Alex Lourido - Butter Coin
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00:00 [Music]
00:26 You made the right decision when you purchased Buttercoin, because take a look at this.
00:30 [Music]
00:34 [Music]
01:02 Hi folks, I'm Alex Lurito, the creator of Buttercoin.
01:06 Ladies and gentlemen, personally I'm a lover of coin magic.
01:10 I love coin magic, it's my favorite type of magic.
01:12 And when I perform these moves, I used to use two coins, okay?
01:16 I would have to either use a flipper coin or a traditional folding coin.
01:21 Now, I've always had issues with both of those coins.
01:25 The flipper coin I've had issues with because you have to do some dramatic, cumbersome moves.
01:29 When the coin is engaged and it looks like two coins, you're not able to flip it over, obviously, okay?
01:34 For obvious reasons.
01:36 And I no longer have a flipper coin to show you.
01:39 I would have showed you one, but I don't keep it in my arsenal anymore,
01:41 just because of the fact that I find it cumbersome and I've replaced it with the Buttercoin.
01:46 Now, a folding coin, a traditional folding coin, I keep one,
01:51 because I use it for what it was intended to be used for, coin and bottle, okay?
01:55 All of the other illusions that magicians have come up with throughout the years with folding coins,
02:00 like Bite and Restore Coin and all the other moves, were afterthoughts.
02:04 And considering the fact that the coin is cut into thirds so that it can enter a bottle,
02:09 kind of creates some serious weaknesses, okay?
02:13 There's some weak attributes to a folding coin, a traditional folding coin.
02:16 For example, you try to fold one of the thirds down, you can't completely conceal it.
02:20 As you can see, you can see some of that third sticking out.
02:22 No matter how you fold it, you will always see a portion of that coin.
02:26 No matter how you fold it, the other portion, you'll always see a portion of that coin, okay?
02:31 So you have to try to hide it.
02:33 I've actually bitten a coin in half, and before I could blow it back together,
02:36 someone said, "How did you fold that coin in half?"
02:38 They didn't see it, you know, I did it properly, but they said they saw a piece of the coin in the back there.
02:42 So, some serious weaknesses that we were able to overcome with Buttercoin.
02:48 Buttercoin, as you noticed, is cut only in one spot.
02:52 It's cut, and we did many, many variations when we were coming up with this illusion,
02:56 with this coin trick, and with this utility coin.
02:59 We cut it all different ways, and this is the one we came up with that worked the best.
03:04 The coin completely is hidden. It's invisible. It just completely hides there.
03:08 You see no portion of the coin when you fold it in half.
03:11 Look at that. And I would say that the coin's probably--
03:13 it's not cut so that it folds in half. That didn't work. We tried that.
03:17 It's cut so that about two-fifths of the coin disappears when you fold it there, okay?
03:23 And that worked out perfectly for all of the illusions that we're going to teach you today.
03:27 [music]
03:31 Okay, Dave, can you do me a favor and place your finger on one of these coins, please?
03:36 Just put your finger right on top. Okay, now do me a favor and pull that towards you, please.
03:40 That's your coin. Do me a favor and place some sort of identifying mark on the coin,
03:44 an initial, a picture, anything that you need to do so that you can identify that coin later.
03:50 Great. Wonderful. Okay, now one coin has been marked by you.
03:56 You know which coin you selected, correct?
03:59 The other coins have not been marked at all, correct? Okay.
04:02 We have three coins here. Now if I placed the coins face down, and if I was to mix them up,
04:07 you wouldn't know what coin was yours, would you?
04:09 No.
04:10 No, I mean it would be confusing, okay?
04:12 However, the coins know which coin is yours. They know which coin was actually signed, okay?
04:17 And if I stack these coins in a nice little pile, one on top of another like so, look at that, three coins.
04:23 Can you see those?
04:24 I can see them.
04:25 Okay, we have three coins in a nice stack here.
04:27 Watch what happens. Before your very eyes, watch this, Dave.
04:30 I'm going to make your coin and your coin only penetrate through the table.
04:34 Are you ready? Watch carefully. Watch. You're going to actually see it. Look.
04:37 [coin falls]
04:39 Look at that.
04:40 [laughs]
04:42 And it is your signed coin.
04:44 It's not an illusion. That coin was here. You saw three coins. One coin went through the table.
04:50 Okay, would you like to see that again?
04:51 Yes, I would.
04:52 Okay, watch.
04:53 One, two, three coins, because it knows. It knows that it was signed, and only that coin, and that coin only, will go through the table.
05:05 Watch. Before your very eyes, solid table, here it goes. One, two, three.
05:09 [coin falls]
05:10 Just like that.
05:11 [laughs]
05:13 And it is your signed coin.
05:15 That, my friend, is signed coin through table.
05:19 Okay, folks, that was coin through table. Signed coin through table.
05:27 It's a beautiful, beautiful move. I love that move.
05:30 I carry these coins with me, and it requires the use of two normal coins, un-gimmicked coins, or here they are, un-gimmicked coins.
05:38 A marker. I use a permanent marker, but you can use a piece of tape or something, you know, other than a marker to identify the coins, if you wish.
05:47 And your butter coin. I have the three coins. When I prepare to do this illusion, I place the butter coin on top of the other coins.
05:54 And what I do is I always have them facing tails up, okay, because you want them all facing one direction.
06:00 I do tails up, starting out. And I say, "Do me a favor. We have three coins here."
06:04 Now, the key is to control the butter coin to know where it is, okay?
06:09 You don't want to get lost and accidentally have them select the butter coin.
06:12 They pick it up, it folds with their finger, and they realize, "Hey, it's a trick coin," and the illusion is ruined.
06:18 So that's why I place it on top, and I know exactly where it is, and I slide the coins out,
06:22 and I create the illusion that the spectator has the option of a free selection here, when in reality, they don't.
06:29 They have the free selection between these two coins. I could care less out of the real coins, which ones they select.
06:34 That's why I place it on the top of the stack. I throw the three coins down. Now it's over here, towards my right, your left.
06:39 And I say, "Do me a favor. Place your finger on one of the coins, any of the coins."
06:44 When they put their finger on this coin or this coin, which are real, I say, "Great. Pull it towards you."
06:50 They've selected their coin. If they, once in a while, they'll put their finger here on butter coin, I say, "Wonderful.
06:57 Push it towards me, and also push another coin towards me. Whatever's left will be your coin."
07:01 They do that. They select that coin. Okay? So you create the illusion that they have a free selection,
07:07 when in fact, you're forcing them to pick from two coins, and you don't want them to select butter coin. Okay?
07:13 Now, my cameraman selected that coin. I said, "Wonderful. Place some sort of identifying mark on it,
07:18 your initials, a picture, anything, so that you can identify the coin later."
07:21 They do whatever they do. You receive the coin back. I say, "Wonderful."
07:25 I say, "You notice that these coins, only one is signed. You signed one coin, one coin only, correct?"
07:32 They say, "Yes." I say, "If we were to mix the coins up, you know, you wouldn't know which one was yours. Okay?"
07:37 However, the coin always knows the coin that was signed. Now, this is critical here, folks.
07:43 You want to learn how to position butter coin for the following move. If you don't, it will lock you out.
07:52 I call it locking out, because if it's positioned incorrectly, it won't fold. Okay?
07:57 This coin is cut in a way that if you go to push it, and it's not lined up properly, as I stated, it won't fold.
08:05 So, it folds very easily when it's in the proper position. Okay?
08:08 And it's machined so, so, so nicely that there's really no gap there. So, there's very little forgiveness.
08:15 So, you make sure you hold the coin properly.
08:17 The way you hold the coin, with all the butter coins, is you want to hold it on an angle.
08:22 You want the point of the neck here to be touching your middle finger or your index finger, depending on how you want to hold the coin.
08:28 Okay? And you want to, you want the back of the head to be touching the thumb here.
08:33 Do you notice that? The "R" from liberty, kind of touching the thumb, and the point of the neck making the contact here, on your middle finger or index finger.
08:42 Okay? And the reason for that is the coin will lock you out. It won't fold properly.
08:45 It won't fold if you don't hold it this way.
08:48 If you hold it this way, for example, look, when you go to do the special fold move, which I'll show you in a second, it won't work.
08:54 It'll actually, the rubber band will break, okay, as you saw there, it was about to snap, if you try to do that, if you don't hold the coin properly.
09:00 So, hold the coin properly.
09:02 Now, I position the coin, when I place the coins down, and I do this, you know, I say, "One coin is signed."
09:07 I make sure I get it in position, because you don't want to pick it up, and you don't want to have to be spinning the coin around to get it in position.
09:11 It looks suspicious.
09:13 So, I have the coin so that the point of the neck is facing the spectators, and it's ready for me to hold it in the proper position.
09:19 Come up here, I slide it towards me, slide all the coins towards you, so that, you know, when you lap the last coin, you didn't do anything out of the ordinary.
09:27 And I say, "Look, three coins, folks. Coin one, coin two."
09:30 And that's when I do the special move here.
09:33 So, hold the coin, and what you're going to do is, you're going to do a move where you actually, under the cover of the coin, you're going to do this with your thumb.
09:42 Okay, without the, let's say the coin's there, for demonstration purposes, you come up, and you do that with the thumb, with the thumb here.
09:50 Okay, the thumb's coming up, it's pushing it up under cover of the coin, and you drop the coin down, and you slide it down, not revealing that portion yet.
09:58 Okay, you do that when you want to create the third coin.
10:01 Okay, so it looks like that.
10:03 Look at that, look how convincing that is. That's beautiful.
10:06 Okay, you try to do this with a traditional folding coin, you run into a lot of issues.
10:11 Traditional folding coin, which I have right here, you try to do this move.
10:16 You can do it, but look, you can only show a very small, and you're fighting the coin, you're fighting the coin.
10:23 There's such a small portion there, you've got to squeeze it and look at that.
10:26 You can only show a very tiny portion. You go any further, look, there's no way to do it.
10:30 There's no way to, so that's the issue, and you've got to be careful that you don't fold this portion.
10:34 I've had that fold on me, and people have seen it.
10:36 So, that's why butter coin is superior.
10:39 It's superior in the sense that a larger portion of the coin is seen.
10:43 Okay, when you come in, you say, and coin three, and even close up, look at that, with the camera this close, and I come in and say, coin three here.
10:49 You saw nothing.
10:50 Coin one, coin two, when you come for coin three and you go to pick it up, you're actually just simply dropping it in the lap, okay?
10:56 You're doing a lapping move here.
10:58 Okay, you actually have nothing.
10:59 You just dropped it, and I keep my legs closed, okay?
11:02 Keep my legs closed tightly so it doesn't hit, fall and hit the floor or the chair.
11:05 And I come in, and you just saw up there, I'm trying to let you see what I'm doing here, for those of you who aren't familiar with lapping.
11:11 Lapping's incredible.
11:12 It's a wonderful, wonderful way to get rid of things, okay?
11:15 That's all you're doing.
11:16 You're just sliding it, and you, you know, it looks like I just picked it up, and when I come here, do that, and I slide it down.
11:22 That's all it is.
11:23 You're coming in, and you're sliding it down.
11:25 Now it appears that you have three coins in the hand.
11:27 Look how gorgeous that looks.
11:28 You have a large portion of a coin there, okay?
11:31 Show your hand empty.
11:32 You say, now when I drop these coins, folks, before your very eyes, this coin's going to cut through the table.
11:37 And when you come in, you don't want to immediately go down and grab that coin.
11:41 You want to go in, and you want to say, watch, folks, right here is where the miracle's going to occur.
11:46 When I drop this coin, and as I'm saying that, then I kind of, without moving the upper portion of the arm, I just come in, and I pick up the coin from my lap,
11:53 because you do want it in your hand so that you can bang the table.
11:57 And I do this.
11:58 I drop, bang the table, and I say, whoa, folks, that was not an illusion.
12:03 You actually saw that coin cut right through the table.
12:06 And I do that, and I show, and it is, in fact, your signed coin.
12:09 Would you like to see that again?
12:10 This illusion is so powerful, and it's so safe that you can perform it again.
12:14 You know, as magicians, we're taught, you know, most illusions you can't perform more than once, because people start to, they start to catch on to things.
12:21 I know this might sound strange, Dave, but personally, I can't stand it when a magician performs coin magic with filthy coins.
12:30 There's no excuse for it.
12:31 It doesn't take much to clean your coins.
12:34 Before every performance, just simply rub the oils and dirt off the coin with a shirt or with a cloth.
12:40 If you have a nice white shirt on, you don't want to get it dirty.
12:42 But it doesn't take much, okay, just a little bit of wiping before each illusion.
12:46 But you don't want to rub too long, because you can damage the coin.
12:48 Look, watch.
12:50 See that? See what's happening, Dave?
12:52 Look at that.
12:53 That's actually, that's not an illusion.
12:55 Look, it's actually rubbing the coin away.
12:57 Look at that.
12:58 I mean, you can get away with doing that once or twice, because after that, the coin gets too thin.
13:01 But you can actually pull some of the metal down here.
13:03 Look at that.
13:04 Watch.
13:05 I'm pulling that metal down.
13:06 Look.
13:07 See that?
13:09 That's a real coin.
13:11 Come here.
13:12 Look.
13:13 You want to examine it?
13:14 You can look at it.
13:15 It's a normal coin.
13:16 Look.
13:17 Okay, folks, you just saw me perform rub-away coin with the butter coin.
13:22 You can't do this with a normal folding coin.
13:24 You know, give it a shot if you want to try, but it's just way too cumbersome.
13:28 And as I stated, when you fold the folding coin, a portion of it can be seen, and they can tell that the coin's been folded.
13:33 Butter coin's been designed so that you can fold it.
13:36 It's 100% convincing.
13:38 When you perform this, you're going to need two coins.
13:40 You're going to need your butter coin, and you're going to need a normal, ungimmicked 50-cent piece that I like to keep tail side up in the right hand, finger palmed, like so.
13:50 And I begin with the coin head side up.
13:52 And I say, "You know," and I go through my patter, and I say, "You notice, I might be a pet peeve or something,
13:57 but I hate when magicians perform coin magic with filthy coins.
14:00 There's no excuse for it.
14:01 It doesn't take very long to clean a coin."
14:03 That's when I come up here, and this is absolutely wonderful.
14:06 I love rub-away coin, and as you notice, if you've purchased any of the rub-away coins on the market, you receive your coin like this.
14:11 It's not a folding coin.
14:12 It's a coin that's actually been cut, and you have to switch the coin, and you have to somehow, you know, rub the coin away.
14:19 And usually, it's both sides that have been removed, and it's just--it's very cumbersome, very difficult.
14:23 Now you can do it with 100% convincing, unawkward moves, and it just looks wonderful.
14:30 And I'm going to show you how to do that now.
14:32 You can use a silk.
14:34 You can use a piece of cloth when you do it.
14:36 I like to use my shirt.
14:38 I just think, you know, when I perform it, I come in here, and I go under the shirt, and as I stated,
14:42 you have the coin in position so that you can grab it, and now it's in position to fold, okay?
14:46 It's all ready to go.
14:47 You don't want to be spinning the coin and getting it in position.
14:49 So when you place it down, place it so that the top of the head's facing you and the neck's facing them, and it's ready to go.
14:55 I say, you know, there's no excuse for it.
14:56 I go through my pattern.
14:57 I grab the coin, get it in position.
14:59 I say it doesn't take very long.
15:00 I come under the shirt.
15:02 I always allow some of the coin to be revealed as I'm rubbing, okay, because I want them to see that I'm not switching the coin out.
15:08 As I spin it over for the tail side, I come in.
15:11 What I do is under the shirt, I come in, and I actually come in first, and then under cover, I fold it under with the middle finger.
15:18 And I'll show you what I mean.
15:19 Okay, now it's already folded.
15:20 Look at that.
15:21 What I do is I come in, and just imagine my hand's under the shirt.
15:24 I come up, and as I come up and I start polishing the tail side, with the middle finger, I flip it open like that, and I pinch it with the thumb and the index finger.
15:33 Look at that.
15:34 That's what's wonderful with the Butter Coin.
15:35 You completely--you see none of the folding portion of the coin.
15:40 You can't see any of it.
15:41 Look at that, okay?
15:42 So, under cover, once again, I come up.
15:44 When I reach the tail side, you know, rub here, rub here, turn it over.
15:49 I start rubbing the tail side as I flip it under the cover of the shirt, and then I slowly start to reveal with the shirt the rub away portion.
15:58 And so look at that.
15:59 I mean, you can get away with doing this once or twice before you totally damage the coin because you can.
16:03 There is enough excess metal in the coin that you can rub it down.
16:06 And I start doing this, and then when I come back up to do my special move to release it, you don't want to listen to that.
16:11 You can hear that, and the spectators might hear it, okay?
16:14 You can hear that, especially when it hits the hands.
16:16 So what I do is when I come to the part where I need to, I do once or twice, and I come up here,
16:20 and I actually put the openings of my finger in line with the incision here, and I come up.
16:26 And what I do under cover is I'm actually--when I come up here, I do this.
16:32 I come up, and I put my middle finger down past the coin, and I actually let it come and hit the middle finger,
16:38 and I slowly bring it up as I rub down and reveal the coin.
16:41 So it looks like this.
16:42 Look, I come in, and I go like this, and you actually can't even hear anything, okay?
16:46 There's a mic right here under the coin, so you might be able to hear a little bit, but they're not hearing it, you know,
16:51 especially if you're doing--you're releasing it with the middle finger slowly.
16:54 Look at that.
16:55 Say I'm talking, they can't hear anything, and I kind of pull my fingers off, and I do that.
16:58 You don't want to do that.
16:59 I just do that, and actually I'm not even touching it very lightly.
17:02 And I go, "Look at that, folks," you know?
17:04 And that's a normal coin, ladies and gentlemen.
17:06 You can look at both sides of the coin.
17:08 See what I did?
17:09 I put it in the hand, head side up, and then I just did a shuttle pass, and I switched it out with a real coin
17:14 because they're definitely going to want to see the coin, okay?
17:17 So I say, "Look at that."
17:18 I mean, it's a real coin I did that with, and as I hand it to them, all the attention is on this coin.
17:23 If you're sitting, you can just simply lap the coin.
17:25 You can drop it, come up, and I like to do that.
17:28 [music playing]
17:31 I'm sorry, I know this sounds weird, but I love my coins, and I don't like to show favoritism.
17:37 Which one should I use?
17:39 You know what? Let me let the coins decide.
17:40 What do you say about that?
17:41 Okay, we'll take the coins.
17:42 We'll stack them, one on top of another, okay?
17:45 We have three coins here.
17:46 One, two, three coins.
17:49 Watch what happens.
17:50 This is interesting.
17:51 We stack all three on top of each other.
17:53 Watch what happens when I take those coins, and before your very eyes, I drop them.
17:56 Three coins right in the hand.
17:58 One coin jumps across magically into the other hand.
18:01 So I guess we'll use this one.
18:02 Thank you, fellas.
18:03 [music playing]
18:06 Okay, folks, what you just witnessed was a very, very nice, little, interesting, clean move
18:11 that's taught by Troy Hooser in his Total Destruction DVD set, okay?
18:16 He teaches that move with a flipper coin, however.
18:20 I think it's much more difficult.
18:22 It's more cumbersome.
18:23 You've got to come in.
18:24 I don't think it's as clean and as nice as when you perform it with a butter coin.
18:29 And this is how you do that move with a butter coin.
18:31 And I like to perform that move when I want to select a coin and go into my coin routine.
18:36 When I do coin flourish and I go from--you know, at the end, I rob and I go to the large coin, jumbo coin at the end.
18:42 I think that looks really nice, okay?
18:44 And it's just, you know, you're selecting a coin in a nice, little, offbeat way
18:49 as opposed to just grabbing a coin and saying, "Watch this," and, like, starting your whole coin flourish thing to jumbo coin.
18:54 And this is how it's done.
18:56 You have your three coins, okay?
18:58 You have your butter coin on top and with the head facing you and the neck facing towards the spectators, again,
19:03 so it's right in position, and you throw the coins down like so.
19:06 And I pick up after I go through my patter.
19:09 I get the coin in position, butter coin, okay?
19:12 I come up.
19:13 Each coin I show in the center of the hand, okay, so it doesn't look awkward, you know,
19:16 and obviously I'm doing the move where I push it up with the thumb, okay?
19:19 And it looks like that, nice and fast, okay?
19:21 You don't want to slide too much of the coin down.
19:23 You will see--you'll reveal that portion, so you want it about right there.
19:26 And you'll get good, you know, you'll get good.
19:28 You'll do it like that before you know it.
19:30 It's just--it's second nature.
19:32 Then coming with your third coin, what I do is I palm the third coin.
19:35 As I come across, it appears as if I'm placing it on top, and I hit the coins to make that click sound.
19:41 And that's actually the folding portion hitting the coin.
19:45 It just sounds convincing that you're placing that coin, that third coin, on top of these coins.
19:49 And as I hit, I slide it down, and I reveal the folding portion.
19:54 And now, once again, you have a perfect, perfect illusion of three coins, okay?
19:59 I say, "Watch this."
20:00 When I say, "Watch this," I kind of come up, and I drop the coin from the palm position to the finger palm position,
20:08 and I say, "Watch this."
20:09 Now, without saying, you're showing your hands empty.
20:11 Without saying, "Look, my hands are empty," okay, I say, "Watch this."
20:13 When I take the coins--and obviously, the coins are in the finger palm position here, okay?
20:17 So, once again, you take the third coin, palm it, slide this down, show three coins,
20:24 and I come up and I touch them, drop it into the finger palm position.
20:28 I say, "Watch this."
20:29 When I drop these coins into the hand, one of them instantly--what I'm doing is I'm just simply--as I'm dropping,
20:35 this thumb pushes the other coin down to reveal it almost simultaneously.
20:40 I guess we'll use that one, then.
20:42 I say, "Thank you. Watch this."
20:43 And then I go into my entire coin routine where I vanish, reappear the coin.
20:48 I keep doing it four or five times, two jumbo coin, in the end, where I have the jumbo coin palmed, okay?
20:54 And I come across, and I rub the coin, and I reveal the large coin, okay?
20:58 My cameraman's laughing over there.
20:59 You want to see something interesting, Dave?
21:06 Obviously, everyone's familiar with the concept that every coin is two sides, you know, tails and heads.
21:11 However, most people aren't aware of something very simple, and that is a true magician can alter the properties of any coin.
21:18 No, I'm serious. Watch. Look.
21:20 It looks kind of weird and strange.
21:21 Watch this. Watch.
21:22 Watch. Look, look, look, look.
21:30 Just like that, the coin's completely--you can even look at it.
21:34 It's totally restored. Look at that coin.
21:40 All right, folks. That was bite and restore coin.
21:43 Most magicians perform that.
21:45 It's been popularized by David Blaine in his special, and it's been around for years, and I've always performed it.
21:51 And to be honest with you, that's what I used my folding coin, my traditional folding coin for,
21:56 and I always carried it around just so that I can bite and restore someone's coin.
21:59 Well, with butter coin, you can do it, and you can do it--it's cleaner, it's more effective, it's easier and less cumbersome,
22:05 because this wasn't intended for that.
22:07 The butter coin is intended for these tricks, okay?
22:09 When you fold it, it's completely gone, and this is how we do it.
22:13 What I do is I take butter coin, and I like to put it so that it's facing heads up,
22:17 so when I lift it up to bite it, the tail side's facing out.
22:20 The very busy tail side of the coin is facing the spectator.
22:23 And I start with the butter coin in my left hand, and I have a real coin, a normal 50-cent piece, in the right.
22:30 I hand them the coin first, usually.
22:31 I say, "Check that out."
22:32 They look at it, and I say, "You want to see something interesting?"
22:34 Most people aren't aware--they're aware of the fact that every coin has two sides,
22:37 and I show that tail side, I say, "It has two sides," and I just do that.
22:41 What I did was, obviously, I did the shuttle pass, where I just simply trapped it in the finger palm position,
22:48 and now I just switched it with the butter coin.
22:51 Now, when you get to this part, what you're doing is--it's the same move that you do with the traditional coin, obviously.
22:56 However, it's just a lot easier.
22:58 You have--instead of trying to grab the center of the coin, you can grab the entire 3/5 of the coin down here.
23:03 You have all of that.
23:04 You can grab it with confidence and hold it.
23:06 You come in.
23:07 You want to bend your head down, and the bottom lip pushes.
23:10 I use the bottom lip right here, and I push down with the bottom lip, and I'm doing that.
23:15 Now, you don't want to do this because, look, that's obvious.
23:17 So I bend my head down.
23:18 I say, "No, no, I'm serious. Watch this."
23:20 I come in, and I don't want to put the whole coin in the mouth.
23:22 You don't want them to think you switched it.
23:24 So I go, "Mm, watch, mm."
23:26 And I do that, and now it's already bent down.
23:27 Say, "Look."
23:28 I go, "Mm, mm. Mm, watch, look. Look at that."
23:31 And I set that, and I let them see the teeth, and I do that, and it looks 100% convincing.
23:36 What you do want to be careful of is, with the traditional coin, you would normally fold it completely.
23:42 You don't want to do that with this because you don't have a lot of surface area back here to slide your finger down like you do.
23:48 What you want to do is, and it's actually an easier move, what you do is, when you do the coin, you fold the coin,
23:53 you're actually going to trap it right about there.
23:56 So when you want to release it, you're just going to do that with your thumb.
23:58 You bend your thumb back, and the coin will release every time just right.
24:01 Look. Mm. Look. Mm.
24:03 Oh, it's serious. Look.
24:05 Just like that.
24:06 And I like to go forward as I bend the thumb back.
24:09 And the thumb, when it bends back, as long as it's not folded completely, they can't see that.
24:14 Look. Look how convincing that looks.
24:15 When I release it, when I bend the thumb back a little bit, you can't even tell.
24:18 It's just a slight movement, so it goes off exactly when I want it to.
24:22 I just do that, and it pops open, and it just, mm.
24:26 And I do one of those, and I go, look at that.
24:29 It's completely restored.
24:31 And I do my shuttle pass.
24:32 I switch it for the normal coin, and I hand it to them.
24:35 You have plenty of time to either classic palm the butter coin if you're standing up, or to lap it if you're sitting.
24:41 Watch this.
24:46 Three coins, and we're going to try to do something interesting here.
24:49 We're going to actually take the coins and stack the coins one on top of the other.
24:54 Okay, watch. One, two, three coins.
24:57 And watch what happens, ladies and gentlemen.
24:59 When we take these coins and we actually drop them, one instantly jumps across to the other hand.
25:06 Did you see that?
25:07 That was not an illusion.
25:08 That actually happened.
25:09 Okay, one coin jumps across out of the three.
25:12 Okay, watch.
25:13 We'll try it again.
25:14 This time, we'll take two coins here, one coin here.
25:18 Watch what happens, ladies and gentlemen.
25:19 Look, when we drop these coins, look.
25:21 Just like that, we now have two coins here and one coin here.
25:26 So we basically have made two coins out of the three jump across.
25:29 Watch. We'll do it one last time.
25:31 We'll take two coins here, one coin here, and watch, folks, on the count of three.
25:37 One, two, three.
25:39 And just like that, ladies and gentlemen, we have three coins that have went from one hand to the other one by one.
25:46 And you can examine those if you want, Dave.
25:49 All right, folks, that is a nice little sequence that's actually taught by Troy Hoosier in his DVD set.
25:57 He utilizes a flipper coin, but I like to perform it with the butter coin because I think it's a lot easier.
26:03 And this is how we do it.
26:05 What we're going to do is we take three coins.
26:07 Two of the coins, once again, are real coins, okay, un-gimmicked coins, loose coins.
26:13 And then we have the butter coin.
26:14 I like to place the butter coin on top and orient it so that it is actually ready to do the fold move, okay?
26:21 Remember, with the back of the head facing me and the neck, the point of the neck facing the spectators.
26:25 And I say, "Watch this."
26:27 You know, that's all you need, you know, whatever pattern you feel is necessary to get to the point.
26:32 And I just say, "I'm going to do something interesting.
26:34 I am going to take the coins, and I'm going to stack them one on top of another."
26:37 Now, you can hold the coin with the thumb and the middle finger like I do, or you can hold it like this, okay?
26:43 This is the way Troy Hoosier teaches it with a flipper coin.
26:46 Okay, so you grab the coin.
26:47 You hold coin one, which is the butter coin.
26:50 Come in.
26:51 You show coin two, okay?
26:52 And you actually stack it there, and you do your fold move where you fold that piece down like so.
26:57 And you show it, and it looks convincing like two coins, okay?
26:59 You have to remember the camera is not as good as the human eye.
27:02 A human eye would see this from a great distance, okay?
27:05 And then the third coin you grab, and you show it again.
27:07 But this time, you actually palm the coin once again.
27:10 Come in, put it here, slide this one down, and it appears as if you have three coins.
27:15 Look how beautiful that looks.
27:16 It's so convincing.
27:17 You say, "Watch this."
27:18 Now, I have that coin palmed.
27:19 I come up, okay, once again, and I point at it.
27:22 Now, it's in the finger palm position.
27:24 When I drop it, I reveal the coin, okay?
27:27 And we broke that down.
27:28 Remember, we slide it down with the thumb.
27:29 We say, "Look at that.
27:30 That's one coin that jumped across, okay?"
27:32 Now, what I do here is I like to throw the coins across, and I separate them so that now the butter coin is down here, okay?
27:39 I'm going to be ready for the next move.
27:41 When I throw them into the other hand, I'm actually going to press on this coin so that I can palm it and no other coin.
27:47 If you try to just do that, sometimes you grab the other coin.
27:49 So I just go, "Look at this.
27:50 We have three coins," and I do that.
27:52 Now, I have two coins, and I have a normal coin here.
27:55 The butter coin is now down here.
27:57 I slide it up, and I just simply fold it in half.
28:00 That's all we're doing.
28:01 Look at that.
28:02 We're folding it in half, and you can't even see that under the cover.
28:05 Look.
28:06 It looks like I have two coins now.
28:07 Look at that.
28:08 You can't even see.
28:09 There's no awkward moves of trying to flip a flipper coin open and what have you.
28:12 You just come in, and there you have it.
28:13 You have two coins, one coin.
28:15 Watch this, folks.
28:16 When I drop the coins, two, one, just like that, they switch places.
28:19 And now we have another coin over here, and we have one coin here, okay?
28:23 Isn't that interesting?
28:24 Now, what I do is when I come across here, I actually do one of two things.
28:29 If I feel like doing this and doing the full routine that Troy Hoosier teaches, where the final coin is tossed into the other hand by simply doing that,
28:37 and you're just finger-palming it when you throw it, you're doing this.
28:41 Let me see if I can get this angle properly for you.
28:43 You're doing that, and look how nice that looks.
28:45 It's actually just going into the finger-palm position, okay?
28:49 And you're holding your hand in a position so that if you were doing it like this, it's obvious.
28:53 But to the spectator, they would think the coin would fall if you tried to do this with the hand in the position that it's in.
28:59 But you're actually just throwing it down and finger-palming it.
29:02 And I don't know how to whistle, so personally, I make my own sound effect.
29:05 I go, "Ooo," and I can do that.
29:07 It's a freakish little thing that I can do with my mouth.
29:10 And I just go, "Ooo," and I let the two drop.
29:13 Now, the way I get a third coin here, if I want to do that for the final move, okay, for the third and final move,
29:18 remember the first move is you drop the coins, and you have one coin here, okay?
29:22 You throw them across, and you show the coins.
29:24 You actually get the butter coin in position here, toss them over.
29:27 You say, "Watch this. We'll do it again."
29:28 Two coins here, one coin here.
29:30 Looks like these coins are stacked.
29:31 You drop them.
29:32 Now you have two coins here.
29:34 And then what I do is I do that.
29:36 I say, "We started," and I drop the arm.
29:37 I say, "We have three coins, folks. So far, two jumped across."
29:41 When I lower the hand, what I do is--that's why I have my business jacket on.
29:44 You don't want a baggy sweater.
29:46 If you have a business shirt on, it'll work.
29:48 And what you're doing is you're just sleeving.
29:49 You drop the coin there as you're performing.
29:51 Don't lower the hand dramatically, or the coin will fall out.
29:54 But you can perform all the moves, and when you get to the point where you need to get rid of the third coin,
29:57 I lower this hand.
29:58 I say, "Three coins, folks. Two jumped across. Watch."
30:02 So I'm fanning the coins out.
30:04 I lower the hand, and now I have the other coin palmed, okay?
30:07 And it just--what it does is--here, let me drop it back in there.
30:09 What it does is when I lower the hand, it's just simply falling out into the palm position.
30:15 And now it's there.
30:16 Now I palm it as I come up, and now it's here.
30:19 So I sleeved it. I let it drop, and it dropped into the palm position.
30:22 I come up. I take two coins.
30:24 But what I do, which is beautiful with this move, is I actually--I'm sorry.
30:27 Drop that.
30:28 I actually like to grab the butter coin and bring it over, like so.
30:32 That way, I could totally get rid of all of my, you know, my false coin here, the gimmicked coin.
30:37 When I do this, and I drop it, I say, "Look, folks. Three coins. Before you very eyes."
30:41 And I palm it as I do that.
30:43 And look, there it is.
30:44 And I wave over the three coins, and I say, "Look at that, folks. You can examine these coins."
30:47 If I'm sitting, you know, I'll lap it, but generally I'll just leave it in the palm position.
30:51 And they're just so stunned, and I hand it to them.
30:54 And just the fact that you're handing the coins out, people immediately think, "Okay. There's nothing wrong with the coins."
30:59 They're obviously normal coins if he's offering to hand them out.
31:02 Three coins, one of which is signed.
31:09 Watch this.
31:11 Coin one.
31:13 Coin two.
31:15 And, yes, coin three stacked, one on top of the other.
31:20 A solid glass table.
31:21 Watch what happens. Before your very eyes, when I drop the coin, one of them completely cuts through the glass table.
31:29 Watch this, folks. Before your very eyes, when I drop the coin, one coin, one coin only, cuts completely through the glass.
31:40 Okay, folks. That was signed coin through glass table.
31:47 Very, very interesting. Very unique and very visual.
31:50 When I came up with this effect, I thought, "Wouldn't it be interesting to make a coin go through a solid table?"
31:55 Okay?
31:56 And it's very visual, as you can see.
31:58 And people just go insane because they realize, "Hey, he did it with a glass table where I saw nothing in his hand.
32:04 All of a sudden, a coin appears in his hand."
32:06 And this is how it works.
32:07 Obviously, you're going to use the same, same movements and technique as you use for coins through table.
32:13 However, when you get to the part where you have to make that third coin, that signed coin go through the table, you're going to do something a little different here.
32:22 When you palm it, everything's the same.
32:24 You have it palmed, so you can open your fingers, showing that, you know, that there's nothing in the hand.
32:29 Do that, and then when you knock on the solid glass table, when you're coming back up, you let it drop into the finger palm position here.
32:35 Okay?
32:36 You do that.
32:37 Immediately come under the table.
32:39 When you come under, I roll right about here, and I don't do it slowly, you know, because I don't want to flash that coin there.
32:46 So I come in, roll it, you know, not sure.
32:48 I can just come in as you're moving, and there you are.
32:50 Now you have it in the finger palm position.
32:52 You're not doing that.
32:53 You're keeping it as open as possible without revealing the coin.
32:56 Come up.
32:57 Say, "Watch this, folks.
32:58 You don't want to spend a lot of time here because people will remember the position of your hand.
33:02 They'll remember that the fingers were not completely open."
33:05 So I've learned to do this now, and it always works.
33:09 I've never had someone say, "Wait a minute.
33:10 Your hand wasn't completely open."
33:11 So I get to this part.
33:12 I go, "And three coins, solid table," drop it into the finger palm position, "come under, rotate it, and then say, 'Watch,' right before your eyes."
33:20 And then what I do is I drop the coins, and I just simply move forward a jerky movement.
33:26 Move forward as I open my fingers.
33:27 Not like that because that's obvious, but I do open them about there.
33:31 Okay?
33:32 So the camera's directly underneath the glass, but when someone's standing in a normal position, they'll see it like this.
33:39 Okay?
33:40 So what I do is I simply move forward.
33:42 As I open my fingers up a little bit, it forces the coin to fall over and roll down into the center of the palm.
33:48 And they're staring at these coins to see what happens.
33:51 All of a sudden, their eyes focus on the fact that there's a coin in your hand, and I just sit there and allow them to absorb it for a second.
33:58 As I show my other hand empty, and I say, "Yes, folks," and it is.
34:00 And I stay there.
34:02 I say, "Through the solid table," and yes, folks, it is.
34:05 Your signed coin.
34:07 Well, folks, that brings us to the conclusion of our instructional video for ButterCoin.
34:13 I hope that we were able to convey to everyone all of the wonderful uses that you're going to have with this coin.
34:18 It does so much.
34:19 It's so versatile.
34:20 It's so user-friendly, and it's very simple to use.
34:23 And I think you're going to love this coin.
34:25 If you love coin magic and you love to perform illusions with folding coins and with the flipper coin, you're going to fall in love with this coin because it's so easy to use, and it's so visual, and it's so effective.
34:36 Okay?
34:37 So carry your coin.
34:38 Use it.
34:39 Practice it.
34:40 And, you know what, come up with new effects because I'm sure there's a lot more that can be done with this besides the four or five tricks that I was able to show you today.
34:46 All right?
34:47 A wise man once said to me, "With every hello, there's a goodbye."
34:51 So, folks, we've reached that time where it's time to say goodbye.
34:55 Have a good one, and thank you.
34:57 I'm hungry.
34:59 [music]
35:08 Spit. Spit. Spit.
35:10 [music]
35:12 Oh, dude, I swallowed it.
35:14 I really swallowed it that time.
35:16 [laughter]
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