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Necktie MagicFrank HermanA magician's textbook on the great comedy trick of the cut and restored necktie! Suitable for any kind of show, close-up, banquets, sales meetings, hospitality suites, floor shows, stage. An ideal number for any audience. Sixteen laugh getting routines by a pro who made a reputation with it. Add this easy to do material to your own repertoire. Illustrated ebook.
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Sandsational RopeGeorge SandsAn entire act performed with any piece of rope. A rope routine that is out of this world. Completely explained in these illustrated directions. Broken down into ten, easy-to-master steps to make learning a breeze. Includes patter, so you can keep your audience in stitches throughout. As used by many professionals. A natural for the entertainer who travels light, as all you need is rope and a pair of scissors. No magnets, rubber cement, snaps, tape, wires, black art, or other gimmicks to worry about. Use any rope.
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21st Century ThreadsHal SaxonThe 21st Century Threads is an amazing effect that utilizes imaginary super elastic, incredibly strong, invisible threads to pull a silk from one hand, instantly around the performer's back and into the opposite hand. Swoooosh! It’s lightning fast. Most people see nothing, some people may see a blur of the silk as it flies. This tutorial will show you my amazing Trademark Vanish that I know will become your everyday favorite vanish. Imagine a king-size Vernet hard tip that can be vanished instantly. Bare hands, no rings, short sleeves and no watch. Absolutely angle-proof and lightning-fast.... | $30 $22.50 to wish listMP4 (video) | |
Blackstone's Comedy Rope TrickHarry BlackstoneTalk about packing small and playing big, this is the ultimate. You can carry a piece of rope with you and fill a stage if you wish. But this is not just for stage, it plays equally as well for parlor or club shows. This is the famous trick performed by both father and son, Blackstone's Comedy Rope Trick that always brought the house down with laughter. You will learn every beautiful move and every comedy touch of the master magicians and every innermost thought that made the trick famous. You get detailed illustrated directions enabling you to perform this in your show. Your hands have been... | ★★★★★ $6 to wish list | |
Magical Rope Ties and EscapesHarry HoudiniThis is one of the best books by Houdini, because here he writes about something he really knows a lot about. With many of his escapes he had to be very familiar with the knots he was tied up. This book has many good illustrations and several photos where Houdini himself demonstrates certain ties. It is a great collector item as well as source of information. If you can only buy one book by Houdini, by this one. 1st edition, 1920, Will Goldston Limited, London; 80 pages.
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Unique Rope RoutineHarry Stanley | ★★★★★ $4 to wish list | |
Rink's Original Rope MysteriesHugh Miller | $10 to wish list | |
Linking Ring RoutineJack MillerHarlan Tarbell said to this publication: "The greatest work ever published on Linking Rings." Jack's long cherished secrets are yours in his ring through ring, ring through arms, special three-ring routine, a.s.o. On top of the linking ring instructions Jack Miller also shares with you a separate chapter on ring and rope penetrations. These latter methods are so ingenious and puzzling as to seem uncanny, and are rarely seen performed. 1st edition 1945, 32 pages; 1st digital edition 2016, 30 pages. | ★★★★★ $3 to wish list | |
Sealed Mysteries of Pocket MagicJean HugardJean Hugard describes in this booklet a complete routine consisting of 6 effects. He starts with a card trick, the piano card trick, and continues with a series of rope effects: production of a rope six feet long; doubling the rope; trick with two ropes; triple cut and restored rope; comedy explanation of vanishing knots. The value of this booklet is in the routining itself. Hugard has used this routine many times with great success. The effects follow in a logical succession each building on the other. Paul Fleming wrote: It is one thing to "work up" a number of tricks so that they will fool a layman,... | ★★★★★ $3 to wish list | |
The King Has Left the Building ... with AmnesiaJeff PierceThinking Inside the Box
Cash Deposit
Empowerment
Visual Rubber Band Un-Link
Rubber Band Split
The Shrinking Band
The King Has Left The Building... With Amnesia Remote... | $9.99 to wish list | |
Mainly Manipulative MagicJohn AlboroughFrom the introduction by Lewis Ganson: Seeing the late Edward Victor on stage at the now defunct Metropolitan Theatre in Edgware Road, London, when John was a small boy, started his interest in magic. Later he became enamoured with the manipulative magic of Geoffrey Buckingham, so it is not surprising that Victor's expert thimble magic and Buckingham’s excellent manipulation of billiard balls, should have had a marked influence on the type of magic John performs. Having met and enjoyed the confidence of these two magicians and studied their books, he built his own act. Certainly the Victor / Buckingham influence is there but John... | ★★★★★ $15 to wish list | |
The Best of BenzaisJohn BenzaisA classic publication with wonderful coin magic, some card tricks and cut and restored rope. Slydini adopted some routines from Benzais.
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The Sliding KnotJohn Cornelius | ★★★★★ $4 to wish listMP4 (video) | |
R.C. Buff's Knot on the SquareJoseph K. SchmidtKnots and magic effects with them from R.C. Buff. Rufus Claude Buff, due to his love for ropes and knots, has become affectionately known as "The Wizard of Knotsville" because he lived in Knoxville, Tennessee. He was a prolific contributor to books and periodicals. Buff published his own magazine called The Modern Magic as well as Buff's Leaflets. He started writing this book which Joseph K. Schmidt finished and illustrated.
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R.C. Buff's The Best of BuffJoseph K. SchmidtA selection of new and novel rope magic from R.C. Buff's rare Rope Leaflets. Excerpt from the introduction: In 1980 Mr. R.C. Buff, "The Wizard Of Knotsville", started putting out a little Xeroxed publication called "BUFF'S LEAFLETS" which was devoted exclusively to Rope Magic. These LEAFLETS were published for over four years and contained a lot of fine material. Because they had such a limited distribution, it was deemed beneficial to the magical fraternity if some of this excellent material would be assembled into booklet form. I think you will be amused and delighted to read some examples... | ★★★★★ $15 to wish list | |
Fun with StringJoseph LeemingA collection of string games, useful braiding weaving, knot work and magic with string and rope. From the introduction: Each and every one of us sees or uses pieces of string nearly every day. There are very few, however, who have been initiated into the wonderland of fascinating things that can be done and made with this commonplace article of daily use. Once one does discover the different things that can be made and the games that can be played with string, a new world is opened up. Anyone who once contracts a genuine case of "string fever" will have little difficulty in amusing himself... | ★★★★★ $8 to wish list | |
Rope RoyaleKeith ClarkKeith Clark's Rope Royale is a beautiful bit of magic performed with the simplest of properties - a piece of soft rope and a pair of scissors. These props can be carried in the pocket, yet when the feat is performed by a true magician, it ranks in entertainment value with a stage illusion. Paul Fleming wrote: This is one of three pamphlets which explain, with painstaking care, the silk handkerchief, cigarette, and rope "routines" for which Keith Clark is so well and favorably known in the vaudeville and night-club fields. We have already reviewed with enthusiasm (in Reviews Nos.9 and 31, respectively)... | ★★★★★ $7 to wish list | |
Rink Goes Loop La-LaKen de CourcyFrom the introduction: "Rink (van Rinkhuyzen) of Holland has a keen trick brain. Like most of the great magical inventors, he individualises every effect he obtains and, if he likes it, he continues to work on it. The result; a string of often unbelievable variations that astounds everyone, including the man who invented it. Some time ago, Supreme marketed Tommy Talbot's "Loop La-La", an amusing little thing with two unfaked rope loops. As it stood, it was basically a compere gag. It could be repeated over and over again, but there was no build-up, and no end. Rink took "Loop La-La"... | ★★★★★ $5 to wish list | |
It's Knot ImpossibleKen de CourcyGet the most from a classic trick. All you need is a single piece of rope (that can be borrowed) and you are always ready to entertain your audience. It packs so small but it plays so big. You can perform it close up or for a big audience. "The Impossible Knot", originally called "G.W.Hunter's Puzzle Knot", was well-known to magicians fifty years ago but appears to have dropped out of use. This is a shame because it is easy to do, not well-known and, due to the method, almost impossible for a spectator to work out even when he is apparently shown how it is done. In short, it's a useful thing... | ★★★★★ $4 to wish list | |
Snap RopeKen MullerA unique cut and restored rope effect.
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Cross Lock Penetration: Magic More SeriesKen MullerA novel and powerful ring on rope effect. The cord is woven about your spread fingers to form an impassible gate with a loop beneath. The ends are far from the metal ring, yet it visually jumps onto the loop. No gimmick or unnatural moves. Opportunities for audience participation and you can be completely surrounded. Idea for when a ring & rope effect is added to a linking rings routine, cut and restored rope or stand-alone for walk-around or table hopping as a prelude to a later routine. However, this effect is so impossible in comparison with many simpler ring on rope effects to... | $8 to wish list | |
Big Ring on StringL. C. CollierA parlor sized ring with a stage sized routine. This is a compact ring and string routine which uses some of the most visual moves one can do with these props. For many years I have performed a very similar routine. I used a red cotton ribbon instead of the standard white rope, because a ribbon lies flat on the ring and is wider than a rope allowing for some sequences a stronger illusion. 1st edition 2003; 10 pages. | ★★★★★ $5 more than onetype to choose from softcover | |
Full Circle Rope RoutineL. C. CollierThe magician pulls out a six foot piece of rope, pulls it up in the center and clearly cuts the rope into two pieces. He then picks up the bottom ends, brings them to the top and the rope fully restores. He then grabs the rope by the middle and cuts it in half again. He trims off the pieces at the top and the rope restores a second time. He folds the rope into thirds and cuts it at the top and bottom. He clearly counts off the three separate and equal pieces from one hand to the other. With all the pieces held in one hand he brings the bottom ends to the top and individually pulls out three... | ★★★★★ $5 more than onetype to choose from softcover | |
Scripted #14: The Penrose KnotLarry BrodahlThe Penrose knot has never been clearly explained until now. A strange effect that is not only made fun by the supplied script, but an "in the hands" tying method is revealed. The magician ties a rope into a chain of 30 knots. Each knot appears identical. The spectator grabs one of the knots. The magician now pulls on the ends of the rope, and every knot dissolves - except - the knot the spectator selected. That knot proves to be a common overhand knot. The Penrose knot was published in Karl Fulves' Self Working Rope Tricks, but the description was less-than-clear, and the effect is quite strange. ... | $10 to wish list |