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Card Finesse
by Jon Racherbaumer


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Card Finesse by Jon Racherbaumer

To become a master in anything you have to pay attention to the details. This ebook is all about details, the details of sleight of hand with cards.

Excerpt from the foreword:

You may ask, "Who wants to read long, complicated algorithms? Who enjoys atomic analysis? Why does magic have to be so technical?" The answer to these questions is implicit in this book.

Almost everyone has heard of the Vernon Touch. It has been lauded by countless respected names in magic. What is the Vernon Touch? In brief, it is nothing more than fastidious attention to details. Great magicians like Vernon and Marlo are detailists; they are artists who strive for perfection. This is why Vernon has frequently quoted Michelangelo's aphorism:

"Perfection consists of trifles, but perfection itself is no trifle."

Great magicians realize that perfection consists of countless small elements; that it demands a certain calculated specificity. The delicacy and subtlety of a card expert's performance is due to little things, and the sum total of these tiny bits and pieces constitute what I call "card finesse".

  • Acknowledgments
  • Dedication
  • Foreword
  • BLUFF STUFF
    • The Marlo-Thompson Bluff Pass
    • The Bluff Bottom Placement
    • Not For The Faint-Hearted
    • The Bluff Cut
  • CHANGE-UPS
    • A Change For The Better
    • A Still Better Way
    • The Aerial Change
    • The Spellbound Card
    • The Open Erdnase Change
    • The Static Vector Change
    • The Double Eidetic Change
    • The Cliff-hanger Change
  • TRIFLES
    • The Dissolving Departure
    • Airing The Strip-out
    • The Ghost Break
    • Sure-Shot Pop-Out Move
    • Preparing To Tunnel
    • Natural Reverse Double Undercut
    • Drawing a Blank
    • Crackling Turnover
    • Quick, This Way
  • TECHNICAL TOUCHES
    • Longitudinal Side-Steal Replacements
    • In-a-Jiffy Double
    • The Center Glide
    • Refined One-Hand Palm
    • The Snap Lap
    • Daley's Delight For Divers
    • Why Didn't I Think Of That?
    • Bottom Deal Add
    • Marlo's Deceptive Double Deal
    • Taking A Break With Shank
    • The D'Amico Double Snap-Over
    • Open Hockley
    • The Cincinnati Force
    • The Cincinnati Glimpse
    • Marlo's Simulated Placement
    • Flick Addition
    • Au Courant Card Switch
    • Swivel Exchange
    • The Old In-and-Out
    • The Imp Load
    • Loading A Wedged Wallet
    • The A' Point Palm
  • CONTROL-CRAFT
    • Jog-Podge Control
    • No-Clutch Bottom Placement
    • Running Cut Control
    • The Tan Hock Chuan Pass
    • Fan-Antic Control
  • FARO FINESSE
    • Marlo's Controlled Faro-Riffle Shuffle
    • Controlling Ins and Outs
    • Casual Faro Divider
  • AFFECTS
    • Next To Impossible Card To Wallet
    • Jump-suit Transformation
    • Cased-in Brain-wave
    • Twin Tunnel Change
    • Blues That Pass In The Night
    • Olram Repeat Blues
    • Imp-lications
    • Eidetic Aces
    • Double-Cross Departure
    • The Juice Deck
    • Open-Air Ace Assembly
  • Epilogue

1st edition 1982, 202 pages; PDF 193 pages.
word count: 40971 which is equivalent to 163 standard pages of text