The next THIRTY ONE videos will deal with one of my favorite plots in card magic, THE DIMINISHING CARDS.

I first saw the trick when I was school boy and it made such a powerful impression on me, I just loved it. Dick Turpin used to perform it all the time and killed with it, but I never felt ...

Haskell's method has two fantastic advantages:
1) The hands are empty of extra cards after each shrink... looks crazy clean.
2) These cards are for sale at OwensMagicSupreme.com. so now you don't have to make your own, YAY!

A brilliant self contained method, used by pros worldwide... created by the incredible Al Baker.

As tribute to the late great John Moehring we will be looking at his handling of the Al Baker diminishing cards. As a teenager I was inspired by John’s book ‘A Texan Trickster’ and I can’t tell you how happy I was to find this routine.

John’s handling has some lovely finesses that we will ...

One of the original methods by the grand master himself, Robert Houdin.

Yes, it's a great method. The Classic master, Edward Victor's ingenious brainchild. Actual cards, almost 100 years old, a brilliant self contained NO PALMING method.

Pete Biro's super professional method for DC. PLUS - my ideas and notes and my killer finish where the entire deck just disappears.

This is GOOD.

This is tricky, here, without revealing the secret and gimmick behind Dusheck's terrific, marketed, routine, Steve attempts to discuss his handling and presentation improvements.

The great news, these gimmicked cards are available everywhere.:)

Steve's quick extra finesse for the Dusheck version that will help sell that final shrink.

A legendary method for the Diminishing cards, by a legendary creator of sleight of hand. This is rarely, if ever witnessed. It's revolutionary in technique, unlike any other method out there.

Steve's notes and extra finesse on the brilliant E. G. Brown Diminishing cards. This should make it way easier to handle.

A wonderful discovery, back in the 1940’s a little known chap named Rameses shared his personal method. It was the 'anti - method..', a sequence that I thought especially clever, designed to fool those who think they know, and able to be performed on a nightclub club floor.

A routine where at ...

Steve introduces this classic old footage of his childhood mentor performing the Diminishing Cards and discuss various points of Dick's method.

One of the earliest explanations of diminishing cards was by Charles Bertram in C. Lang Neil’s groundbreaking book, the now ironically named, The Modern Conjuror. It’s a terrific and oh-so-simple method and one he performed for Royalty around the world. It’s also incredible practical.

It’s all been leading up to my own personal routine on the SUPER DIMINISHING CARDS along with my conflicted thinking behind it and plenty of live performance footage.

It’s another magic, performance and history lesson all rolled into one massive super fun playlist.

I didn’t think this would happen, but I am happy to say it DID!

I was thrilled to find a vintage set of what some consider to be the greatest of all methods for Diminishing cards. A method invented a hundred years ago by Martin Chapender. These are the ultimate cards, hands are empty of extra...

CHAPENDER’S BIG SECRET:
I think I discovered what made Chapender’s presentation so special, what raised his performance above all others and I’ll be sharing that in this video, I’ll give you a tip…

ONE. HAND.

So I decided to take the Chapender Diminishing cards out for test drive... this is what happened.

Whilst I love my super diminishing card routine, I’m also never satisfied. So I decided to take my 70 year old Chapender diminishing Cards out for a test drive, and give them the life they were cre...

No one knew that legendary English close up magician, Bob Ostin, used to perform the Diminishing Cards. His routine was never published in any book. More than that, no magician ever saw it performed. Why? Because Bob only performed the trick for kids!

Wait, WHAT?

So many questions:

How? How w...

So you've just watched the Bob Ostin video yes? Awesome to see Bob's approach to the classic. That's what original magic is, YOUR APPROACH.

There's a bit of magic history here with THE LIMIT DIMINISHING CARDS, you will probably never use this very clever method for your Diminishing Card Routine,...

I have a love/hate relationship with this method. There's no palming, not much skill needed, it seems obvious and yet in real life this method TOTALLY WORKS! Maybe it's magicians guilt.

What makes it worse is that the cards I'm about to show you, vintage though they are, are so well made, and w...

Fate lent a hand here.. I was looking for a spare set of Chapender Cards, found them online, the package even said they were CHAPENDER CARDS (from the 30's or 40') but they were ACTUALLY a variation of the original set, and they're really, rather GREAT!

Huge thanks to Quentin Reynolds who found this unusual set of cards. Strangely Gaetan Bloom had the same set in his Diminishing Card collection, but none of us knows the originator. I'm on a hunt for the answer, until then, enjoy this really clean version of a fantastic effect.

This has been a LONG TIME COMING, as these cards are impossible to find, and without them, the instructions are hard to decipher, in fact, even with them it's still confusing! But we got it down, so THIS IS GOOD STUFF!

I was talking 'Diminishing Cards' recently with the brilliant Gaetan Bloom, a...