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Author: mitchell_learymitchell_leary Date: Nov 17, 2007 18:36
Al Hastings wrote:
> On Nov 16, 6:25 pm, mitchell_leary yahoo.com> wrote:>> Al Hastings wrote:
>>>> What's the effect?
>>
>>> A glass is covered with a silk and tightly wrapped around the glass,
>>> what ensues is a miser's dream like effect, but when the glass is
>>> unwrapped, the coins -heard- going into the glass are there. THe
>>> gimmicks sounds like some kind of slide that releases coins one by
>>> when when tilted......just a guess,
>>
>>> -A
>>
>> If I'm not mistaken Charles Bertram invented the "rattle box
>> principle". I will take it that you know how that gimmick works.
>>
>> I've seen this gimmick using coins too, and it's quite ingenious. You
>> are able to make it sound like you are rattling a fist full of half-
>> dollars while your hand is really completely empty.
>>
>> The gimmick is 4 half dollars with a pinhole drilled through each of
>> the centers. These are attached to something akin to a wrist watch
>> band: a string runs through the holes and then on into the watchband.
>> They are not fastened too tightly so that when you shake your fist (as
>> if holding a fist full of coins), the half dollars rattle against each
>> other creating the audible illusion.
>>
>> The standard method for loading a silk covered glass is to use a
>> bottomless glass. I've used it countless times for unloading and
>> reloading predictions. People just take it for granted that a
>> drinking glass has a bottom.
>>
>> -Leary-
>
> I thought it was -Ross- Bertram that came up with the rattle box
> prinicple , i'm probably wrong. The gimmick you described is
> ingenious, I can't wait for my next day off to play with it. I
> forget what the book is named to look up (it has magic and stunts,
> driving a pin through a coin stunt). This is gonna bug me until I get
> home....
>
> -A
If you're going to build that gimmick Al I forgot one little minor
piece of information. Put a bead or small button on one end of the
thread, then feed the free end of the thread through the pinoles in
the coins and on into the watchband.
I'd use some good strong fishline instead of thread, you don't want
this thing breaking in the middle of your performance.
Speaking of the rattle box principle here's another idea just in time
for Christmas.
Get 4 of those little jingle bells (like used in cat collars) and pry
3 of them open and remove the little piece of metal that makes them
ring. Then pry them back shut.
Strap the 4th bell (the one that still works) to your watchband under
your shirt sleeve.
Now you can play 3-Bell Monte; ask them to point to the oe that
rings. They're always wrong, you win some extra holiday cash.
The above idea is 100%% stolen from Jay Sankey.
-Leary-
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