Steel Ball Through Pen by The Essel Magic Todd Carr as a toothpick triples in

as a toothpick triples in length

(Courtesy of Murphy's Magic Inc)

classics of magic

Schooled by the great sleight-of-hand artists he met in the entertainment business and by professional gamblers he met in his early years touring Australia

Steel Ball Through Pen by The Essel Magic Todd Carr as a toothpick triples inThis is a nice little trick which is very surprising to watch and there seems to be no way to make it happen. EFFECT: The performer shows a metal tube, a plastic pen and a tiny little steel ball. The tube has a hole which passes fromone side to another. The pen is pushed thru the hole so that it passes right thru the tube blocking the interior of the tube. The spectator is given the ball and asked to drop it into the tube. Quite naturally, it gets