Sleightly Original

Book
1981
Written by Tom Gagnon
Work of Tom Gagnon
113 pages (Spiralbound), published by Selfpublished
Illustrated with drawings by Robert Hirsch
Language: English
40 entries
Cover photograph
Creators Title Comments & References Page Categories
Obie O'Brien Introduction
iv
Tom Gagnon Forward
v
Tom Gagnon Thumb-Tipping Quickies credit information on using a folding coin with a thumb tip
 		1
Tony Slydini Slydini's Thumb-Tipping Technique pointing thumb towards audience
Related to
 2
Tom Gagnon Coin to Pocket Ruse coin travels from coin to pocket and back
Inspired by
 3
Tom Gagnon Thumb Tip Coin Vanish
Related to
 4
Tom Gagnon Flip Up Production invisible coin flipped into air, it appears
Also published here
Inspired by
 6
Tom Gagnon Bomb Bay coin produced in empty hands
Also published here
Inspired by
 10
Tom Gagnon Double Duty Departure two coins vanish one by one, two folding coins and thumb tip
 		13
Tom Gagnon Twofold Vanish two coins vanish one by one, two folding coins and thumb tip
 		16
Tom Gagnon Coin-cidence coin appears and vanishes in bare hands
 		18
Tom Gagnon Flash Coin Production coin appears one-handed
 		22
Tom Gagnon Skullduggery chapter intro
 		25
Tom Gagnon Miser's Daydream featuring a continuous coin production sequence with folding coin and thumb tip
Inspired by
 26
Tom Gagnon Alchemorphosis five dimes in prescription bottle change into a larger gold coin
 		31
Tom Gagnon Contemporary Purse Swindle copper and silver coins in two purses, spectator can never guess the right one, sort of transposition
Inspired by
 36
Tom Gagnon Optional Display Technique
38
Tom Gagnon Twilight's Last Gleaming coins are produced with a small mirror
Inspired by
 43
Tom Gagnon Newfangled Matrix
47
Tom Gagnon Puffed flash silk production, thread and thumb tip
 		51
Tom Gagnon The Phantom Coin much on table top
Inspired by
 54
Tom Gagnon Gypsy Coin coin through handkerchief
 		62
Tom Gagnon Bending Coin
67
Tom Gagnon Hodgepodge chapter intro
 		68
Tom Gagnon The Tiddlywinks Change coin visibly changes from copper to silver under shot glass, or miniature card appears on coin
Also published here
 69
Tom Gagnon Shanghai Express chinese coin and half dollar transpose through handkerchief on table in various phases, including phase with shot glass
Inspired by
 71
Tom Gagnon Silver and Two Copper Interlude with shot glass
Inspired by
 81
Tom Gagnon Split Level silver dollar on back of left hand, it changes into two half dollars
 		84
Steve Dobson Sleeving Technique
85
Tom Gagnon Transposition under Glass "Although I can't actually say that I'm crazy about this effect, it is different.", coin under and on top of inverted shot glass visibly transpose
 		87
Tom Gagnon Popeyed coin placed in eye like a monocle, it drops into hands and is vanished, found back in eye
Inspired by
 88
Tom Gagnon Two-Sided Shell with thin milled down coin at inside of shell, can be shown from both sides, "mint condition"
Related to
 88
Tom Gagnon Soda Jerk coin in bottle with transposition phase, folding copper/silver
Inspired by
 89
Tom Gagnon Flick Your "Trick" Load flicking a coin under a mirror for use in Twilight Routine
 		92
Tom Gagnon Departures chapter intro
 		94
Tom Gagnon New Theory Pickup Move
Inspired by
 95
Tom Gagnon Snap Over Display
100
Tom Gagnon The Pickup and Displacement Move one-handed pick-up and transfer into Tenkai Pinch
Also published here
Variations
 103
Tom Gagnon Open Procedure Load loading Tenkai/Goshman pinched coin under card
Related to
 109
Tom Gagnon Flee Flicker sleeving a coin during pickup move
 		111
Data entered by Denis Behr, November 2019.