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Carlos Hampton Veteran user 363 Posts |
A year or so ago I found in the net some instructions to make your own chop cup using a white ceramic coffee cup.
I cannot find this again to save my life. Has anyone seen this??? Thanks for your help. |
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Dennis Loomis 1943 - 2013 2113 Posts |
While this can be done, I suspect that you will have to put a lot of effort and time in the project. A nice one is made by Thomas Wayne and is sold through the Denny and Lee Magic Shop. They will have a booth at the World Seminar in Las Vegas if you plan to attend.
Tom is a member of this forum, by the way. The big question is: do you need to have the cup set up so you can show the interior? If not, you can just glue a magnet in place. If you need to flash the interior, you need to cover the magnet, either with an extra piece of material that appears to be the bottom of the cup, or with a casting resin colored white which will cover the magnet. Hope that this helps. Dennis Loomis http://www.mindspring.com/~deloomis/dai.html
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Carlos Hampton Veteran user 363 Posts |
Thanks for your response Mr. Loomis. I was aware of Mr. Wayne´s version, I just happened to be the kind of person that enjoys building my own stuff.
I do believe the project I was talking about was in Allmagic, but they don't have an archive section. It described how to make a fake bottom to conceal the magnet as Mr. Loomis mentions using some stuff that you could find over the counter. If anyone has this information it will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for your help. |
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sdgiu Elite user The Boonies, NC 456 Posts |
Carlos
The idea Dennis had of using Casting resin will probably be the easiest you will come across. All you need is the magnet, cup and casting resin the right color. I don't think you could build a more easily concealed "Completely Inspectable" gimmicked cup. Dennis, where do you get your casting resin? steve zzz |
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Darrin Cook Special user 621 Posts |
Paul Gertner tells how to make a coffee chop cup in his book "Steel and Silver."
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Carlos Hampton Veteran user 363 Posts |
Thanks Darrin,
I'll check it out. |
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JamesinLA Inner circle Los Angeles 3400 Posts |
Carlos does like making his own stuff and he is very good at it. I've seen pictures of a table he made. The resin you can get at any craft store. I think the color match is what will take some time and trouble.
Jim
Oh, my friend we're older but no wiser, for in our hearts the dreams are still the same...
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Dennis Loomis 1943 - 2013 2113 Posts |
Sorry for the delay, I haven't come back to this thread since I posted a month ago.
In California we have a chain of stores called Tap Plastic and casting resin is available there. In other parts of the country there must be similiar stores. Look for places that sell plexiglass and supplies for working with it. The color match may be tricky. Perhaps white is the logical choice as it doesn't vary too much. And, it's a common color for coffee mugs. Dennis Loomis http://www.mindspring.com/~deloomis/dai.html
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kaytracy Inner circle Central California 1793 Posts |
White mug, white RTV silicone sealer......need I say more? (you can peel it off if need be later!).
Kay and Tory
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David Todd Inner circle 2328 Posts |
Or consider using a styrofoam coffee cup with an external gimmick(in a TT or mounted on a ring, Omega Ring is one I've seen, there are others).
At the end of the routine the cup may be completely examined if anyone wants to. If the gimmick was strong enough it *might* work through a plastic coffee mug. There are white plastic coffee mugs that look sort of like the standard "coffee shop" white ceramic mugs. (I've seen them at Bed, Bath & Beyond and stores like that). |
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makeupguy Inner circle 1411 Posts |
The urethane- resin you need can be had from Smooth-On... and they sell it in several colors including white.. and the best part. some of it sets in about 5 min!!!!
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joey New user montreal,canada 56 Posts |
Hi!
Years ago I was playing around with coming up with a more natural item to use as a chop cup something that looked less like a prop, so I had purchased in a crafts store a cup that you could draw on and personalise, it came apart from the inside so you could line the inner wall with the personalised artwork, there was enough space on the bottom to glue a magnet in. all that would have to be done after is to paint the interior and exterior the color desired. Or if you can't find the above mentioned cup. I also came up with the idea of.if you have a ceramics shop in your area where people go in and take courses to learn ceramics, you could ask them to put a magnet into the base of one or more of the cups they make and sell, before they make paint and glaze them. These would make for more permanent use Hope this helps. Joey |
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ClintonMagus Inner circle Southwestern Southeast 3997 Posts |
Here is a similar Café link from a couple of years ago:
vhttp://www.themagiccafe.com/forums/viewtopic.php?topic=55733&forum=8 I don't know why something similar couldn't be done with a coffee cup, with the bottom painted with white epoxy. Amos McCormick
Things are more like they are today than they've ever been before...
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BSutter Special user Sitting on a pile of 582 Posts |
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On 2006-03-28 13:54, joey wrote: This will not work. The heat generated in the kiln will destroy the item inserted in the cup. Any such gaffing must be done after the piece is fired. Bill |
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Bill Hegbli Eternal Order Fort Wayne, Indiana 22797 Posts |
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On 2003-01-29 20:46, Darrin Cook wrote: When Paul lectured here some years ago, he did not have a coffee cup, but a short chop cup, that was once called the Master Chop Cup with a tin cup handle attached to the side. |
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calamari Elite user The San Francisco Bay Area 429 Posts |
The mug I have had a hole drilled into the bottom and a strong you know what put in, it was very small and then who ever made it simply put a do not microwave sticker over the hole.
"I came, I saw, SHE conquered." (The original Latin seems to have been garbled.)
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mshanker New user Frankfort, KY 84 Posts |
If the intent is to use the chop cup routine with an everyday object like a coffee cup, then you might try Martin Lewis's idea. He uses a small Pringles can. The small ones are about 4" high. The best part is that the bottom is steel coated so the gimmicked ball will adhere to it.
Manoj
Manoj
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sdmagic Special user 697 Posts |
Here's an easy way to "chop" a Starbucks paper cup....
Grab a clean empty Starbucks cup AND a Cardboard Sleeve. Use needle-nose pliers to carefully insert 4 needles into adjacent corrogated channels in the cardboard sleeve. Shove them in til they're invisible. Use your gimmicked chop ball or borrow a dollar bill, switch in a gimmicked bill and do your best chop cup routine! How about finding a well made plastic doughnut for the final load! Try gimmicking a cardboard sleeve using needles.... it works great, packs flat! |
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mshanker New user Frankfort, KY 84 Posts |
I like the Starbucks cup idea. Especially since it addresses the original posters question on coffee cups.
Manoj
Manoj
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Joshua Lozoff Inner circle Chapel Hill, NC 1332 Posts |
Any tips on how strong a magnet to use? I have a coffee chop cup (purchased from Thomas Wayne) but I want to make my own chop cup tea cup, so it's smaller than my coffee cup.
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