Thumb Tip Magic Tricks

The Thumb Tip Prop Is One Of The Most Useful Tools In Magic

There are probably hundreds of fun magic tricks that can be performed by the use of a special magician's gimmick that covers the magician's own thumb tip like a thimble.

The main use of this item is to help in vanishing and restore tricks where a variety of small items such as a coin or a silk handkerchief can be made to disappear and reappear at your command.

An example of how this close up magic looks can be seen by viewing the video above here.

This gives a good all round example of how to perform a silk vanish along with the explanation.

There is also a very useful sleight tip near the end of the video.

Your wised up crowd should be paying attention to yourself with your entertaining patter and also to any visible items such as a silk or coin that you announce that you are about to vanish.

With a little practice, you should be able to wear the tip while still being able to move your hands freely and naturally.

It is normal at first to assume that your audience will easily spot the gimmick. You will soon find though that this is not the case, thumbs are boring and not something that people normally pay attention to.

Enjoy watching the performance and method shown in this video and you should soon be ready to be baffling your friends after some practice.

These three examples just scratch the surface of what is possible with this fantastic little prop.

It is difficult to explain in words how many tricks and routines can be performed with just this discrete little prop as the driving force of them all.

There is an infinite variety of easy sleight of hand tricks that can be done with the thumb tip, some of the most popular being the silk vanish ( demonstrated in the video ), changing a dollar bill i.e. from $1 to $10 and the salt vanish, where you pour salt from a salt shaker into one hand. The salt then vanishes and you proceed to pour the salt out of YOUR OTHER hand.

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You can easily create a 30 minute routine doing various styles of magic, keeping your audience enthralled with not a hint of boredom.
You can maske an easy hack to your thumbtip by scotch taping a small piece of pencil lead to it which will enable you to do the incredible Voodoo spirit writing trick.

Because of the variety of your routines, no one would guess that they are powered by the same simple gimmick. Treat yourself to the Swiss Army knife of magic and let your creativity flow.