This is my third "In A Flash" deck, which tells you something. It is easily my favorite
close-up/walk-around effect. The look on the spectator's face as the coin appears to melt through
the deck is priceless. Everybody loves fire magic, and this is a sure-fire winner anywhere flash
paper is allowed.
I use the line, "If you like card tricks, than this one is my favorite.
And if you don't like card tricks, than consider this a coin trick."
One thing to note for
those who purchased the original version of this several years ago--the gaff has been slightly
modified. Ostensibly, this was to better simulate a burn patttern. But I suspect part of it also had
to do with making this more difficult to counterfiet, as was ubiquitious on a well-known auction
site during this effect's heyday. I think I prefered the original, but once you have the ash from a
few performances, nobody will question whether or not the deck is actually burning.
Finally, I recently purchased Jay Sankey's "Identity Theft Project." He has a routine there that
uses a borrowed quarter and suggests going from that routine directly into "In a Flash." That's a
good idea that I look forward to trying soon, as I love it when one effect can flow into another
seamlessly.
The shape is similar to the original, but slightly irregular. Scuba divers using sonar to find shipwrecks will tell you that "nature produces no perfect curves or truly straight lines," so that's what they are looking for on the ocean floor. But the same token, the theory here as that if a quarter did in fact "melt" through a deck of cards, the burn pattern would follow the shape of the quarter...closely but not exactly, meaning that the the curve is imperfect.
Love the effect, not so much the new gaff
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