[MyMagic] Break Lights

Meir’s Muses
MyMagic eNewsletter #1,066
December 19, 2022

Just received another shipment of the Taillight Color Changing Knives in all versions. They continue to sell out and are becoming more difficult to get.

The nice thing about having them made of break-lights is the backstory you can create to justify why you are carrying a pocketknife with you.

In addition to the knives, I have marketed many related products that I think you will enjoy. Some highlights below.

►Taillight Color Changing Knives:

Never available before, these knives are made of the red Taillight material used for brake lights on cars. This allows for an interesting introduction to the knife.

You can explain that you had the knife made using the taillight of your parent’s car, or from your first car and it has sentimental value and that is why you always carry it with you.

The knife style is a single blade 1893 Doctor’s Knife that was used for counting and cutting pills, along with more dangerous procedures. They are working knives that are heavy, sharp, and easy to handle.

Watch and buy: HERE

►Ascanio’s World Of Knives:

Considered the best book on the subject. In 1958 Arturo de Ascanio, who went under the stage name Marcus, wrote the definitive book on the subject in Spanish. In 1975 Jose de la Torre released Ascanio’s World Of Knives in English which helped make the routine a staple of every close-up magician’s act.

After being out of print for decades Ascanio’s World Of Knives is back and is better than ever, with many clear photographs and illustrations that make all the techniques and routines easy to learn. This book teaches you the many tools you need to create your own routines with pocketknives that change color on command.

Get a copy: HERE

►Michael Skinner’s Color Changing Knives Video:

The Color Changing Knives is a classic of close-up and walk-around magic that is regularly performed by most professionals. It is visual, magical and uses ordinary looking objects.

Michael Skinner’s pet routine with the knives is quick and full of surprises. In addition to the full routine you will also learn The Paddle Move, The Swivel Change, and The Touch Change.

Watch and buy: HERE

►Meir Yedid’s Strolling Knife Routine Video:

This is a quick and visual color changing knives routine with multiple phases that keep getting more impressive and more impossible.

You begin with a single red knife. As you wave your hand over it, it keeps changing color to white. This is done several times until you explain that you cheated by using a second knife that is hidden under your wristwatch.

To demonstrate the impossibility, you place the red knife under your watchband and the white one in your fist. They magically change places. You then place one in each hand and they change places, and as a finale you place the white knife in the spectator’s hand and the red one in yours. Under impossible conditions they change places.

Watch and buy: HERE

►Camirand Academy’s Masters Of Magic Series:

This is your chance to learn some classics of magic like a Ring On String routine, the Three Shell Game, Coins Through The Table, a Two Cup & Ball routine, a Torn & Restored Card, and much more magic and sleight of hand with cards and coins.

Routines include: Finger On The Card, Supershells, The Silver Passage, The Two Goblets, Threshold, The Homing Ring, Eric DeCamps’ The Coin Connection, and Meir Yedid’s Royal Takeover.

The above routines are just the main effects taught. Each section is full of variations, alternate phases, and many techniques. This book can act as a course in intermediate to advanced close-up magic.

Watch and buy: HERE

Stay happy, Meir

PS: For the rest of the year, I am planning on sending out these newsletters on Mondays and Fridays, so I don’t bump into the holidays.

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