Reviews: Read What Others Are Saying: page 3
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Mind Divination
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by ENRIQUE PARTIDA BUSH (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Wednesday 22 January, 2025)
Not practical.
Unknown Mentalist Product Guide 1
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by jordan Byrd (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Friday 17 January, 2025)
Just getting into this sort of work, seems like a quick guide to pick up.
How to Create Your Own Cardbox
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by JONATHAN MAY (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Thursday 16 January, 2025)
Very helpful! Saved me a lot of time trying to start from scratch with the basic files. I am already having a lot of fun "playing" with these files. Thanks for such great info at such a great price! Although most of my decks are RED, I'd like to have the option to do the same things with BLUE. Can I purchase a BLUE box template, as well?
Thank you!
Order in Chaos
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Abdullah Al-Antari (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Tuesday 14 January, 2025)
The principle behind this effect is clearly explained. You'll learn a trick that's incredibly easy to perform, and rest assured, all the conditions mentioned hold true. By the end of the trick, the deck will be in a chaotic state, yet you'll still be able to identify the selected card. If you're seeking something simple to execute that will also deceive magicians, I highly recommend adding this to your collection.
Jinx
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Steve Christian (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Sunday 12 January, 2025)
I'd like to expand on my earlier review. I just took a look at Chris Washuber's new Jinx index. I also read about the history and inclusion of Walter Gibson's Popular Card Tricks. There is no better version of the Jinx—a voluminous riddle of the Sphinx—than this one.
Thank you Chris for all your hard work!
Fragmented Thoughts
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Michael Mercier (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Sunday 12 January, 2025)
I like it, I've used it. I lost it, I bought it again. Give it a try.
Jinx
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Steve Christian (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Sunday 12 January, 2025)
The Jinx has been widely praised, dissected, and vaunted. It’s doubtful my opinion would lend any more insight to the prospective buyer. In that light, I’d like to use this space to show my appreciation for Lybrary.com. Quite like the Jinx—The Lybrary is rich with hidden treasures, one-offs from magic stars, and long-forgotten creators. How fortunate we are to have such a resource.
Slydini Fan Steal
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by FRANCESCO BALDUINI (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Sunday 12 January, 2025)
1 minute video with small explanations. I would expect a little more info and tips.
Think Link
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Matthew Whiteley (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Friday 10 January, 2025)
I've been burnt by this guy a few times now and should have learned my lesson. Very limited and obvious method. I won't be getting anything from him again and neither should you.
Magic with an ESP Deck
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Javier De La Hera (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Wednesday 08 January, 2025)
Instant classic! Good effects and all of them very easy to do. What I liked most is that the methods can be adapted to make my own effects not using ESP cards. No fluff, no wasted pages here. Recommended!
Metal Bending: the real work
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Ghyslain Dufresne (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Monday 06 January, 2025)
I have been interested in magic for several years and I have had the chance to see Patrik Kuffs in show a few times; he is a good performer and his metal bending numbers are excellent.
For my part, as a magician, I consider myself a novice. This course on metal bending is really complete. It allows you to learn a multitude of bending techniques. You can see that the recording was made several years ago and that Patrik Kuffs' mother tongue is not English, but if you want to understand the inner workings of metal bending, this course will definitely suit you.
Order in Chaos
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Unnamed Magician
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Monday 06 January, 2025)
While I didn’t purchase this effect, the owner shared the method with me.
It’s an interesting take on a well-known principle, and worth knowing about and performing. In this day and age, there are many impossible card locations and so it can be hard to decide which to buy and which to skip. This is one that should be bought, IMO. I, for one, will be performing it.
Borrowed Bill in Balloon
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by hal barlow (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Sunday 05 January, 2025)
This is a good idea and a good routine, but you will need to find a new method to gimmick the balloon, as the one given does not work well.
I found a way to do this and now use the trick to good effect. The effect is like the classic bill in lemon, but easier to prepare and no mess!
Metal Bending: the real work
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Michel Asselin (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Saturday 04 January, 2025)
This is not a rank beginner’s product. Yes, it is a little stark, production-wise.
If you are on the market for lessons in basic misdirection and gaze control as well as spoon bending … such a product does not exist.
Yes, it is a little stark. But it is a nuts-and-bolt approach. Anyone capable of performing a coins across routine posesses the misdirective power to perform cutlery bending. What you’ll find on this release will make eyes pop out.
I have seen the original Camirand product. At the time, metal bending methodology was quite secretive. I happened to bump into Patrik at the time. I saw him perform that material successfully for formal groups, other magicians, and even a skeptical branch of CSICOP. That Patrik - who is a friend by now - would fool them was a given. He also managed to entertain them.
So you already know about metal bending, and wonder if the material is novel to you?
Depth-wise, the material resides between Ben Harris’ Gellerism Revealed (which is unfindable) and Ben Harris’ Bend it Like Geller … but it adheres much more to the former than to the latter.
This video is about doing. Performing.
Metal Bending: the real work
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by mahadhir mohd (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Saturday 04 January, 2025)
This is not a great video to learn metal bending. All he does is show you how he actually bend the spoon but he never really cover ways to make the bend look like it's bending. From that video it seems to me that he doesn't really know about metal bending but wish to teach.
Impossi-Bill Twist
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by jordan Byrd (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Friday 03 January, 2025)
Exactly what I was looking for. An old skill, hidden in a classic of magic. If I could give this more stars I would.
Eastern Moves: Video Vol. 1
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by jordan Byrd (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Friday 03 January, 2025)
Quick to the point video. Love it.
Victory Carton Illusions
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Peter Heß (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Friday 03 January, 2025)
A view into the years of WW2. Cardboard magic, magic with very cheap and simple materials. I use some of the ideas for kids out magic circus.
Victory Bouquet
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Peter Heß (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Friday 03 January, 2025)
A view into the years of WW2. Cardboard magic, magic with very cheap and simple materials. I use some of the ideas for kids at magic circus.
Miniature Haunted House
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Peter Heß (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Friday 03 January, 2025)
Ghosts and more Ghosts :-) It is one of the classics you must read. Nice mechanics without overengeneered electronics. Pure classic animation.
Bammo Crambazzled Dossier
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Dr. Hernán Benavides (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Friday 03 January, 2025)
Anything from Bob is "of the wall good". He uses the most recondite of methods.
Frank Garcia's Sponge Balls
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Adam Schofield (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Thursday 02 January, 2025)
Covers some basic moves and a text description of the '10 count'. Very few illustrations - all line drawings. Word to the wise, to my cost this is NOT the celebrated Garcia book on sponge balls. For a better explanation of the 10 count then the Dacri/Gosh DVD is much better.
Phantini's Contact
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Javier De La Hera (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Thursday 02 January, 2025)
Gene Grant never disappoints! An excellent two-person routine that doesn't require tedious training. The effects are practical and the skill required for the card effects is very basic. Good source of ideas for the mindreading couple.
How To Perform Sensational Memory Feats
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Javier De La Hera (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Thursday 02 January, 2025)
Buyer beware! Most effects here aren't suitable for the performer who likes to work alone. Many of them are suitable only for stage presentation with all the help a stage gives the performer. Parlor or close-up workers will have difficulty using some methods (if they even manage to adapt them). The card memory test and the giant memory demonstration can be worked by the solo perfomer and are indeed good effects. The magazine test requires a prop no longer easy to find. The serial number memory test assumes you'll know how to make a key move without offering detailed instructions on how to hide it.
If you perform on a theater stage, don't mind some typos and have assistants to help you, well and good. If you like solo work and perform mainly close-up or parlor, you'll find just 2 or 3 effects here that are workable. I'm giving it 2 stars because I expected more material for the solo performer.
Abraca-Poof April 2019
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Brad Smithart (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Monday 30 December, 2024)
My favorite article in this issue is on the use of sponsors to fund your magic shows. Although I've been involved in working with sponsors for multiple non-profits, I've never thought about applying the same approach to magic. The other articles were interesting as well.