What Does It Take to be a Mentalist?   Now, there’s a question.  This is something that a lot of the younger magicians ask my fellow mentalists and me.  We try to answer the question the best that we know how, but the answers never seem to be said correctly and as it should be.  The young magicians find it hard to follow or understand what we try to say.  We have pondered, considered and brainstormed this question and it is hard to understand.  We have tried to put it in a recipe form, a scientific equation, and even in a formula; nothing seems to make a dent in the process.  After, many years of thinking and many man-hours of struggling with the question, I am attempting to formulate a universal answer or at least a start to the answer.

This is the second installment of repairing your own magic props.  I think I forgot to mention in volume 1 that I do have a lot of experience in repairing, refinishing, refurbishing, and building magic props.  I have a little over 40 years of doing the repairs, building, and etc. on magic props.  My father was a master wood worker and an Industrial Arts professor.  I learned from him and he was my building partner and consultant for years.