Automatic Silk Gun by Joseph

The first reference I could find to a Silk Gun or Pistol was in Stanyon’s Magic May, 1910: Pistol to Vanish a Handkerchief.  I have tried out a number of silk pistols over the years and the reason I think the Joseph Silk Gun is the best are:

• It is custom built rather than retrofitted from an existing toy gun.
• It is a compact size.
• It looks like a real pistol.
• The vanish happens by placing the silk on top of the gun away from the barrel tip instead of dangling from the tip.
• It is very reliable.
• It allows for a cap to fire too for extra bang action!
• It is easy to reset without tools.

The only two downsides with the Joseph are:

• Each use can slowly damage the silk.
• Unless you use a black or dark silk you have some angle issues in that you cannot show the top of the gun once vanished.

With care the damage can be kept to a minimum, but you are likely to need to replace the silk every 30-50 vanishes.  What they recommend is to practice with an old silk and only use the better silk for the actual vanish.

But for my money this is the best Silk Gun 🙂

Effect: A gun that you can use right down in the audience. It disappears the handkerchief in a flash and, at the same time, fires a cap with a loud report.

It is patterned after the famous Mauser Automatic Pistol, is substantially made of cast aluminum and weighs only one pound.

Handkerchief can be easily removed from gun.

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