When is a chop cup not a chop cup?  When it’s a dice-shaker…  Cubism is Dave Forrest’s rather elegant solution to a problem he perceived.  He loved the idea of the chop cup but struggled with the fact that it was so obviously a magic ‘prop’.  I share Dave’s thinking...

I saw a small advert for Banner Magic on a magic website and was immediately intrigued. It seems to have entered the magic world without the bang and the flash so often associated with the marketing of new magic and so I was curious to have a look and see what it is...

Tiny Plunger by Jon Armstrong So I have been using the Tiny Plunger Magic Trick goes as follows, the spectator selects a card, it gets shuffled back into the pack. The magician shows, what looks like a tiny sink plunger and plunges it down onto the face down deck....

So, I just got this nice little set in. In the range are coins, cards and a stainless Steel card guard. As you all know I like a bit of coin magic so let's start there shall we? A dollar size and a half dollar size coin which has the Mechanics insignia emblazoned all...