The Magical Record and Thoughts of Wesley James

Close-up Expert Shares his Magical Thoughts

1997
Written by Wesley James
Work of Wesley James
98 pages (Spiralbound), published by Magical Tools
Illustrated with drawings by Various, Wesley James, Evelyn Rosa
Language: English
34 entries
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Creators Title Comments & References Page Categories
Wesley James Preface on the presentation of magic
 		i
Wesley James Introduction
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Wesley James The WJ Front Bottom Deal about its history
  • The Grip
  • The Take
  • The Top
  • The Bottom
  • Cover Action
 		10
Wesley James The MacJames Poker Deal bottom deal demonstration with sucker element
Related to 14
Wesley James The Fulves Material how its publication came to be
 		16
Wesley James The WJ Tabled Bottom Deal
Related to 18
Wesley James Sneaky Pete's Anytime Blackjack Saloon story presentation, using Tabled Bottom Deal
 		20
Wesley James WJ's Spectator's Open Prediction spectator makes prediction
Inspired by 24
Wesley James Coming Up in the World with credit information
  • The Load Up I (Coming Up in the World)
  • The Load Up II (Interlocked Set-Up)
  • The Load Up III (Large Block)
 		27
Wesley James The Racherbaumer Material on credits and other fights with Jon Racherbaumer
 		32
Wesley James Micro-Macro Handling
  • Making My Micro-Macro & Switch Box Gimmicks
  • Single Micro-Macro Card
  • The Switch Box
 		33
Wesley James Micro-Macro & The Mat Move Plus visual growing on mat, with Hung Card gimmick
 		35
Wesley James The Kaufman Material how its publication came to be
 		39
Wesley James Twisting with Victor spellbound change
Inspired byAlso published here 40
Wesley James, Howard Schwarzman The Last Drop
42
Wesley James In a Twinkling "The Original Touch Change"
Related to 44
Wesley James The Magic Touch "It is as difficult a coin move as any I know.", no illustrations
 		47
Wesley James Two-Way Stretch card also stretched sideways
Related to 49
Wesley James The Lorayne Material how its publication in Apocalypse came to be
 		55
Wesley James Japanese Monte
Inspired by
  • "The Three Quarter Card" (Masao Atsukawa, "Creative Works in Magic")
 57
Wesley James, Harry Lorayne Siamese Shuffle "shuffle" travels from one half to other
  • Method I
  • Method II (twenty-six double backers)
  • Method III (thirteen double backers)
  • Method IV - Cold Deck (deck switch presentation)
  • The Lorayne Approach (deck switch presentation)
Related to 62
Wesley James SympathOrder half deck face-up and face-down, spectator shuffles, dealt in two piles, they have same face-up/face-down orientation
 		65
Tenkai Ishida Optical Reverse
70
Wesley James At You Command "The Middle Deal Control Swindle"
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Allan Ackerman, Bill Kalush, Wesley James The Ackerman Center Deal (Modified) using Ackerman's technique for two-handed deal (idea by Kalush)
Inspired by 75
Wesley James Action Palm Variant - Multi-Card Misdirection Palm
Inspired by 78
Wesley James Daley Straightened with credit information
Inspired byRelated to 80
Wesley James Count-Revertable Aces Aces removed from deck, one travels to Himber wallet, repeat, then there are five Aces and one is put in wallet, repeat, red Aces remain, transpose with black Aces in wallet
Inspired byAlso published here 83
Wesley James The Patton Material how its publication in Magicana came to be
 		88
Wesley James Big Coin Finish finale for Spellbound routine, three different jumbo coins appear
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Wesley James A.E. S.S. E.M. IOU credit information
  • Method I (Preferred Method)
  • Retention of Vision Method
Inspired by 92
Edward Marlo, Wesley James Fake Pick-Up
Related to 94
Wesley James The WJ Fake Addition rub a dub-dub vanish as fake addition
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Wesley James Concluding Remarks
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Data entered by Denis Behr, October 2016.