Reviews: Read What Others Are Saying: page 6
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Miniature Card Magic
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Brad Smithart (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Thursday 30 January, 2025)
This updated edition of “Miniature Card Magic,” by “Hen” Fetsch from 1943 contains a short selection of novelty effects with these cards.
It also contains suggested forces and false cuts that can be used with miniature cards.
It even includes a few printable miniature cards if you don't currently own any.
I do wish there were a few more tricks included.
Hints and Tips 3
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Brad Smithart (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Thursday 30 January, 2025)
The third volume of this collection contains a plethora of small, yet helpful suggestions, including various DIY holdouts for bills and billets. I'll definitely be using one or more of Larry's ideas.
Abraca-Poof August 2018
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Brad Smithart (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Thursday 30 January, 2025)
Another collection of useful hints for the working magician. There's nothing really exciting in this issue, but Brian deals with OCR scanning magic magazines, etc., keeping props in good shape, and making use of the local library for magic learning, among others.
4 Thoughts
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Brad Smithart (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Thursday 30 January, 2025)
A nice little mentalism trick released in honor of the late Max Maven.
Edward Marlo's Compleat Devilish Miracle
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Frank Machniak (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Tuesday 28 January, 2025)
Jon goes to great lengths to add detail to this classic. Gave me a lot to think about and use. It’s great the younger generations will be able to study these and move the art forward. Great value for the price.
The Svengali Fooler
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Joe Libby (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Sunday 26 January, 2025)
I'm a bit obsessed with Svengali decks, so I'm always on the lookout for tricks that use the deck. This is an excellent mental effect using a specially prepared deck that you can make up in a few minutes. It should prove to be a real baffler. You can't go wrong for only $3.00!
The Complete Guide to Billet Switching
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by jordan Byrd (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Saturday 25 January, 2025)
Great info on billets, some unique methods not seen in more common publications.
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.