 Hey everybody, welcome back to magic orthodoxy. My name is David and this is a magic review. Hey today We're gonna look at Everlast from Murphy's Magic. What is Everlast? Everlast is a swami gimmick Okay, it's a thumb writer that you can wear in plain sight 24-7 sounds pretty creative. Let's watch the trailer Everlast is a swami writer that never needs to be refilled The lead is made from a soft metal that'll last for years It doesn't require any special paper. It looks exactly like pencil, but can't be erased Let me a number between the one two 100 22 No way Because of its form factor, it's extremely low profile hidden in plain sight and never needs to be loaded or ditched Here's that last life time. Alright, so that was Everlast Everlast is brought to you from Raphael the Angelo and Mazenek All right a couple questions We always ask about all of our magic reviews and the first of which is what's in the box What's in the box? You're gonna get a little tiny cardboard matchbox push-away drawer Box and then inside that you're gonna get the Everlast gimmick It comes in both a size 10 or a size 12 and you'll get the download code to the video instructions The video instructions are about 12 minutes long. Is it what I thought it's absolutely what I thought It's a swami gimmick. It's a boon rider. I mean they say what it is in the ad copy They show you exactly what it is. So I don't think there's anything to give away There how are the angles the angles are you wear it in plain sight? You wear this on your thumb 24 seven as a thumb ring So if you're the kind of person that can pull off wearing a thumb ring, you might kind of like this the angles I would add there are some and that would be when you do your Repositioning of course, you can't write with the base of your thumb You can only write with the top of your thumb and you wear your ring down here And so what you'll have to do under cover is move the ring from the base of your thumb to the tip of your thumb So I say those are your angles and you kind of have to do that under the cover of your writing implement Or you know down at your side you'll have to do that on an offbeat so that nobody sees you So can the gimmick be inspected? No, it can't be inspected I would think that they would think that it was a weird thing You know if they ever saw the other side the writing side of your ring All right, so what's the overall quality and production value of the video? Like I said earlier, it's 12 minutes long. So it does feel short the video feels short You do get some live performances though every effect that is taught on it You do get live effects and then the explanations are all done back in the studio The live shots use kind of a handheld that pans back and forth And then the studio shots is well mic'd and you do get multiple cameras. Okay So what's taught on the DVD? The performer in this does have a very thick accent But I don't think that detracts anyway from the teaching and like I said the video is only 12 minutes long So it does feel short. It doesn't have a lot of extras They don't have a lot of time to go into all the details But I think anybody that's already familiar with a swami gimmick or a boon rider will catch on fast You're gonna get three tricks on here all together You're gonna get an open number prediction You're gonna get a scribble reveal and you're gonna get a name reveal that you can do with one of those Hiram haunted hanks. Is it well made? The ring itself just seems like a silver ring that you would get anywhere It does seem kind of cheap and you know really the whole effect is only $25 So I can't imagine for $25 you're getting a quality made Sterling silver ring, right? Okay, just know that going in you're not paying for a super cool Beautifully made ring So it does feel like a cheap silver band with a metal ball that's welded to the surface mine even had Weld marks and solder marks. How much practice does this require? It does require more practice than a traditional swami gimmick because of the repositioning that I talked about earlier A traditional swami gimmick will rest on your thumbtip and it's usually flesh-colored. You don't need to hide it from your spectator You know, just just like what you would do with a regular thumbtip for the most part those things kind of fly by on scene So you don't need to spend any time moving it and with this one you do You have to move it from the base of your thumb to the tip of your thumb and then back again And so I don't know it just seems like an extra step. How much setup and reset is there? None You can wear this in plain sight every single day. You could even wear it to bed The pitch is you can wear it all the time, right? And it's so great that it never it's never gonna run out of ink What it does is it makes like a pencil type marking on the paper that can't even be erased and so you're never gonna run out of ink you can always wear it and That itself is pretty cool positives all right So one of the positives to Everlast Everlast dials up their traditional swami gimmick with a fresh hip look Wear it on you everywhere you go and nobody will be the wiser You'll always be ready to read minds and shock your friends Negatives all right sort of the negatives to Everlast, you know like we say around here There's negatives to everything. These are just the negatives that I see They don't have to be the negatives that you see number one I didn't like the fact that you have to move the ring back and forth Didn't like the fact that the video is only 12 minutes long seemed really short Didn't like the quality of the ring. I also didn't like the size of the ring Okay, I received a size 10 for this review and really you only get a size 10 or a size 12 So for me, I would have gone with a size 12. I only weigh 170 pounds 5 feet 5 okay and size 10 did not fit my thumb at all I could jam it down on the top, but it wouldn't go down any further my wedding ring is a size 8 Okay, so I wear a size 8 ring and a size 10 won't fit my thumb it fit my wife's thumb won't fit mine So I would use a size 12. I can't imagine any Guy being able to use a size 10. So maybe just forget the size 10 One of the other negatives though was because there's only two sizes If you get the size 12 and you find that is too loose Their suggestion is to wrap black electrical tape around it and tell us the right size So I don't know how great that's gonna look I mean, it's already one thing that you're wearing it like a silver thumb ring But then you're gonna wrap black electrical tape around it. I kind of think that that kind of thing Just makes it well, then you know, just wear then just wear a swami gimmick Like why why bother to wear a thumb ring if it's gonna have black electrical tape around it I don't know. It just seemed weird. Is it worth your money? It's 25 bucks and like they say you get what you pay for It is not very expensive at all. And so I think it definitely puts this into the wheelhouse of people that are probably Not as experienced with a swami gimmick and they want something that's a little bit more younger a little more edgier I personally can't pull off a thumb ring. Nobody would believe me if I wore a thumb ring They would say what are you doing wearing a thumb ring and be like me wearing a nose piercing or an ear ring Like it just nobody would believe me. So I think people that Can probably pull this off if you could pull off wearing a thumb ring and you're probably doing street magic You're probably you have a younger fresher Hipper look. I think this is probably for you. Alright, so that was Everlast from Murphy's Magic I want to thank Murphy's Magic for allowing me to have this so that I can do the review for you And if you'd like to purchase this trick for yourself, you can find it from your friendly neighborhood Murphy's Magic dealer. Thanks. Bye