Description
R.C. Buff’s The Best of Buff: New & Novel Rope Magic
by Joseph K. Schmidt
1987, published by Jeff Busby Magic, Inc.
Mint condition!
Please note: While this item is new and unused, it has been sitting in storage for decades, so issues such as rusted staples or bowed pages may be present.
From Jeff Busby Magic, Inc. advertisement, 1992:
The late R.C. Buff’s Rope Leaflets newsletter was published between 1980 and 1984 in a very limited circulation. Karl Fulves called it, “Easily the best bargain in magic.” Today, it’s almost impossible to locate a file. The material from that exclusive newsletter is now available in book form, in a style uniform with Knot on the Square. There’s some super rope magic in this one! Included are methods for the legendary Pretzel Knot including Connie Bush’s step-by-step instructions for the real Jack Miller handling, and the “on the knee” version. There’s a clever subtlety to show two same-sized pieces of rope when you really have a short and a long; routines with colored ropes knotting and unknotting; Joe Schmidt’s beautiful handling of the G.W. Hunter Puzzle Knot that allows you to perform two additional startling effects; a routine with the sliding knot; an excellent method for apparently cutting three separate and equal lengths from a coil of rope, only to end in perfect position for the Professor’s Nightmare, and much more. And, that “much more” includes Joe Schmidt’s remarkable X-05 Thumb Penetration — an impossible looking penetration of a rope through a digit. This is a wonderful collection of unusual material with rope. An oversized book of 34 pages, packed from cover to cover an amazing 114 of Joe Schmidt’s elegant illustrations so you can easily learn the moves.
DAVID GOODSELL: “Good stuff!… some of the best material on slip knots I have ever read … Like rope magic? Get this.”
