Tag by Chastain Criswell?

[firedemon070]

i was just introduced to this little trick, kinda caught my eye. anyone know how its done? :confused:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOrINnRJEWY

[traumatised-magic]

this is really old. there is a slight gimmick. the top card basically has a semi circle cut out of the bottom half. this goes on top and on the back is a piece of double sided tape.

u have any card selected and u place it on top....ontop of the gimmick card, the cut out obvisously is not seen.

u then control the now double card to the top and push it off, form the back it looks like a genuine card, form the front u would notice there is a bit missing so u just cover it with ur hand wich is no big deal. u then punch a hole in the card right wear the cut out is. meaning the hole only goes thru the selection but the spectators think it goes thru a different card

u place the tag thru the hole and place the card into the deck as u do this slightly unstick the cards.

allow the spectator to hold the tag and u can mix the cards or do what ever u like with them, the spectator can then pull on the tag and out comes their selected card

simple

[firedemon070]

hum didnt think of it that way, thanks a lot tho ^-^

[Sloveez]

I saw this a few years ago and came up with my own handling. I never bought the original since my handling worked. But, if the handling that Traum explains is accurate, it looks like I came up with pretty much the same handling as Chastain did.

The only difference between my handling and his is the use of a semi-circle. I just used a large circle punched out at one end and a slit cut from the top of the circle to the nearest edge of the card. The illusion of a single card from the back is pretty good, but suffers from the same weakness as the original handling from the front.

Have fun!

-= M

[traumatised-magic]

I saw this a few years ago and came up with my own handling. I never bought the original since my handling worked. But, if the handling that Traum explains is accurate, it looks like I came up with pretty much the same handling as Chastain did.

The only difference between my handling and his is the use of a semi-circle. I just used a large circle punched out at one end and a slit cut from the top of the circle to the nearest edge of the card. The illusion of a single card from the back is pretty good, but suffers from the same weakness as the original handling from the front.

Have fun!

-= M

yeah to be honest that is one of the many ways i have seen it in a tutorial....i think all together i have seen about 3-4 different ways. in all honesty it doesnt matter how u do it the effect is always goin to look the same to the spectator, the only problem with ur way is u would need to line up the hole accuratly each time, where as the way i described u can pretty much just punch the whole in any place within the cutout with no worries :)

[ChastainCriswell]

I don't use the half circle either, I use the hole punch to make the gimmick hole. I also do nto use double stick tape no does Mark Mason ... d/s tape would make the effect almost impossible. I use Avery removeable glue sticks ... Mark Mason uses some sort of spray on substance. Also .... the effect in methos is not simple ... only in execution. :) :)

Glad yall like my trick.

[traumatised-magic]

I don't use the half circle either, I use the hole punch to make the gimmick hole. I also do nto use double stick tape no does Mark Mason ... d/s tape would make the effect almost impossible. I use Avery removeable glue sticks ... Mark Mason uses some sort of spray on substance. Also .... the effect in methos is not simple ... only in execution. :) :)

Glad yall like my trick.

in all honesty i dont use double stick tape either i use 3M repostional photo mount spray

hmmm i assume u mean u punch a hole then cut from the hole to the edge of the card, i would have thought that be slightly more fiddly to get the hole punched right every time, the semi circle seems a bit easier lol
either way its a good trick i personally dont use it but the trick its self is pretty good

[ChastainCriswell]

No it is actually easy if you notice, most card designs are semetrical. :) X marks the spot