Piercing with a steel needle. Effective trick and its solution

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Piercing with a steel needle. Focus Secret

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You take a large needle from the table, go to the audience and show it. When you return, you place the needle on the table and take a silk ribbon rolled into a roll like a serpentine. Then throw the roll into the audience, holding one end of the tape. Again, slowly lift the needle from the table and thread the ribbon through it.

An assistant comes out from behind the scenes. Approaching her, you quickly pierce the assistant’s body with a needle and pull the tape through it (Fig. 61). An assistant comes out and, together with you, pulls the tape back and forth several times. The assistant goes backstage, completely stitched with tape.

Focus Piercing with a steel needle
Ris.61

Props:

Steel needle 70-75 cm long, about 1,5 cm thick (the thickness of the needle should correspond to the width of the steel tape, which we will discuss below)

An imitation needle (Fig. 74, A) is made from the tape of a steel tape measure. Such roulettes are available for sale. The tape is easily removed from them and stays straight without bending. Cut a piece of the required length, make one end look like the point of a needle, and round the other and drill a hole in it for a satin ribbon. Learn to hold this imitation needle so that it does not bend. Viewers should also not notice that the "needle" is flat. Some performers, even professionals, hold the ends of the needle with both hands. We do not recommend doing this, as it may arouse suspicion among viewers. It is best to hold the “needle” in the palm of your left hand by its middle, making sure that it does not bend.

Corset-case (Fig. 74, B). It is placed around the assistant's waist and tied with a ribbon passed through the ears. The case is made according to the shape of the figure so that it easily goes around the waist and has smooth, regular curves.

Focus Piercing with a steel needle
Fig. 74

It is best to make a corset from a copper tube, which is compressed to make it flat and then bent to give the desired shape. It is even easier to solder a case made of thick tin. The width of the hole in the case is no more than 5 mm. To prevent the corset from bending, the top and bottom are made of a double layer of tin.

Particular care should be taken to bend all the bends so that when pierced with a “needle” (Fig. 75, B), it seems that the “needle” is going straight through the body. In Fig. 75, G the dotted line shows the path of the “needle” in the case.

Focus Piercing with a steel needle
Fig. 75

For the number you will also need a satin ribbon of any color, 4-5 cm wide and 2 m long.

Focus secret:

The audience is first shown a real steel needle. After this, the performer places it behind a cover on the table (sticks, boxes, or a deep fold of the tablecloth can serve as cover) and from there takes out an imitation needle, shows it with the wide side to the audience so that they are convinced that it is a real needle (some professional artists do not show a real needle, but they come out straight with an imitation. We do not recommend doing this). After this, taking the imitation needle with your left hand, not far from its blunt end, thread a satin ribbon into the “needle”, move your left hand to the middle, and lower the end with the ribbon down. The assistant puts on a “corset” under the dress in advance.

The inlet and outlet openings of the "corset" must be draped with a frill or pleat.

The illusionist, approaching the assistant, takes the “needle” near the sharp end with his left hand, smoothly inserts it inside the “corset” and advances it, moving his hands. When the "needle" reaches the exit hole, he adjusts the folds at the back, allowing the "needle" to come out easily.

The “needle” passes as if through the body. The assistant, smoothly turning, shows that both ends of the “needle” stick out from her body. Having pulled out the “needle”, the performer pulls out the end of the tape from it and quickly gives it to the assistant, who, unnoticed on the table, exchanges it for the real one. This is in case the audience decides to ask to see the needle again.

The illusionist calls an assistant and together with him fearlessly pulls the tape back and forth several times. The assistant goes backstage with the ribbon pulled “through her.”

Author: Vadimov A.A.

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