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Marc Levine Regular user South Florida 125 Posts |
I'm looking for plans for an upright shadow box. I'd like the most reliable if possible...Thanks
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alexkrey Elite user RUSSIA 411 Posts |
Rand Woodbury
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Backroomboy Regular user David 114 Posts |
If you are asking for plans that would expain how to build something that is structurally sound, that becomes a safety issue and not many will part with that information because of the liability issues.
If on the other hand you are asking for ideas on thin bases and other illusory aspects of the shadow box, let me tell you something that was once told to me... Get a photo or pull an image from your computer desktop or scan a book... just get a hard copy image of the best box you have seen and scale it. A lot of magicians don't realize that the plans for a particular box exists in what they are watching on T.V. or from a photo. Most magicians stand beside pictures of their box and their height is usually a matter of record. From that you gain a scale of the whole picture...sometimes down to inches. For instance, Howard Thurston had a star trap that I desperately needed to figure out. It was a deal that was counter-weighted, was really quick and relied only on mechanical advantage and Yankee ingenuity to accomplish what an armload of software engineers would have screwed up completely. I scaled a photo of it, but I wasn't completely sure where the lines were coming out and going to as the photo was cropped (of course...) but because I scaled it, I was able to draw a diagram that showed all the angles of the lines. From there I simply threw in a sheave or a dead end to figure out what was doing what and extrapolated the drawing to what was left out of the photo. It was freaking deadly...in the blink of an eye you were gone and the whole thing decelerated at the bottom of the drop due to the fleet angles of the wire rope to the sheave...like a high speed elevator. With no fancy electronics or any other **** that everyone laps up these days. In contrast, the touring version of Phantom of the Opera used Feller precision from the states and used three-phase resolvers and mag brakes and blah blah blah for a huge buck. You may not believe this, but I have just told you a very important concept in boxology...knowing how to scale a photo.... Use this knowledge only for the powers of good.... |
Pakar Ilusi Inner circle 5777 Posts |
To a lessr degree I have done what Backroomboy had mentioned. A word of advise though, if you can actually see a the real illusion up close (however that may be...), it is infinitely better...
"Dreams aren't a matter of Chance but a matter of Choice." -DC-
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KJfan New user 58 Posts |
A friend of mine built a awesome shadoe box for less than $50.
Very well made. Regards |
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