30pm Apologies - the Topit solution with a lit bulb is not to allow you to hand it out, rather it is a dramatic magical vanish and reappearance, and of course requires two feke bulbs - you "blow" the ringed-in one out after displaying it. If you want to hand it out, then use the Topit with the bulb unlit and produce the genuine duplicate also unlit, then give it away. |
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