I need help remembering the name of a gimmick I have. It is an Abbott's version. It is basically just a thumb tip made of wire screen. The kind used in window screens. Cover your thumb with a hank and the apparently push pins thru it. I know the gimmick has a specific name but I am drawing a blank. Anyone here know?

I think I read about doing it with a carrot in Spooky Magic Tricks; It was my first magic book as a kid!

Thst method was also printed in one of the Penn and Teller books.

Sorry London not sure of the name but sounds like a neat twist on the method.

Yeah I remember the carrot bit not that it is mentioned. This gimmick is essentially the same idea. I think I found it in an old catalog. I believe it was called impalement. It is a neat old gimmick. I should take a pic and show it here.

London:

I had to reach waaaaay back on my book shelf to get my Abbott Catalog # 9 (1947).

What you have is Abbott's "IMPALEMENT", which retailed for $1.00.

(4 steel miniature daggers (steel needles with knobs) penetrate the thumb).

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