Bob Farmer - Turnantula

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"The sleight … is to my knowledge new and is certainly a lovely maneuver promising wide applicability. If anything can shine through the welter of material being published today, I should think this sleight deserves to. It is quite simply, very, very good … your applications … [are] … excellent in their construction." - Stephen Minch

"… [Turnantula] … is quite excellent and I have never seen anything like it before." - Roy Walton

"The venomous bite of the Turnantula caused me to see outstanding close-up card magic that may not have been possible otherwise. Buy it now before an antidote is discovered and spoils everything." - Richard Kaufman

"Turnantula confused and amused me for years. I asked Bob repeatedly for a video and explanation. It only took 12 years, but, at last, here it is. I've made up the practice deck as Bob suggests and, at my advanced age, am learning a new sleight. That's how good it is. If you love great card magic, get this." - Matt Field

There is a magic deep state fed by an underground river of suppressed and secret information shared by a few, jealously guarded and never discussed among the general magical demi-monde. For decades, Turnantula was just such a secret. But now, forced as a condition of his parole (along with 100 hours of community service), the reclusive Bob Farmer has ripped asunder the iron veil of mystery and legend and laid bare the real work, the secret work, the work of a lifetime.

 

    TURNANTULA

        EFFECT

        METHOD

        COMMENTS

        PACKET VERSION

    EIGHT CARD MONTE

    TWO CARD VARIATIONS

    THREE CARD VARIATIONS

        THREE – CARD MONTE (ORDINARY CARDS)

        ROUTINED THREE-CARD MONTE

        THREE – CARD MONTE (GAFFED CARDS)

    FOUR CARD VARIATIONS

        KING THING

        KING THING CARD BY CARD

    FIVE CARD VARIATIONS

        ROYAL FLUSH THING

        TRIPLE CHANGE

        BRAIN TELEVISION

    TURNANTULA ACE ASSEMBLY

        EFFECT

        PREPARATION

        SET-UP

        PERFORMANCE

    OTHER USES FOR TURNANTULA

        TRIUMPH

        CUT TO THE ACE

        DROP KICK

        DROP KICK II

        DAWES DELIGHTFUL DELUSION

        SYMPATHETIC TURNANTULA

        DECK APPEARS IN BOX

        SNEAKIER PIGGY-BACK

    THE RUMBA COUNT

    CARLYLE TURNOVER MOVE

    THE REMRAF REVERSAL

    THANK YOUS

1st edition 2018, 70 pages.