Prepare to be amazed! “Dusheck’s Close-Up Magic” by Steve Dusheck unveils 36 original, mind-bending illusions. Learn the secrets to fortune-telling, vanished silks, & more! A must-have for any magician! ✨
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Dusheck’s (#5) Close-up Magic by Steve Dusheck: Unleash the Wonders of Close-up Magic!
Step into the mystical world of Steve Dusheck with this unparalleled collection of 36 original close-up magic tricks. Each method has been meticulously developed to captivate and astonish your audience, promising performances that are as engaging as they are unforgettable.
Why Choose This Book?
From mystical narrations using numerology to mind-boggling manipulations with everyday objects, this book takes you through a variety of scenarios that are bound to make your act one of a kind. Discover secrets with thread, dollar bills, ashes, keys, dice, straws, and even match packs.
- Enhance Your Business: Use ‘No Apologies’ to weave fortunes with business cards, ensuring your audience keeps them close.
- Revolutionize Your Repertoire: With tricks like ‘Burnt and Restored Thread’ and ‘Universal Gimmick,’ you’ll always have the ace up your sleeve.
- Innovate with Everyday Items: Amuse and amaze with ‘Pierced,’ where a knife mysteriously doesn’t harm a folded dollar bill.
What’s Inside?
An introductory insight into the genius of Steve Dusheck is followed by a detailed exploration of each trick, each step illustrated to ease your learning curve. Historical anecdotes and personal notes from Steve add depth to every page, enriching your reading experience.
Published in hardcover across 166 pages, this volume also includes ‘About the Author’ and ‘About the Editor/Publisher’ sections, providing a closer look at the minds behind the magic. Additionally, explore more in this series here.
36 original tricks from the brilliant mind of Steve Dusheck. Here is your chance to learn and perform some really different close-up magic. For his first effect, Steve explains how to tell a person’s fortune using numerology. When a spirit message successfully appears on your business card, people will want to keep your card. Steve has other great close-up magic with thread, dollar bills, ashes, keys, dice, straws, match packs and much more. For the first time in print he reveals his Universal Gimmick. This is a book full of material you will use. It’s great. 166 pages; Hardbound. Other books in this series can be seen here.
Contents:
Dedication: to Hank Lee
Foreword: by Tony Baronio, 31 July 1994
Introduction
1 No Apologies: a fortune is told with a business card and a presentation based on numerology (uses Out to Lunch principle)
8 Burnt and Restored Thread: a thread is burnt with a match, and then is restored
11 Pushover: a paper is torn up by a spectator, placed on the end of a pushpin, and restored
16 Collapse-A-Pill Cup: a clever approach to a portable Chop Cup
21 Gremlin: a variation of Glorpy – an object beneath a handkerchief comes alive!
27 Gone: a silk is pushed into a cylinder with the aid of a pen. When the cylinder is opened, the silk has vanished.
30 Snapola: a “dot” is smacked with a playing card and penetrates a small box
33 Don Qhiholey: a hole in a business card moves to different locations on the card
37 Rubik’s Miracle: a key-chain sized Rubik’s cube instantly solves itself
41 Chipstick: three Bingo chips cling from the magician’s hand, but don’t once they are in the hands of the spectator.
44 Pierced: a knife is pushed through a folded dollar bill but the bill remains unharmed
49 Patrick’s Paddle: Paddle trick. Shamrock turns into a leprechaun, then the paddle is unfolded into a fan!
52 Disco Deception: a sort of three card Monte with three circles
57 Teariffic: The corner is torn from a dollar and the pieces shown in two separate hands, then the dollar is restored
64 Fruited Plain: a quick sponge ball trick with the sponge balls acting as cherries
66 Unpredictable: a comedy mentalism bit plays fun on one of the spectators (choose wisely)
68 Dice-O-Matic: A large die turns into many miniature ones
72 Pezazz: a lighter turns into a Pez dispenser
74 Universal Gimmick: a clever tool to use where you might use a Pull, Reel, etc.
87 Curtain Time: a quicky – borrowed finger ring on pen
90 Rattle Cans: a great variation of the Rattle Bars that can fool those in the know
94 Ring Pull: making a practical ring pull for the Ring Flight routine; in this one the ring ends up in a seashell
100 Ashes to Ashes: Ashes turn into a number or symbol on your business card
103 Keys and Cash: a dollar vanishes from a clear plastic case held by the spectator under a handkerchief and appears somewhere else
107 Silence is Golden: a gold nugget is shaken in a case and makes a racket. When the spectator shakes it, however, it is silent.
109 Dice Force: Several ideas on using a dice force
114 Cut, Restored & Examined: a dollar bill is cut with scissors and appears in two pieces, then is restored
121 The Pretzel: rubber band off pencil
124 Beady: great idea! Performer instantly solves “ball in the hole puzzles” behind his back and beats the spectator
128 Bugged: as part of a mental effect a spectator holds the stem taken from a piece of fruit, but ends up holding a rubber bug
131 Quite Quiet: a dollar bill tossed on the ground moves by itself
136 Rat Pack: a gag. A lighter held in front of someone who needs their cigarette lit turns out not to be a lighter
139 Very Close: Even though a pin penetrates two dollar bills, one of the bill can be moved about without tearing or other harm
146 Poor George: George Washington on the dollar bill gets a nose that lights up red on command
151 Last Straw: spectator always gets the short straw
153 Two Tricks at Once: ring off shoelace and shoelace changes color!
156 Close-Up Magic (Questions and Answers): Steve answers questions about Close-Up magic such as comparing it to other forms, the use of gimmicks, carrying your show, and more
167 About the Author: short bio with picture of Steve Dusheck
168 About the Editor/Publisher: short bio of Jim Klein w/o photo
