Description
Includes 2 specially gimmicked knives and gimmicked target !
I have been fooling people with this routine for 30 years ! … Dave Powell
The magician has a spectator examine a knife then borrows the spectator’s coat and has him hold it up straight . Placing a piece of newspaper with a target over the front of the coat, the magician takes the knife and thrusts it through the coat and the target.
To the spectators relief and surprise, the coat is perfectly unharmed!
Extremely easy to perform and may be done close-up and surrounded.
Robert Ferris –
Dave,
I performed at a 50th Birthday Party last night. The crowd was a fun, but rowdy bunch, the kind that won’t hesitate to razz you if they don’t like something you perform. I kept the pieces either very magical or weird enough to look like the real thing, and they ate it up. I did Malini’s Blindfolded Card Stabbing using eye pads, bandages, a blindfold, and a double-lined black hood. This always gets them on their feet. I also did some of my own "heavy" material which usually makes the room dead silent for some seconds before it erupts in hoots and exclamations of the type we all like to hear. What I’m saying is that I know what good material will do to an audience. I decided to perform Dave’s new Knife Through Coat, having received it just last week. I had tried the Sam Berland version, and even tried my own version some years ago with just a doubled half sheet of newspaper as the method of hiding the second knife. The magnetic blade versions I wouldn’t go near with a ten foot pole: they are SO obvious in method as to be mere toys. The idea of the knife through coat has always appealed to me, but there has never been a method that I thought was really believable and clean; Dave’s IS. I used two sheets to hide the knife in between so that I could nonchalantly show both sides of the "target." I also used a magnet in my outside breast pocket in order to ditch the knife lightning fast on the inside breast area of my coat. Other than that, I did the effect as written in the instructions, and it was one of the most talked about effects of the night! THAT impressed me, I can tell you! It isn’t often that I perform a new effect that quickly after receiving the props. Even if I know the routine, I like to make sure I know the new props inside and out. The effect is easy to perform, beautiful in its believability, and bold yet elegant in method. This is a solid winner in the hands of anyone with any entertainment skills at all. I know some will object to the target, but it actually adds to the visibility of the effect as well as the entertainment value. Whether you use it with a bit of comedy, say that it will make it easier for the people farther away to see the knife actually come through the coat, or whatever else your imagination leads you to, you can make the target’s use a positive instead of a negative. PLUS, it is the very reason that you get such a strong effect of a real knife actually penetrating the coat. The guy whose coat I used last night was actually convinced that the knife DID go through the coat somehow (a new scientific insta-stitch?). What more could you ask for? Kudos, Dave!, sell a few of these to working professionals and I think you will have something that will continue to sell for years and years (a classic?). You’d better not stop making this one, Dave!
Respectfully,
Robert Ferris