Meir’s Muses
MyMagic eNewsletter #1,413
July 1, 2026
The coin in bottle is a classic. Just saw Jim Spinnato kill with it in his stage show last weekend. Below you will find a very interesting version using a large finger ring instead of a coin. The ring construction is very clever and somehow collapses to almost being flat. The gimmick can also be used for some nice penetrations.
►Instant Ring:
The coin in bottle routine is a classic of magic that used to be one of the most popular routines performed by street performers around NYC. It is also a go-to-do routine for table hopping, and even on stage.
This deviously constructed, large, gimmicked finger ring allows it to collapse and enter a bottle through its neck in a similar way that the classic coin version works.
In addition to the ring in bottle routine, you are also taught some nice penetrations of borrowed rings through your ring while it is on a chain.
Watch and buy: HERE
►Stone Hill Stag Color Changing Knives:
Bob Chesbro wanted a Color Changing Kinfe set that met his specifications. He couldn’t find one that made him happy, so he decided to make his own. He found the knives he liked and got a machinist friend to make them for him. He is now able to sell them.
You get is a three-knife set, the knives are 2.75” long closed, around 5” open, with the blade being 2” long. A 2-inch blade is legal to carry in most cities and states around the US. The changes occur between a white pearl handle and a stag handle that can be felt while in your pocket.
Watch and buy: HERE
►Real Touch:
Hernán’s Real Touch was a huge hit at the 2026 Blackpool convention. Almost every review video on the internet raved about it and showed him performing it.
It is a devious handheld gimmick that can be used to make people next to you feel as if you tapped them even though you never touched them. It is low-tech, with no electronics or invisible threads. It is easy to reset and is good for three uses each time you set it.
But the interesting thing is its other uses. Hernan shares his creative routines with it, such as making a musical instrument play a note, an impromptu book test, telekinetic movement of small objects, and more.
Watch and buy: HERE
►CCC: Monedas Chinas:
This is Hernán’s handling of the classic routine (inspired by Troy Hooser’s Charming Chinese Challenge) where three coins with holes in them are threaded on a ribbon and each one is magically pulled off the ribbon without destroying it. No extra coins or gimmicks are used. Everything is examinable at the beginning and the end.
This version can be performed while doing walkaround, formal close-up, and stand-up shows.
In addition to the routine, you will get three specially made thin washers which more deceptively hide how many coins you are holding when flashing from the sides and will make Hernan’s handling very easy and deceptive.
Watch and buy: HERE
►BACK IN STOCK:
Just got a bunch of these switching bowls back in stock. I have had many discussions about switches with Gene Maze where he felt I overstated my reasoning.
I think that a majority of magic effects (almost all) use some sort of switch. For example a double lift is an obvious switch, but I insisted that even a vanish of a coin is a switch where you are switching a space with a coin in it for a space without a coin in it! Something to think about…
►Switch Cup:
The ceramic cup looks like a small plate you find in restaurants which hold things like soy sauce, pickled vegetables, or at a bar holding peanuts. It is around three inches round and around an inch high.
It can be used to switch any flat object that is around an inch-and-a-half square. Things like folded up bills or cards, post-it notes, billets, or even coins.
You can see it in action on the trailer. The cup comes with a video tutorial that teaches eight routines and the best way to work it.
Watch and buy: HERE
►MY LATEST RELEASE:
►Coin Copier:
This is an ingenious self-working coin box routine that Christian Scherer created in the 1980s. Since that time the manufacturing technology and the availability of the gimmicks used has advanced and the current version works perfectly.
The basic routine involves a metal box which is referred to as a tiny counterfeiting machine. You dump the four coins out of the box; a Japanese coin, a Swiss coin, a British coin and a US coin. Using the Japanese coin as a sample each coin is placed in the box and one at a time, as the box is waved over the Japanese coin, the coin inside instantly turns into a duplicate of the Japanese coin. This is repeated until all four coins have turned into Japanese coins and everything is examinable.
Watch and buy: HERE
►UPCOMING APPEARANCES:
►JULY 12: Spinnato’s Comedy Magic Show at Comix @ Mohegan Sun Casino in CT. Tickets: HERE
►AUGUST 2-5: Magic Live! in Las Vegas. Info: HERE
To view all my upcoming appearances, go: HERE
Stay happy, Meir
PS: The very big project I was working on for a Magic Live release has been delayed but I will have some outstanding exclusives, one new product and a re-release of something many have been asking for. Stay tuned.
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“It can be stated without fear of contradiction, that loading and stealing is the most important single consideration in the whole study of manipulative magic.”
…Geoffrey Buckingham (It’s Easier Than You Think Vol. 2, 1970)
