Price$4.95
Media TypeUtility Props
CategoryGeneral
Date AddedOct 23, 2009
The Lighter Leash
Nathan Kranzo
Kranzo Magic
(Based on 2 reviews)
What is the Lighter Leash?
As you can see in the photo it is a special rubber gripper attached to a REEL. The gripper will hold any small object that fits in it. You can vanish pretty much anything!
Years ago Mark Horowitz (Lee Asher's dad) gave me a lighter on a pull. I attached that to my belt loop and was surprised at how much fun it was to make the lighter vanish. Every time someone would pull out a smoke I would light their cigarette for them, and vanish the lighter. Anytime I would light a piece of flash paper, or anything, I would vanish the lighter. At first it was a throw away but I soon realized how strong it could be to vanish an object that was just a moment ago ON FIRE... and show your hands completely empty.
Then came this cool lighter reel!
This little gizmo was built for magicians and I've been using one to vanish lighters, coins, and other small object for a long time. You can vanish one, two, three, four, and even five half dollars!
It holds any standard bic style lighter that you will find in gas stations and convenience stores around the world. The device can also be used to vanish a number of small objects.
The special rubber gripper works like a dream to quickly vanish a handful of coins and just about anything that can fit inside!!!
Will vanish well over a dollars worth of loose change. Vanish it all -- or transform it into a dollar bill!
A silk or handkerchief...
The gripper will hold up to FIVE half dollars AND a shell! Perform some killer coin work and then vanish all of the coins! Ross Bertram would slay people with his this identical method.
Will vanish Sharpies, Pens, Pencils, etc.
If it fits...you can vanish it.
Ross Bertram fooled a room full of aristocrats while Dai Vernon looked on one evening. Vernon was fooled badly by what Ross did. Ross was surrounded by spectators and managed to vanish a handful of coins bare handed!!!
Vernon wouldn't leave him alone until he showed him the vanish. Vernon persisted and finally Ross took him in a corner to show him the method. When Ross showed Vernon his pull he scoffed and stormed away! Vernon was mad that he had been fooled by a pull!
Now you can fool them all as well!!!
Reviews
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There is an effect still on the market called 'thumb ablaze'. I purchased it awhile back from 'Magic Max'. What came with the effect was a kind of homemade version of the lighter leash. When I got it, I thought, ' I've seen lighters on pulls, which would be a cleaner way to do this trick.' Lo and behold, here is the lighter on a leash. It has a cousin I believe, who can be found at Office Depot, named 'Identity Card on a leash.' While these are relatively easy items to find, I'll guess that Kranzo's lighter Leash comes with some trick ideas-the one they sell at the Quicktrip, won't. Without giving too much away, I offer the description of 'thumb ablaze', again, available through Magic Max:
-Performer shows hands empty, pulls out a bandana, hands it out, also, empty.
Spectator takes one end of the bandana, performer the other, and this to cover the performers left hand, which has the thumb pointing up. Spectator is invited to touch the thumb through the cloth. Performer asks that a match be lit, and brought near his covered thumb. Once it is, a flame appears just above the performers covered thumb, and stays there while performer moves the cloth back and forth over his thumb. Finally, the right hand comes down, puts out the 'burning thumb', the cloth is removed, and all thats seen is the performers unharmed empty hands, and an innocent piece of clothe.
It's a spooky effect, and not something most people have seen in person, and 'lighter leash', is a definate enhancement to this effect.
-Performer shows hands empty, pulls out a bandana, hands it out, also, empty.
Spectator takes one end of the bandana, performer the other, and this to cover the performers left hand, which has the thumb pointing up. Spectator is invited to touch the thumb through the cloth. Performer asks that a match be lit, and brought near his covered thumb. Once it is, a flame appears just above the performers covered thumb, and stays there while performer moves the cloth back and forth over his thumb. Finally, the right hand comes down, puts out the 'burning thumb', the cloth is removed, and all thats seen is the performers unharmed empty hands, and an innocent piece of clothe.
It's a spooky effect, and not something most people have seen in person, and 'lighter leash', is a definate enhancement to this effect.
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A great device....put simply! While it will help you do all sorts of "magical" things.....it's also good at just keeping a lighter dangling handily inside your jacket. A rare item that really deserves 5 stars! By it straight from Kranzo magic.....they're cheap!!