Hi everyone,

I've been working on a bizarre presentation for a torn and restored card. But with many methods, including the method I'm currently using (J.C. Wagner's) we are left with one quarter of the card unrestored. Anybody got any ideas for a presentational angle to explain the incomplete restoration or should I just learn a method where the card is totally restored?

I've thought of things like "once something is destroyed, no power can bring it completely back..." or instead of giving them the extra piece as a reciept (ick), putting it with the folded 3/4 card so when I unfold it, it falls to the table, "oh, looks like we didn't concentrate long enough..."

Looking forward to what everyone has to say
Thanks
Eric

Hi eric could you give us more detail about your presentation???
what is the story about???

Daniel Garcia's "Torn" is an excellent restoration in my, and many others opinion...the card is in fact totally restored, and with a little practice, will come off clean as a whistle...

I also do a ripped and restored Tarot using the "Viking Card Box"...old as hell principle, but undetectable with average inspection...

I keep a corner of the card and when I put the other pieces in the box, a few incantaions and the box is opened showing a tarot card with one corner missing, and Viola! its a fit...

...but you didn't ask all that!

In "Magic and Meaning" there's a nice presentation that explains away the unrestored part.

The T&R card threads have plenty of methods.

Bill Duncan has something very nice in his book Tubthumping to manage the Harris version of the trick.

The way I see it, the last corner is a part of the proving for example the card in orange effect that is taught in Tarbell I. The spectator holds onto and initials the corner of the card. At the conclusion of the restoration that initialed corner is a perfect fit.