Nail

39 entries in Nail
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Carl Willmann Der unverwundbare Künstler nail placed upright on table, hand smashed onto it, dummy rubber nail
 		Oct. 1903
Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 9 No. 10)
158
Friedrich "Fritz" Hügli Der unverletzbare Zauberer nail through finger
 		1927
Leichte Zauberei
67
Frank Lane, U. F. Grant The Lindbergh Kidnap Ladder board with holes and nails, different spectators claim having seen a different number of holes and the nails in different positions
 		1935
They're Off
10
Fakir werden ist nicht schwer fakir tricks, needle through cheek and throat, nail in nose "Human Blockhead"
 		1946
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 8 No. 2)
9
Ali Bongo The Houdini Pin pin vanishes from corked tube and appears in small box
Related to 1966
The Bongo Book
52
Ernesto "Ernest" Pracchia Sólido a través de Sólido self made block penetration / Bomba Atomica, Nail through tube
 		1967
Toda la Magia Moderna en un Pañuelo
75
Jack Chanin Gee Whiz - It's Spiked cigarette from hand to hand, then changes into railroad spike
 		1973
Close-up Cavalcade
41
B.C. Milnov The Mind Benders nail / spike bending
 		1975
Magick (Issue 127)
631
Stephen Minch Mental Metals nail bending
 		1975
Mind & Matter
13
Uriah Fuller 2. Bending nails, spikes, rings and what-have-you
1975
Confessions of a Psychic
23
Tony "Doc" Shiels Bend, Baby, Bend! on Uri Geller and methods to bend, spoons, nails and keys
 		1976
The Shiels Effect
10
Al Mann The Spikes of Asmodeus historical comments on bending nails, nail bending act with several nails and spectator participation
Related to 1977
Psycho-Mentisis
8
John F. Mendoza The Coin Routine (No. 1) copper and silver coin transpose, both change to copper, then silver, then into four dollars, coins across with those, two more dollars appear and a copper coin, coins through table, drill production from purse
 		1978
The Book of John
54
Al Bertini Al Bertini's Geistesblitze: Psychokinese bending of two nails in the hand
 		1982
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 43 No. 6)
132
Ross Bertram Eerie Feller metal bending with nail
 		1983
Bertram on Sleight of Hand
202
The Nail Act: Driving a Nail into Wooden Plank with Your Bare Hand No. 64
 		1983
101 Psychic Tests
17
Driving a Nail through the Wall No. 65
 		1983
101 Psychic Tests
17
Bending a Large Thick Nail with Your Bare Hands! No. 66
 		1983
101 Psychic Tests
17
Bending a Nail with Your Teeth! No. 67
 		1983
101 Psychic Tests
17
Extracting Nails from a Wooden Board with the Fingertips! No. 68
 		1983
101 Psychic Tests
17
The Anvil Test No. 71, performer lies on bed of nails with anvil on chest, assistant beats on anvil with a hammer
 		1983
101 Psychic Tests
18
Breaking a Large Stone on the Chest of the Strongman with a Sledge Hammer as He Lays on a Bed of Nails No. 72
 		1983
101 Psychic Tests
19
Ali Bongo Houdini Coin coin in tube penetrates two nails
 		1983
1983
8
Michael Carrion Michael Carrions Nervous Nails visual joke about chewing nails, pun
 		1985
Finger Secrets
16
Rick Johnsson Nailed twisted nail puzzle, two bent nails linked, one-handed linking, apparently linked and unlinked when shaken in jar
Also published here
  • "Nailed" (Rick Johnsson, MUM, Feb. 1981)
 1988
The Chronicles (Issue 35)
1408
Simon Lovell Tongued Magician puts nail through his tongue, then restores tongue
Related to 1989
Close Up Magic To Tapdance To
103
Karl Fulves Fixed Bets eleven bar bets involving numbers, nail
 		1991
Swindle Sheet (Issue 5)
54
Steve Dusheck Nail Jail card with hole penetrates a nail
 		1992
Dusheck's Card Magic
84
Steve Dusheck Spike Bending
1993
Dusheck's Mental Magic
57
Karl Fulves Twisted Logic effect with twisted nail puzzle, tossed from hand to hand, then one of the two nails travels to other hand
 		1994
Rigmarole (Issue 10)
111
Dennis Marks Marx-I-Flex
July 1994
Vibrations (Vol. 17 No. 1)
13
Tony Slydini Metal To Metal nail passes through steel nut with a hole that is too small, dealer's item
Related to 1996
Underworld (Issue 3)
31
Martin Gardner The Rising Marble
  • Martin Gardner's Corner
dry rice with marble is shaken and marble rises, also with mix of small and large nails
 		Sep. 1997
Magic (Vol. 7 No. 1)
75
Masklyn ye Mage Coffin Nail nail held by performer smokes
Related to
  • Bizarre!
Also published here
  • The Grimoire of the Mages
 Oct. 2000
Genii (Vol. 63 No. 10)
38
Andrew Mayne Nail in Head Human Blockhead
 		2000
Shock Magic
19
Jay Sankey Spinach thick nail bent
 		2004
Sankey Unleashed
124
Erik Jan Hanussen Can You Brea Chains?
  • Bending an Iron-Bar
  • Tearing a Deck of Cards
  • Pounding Nails into a Wooden Board
  • Breaking a Chain Linnk
Also published here
  • UHU, Jan. 1926
 July 2004
Genii (Vol. 67 No. 7)
57
Mike Caveney The Nailed Card quarter to forehead with nailed coin, then presentation for invisible deck using fifty-two decks, card nailed to forehead
 		2013
Wonders
61
Tino Plaz Mentales Plastik comedy nail bending routine with a straw
 		2018
Moby Trick
4