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Featured Articles

 

• For all the home workshop magicians out there, be sure to check out: Best Black Art Material, Where to Get It, and How to Use It
• It may only take 1 to 2% extra effort and the payoff can be huge: Magicians: How to Provide Excellent Customer Service
• The controversial subject of protecting magical ideas covered in a very rational manner: Magic Patents - Protecting a Magical Idea
• Here’s a nice list of classic illusions with corresponding video links showing famous magicians and some not-so-famous magicians performing them: Classic Illusions - A List of the Great Illusions of All Time

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Magic Secrets Areas

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• Magic Patents – Be sure to check out that many patented illusions and apparatus, which are index in the magic patent area. There are links to the actual patents in PDF format so all is made very easy for you.
• Instruction Sheets – OK, have you lost the instruction sheet for you favorite trick? Try the Instruction Sheet Database. Please submit your own to fill out the database. Just launched this August so check it out.

 

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• Instruction Sheets - Be sure to check out this new area of the site which is designed to reunite lost instruction sheets with the props they describe.
• Video - Find classic footage of your favorite magician or trick in the video archives.