This trick is great to learn for the underlying principle and hookup. The pen that was supplied
broke as I was trying to remove the nib per video instruction. I glued it back together and will see
if it is salvageable. In fairness, the video warns against over-zealousness when trying to remove
the nib.I think tis is a good buy. Learning the hookup and system alone is worthwhile.
If it's not salvageable would you have to buy this product again or can a standard sharpie be modified to work for this trick?
You can modify a regular sharpie. It will take a little bit of work, but it's doable.
I dont own this and wanted to purchase it. However i read another review where the sharpie broke also,so it sounds like theres a quality issue. If its that easy to break even following the instructions,hmm i may have to pass on this
I'm waiting for money to arrive.... Description says taking is not an issue... Do you find this to be true? Can you perform it, put it back in pocket and instantly perform it again or is reset cumbersome?
Damn auto correct...is TANGLING or RESET an issue?
I received mine. Watched the video before toying with it. Then read this review so I was extra careful. Still, it broke. Not very happy right now ...
I'd return it and that made my decision easier,i wont buy this pos
Regarding the Sharpie breaking. If it is a quality issue it belongs to Sharpie and not to Penguin/Matthew. The Sharpie is a regular (minimally modified) pen. The modifications do not weaken the Sharpie.
Scialli, I get what you're saying but the quality issue doesn't belong to Sharpie. Sharpie isn't manufacturing and selling a magic trick, Penguin/Matthew are. I've never had an issue with a sharpie breaking for it's intended purpose of writing. If it is breaking often when it comes to its use in this trick, it's on the creator of the trick to address this issue. Sorry but it's ridiculous to criticize Sharpie for not being designed to work with this trick when that's not a Sharpie's actual function.
mcdog474: There's actually no QC issue with anything. The (mainly normal) Sharpie has broken when people are temporarily taking the nib out of the inside, not a normal thing to do. The vid explains how to do this and warns that any Sharpie can break if too much wiggling is done. If one breaks their Sharpie, they can take a regular sharpie and make the modifciations, for which a small tool, perhaps power tool, would be necessary. But I agree that if people don't want to take this chance of breaking the supplied gaffed Sharpie they should buy Horizon and learn the rigging which is common to both. Matthew's Horizon is http://www.penguinmagic.com/p/3945
The quality issues are always passed in to someone else by Mathew and his team I’ve had issues with his other plastic breaking gimmicks, same story...no reliability, no accountability, no liability = marvelous fx
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