Phatus Update

As we make our way into April, here is a list of some projects we are working on for the near future.

- A PDF ebook titled “The Phatus guide to creating gaffed playing cards” which is a much more in depth and highly advanced guide than our current video tutorial and instructable. This guide covers a wider range of aspects for the making process as well as new alternative printing experiments and even a section titled “finishing the card” which will contain updated information on our experiments with putting a new “finish” on the card to re-gain its smoothness and reduce friction. This will increase the quality of your gaff 10 fold and it will once again shine.

- Mars explanation/tutorial in PDF instant download is just around the corner for purchase to the public. Once again, Phatus.com blog account holders with sufficient credits will get first crack at the beta release.

- A highly visual and simple bottle cap through bottle routine. Perfect for bars.

- A Torn and Restored Card routine I have been working on for quite some time that was inspired to me both by Daniel Garcia’s “Torn” and “Unripped” by Gared Crawford. I unofficially call the trick “Un-Torn” for lack of a better name. This routine is basically a cross between Torn and Unripped. I loved the elegant simplicity and visual aspects of torn however I did not like the putting the 2 pieces in my pocket aspect. I saw that in unripped you could hand the card over halfway into the restore and I WANTED THAT. I was however disappointed by the fact that you could not hand the actual “Signed Card” over to the spectator at the end. (Which the teaser neglects to inform you of btw. More of that “sales deception”) So what I have done is combined the concept of the two illusions into one where the spectator signs the card, the magician tears the card, shows 4 pieces, keeps 2 and bites the other 2 in his teeth to keep in full view at all times. You then restore the first two pieces and immediately and very cleanly, hand over the half restored portion to the spectator keeping the other two torn cards in your teeth. You then take the half card back and one piece from your teeth and restore it, followed by the last piece. The signed card is then handed over to the spectator for inspection. All while allowing for highly visual restores like that of torn.

- The lost DIY magnetic quarter project. (yes we haven’t forgot…..yet) Since our posting of the DIY magnetic quarter we have ran into many kinks in the project. We have also encountered many advancements in the project though making for a kicker surprise if all works out. We still plan on bringing something to you on this as soon as we have a quality and solid system for creating them.