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The Magician Loyal user Liverpool 267 Posts |
Hi all,
Do any of you out there have any books on Karl Fulves in your magic library? I do and I have: Karl Fulves' Self-working Coin Magic Karl Fulves' Self-working Rope Magic Karl Fulves' Self-working Card Magic Karl Fulves' More Self-working Close-up Card Magic Karl is a fantastic writer on magic books and his instructions are quite simple to follow.
The Magician
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thumbslinger Elite user This is a good number: 458 Posts |
There was a similar post not too long ago.
I have Methods With Cards from 1975 and that books has been the best one I've found by him as it contains some nice sleights rather than just counting/self-working or setup effects.
Chet Atkins, Jerry Reed and Tommy Emmanuel are all you need to study to learn to play guitar.
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huggie50 Regular user North Las Vegas 109 Posts |
If you liked those, take a look at some of his other earlier books: Parallel Lines, Mexican Monte, Inner Sanctum, Cryptology, Jack in the Box, Nyria Effecta and Card Under Glass.
Magically yours,
Huggie |
powen New user 88 Posts |
Karl Fulves' Self-working Mental Magic is also a great book, a great intro to mentalism.
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jcards01 Inner circle Waterloo, IL 1438 Posts |
Yes,
Cards 2 51 Faces North Cards 3 Interlok Charles Jordan's Best Card Tricks Epilogue Faro & Riffle Technique Gambling Notes (Neal Elias) Jacob Daley's Notebook Packet Switches Packet Switches Part 2 Packet Switches Part 5 Riffle Shuffle Control Riffle Shuffle Set-Ups Riffle Shuffle Technique Riffle Shuffle Technique Part 2 Self-Working Card Tricks Transpo Trix
Jimmy 'Cards' Molinari
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Anabelle Special user 951 Posts |
Yeah, Karl Fulves' Self-working Mental Magic is awesome. It's one of the first mentalism books I read and I agree, it's a great way to be introduced to mentalism. I have adapted a couple of his ideas from that little book and still use them today.
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GeorgeG Special user Thousand Oaks, CA 977 Posts |
Fulves' Pallbearer's Review (10 volumes sold as three books by LLpub) and the sequel Epilogue ranks up there with other great journals like IBIDEM, Kabbala, Hierophant and Apocalypse.
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Ollie1235 Special user England 533 Posts |
I don't have many any books on Karl Fulves but they don't sound too good because all his tricks are self-working, that means no skill is needed or not much practice.
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marko Inner circle 2109 Posts |
Ollie, what does a trick's difficulty have to do with its effectiveness? I appreciate all magic, from challenging sleight-of-hand to completely self-working. What I've learned is that laymen do not know nor do they care to know HOW difficult a trick is to do. All that matters is the "effect." Karl Fulves' books are classics.
Thought: Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.
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ninjaduffy Veteran user UK 332 Posts |
I have his book on mental magic. Does anyone use any of the tricks in that???
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Mindbender Regular user 125 Posts |
I agree with Marko. Self-working doesn't imply 'self-presenting.'
A few other Fulves books with useful material are: Self-working Number Magic Self-working Table Magic |
El_Lamo Special user Canada 589 Posts |
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On 2004-02-22 08:41, Ollie1235 wrote: Interesting. Yet... in a number of polls here about great card tricks... Fulves' Gemini Twins ranks very highly. I think that skill is still needed... in presentation. Cheers - El Lamo P.S. Also, please consider that this is a thread in new to magic. It would seem that many use his materials as a great introduction. I read posts here at the Café about the "cut deeper" force. Sure enough, it was explained and referenced - Balducci, in one of Fulves' self working books.
Life is a system of circumstance presented coincidently in an illusory way.
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thumbslinger Elite user This is a good number: 458 Posts |
Woah...only about 35% (wild-a** guess) of Fulves published material is 'self-working.' That should give you an indication of how much of his material (whether original or edited) you may not be aware of.
The one I mentioned above contains some moves that aren't just fly-by-night happenings. The Mexican Monte includes the "3 as 4 " count that, although some would moan about the display is another nice little handling that can be incorporated with others to break up the monotony of Elmsleys, Hammonds etc. Seek and ye shall find grasshopper...
Chet Atkins, Jerry Reed and Tommy Emmanuel are all you need to study to learn to play guitar.
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nakulshenoy New user Bangalore, India 91 Posts |
The "Self-Working" series by Karl Fulves is an absolute treat. I have most of the series, and heartily recommend them.
Ollie, the words self-working is a misnomer with regard to these books. All it suggests is these are not utilizing heavy sleights. There's a lot of material packed into each of these, and you will never repent going for them. PS: I also second/third (?) the recommendation on Self-Working Mental Magic. Nakul |
Parson Smith Inner circle 1937 Posts |
While Self-Working Mental Magic is not really "self-working", it is a great little read.
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Ollie1235 Special user England 533 Posts |
This thread is pretty old and just for the record my opinion has changed greatly since I posted earlier in the thread (over a year ago).
as you can tell I was very new to magic when I posted it. I have heard good things about selfworking card magic btw. all the best, ollie |
Patrick Differ Inner circle 1540 Posts |
Honestly, I think that all of Mr. Fulves' work is dynamite. His "Self Working" series is chock-full of fun stuff. I'd bet he called it "self working" as a message to those that have read his earlier contributions/works such a "Pallbearers Review" and "Epilogue" that these specific books' contents are less technically demanding and won't/don't contain knuckle-busters.
For those that remember, Pallbearers Review contained the easier, sometimes called "self-working" material, and Epilogue contained the more demanding material. He did it that way with the purpose of appealing to what he perceived to be two different magician markets. I say "genius" when asked... Now I think about it...is "self-working" an oxymoron?
Will you walk into my parlour? said the Spider to the Fly,
Tis the prettiest little parlour that ever you did spy; The way into my parlour is up a winding stair, And I've a many curious things to show when you are there. Oh no, no, said the little Fly, to ask me is in vain, For who goes up your winding stair -can ne'er come down again. |
JJDrew Loyal user Arizona 221 Posts |
I think the "self-working" title may have been meant to be deceptive. I recently gave a performance in which I did two different items from his Self-Working Handkerchief Magic. Neither effect was actually self-working. The audience for this performance consisted primarily of magicians and none of them were familiar with either effect.
I've seen this time and again. If I want to find something to mystify my magician friends, I start flipping through books geared towards children or beginners. There's some killer material in them that advanced performers will never see because from the cover it seems there is little the book could offer them. Think about the resource you have in books geared towards beginners. To start with, often you have excellent material. Now the advanced magicians don't read the books because they're for beginners. The majority of beginners who actually buy the books almost NEVER actually read the entire thing (sad but true, I've mystified customers in a magic shop with tricks from books that I KNOW they own because I sold them the books in the first place). Even if they do read the entire thing, the odds are that they will learn to perform one or two effects, then lose interest in magic and take up some other hobby, shortly forgetting all the rest of what they've read. If you want good material that no-one else is performing, beginner/self-working magic books are a great place to look. Don't forget, just because the author is focusing on marketing to beginners doesn't mean the author is a beginner. Look at "Magic for Dummies." At the beginning there's a list of the magicians who contributed material. The list is about four pages long and most of the names are leaders in the field. However, I can count on one hand the number of my magician acquaintances who have read it. Few get past the title. Fulves' books are gold mines! |
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