Vegetable cutter. Effective trick and its solution

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Two small oval plywood shields with three through holes are fixed in the stand, between which a sharply ground knife slides up and down (Fig. a).

Focus Vegetable Cutter
а

Insert a cucumber into the two extreme holes of such a kind of "vegetable cutter". Lower the knife handle down and the cut vegetables will scatter to the sides. Insert another cucumber (or some other oblong vegetable) into the middle hole and lift the knife from the bottom up. The vegetable will also break into two separate parts.

When in this way you show the audience how the "vegetable cutter" works, then once again insert the cucumber into the extreme holes, raising the knife handle up, and in the middle either your fingers or the finger of the invited viewer. And just like the first time, lower the knife handle down. Before the eyes of the audience, the vegetables will be cut, and the finger between them will remain unharmed!

Focus secret:

A knife sliding inside between shields up and down, only from the outside seems to be the most common. In fact, its blade inside in the central part has the shape of a deep spherical bend (Fig.), Which allows the finger to remain unharmed.

During the movement of the knife through the middle hole, when nothing is inserted into it, the void is not visible, since along this part of the knife there passes a piece of the same blade fixed on the hinge, directed by the cutting part upwards (Fig.). Its other part, not fixed by a hinge, easily rises up relative to the bend itself in the middle part, but when it returns to its original position, it is fixed by a small bracket protruding from the bottom of the main knife. The same bracket, if you raise the knife from the bottom up, allows you to cut any vegetable inserted into the middle hole with the movable part of the knife.

The end of the combined knife opposite the handle is also hinged in the lower corner of both shields. The main part of the space between the shields (to hide the device from the eyes of the audience) is bordered by some strip of thin sheet metal. Only that side of it remains open, where the knife slides. In addition, this sheet strip, in turn, fixes the bend, preventing it from coming out from above.

In the final part of the trick, lift the knife by the handle up, cutting the cucumber inserted into the middle hole (Fig. b).

Focus Vegetable Cutter
Fig.b

Insert whole vegetables into the extreme holes (the top vegetable will just hold the knife, preventing it from sliding down). Insert either your index finger or the finger of the viewer who agreed to participate in the focus into the middle free hole, then boldly lower the knife by the handle down. As a result of this, both vegetables will be cut, and the middle movable part of the knife will easily rise up due to the finger and will not cause any harm to the finger.

Insert a cigarette into your mouth. However, it turns out that you took it with the filter forward. Turn it over, but the cigarette will again be the filter forward (Fig. c). And do this several times.

Focus Vegetable Cutter
Fig.c

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