This was Clarence’s most popular effect by far, outselling all of his other wonderful creations. Clarence licensed the effect first to George Kimery of Chalet Magic c. 1987 but sales were not great and so Chalet stopped making them and Clarence passed the rights to George Robinson of Viking Mfg. who was much more successful at marketing the effect. Unfortunately, the effect was ripped-off by so many unscrupulous dealers around the world that even Viking had to stop production. Before farming out to Chalet and Viking Clarence had created 3451 sets of this beautiful effect.

Effect: An absolute IMPOSSIBLE and VISUAL effect! Display the apparatus, and remove the wooden blade. All parts are made of wood, everything can be freely shown. The blade is replaced in the stock. Spectator is asked to place a finger through the opening in the stocks. just below the blades edge. BOOM the solid wooden blade is pushed down through the spectator’s finger! The stock is split open and removed from the blade, the solid blade is left wrapped around the spectator’s finger.