43 entries in Knife & Paddle / Penetration
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
To thrust a bodkin into your head without hurt thin knife through head with blade that slips into handle, optional sponge with blood or wine for additional gore effect
Related to 1584 196
To thrust a bodkin through your toong, and a knife through your arme: a pittifull sight, without hurt or danger gimmicked knifes with bend in middle
1584 197
To cut halfe your nose asunder, and to heale it againe presentlie without anie salve gimmicked knife with gap, apparently cut through nose
Related to 1584 197
How to seeme to cut ones nose halfe off knife with half-moon cut out
Related to 1634 22
How to seeme to thrust a Bodkin in your fore-head knife through head with blade that slips into handle, optional sponge with blood for additional gore effect
Related to 1634 27
John B. Ward Knife Thru Coat borrowed pocket knife with newspaper through jacket
Oct. 1939
Chap's Scrapbook (Vol. 2 No. 4)
1
Edward Victor A "Matter-Thro'-Matter" Penknife Effect penknife is pushed through a silk and seen penetrating an envelope on other side, silk is undamaged, prepared envelope
1940 ca. 135
Laurie Ireland Table Knife Through Body knife wrapped up in napkin penetrates body
1941 13
Bob Hanko Indestructo handkerchief is tied over mouth of a glass and both put into a paper bag, then a knife is pushed through bag and handkerchief, handkerchief is unharmed and a silk is found in the glass
Also published here May 1945
The Phoenix (Issue 83)
337
Martin Gardner Coat Penetration
  • Impromptu Methods
  • Cigarette Version
Oct. 1948 475
Harrison Knife Through Coat six methods
1948/27 13
Milbourne Christopher Knife Through Coat magician's joke on the knife through jacket
Apr. 1949
Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 6 No. 11)
529
Seymour Davis Phantom Napkin knife through handkerchief
Related to 1949 16
Ed Reno Knife Through the Arm classic gaffed knife
1954/27 362
Horace E. Bennett Knife Through Coat with pocket knife and newspaper
Dec. 1955
The New Phoenix (Issue 322)
96
Bert Allerton Penetration with a Knife
1958 48
Max Malini Cutting the Menu knife through menu, fake blade
1962 61
Bob Read Knife Through Jacket
1973 28
Bob Hanko Indestructo handkerchief is tied over mouth of a glass and both put into a paper bag, then a knife is pushed through bag and handkerchief, handkerchief is unharmed and a silk is found in the glass
Also published here Oct. 1974
Intermagic (Vol. 2 No. 2)
38
Bob Read Business For Knife Through Coat ideas for knife through coat based on the Routine described in Bob Read's "Thanks To Pepys"
Oct. 1975
Pabular (Vol. 2 No. 2)
167
Arturo Sage Messer knife through handkerchief
Also published here
  • Abracadabra #508, Oct. 1955
Nov. 1975
Intermagic (Vol. 3 No. 1 & 2)
16
"Joro" Bruno Hennig Messer durch die Jacke knife through jacket, jacket is hanging on a chair
1975 3
Tan Hock Chuan Knife Through Coat
1977 43
Ken Brooke K.B. Knife Thru Coat
Also published here 1980 56
Roy Baker Roy Baker's Method of "Knife Thro' Coat" Uses gimmicked knife
1983 12
"Magic" Christian Stelzel My Knife through Jacket with large kitchen knife and newspaper
Variations 1983 26
David Williamson Beelzebub's Blade napkin ripped by knife, restores and knife vanishes
Related to 1989 83
Ken Brooke Messer durch Jacke knife through jacket
Also published here Oct. 1990
Intermagic (Vol. 15 No. 4 & 5)
152
Jim Steinmeyer Perforation girl in box penetrated by multiple long knifes
1991 31
Hiroyuki Sakai Invisible Slit bill covered with a little piece of paper is cut with a knife and restored
Sep. 1992
The Minotaur (Vol. 4 No. 3)
1
Alfred Lee Cohen, Rick Herald Blade Runner table knife through credit card
Related to 1992 52
Felix Farrell Pierced Polyester impromptu knife through jacket
Also published here 1995 21
Felix Farrell Pierced Polyester knife through jacket
Also published here Apr. 1996
Apocalypse (Vol. 19 No. 4)
2632
Scott Wells Scott's Well knife through paper napkin
1997 1314
Tom Osborne Zwei Messer-Tricks knife through napkin, or knife vanishes or penetrates table
1997
Intermagic (Vol. 21 No. 3)
107
Al Baker Cutting a Card knife cuts through card, restored
Related toAlso published here
  • marketed 1931
2003
The Secret Ways of Al Baker (Issue Instructions)
548
Al Baker Cutting a Card in Half with knive, gimmick
2003 706
Indestructible Napkin knife through handkerchief
2011 52
Reg Holden No Sleight of Hand Knife Thru Handkerchief
2012 125
Mike Caveney Halloween Card Stab on the back of a kneeling assistant, person stabbed
2013 141
Mike Caveney Scissors, Coat, Silverware & Chicken knife through borrowed coat, production from coat of silverware, plates and chicken
  • The Newspaper
  • The Chicken
  • The Load Bag
  • Hiding a Chicken
  • Hiding a Chicken Load Bag
  • Newspaper Art
  • Shower of Silver
  • The Stool
  • The Ultimate Gimmick
  • Crash Landing
  • The Scissors
  • The Logic
  • Pre-Set
  • The Routine
2013 373
Alexander de Cova Messer durch Jacke knife through jacket
Inspired by 2018 191
Max Malini Cutting the Menu dinner knife through paper menu, extra tip of blade
Related to 2022 216