Great job, very well made. A tip from a magician who uses these type of boxes for over forty years: Work the other way around. Show the box empty first, then let something appear. The more the better. Flags, sweets, anything flashy or colourfull. That is impossible, it was empty, so surprise-effect. That way nobody suspects the box and they all focus on the flags/sweets, you then just put the box away. If you vanish something they want to see the box, because they see it as a puzzle and the box must have something to do with it. Our audience is not stupid. If you just show an empty box , snap your fingers and fill it with sweets/flags they don't get the time to think and now they can see, feel and even eat whatever you produced. (make sure to produce only edible flags.).
Gustav, I am already thinking of this design with a PK ring activation so there is no hole...also thinking a good card trick using it would be "Selected card appears inside formaly empty box"..lot of great potential uses for this wonderfull gadget! Thanks Ron!
I had fun making one of these. A few mistakes were made but I learned a few new things in the process. even though I know how it works I am still mesmerized when an object disappears after closing and opening the box. I can wait to show it to my Grandchildren. My plywood was a little undersized so I had to compensate for the differences in thickness. Thank you for making this video.
Excelente proyecto! Bien explicado para la elaboración de estas cajas mágicas, nos gustaría pudiera seguir subiendo videos de construcción de estuches y cajas para magia, de desaparición y aparición de conejos, palomas entre otros, gracias me Suscribo a su Canal, Felicitaciones! Excelente Éxitos!!!
Sweet! Thank you, sir! I am a Toys For Tots Coordinator and I will make a bunch of these to give to the children I serve. What kid doesn't want to be a Magician.
Very good video. I wonder if there is a way to have a hidden button or something else instead of the hole to use to expose the second box. I'll have to work on that.
This is an excellent woodworking video. Too many woodworking videos use high speed playback which is just contradicting the art of woodworking. Besides, the explanation and narration was very clear, as was the video quality of the recording.
Curious as to where you found the instructions for building this? Excellent explanation. As another magician, I agree with the earlier remark that it is far better to make something appear, hopefully in a magic act - not one on one. If you fail to heed this, the secret will be penetrated.
Very cool box! I thought the solution was indeed something like that. Love the way you explain everything. Trying to follow but 1/4 of an inch..... So complex. How many Milimeters is that? Sorry i live in the Netherlands. 😅
Thank you for your comment. I am happy I can share my joy of woodworking with other parts of the world. I agree the metric system is sinpler, but I live in the United States. I'm sure Google can convert the dimensions for you.
Google will give you an exact answer for conversions but that could lead to the boxes having awkward dimensions, where you have to round up or down correctly in each instance to get each box to fit inside the other. An easier way is to look at what materials you have at hand and scale from them. For example, if you only have 4mm and 8mm plywood then for every 1/8 inches given anywhere in the measurements, replace it with 4mm (so that 1/4 inch becomes 8mm, 2 inches becomes 6.4cm, etc, even though in the real world 2 inches = 5.08cm). If you have 3mm and 6mm plywood available, you'd use 1/8 inch to 3mm as your scale factor (2 inches becomes 4.8cm, etc).
I think it would be cooler if it was done vice versa, if possible. Where you have to have your thumb in the whole to get the belongings. Like a secret drawer, so when someone is snooping they just see an empty drawer. I was definitely intrigued I'll have to make one to trick some family members! 😂
@@RonMulletWoodwork not a problem. I'm glad you showed how it worked at the end. It reminded me of my favorite "magic" trick from when I was a kid: a disappearing coin box. You put a coin in a slot then close the box, which pushes (slides) the coin into a hidden compartment within the box. When you open it again, the coin isn't there. And to magically make it reappear, you have to turn the box around without your audience noticing, open the box from the other side and voila! The coin has reappeared! It was my favorite trick because I didn't have to do any sleight of hand movements. My fingers were (and still are) too short to get that to work. Anyway, your box is a lot better not only because of the quality but also because you can make larger things "disappear" besides just coins. This is definitely on my wish list of "to-do" items. I have to get more tools (especially a saw) before I'll be able to try making though. 🙂
Contact a magic dealer you could have a extra income and pleasure to many a magician. Great build great tutorial excellent tips keep well keep safe keep creating
Ron am I crazy or is the inside box also 1/4 in the video? I built mine spot on using 1/8 for the inside and it’s got a little more play inside the big box.
Thank you for watching. The inside box thickness is slightly more than 1/8". What is important is to make the inside box just slightly smaller overall for a loose fit.
There’s an old principle in magic, that everything is there for a reason. (If you could perform the illusion without something, you would.) That’s the essence of the black paint. The black obscures the differences in grain for the inner and more-inner boxes. And going with matte finish ensures that quirks of light and reflection don’t give anything away.
I'll never understand why the US still uses the imperial system. Metric ist much more precise and logical. I could may understand if imperial were an independent system, but its completly standardized on the metric system. Thats so ridiculous.....
96 % of the world's population uses metric measurements. NINETY SIX PERCENT. Your channel goes out to the whole world. Is the USA perhaps just a little bit insular do you think? Just asking!
Yes indeed, there's all those countries of the world that use the metric system... and then there's that one country that has landed men on the moon! :)
