Beam, Steve

Book

1995
Written by Steve Beam
Work of Steve Beam

16 pages (Stapled), published by Trapdoor Productions
Illustrated with drawings by Steve Beam
Language: English

13 entries

Creators	Title	Comments & References		Page	Categories
Steve Beam	Killocation	one of fifteen, contingency effect	Also published here Killocation (Steve Beam, Semi-Automatic Card Tricks, 1993) Related to Greased Shortening (Steve Beam, Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 7, 2006) also in: Greased Shortening (The Trapdoor — Volume One, 2011) Greased Shortening (FFFF-ing Great Card Moves, 2011) Variations Greased Shortening (Steve Beam, Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 7, 2006) also in: Greased Shortening (The Trapdoor — Volume One, 2011) Greased Shortening (FFFF-ing Great Card Moves, 2011)	1	Cards / Principles / Multiple Out Cards / Effect Themes / Think a Card / limited Choice Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Challenge Locations / Challenge Single Card Location / Miscellaneous
Steve Beam	The Shuffle	distribution of four cards	Also published here The Shuffle (Steve Beam, Magic — The Vanishing Art, 1979) also in: The Shuffle (Steve Beam, Magic For The British Aisles, 1996)	3	Cards / Sleights / Shuffles (non-riffle) / Overhand / Transfers & Displacements
Steve Beam	Queen Charlier	production of four cards using Charlier Cuts with both hands	Also published here King Charlier II (Steve Beam, Magic — The Vanishing Art, 1979)	3	Cards / Effect Themes / Four-of-a-Kind & Aces Effects / Production & Appearance / All at once Cards / Sleights / Cuts / Real Cuts / One Handed Cuts
Steve Beam	Tenkai Charlie	ambitious card move	Also published here Tenkai Charlie (Steve Beam, The Trapdoor — Volume One, 1988) also in: Tenkai Charlie (Steve Beam, The Trapdoor — Volume Three, 1994) Related to The Trapdoor Issue #22 (Steve Beam, The Trapdoor — Volume One, 2011) Variations Bluff Ambitious (Giancarlo Scalia, Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 11, 2018)	5	Cards / Sleights / Palming / Tenkai Palm & Unit Grip Cards / Sleights / Controls / Single Card Controls / Miscellaneous Cards / Effect Themes / Penetration / Ambitious Card Theme / Sequences
Steve Beam	Out on a Limb	selection pushed in with arm is produced on fingertips	Also published here Out on a Limb (Steve Beam, The Trapdoor — Volume Three, 1994) also in: Out on a Limb (Steve Beam, Card Tricks After Hours, 2022)	6	Bill / Traveling / Miscellaneous
Steve Beam	Limb Lead-in	card vanishes on knee and appears back on deck	Also published here Limb Lead-In (Steve Beam, The Trapdoor — Volume Three, 1994)	7	Cards / Effect Themes / Traveling / Miscellaneous Cards / Sleights / Vanish / Rub-a-Dub-Dub
Don Morris	Prayer Production	hands held in prayer production and card is produced	Also published here Gebetsproduktion (Steve Beam, Card Magic To Go, 2016) also in: Prayer Production (Don Morris, 52, 2017)	8	Cards / Sleights / Pop-out Productions / Productions & Revelations without deck
Steve Beam	Opening Stab	prediction envelope inserted into a ribbon-spread pack, deck is shown to be in order and one card is missing where envelope was inserted, it contains the missing card	Also published here Opening Stab (Steve Beam, The Trapdoor — Volume Two, 1991) also in: Opening Stab (Steve Beam, Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 2, 1995) Related to Against all Odds (Darwin Ortiz, Cardshark, 1995) Orderly Conduct (Karl Fulves, Latter Day Secrets, 2001) … and 1 more Variations Falta de Información (Steve Beam, El Cardquistador, 2014) also in: Reopening Stab (Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 9, 2015) Reopening Stab (Tea Time With The Pasteboards, 2016) … and 1 more The Practical Opener (Helder Guimarães, Nephelococcygia, 2015) also in: Porto Opener (Secret Language — Volume 1*, 2019)	9	Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Only for Special Stacks / New Deck Order Cards / Effect Themes / Coincidence / Opening Stab (Night Life)
Steve Beam	Pleasant Under Glass	glass upside down on table, coin visually penetrates into glass from top	Also published here Pleasant Under Glass (Steve Beam, Steve Beam On Coins — Volume II, 1982)	9	Coin / Effect Themes / Penetration / Glass
Stephen Kradolfer	The Power Link		Also published here The Power Link (Stephen Kradolfer, The Trapdoor — Volume Two, 1990)	10	Rubber Band / Penetration / Through another Rubber Band
Scott Robinson	Robber Bands	one of two rubber bands vanishes	Also published here Robber Bands (Scott Robinson, The Trapdoor — Volume Two, 1991) Inspired by Elastic Illusion (Derek Dingle, The Chronicles, 1978) Elastic Illusion (Derek Dingle, The Complete Works of Derek Dingle, 1982)	12	Rubber Band / Vanish
Steve Beam	Silver Sequence	coin vanishes and reappears with handwashing sequence	Also published here Silver Sequence (Steve Beam, Steve Beam On Coins — Volume II, 1982)	13	Coin / Effect Themes / Appearance & Vanish with Reproduction Routines / Bare Handed Coin / Sleights / Palming / Change over Palms
Steve Beam	Middle Guage Spread	card spread on the table two cards turned over and value is used to count in the spread, both end on same card which turns out to be selection	Also published here Middle-Guage Spread (Steve Beam, The Trapdoor — Volume One, 1985) also in: Middle Guage Spread (Steve Beam, Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 2, 1995) Inspired by Divining Deck (Encyclopedia of Card Tricks, 1937) Related to Divining Deck (Encyclopedia of Card Tricks, 1937) The Trapdoor Issue #8 (Steve Beam, The Trapdoor — Volume One, 2011) … and 1 more	15	Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Face up Card is used to count down to selection Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / Numerical or Straight Stack / Partial

Data entered by Lorenz Schär, April 2020.

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