What are the best thimble magic books or DVDs? Something like beginner to pro material.

RJH

I really love Lloyd Enochs Master Manipulation of Thimbles. It was my first thimble book and it still holds a special place in my heart. Mogar's book is great but he uses very small thimbles. If that's your thing then pick up Mogar's.

There are many other works out there that include thimble magic. I find a lot of it redundant. Lots of it is printed over and over again.

Walter B. Gibson's _What's New in Magic_ has a trick called "Jumping Thimbles: Finger to Finger." There are four thimbles on the fingers of one hand. They visually jump--with no cover!--one by one from one finger to the next until they are all on the same finger! Can't get much more magical or visual than that!

Years after I first read that routine in Gibson's book, I saw Anverdi's lecture in Norfolk and he did that routine as part of his lecture. It looked like--MAGIC! (As did all of Anverdi's magic!)

----- Sonny

Thanks for the tips Peter and Sonny. I'll look them up.

RJH

Tantalizing Thimbles
Shoot Ogawa Professional Thimbles
Sam Berland's Thimble Routine
Geoffrey Buckingham Thimbles in his books It's Easier Then You Think
Mike Caveney Thimble Act special features in his book Magicomedy (Out of Print)

Please look at Jeff McBrides DVDs. He is an excellent teacher and there are dome great thimble routines.

Thanks Bill and Jay. I think that I will get Shoot Ogawas DVD and maybe some of Jeff McBrides aswell.

RJH

Don't "maybe get Jeff McBrides videos" GET JEFF McBrideS VIDEOS!!! If you are serious about manipulation, get world class manip by Jeff.
They are great.
But consider this, you are currently working on a card act and a ball act, by what I have seen on the Café. And they both need work. I reccomend waiting on thimbles until your current acts are polished. It's better to have one good act than three mediocre acts.
And another thing. In my opinion, thimbles are a very "womanly" object. Perhaps change it to another object that uses the same methods.

Dan Harlan did this by changing his thimbles to small casts on the end of his fingers.
Jeff's videos are great. So much info and he is a great teacher.

I know people have used Chapstick caps

Tops Treasury of Thimble Magic.......GREAT BOOK!!

http://www.abbottmagic.com/Tops-Treasury......blmc.htm

Peter Biro (i know he is around here somewhere) has a nice little thimble routine, peter peeper. more casual than a shoot ogawa routine. Might fit your style. I enjoyed the routine a lot.