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Ender's Review: Magic Pen Trick (Magic Makers)
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Magic Pen Trick (Magic Makers)

Penetrate a bill, and leave no hole!

Overview

The Magic Pen Trick is a great and baffling trick, which can astound the audience with the seemingly impossible: a pen penetrating a solid object, without leaving any hole or mark.  With this effect you get one special pen, as well as some instructions and a link to some more instructional videos and other tricks using the pen as well.



Effect

In this trick, a working pen is used to sign a piece of paper or dollar bill, and then amazingly pushed right through it the paper/bill. The pen can then be pulled off, leaving no hole in the paper or bill.   What is great about these effects is that the bill, paper or whatever you are using can be handed out as well as the pen to be examined, and the audience won’t find how you did it.

See Rob Stiff perform the trick in a short video clip right here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBSGODDW9HU



Instructions

This is a very nice and well thought out trick, and the instructional videos included teach how to do the effect very well.  The product includes an online link to a website that has all the teaching materials available via streaming video.  There are a variety of different effects which are taught that can be found on the link, and all of these have been taught well and are easy to follow.



The instructions were at one time sold as a separate DVD under the title "Pen Thru Bill Illusion & More featuring Ben Salinas".  All this teaching material is now available online via the secret link, and people new to this effect will find it fantastic and helpful.  It covers a lot of material, and has many excellent ideas.

Here you can see a short video trailer that introduces the Ben Salinas instructional video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1eJy_pwg_A



Variations

A few bonus effects are included with the instructions.   The effect can also be done with penetrations through business cards, credit cards, and even coins.   I especially love the variation that shows a moving hole on a playing card, and where the pen physically does go through the hole.  Here's a screen shot showing some of the separate videos with variations that are all part of the online teaching materials.



Difficulty

The effects using the pen have been well thought out, creating some effective and amazing magic that will astonish your spectators, and yet isn’t too hard to perform.  Ben Salinas is the instructor in all of the tutorials, and he goes through them all well and thoroughly, giving you some great handling techniques for the tricks. The effects will require some practice, but not overly long amounts of practice, which is nice. The teaching is easy to follow, making learning how to do the effects easy, and as they are so effective, your time used to learn them is well spent.



Recommendation

The Magic Pen Trick is good for beginners as it is easy to learn and perform, and won’t take too long to do so, and yet is a very effective magic trick that will make you look like an amazing magician. Just because it is easy to learn however, does not mean it isn’t good for more advanced magicians, who will still find some great effects that they will definitely use because they are so effective. It’s a great effect for magicians all round, and is totally worth a look at, , especially given the online learning materials that you get access to when buying the gimmicked pen.



Want to learn more?  See:
- Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Magic-Makers-Effects-Penetrates-Leaving/dp/B01N4TIVWO
- Similar pen #1: http://www.magicmakersinc.com/p-590-magic-mystery-pen-trick.aspx
- Similar pen #2: http://www.magicmakersinc.com/p-88-magic-pen-trick-magic-makers-original-easy-pen-thru-dollar-bill-penetrating-trick.aspx
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