This is the EXTRA WIDE Vernet tip, perfect for the magician with a thicker thumb. This tip is bigger around, to fit a wider thumb, and just a bit longer than the regular Vernet thumbtip. It is a generous 3 3/4" circumference around the base, and just over 2" long.
This is the one "must have" gimmick for every magician! Probably the most popular and most used device in magic, this utility device makes it possible to vanish silks, coins, salt- even water- in your bare hand. You can use it to produce items as well! Keep one of these in every pocket- you'll use it often!
Thumbtip comes with basic operating instructions only. To get the most out of this amazing gimmick, we strongly recommend that you also purchase a DVD or book which actually demonstrates and teaches the correct way to use the Thumb Tip as well as some amazing routines using this clever gimmick (see recommendations below).
You supply the silk or other item to be vanished.
These thumb tips come in one color only. Obviously, everyone has a different skin tone. The Thumb Tip is NOT MEANT to match your skin tone!Rather, it is meant to be a visually neutral color, a color that does not grab attention.It is your HANDLING of the Thumb Tip that makes it "invisible".
Here is what a Thumb Tip might look like on different skin tones:
The Thumb Tip is supposed to rest ON TOP of your knuckle, not cover it.That way, there is some room inside the thumb tip for whatever you want to load into it.If you push the Thumb Tip over your knuckle, your own thumb will take up all the room inside the tip, which is not what you want!
Make 10 dimes appear from an empty rolled-up dollar bill! Produce a silk handkerchief(sold separately) from thin air! Change a packet of sugar into a sugar cube! Change a few normal coins into a key by "melting" them together in your bare hands! And more!