Mastering the Art of Reel Magic

Discover an impressive array of tricks, stunts, and techniques utilizing a reel, a versatile tool for stage and parlor performances. Its compact size allows for easy palming, while its strength enables the swift manipulation of silks, cords, and other props, acting as an invisible assistant at your command.

This guide also covers essential care, repair, and maintenance for your reels.

• The Reel

• Re-Threading the Reel

• Ken Brooke’s Technique for “The Untying Silk”

• The Self-Tying Silk

• The Untying Silk Again

• Silk Penetrations

• “Right – Thru”

• “Silk – Thru – Cane”

• Lightning Chair Penetration

• Single-Handed Chair Penetration

• Reel-Ly Pulled Apart

• More Magic with Silks

• Floating Silk

• “Reel” 20th Century Silks

• Suspended Card Silk

• Card Magic

• The Rising Cards

• Ribbon Card

• Rope Magic

• “Untying Rope”

• Snap Rope Restoration

• The Determined Knot

• Acrobatic Knot

• The Indian Rope

• The Reel-Ing Knot

• Variation of “Snap” Rope Restoration

• Cigarette Magic

• Repeat Vanishing Cigarette

• Where’s That Cigarette?

• Miscellaneous Magic

• “The Vanishing Button”

• The Magnetic Wand

• Rising and Falling Ring

• “Vanishing Coin”

• The Flying Note

• Thimble Vanish

• Bird Cage Vanish

• A Fountain Pen Vanish

• Dropped Thimble

• The Flying Ring

• The Elusive Note