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Christopher Special user 531 Posts |
I need a table that I can set on item on, like a large carrot or banana, and have it disappear when the audience is looking away. I'm thinking of putting the item on some sort of small stand on the table, so I'm thinking that I could have a contraption that would be two stands and the one with the item would rotate back at some point showing the empty one. I know it sounds complicated. Does anyone know of any table to achieve a vanish?
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Chance Inner circle 1385 Posts |
Look into the fish bowl appearance table. No reason it can't work in reverse.
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Servante Inner circle 1330 Posts |
Hm.
I toyed with a design once that I never built. It was essentially a table with a well. The well was to be filled with an inflatable plug. When you set the item down on the plug, you pulled the cork on the inflatable, then walk away and do something across the stage for misdirection. Would that work for what you're trying to do? |
Donal Chayce Inner circle 1770 Posts |
"The Table Book" by Eugene Gloye has plans for a making a table top with an "elevator" well that operates via thread.
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Christopher Special user 531 Posts |
Is there anything commercially available that could be modified?
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Thom Bliss Loyal user Southern California 271 Posts |
Something like a balloon to doves tray might be what you are looking for.
Thom |
hugmagic Inner circle 7655 Posts |
Make an "X: table with a black art area in the back. Run a line up that attaches to the prop and then to a high speed take up drum (RC Car). You could use a timer also. Start the motor item is pulled into the black bag. I assume you want this to vanish fast.
Other wise a door closer could also work. Richard
Richard E. Hughes, Hughes Magic Inc., 352 N. Prospect St., Ravenna, OH 44266 (330)296-4023
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Spyder New user 76 Posts |
Try makeing a black well table put a pece of mettel in the carrot
and have a magnet reddy below the table.
"Do you like card tricks" he asked.
I said no. He did five -W. Somerset Maugham |
Spellbinder Inner circle The Holy City of East Orange, NJ 6438 Posts |
There's a wonderful little subtlety that can be fitted to any standard magic table that has a fringe around the top edges. Basically, you set the object on the table and as you walk past the table (blocking view of the top for a moment) the object vanishes. You don't call attention to it until you start looking for it, accusing helpers of stealing it, etc.
Professor Spellbinder
Professor Emeritus at the Turkey Buzzard Academy of Magik, Witchcraft and Wizardry http://www.magicnook.com Publisher of The Wizards' Journals |
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