Thumb Tie

55 entries in Rope / Penetration / Thumb Tie

Creators	Title	Comments & References		Year	Source	Page	Categories
Henri Decremps	Deux moyens différens, l'un ancien, l'autre nouveau, de le faire lier les pouces, & de se délier en un instant.	"Métamorphose d'un verre en morceaux de papier. Réflexions sur les fausses théories. Prétention absurde. Preuve captieuse de cette prétention." (title continued) more tricks by Pilferer, two methods for thumb tie and a glass is thrown into the air where it changes into confetti / pieces of cards, seated, thoughts about vanishing an object by throwing it into the air and the advantages of using confetti		1785	Supplément A La Magie Blanche Dévoillée	18	Lapping Principles / General Principles Glass / Vanish Rope / Penetration / Thumb Tie Articles / Anecdotes
Ten Ichi, Paul von Kalnassy	Bindeproduktion nach Ten-Ichi			Feb. 1905	Der Zauberspiegel (Vol. 5 No. 3)	40	Rope / Penetration / Thumb Tie
Alonso Machado	Machado's Version of the Thumb Tie			1933	Page Wright's Notebook	3	Rope / Penetration / Thumb Tie
Laurie Ireland	Ireland's Rubber Band Thumb Tie Method	thumb tie with rubber bands		1934	Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1934)	1	Rubber Band / Miscellaneous Rope / Penetration / Thumb Tie
Dr. Edward G. Ervin	The Adhesive Tape Tie			Feb. 1940	The Jinx (Issue 81)	526	Rope / Penetration / Thumb Tie
Tom Sellers	A Useful Thumb Tie			1943	Magical Mixture	18	Rope / Penetration / Thumb Tie
William S. Houghton	Comedy Thumb Tie Routine			1943	The Magic 36	41	Rope / Penetration / Thumb Tie
Tom Sellers	A New Thumb Tie			1943	Twenty Tricks	9	Rope / Penetration / Thumb Tie
Ten Ichi	Ten Ichi Thumb Tie	longer routine	Also published here Die Daumenfesselung à la Ten Ichi (Ten Ichi, 1996)	1945/27	Tarbell Course in Magic — Volume 4	264	Rope / Penetration / Thumb Tie
	Modernized Ten Ichi Thumb Tie	knotting method		1945/27	Tarbell Course in Magic — Volume 4	271	Rope / Penetration / Thumb Tie
	Tip-Top Thumb Tie	knotting method		1945/27	Tarbell Course in Magic — Volume 4	272	Rope / Penetration / Thumb Tie
Harlan Tarbell	Chow Sen Thumb Tie	knotting method		1945/27	Tarbell Course in Magic — Volume 4	274	Rope / Penetration / Thumb Tie
Frank Ducrot	Frank Ducrot Thumb Tie	knotting method		1945/27	Tarbell Course in Magic — Volume 4	275	Rope / Penetration / Thumb Tie
Jack Miller	Jack Miller Thumb Tie	knotting method	Variations The Permanent Linking Rings (Rhys "Morgan" Jones, Robert "West" Tay, 2020)	1945/27	Tarbell Course in Magic — Volume 4	276	Rope / Penetration / Thumb Tie
Harlan Tarbell	Simplex Thumb Tie	knotting method		1945/27	Tarbell Course in Magic — Volume 4	277	Rope / Penetration / Thumb Tie
Harlan Tarbell	"Li Ling" Thumb Tie	knotting method		1945/27	Tarbell Course in Magic — Volume 4	279	Rope / Penetration / Thumb Tie
Harlan Tarbell	Tarbell Tape Tie	tape is simply cut through		1945/27	Tarbell Course in Magic — Volume 4	280	Rope / Penetration / Thumb Tie
Harlan Tarbell	Chinese Thumb Tie	knotting method		1945/27	Tarbell Course in Magic — Volume 4	281	Rope / Penetration / Thumb Tie
Mel Forrester	Rubber Band Thumb Tie	knotting method		1945/27	Tarbell Course in Magic — Volume 4	283	Rubber Band / Penetration / Miscellaneous Rope / Penetration / Thumb Tie
Jack Yeager	The Jack Yeager Thumb Tie Trick	gimmicked cord		1947	Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1947)	20	Rope / Penetration / Thumb Tie
Jack Yeager	Glorifying Your Magic	1. Califaction of Handkerchiefs (silks in dove pan merge together) 2. How to spell trust? (oddity on coin) 3. Key Card Placement (Charlier Pass) 4. 20th Century Silks idea 5. Zombie Idea (floating flower pot) 6. Comedy bits with a stooge 7. Miser's Dream Shower (with handkerchief) 8. Thumb Tip Idea (with scotch tape) 9. Thimble color change 10. The cotton bunny (cotton bunny to real one, dove pan)		1948	Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1948)	12	Animal / Rabbit Rope / Penetration / Thumb Tie Cards / Principles / Key Card / Key Card Placements Coin / Effect Themes / Appearance & Vanish/Reproduction Routines / Miser's Dream Mental Magic / Principles / Stooge Ball / Floatation / Zombie Coin / Effect Themes / Gags / Miscellaneous Silk & Handkerchief / Traveling / Twentieth Century Silks Apparatus / Dove Pan Flower / Spring Flowers / Miscellaneous
Allessandro	Magic Quickies	Deep Freeze Trick Head Chopper Children's Shows Thumb Tie		1956	Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1956)	18	Rope / Penetration / Thumb Tie Weapon / Guillotine & Chopper Liquid / Chemical Ways to transform Liquid / Slush Powder Children Magic / Gags, Ideas & Bits of Business
Dai Vernon	The Thumb Tie			1957	The Dai Vernon Book of Magic	231	Rope / Penetration / Thumb Tie
Alex Elmsley	Physical Medium	jacket is removed while thumbs are tied	Also published here Physical Medium (Alex Elmsley, 1991)	1959	Low Cunning	2	Rope / Penetration / Thumb Tie
Dr. William Weyeneth	Das Non Plus Ultra einer Daumenfesselung	using sort of band-aid which is secretly cut during process, Sanitoplast		1963	Hokus Pokus (Vol. 24 No. 2)	27	Rope / Penetration / Thumb Tie
Edward Marlo	Marlo's Thumb Tie			1965	Ed Marlo's Lecture Notes	17	Rope / Penetration / Thumb Tie
Karl Fulves	Babel	Willard's thumb tie presentation, coding with dog whistle over telephone (see also p. 68), ectoplasm		May 1968	The Pallbearers Review Vol. 1-4 (Vol. 3 No. 7)	176	Propless / Coding / Phone Rope / Penetration / Thumb Tie Mental Magic / Effects / Seance Stuff Articles / Columns
Jay Ose, Faucett Ross	Jay Ose's Thumb Tie			1968	Give a Magician Enough Rope... and he'll do a trick!	74	Rope / Penetration / Thumb Tie
Bruce Cole	Thumb Tie Extraordinary			1968	Abbott's Encyclopedia of Rope Tricks — Volume II	287	Rope / Penetration / Thumb Tie
Paul Rosini, Dai Vernon	The Thumb Tie			1970	Expanded Lecture Notes	28	Rope / Penetration / Thumb Tie
Tom Fitzgerald	Tom's Thumb Tie Illusion	illusion, wooden block penetrates hands, thumb tied around a guillotine-like stand		1972	Magick (Issue 48)	239	Rope / Penetration / Thumb Tie Illusions / Penetration
Billy McComb	How To Mix Two Tricks To Make One Good Presentation	thumb tie combined with card to wallet	Variations Card in Wallet, Plus (Ricki Dunn, 1999)	1972	McComb's Magic — 25 Years Wiser	63	Rope / Penetration / Thumb Tie Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to impossible Location / Wallet
Dai Vernon	Vernon's Tape Thumb Tie	No. 92		1972	Jacob Daley's Notebooks	28	Rope / Penetration / Thumb Tie
Paul Fox	Paul Fox's Notes: 1) Thumb Tie - Mardoni	No. 381-1, which material to use		1972	Jacob Daley's Notebooks	104	Rope / Penetration / Thumb Tie
	Marshall's Thumb Tie	No. 410, tip of using pipe cleaners		1972	Jacob Daley's Notebooks	111	Rope / Penetration / Thumb Tie
Ten Ichi, Patrick Page	The Thumb Tie			1976	The Big Book of Magic	298	Rope / Penetration / Thumb Tie
Jim Ryan	Jim's Thumb Tie			1977	Lecture Notes Bar Magic	14	Rope / Penetration / Thumb Tie
Paul Fox	The Thumb Tie			1978	Magic and Methods of Ross Bertram	140	Rope / Penetration / Thumb Tie
Karrell Fox	Ringaround	phase for thumb tie routine with large ring		1979	Another Book	267	Rope / Penetration / Thumb Tie
	Die Daumenfesselung			Aug. 1979	Intermagic (Vol. 6 No. 2)	68	Rope / Penetration / Thumb Tie Hand Gimmicks / Thumb & Finger Tip
	The Malayan Thumb Tie	No. 82		1983	101 Psychic Tests	23	Rope / Penetration / Thumb Tie
Shigeo Takagi	Takagi Thumb-Tie			1986	The New York Magic Symposium — Collection 5	99	Rope / Penetration / Thumb Tie
Shigeo Takagi	A Beautiful Thumb Tie	full routine		1990	The Amazing Miracles of Shigeo Takagi	88	Rope / Penetration / Thumb Tie
Alex Elmsley	Physical Medium	jacket is removed while thumbs are tied	Also published here Physical Medium (Alex Elmsley, 1959)	1991	The Collected Works of Alex Elmsley — Volume 1	200	Rope / Penetration / Thumb Tie
Chapeau	Die Daumenfessel			1991	Hardcore	90	Rope / Penetration / Thumb Tie
Harry Anderson	Cuff Links	thumb tie style routine using handcuffs	Variations Houdini Outdone! (John Lovick, 2016)	1993	Wise Guy	146	Rope / Penetration / Thumb Tie Handcuffs
Ten Ichi	Die Daumenfesselung à la Ten Ichi		Also published here Ten Ichi Thumb Tie (Ten Ichi, 1945/27)	1996	Intermagic (Vol. 20 No. 2)	63	Rope / Penetration / Thumb Tie
Steve Bedwell	Bracelet Wrist Tie		Inspired by "Dunninger's Thumb Tie" (Sixteen Thumb Tie Gems, Max Andrews)	1998 ca.	Flexing and Twisting	14	Rope / Knots for Escapes Rope / Penetration / Thumb Tie
Rudolf Braunmüller	Gags im Zusammenhang mit Tricks	Eröffnung, Daumenfesselung, Afghanbänder, Fischtrick, Geldfang aus der Luft & Münzen, Handguillotine, Handschellen, Karten, Mentalmagie, Persiltrick, Schallplatten, Schaumgummi-Backstein, Schwebekunststücke, Seile, Würfel, Zeitungen & Zeitschriften, Party & Restaurant		1999	Intermagic (Vol. 23 No. 2)	63	Paper / Topological Effects Rope / Penetration / Thumb Tie Coin / Effect Themes / Appearance & Vanish/Reproduction Routines / Miser's Dream Handcuffs Articles / Joke Mental Magic / Effects / Gag Weapon / Guillotine & Chopper
Alan "Ace" Greenberg	In-Your-Face Thumbtie	using fake fingertip		2007	Best of Friends — Volume III	138	Rope / Penetration / Thumb Tie Hand Gimmicks / Thumb & Finger Tip
John Lovick	Houdini Outdone!	handcuff escape, linking with spectators arms	Inspired by Cuff Links (Harry Anderson, 1993) "The Incredible Suit Jacket Escape" (Anthony Lindan, DVD, 2010)	2016	The Performance Pieces & Divertissements of the Famous Handsome Jack, etc.	121	Rope / Penetration / Thumb Tie Handcuffs Escapes / Bound
	Knotted Rope Escape	Dan Sherer (additional comments) Max Maven (additional comments and credit information)	Also published here Hōkasen, 1764	May 2016	Genii (Vol. 79 No. 5)	82	Rope / Knots for Escapes Rope / Penetration / Thumb Tie Escapes / Bound
Alexander de Cova	Gedanken zur Daumenfessel	thoughts on the thumb tie Die Elmsley Variante Der Taschendieb		2016	Burners — Vol. 4	18	Rope / Penetration / Thumb Tie
Alexander de Cova	Karte in Brieftasche	card to wallet combined with thumb tie		2016	Burners — Vol. 4	22	Rope / Penetration / Thumb Tie Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Card(s) to impossible Location / Wallet
Rhys "Morgan" Jones, Robert "West" Tay	The Permanent Linking Rings		Inspired by Jack Miller Thumb Tie (Jack Miller, 1945/27)	2020	Parlour Tricks	273	Rope / Penetration / Thumb Tie