Meir’s Muses
MyMagic eNewsletter #1,208
June 8, 2024
I previously mentioned that the price of Silver has risen by about 30% in the past few months which forced us to increase the price of some coin sets made using real silver coins.
Just received a new shipment of Ted Bogusta’s Dual Position Copper Silver Copper sets that include a minimal price increase. But the good news is that he is now making this brilliant set of coins using regular Kennedy Half Dollars and English Pennies and making them available for a fraction of the cost of the silver sets.
Received a shipment of yellow sponge cartoonish mice than can be turned into a large piece of cheese. Why? I have no idea!
Also wanted to remind you that the introductory price for Chris Kenner’s Threefly expires on Tuesday.
►Dual Position Copper Silver Copper:
This new gimmicked version designed by Ted Bogusta is likely the best. What Ted did was take the classic set of coins and infused them with his DPS (Dual Position Magnetic System). The custom magnetic system allows you to do all the basic and classic routines plus many more displays and sequences that were never possible before.
The set includes a DPS set with a Silver Walking Liberty Half Dollar, an East African ten cent coin, an Australian penny, and the three matching coins so everything can be handed out for examination at the end. All the coins are real.
Watch and buy: HERE
►Yellow Sponge Mouse To Cheese:
A variation of the classic sponge ball trick where you turn the main object inside out to reveal a different object.
In this case you will display a yellow mouse head (could pass as other characters) that is around 4”x3” and when it is turned inside out it becomes a large piece of triangular cheese that is around 6″x5.5”x3”.
Watch and buy: HERE
►Threefly:
Three coins individually teleport instantaneously from the fingertips of one hand to the fingertips of the other. No coin gimmicks involved.
Here is how the routine is described in the booklet:
“This routine has been a pet effect of Chris Kenner’s since 1986. It has received rave reviews from magicians like Michael Weber, Gaetan Bloom, David Williamson, Dan Garrett, Daryl, Gary Kurtz, John Brunelle, Robert E. Fitch, David Copperfield and a cornucopia of others.
‘The effect is direct and to-the-point. The very nature of the handling allows this routine to be performed for as few as one spectator, up to as many as a hundred!”
Get a copy: HERE
I decided to continue the introductory sale prices on all of Dan Garrett’s magic until I am able to offer you many more of his tricks, books, and lecture notes.
►FOR EVERYTHING GARRETT GO: HERE
►BACK IN STOCK:
I have a few more Midas in stock and also received more of the Torn Corner Machine which is probably the easiest and least expensive way to have a card with a missing corner end up in an impossible location.
►Midas:
The mythological King Midas was known to be able to turn everything he touched into gold. It is a dream that every child has and a talent that every adult wished they had.
In the real world, it is impossible… but with magic it can happen. Kind of. You explain that you have a magical gold penny that turns any Dime it touches into gold. You demonstrate with a silver Dime. It turns to gold. For a repeat, you show a second silver Dime, let it touch the penny and it too turns to gold!
Everything is now examinable, and you can give the gold dime as a souvenir to be remembered by.
Watch and buy: HERE
►Torn Corner Machine:
The Torn Corner Machine is a playing card template that can be used to perforate duplicate cards in several different locations so cards can be set up to tear in almost the same way.
Although there are many ways to use this system the most obvious and popular is to have a card selected. Tear the corner off. Give it as a receipt to the spectator so they can identify the original selection. You then destroy or vanish the rest of the card. As if by magic that card is now found in an impossible location and the corner that the spectator is holding matches the found card.
Watch and buy: HERE
►OUR LATEST RELEASE:
►Traits & Emotions:
This routine begins with having your friend think of any person that they know something about. It could be a friend, a relative, an acquaintance or someone famous.
You then show them ten cards which have a list of 100 different human characteristics. You have them find a characteristic that reminds them of the person they are thinking of.
After a little byplay you will know the word they are thinking of, and you can reveal it anyway you like.
Watch and buy: HERE
►UPCOMING APPEARANCES:
►JUNE 16: Spinnato’s Comedy Magic Show at Comix @ Mohegan Sun Casino in CT. Tickets: HERE
To view all my upcoming appearances go: HERE
Stay happy, Meir
PS: I know the patter for the Mouse to Cheese trick was cheesy but that’s what happens when I make stuff up after I turn the camera on.
“One of the strongest and most effective tricks that can be performed by a close-up magician is a good sponge ball routine.
…Ron Zollweg (The Professional Routines Of Ron Fredrick, 1982)