Magic Review

So this is what you are supposed to do with the Steel Ball and Tube? This is fantastic! I first saw this trick demonstrated (very badly) by a magic dealer when I was at my first magic convention – and although the presentation was forgettable – for some reason I never forgot the look of [...]

This is number 9 in Marks ‘Master Routines Series’ and it is actually a very nice, commercial routine using nothing more than a borrowed ring, a pencil and a handkerchief. No gimmicks or awkward moves are required to present an entertaining routine in which a ring appears to jump onto a pencil in ever more [...]

Torn and restored card is a great effect and, if done well, should look like real magic. Becuase of this, many talented magicians have worked out many clever ways of achieving the effect.
So what would happen if I told you there is a version of this effect that apparently tears and visibly restores a signed [...]

Before Pen Through Anything (and the many, many varaiations) became almost a standard effect for close-up workers, David Copperfield performed a two phase routine in which a pencil was pushed and ripped though a dollar bill (which remained unharmed) and then was seen to melt through the bill which again was unfolded to show it [...]