Thread: Tell me about card Sharp devices and techniques

Ok, as you all know, I am a magician, but I am starting to get more into cards.
I am mastered alot of card sleights, ect, but I want to know the tools of the trade for card sharks/sharps.
I mean, I can
-turner bottom deal
-Bottom deal
-One card cover bottom deal
-lots of double lifts
-Lots of palms, back palms, tenkia palms, turner palm, palm palm, table palm, Mucks,
-I can memorize a whole deck of cards, and the location of each card, in 67 seconds of looking at them (I came up with a categorizing technique, that I might publish one day)
-False shuffles I can do include
-Jogs
-Breaks
-The pass
# Zarrow Shuffle
# Greek Shuffle
# Underhanded Shuffle
# Overhanded Shuffle
# False Faro Shuffle
# Off the Table False Riffle Shuffle
# Showoff Shuffle
# False Hindu Shuffle
# Red Black False Shuffle
# Austrian Toss Shuffle
# False Haymow Shuffle
# Push Thru False Shuffle
# Sloppy False Shuffle
# Overhand False Shuffle Retaining Top
# Overhand False Shuffle Retaining Bottom
# Hindu Shuffle Retaining Bottom (Good for bottom dealing)
But what I want to know is about
-Juice decks
-Card mechanics
-Card pulls
Any other strange sleights out there.
And anything else you know.

I don't know much about card Sharps, but sharp cards? I've always thought it was a pretty sci-fi weapon, a playing card made of metal...
They would have to be pretty damn sharp, and somehow protected from each other, maybe little sleeves of plastic between each one. Don't want to metal bumping up against each other.
Do you know anywhere I might be able to buy sharp cards?

EDIT: Anyone have any credibility for this site?

but sharp cards? I've always thought it was a pretty sci-fi weapon, a playing card made of metal...

There is a rare book out by ricky jay, titled "Cards As Weapons" He says, you do NOT want cards that are metal or sharp, if you get those, then its best to get a shirkun or whatever its called.
Throwing a normal playing card correctly can me deadly.
He also, says shirukens should not be razor sharp, but very very dule, like blunt metal, so you dont cut yourself, and when thrown correctly, can really cut someone.

I don't know much about card tricks - except for one pretty good one that has way too many steps to explain, but I'm pretty good at shuffling. I can sit and shuffle cards forever. Keeps my hands busy, especially when I'm frustrated about something. I can do the Hindu shuffle (either leaving the bottom stack down or shuffling them all correctly), the bridge, and one shuffle where you pull from both the top and bottom of the deck at the same time to mix them together. Don't know the name of it, though. I have a big book of magic tricks around here somewhere with a bunch of card tricks in it.

My favorite thing to do is the one-handed knuckle cut, though. It's really easy, but always gets a rise out of people when you just pull it out during a card game.



My best friend's dad did a trick on me not long ago where he spread the deck and just had me pick any card that I wanted and look at it. While I had it in my hand, he guessed exactly which card it was. Blew my mind. I still want to know how he did it. If you know that trick, please let me know how it's done.

Your complicated trick. Remeber not 3 rows of 7 but 7 rows of three!
lol.
Thanks for the youtube link I can do teh http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAFxUP3tPF4
Tudors one handed revolution cut.
But I mean, invisable slights, and devices, like those pulls that are up peoples sleeves. I know of normal coin pulls (I use those all the time) But what about those metal ones for cards?
Right now I use my M5, and a shimmed card to hold other cards up my sleeve, but there really hard to get to.
The trick, were your friends dad guessed your card, could be done alot of difrent ways.
I could tell you if you wanted

Originally Posted by magical mike

I could tell you if you wanted

That'd be nice.

Also, I want to learn card production. Can you do it? I don't mean single-card, because I understand the technique for one card (though I haven't gotten it down yet), but I mean when they pull dozens of cards seemingly out of thin air, like this:


Can you do that? And if so...how the fuck??

I have Jeff Mcbrides DVDs on card manipulation, and I have not got to the part were they teach how to produce multiple cards, its something I can not do yet!
I know he is hiding the cards there obviosuly, like when he goes to show his hand empty, the way he dose it..
I think he might be using a pull.
I know of one way, that was on david stones DVD, were you put the cards, on a deck, and produced more, but everytime he put them on top of the deck, hew as just stealing more off the bottom.
(I hate revealing magic. But there are some magicians here)
The mind reading, can be done using a force.
All he did was
a.Glimpse the card as you took it
b. seen it in the reflection of your eye (its hard to do, or glasses)
C. just forced you a card using a method (Theres tons of methods out there)