 Hey everybody, welcome back to magicwarthodoxy. My name is David and this is a Magic Review. Hey today we're going to look at Spirald from Jimmy Strange. What is Spirald? Spirald is a trick you can do with a Sharpie marker where you take it and give it a twist. You want to see the trailer? This is it. Spirald from Jimmy Strange. 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 going to get an acrylic tube and then inside that you're going to get the Spirald gimmick, okay? Just the gimmick and you're going to get a piece of elastic so that you can make a pull and you're going to get the download code to the video and the video is 27 minutes long. Is it what I thought? It's absolutely what I thought and it's what you think too because they show you everything in the video. There's really nothing else to think about. I mean you're getting a custom-made Sharpie marker that's been twisted in the middle so that it gives the appearance that somehow through magic you are able to twist the molecules and create this weird optical piece of art. Also, if you've ever purchased the Luber lens from Paul Harris Presents you know that this kind of receives some inspiration from that. Paul Harris does teach you how to make a twisted pen in his Luber lens directions however you don't get any directions about how to make one out of a Sharpie especially one that doesn't have any burn marks or obvious meltings. So I think what Jimmy Strange has made here is a beautiful piece. How are the angles? The angles on this are good. I don't really don't know how they could be bad. I mean there's really nothing to catch or find or see. There's no moving parts. There's nothing you're trying to camouflage other than the center of where the twist is and that's easily covered by your fingertips. Can it be inspected? Of course afterwards that's the point. You want to hand it out. You want them to inspect it. They can even take the cap off. They can even write with it. I would think that the earlier point would be somewhere in your routine you've used a normal Sharpie marker right whether it be through magic and you've done a card trick and you've had to assign their name to a card. You've taken that normal pen that they've already held which means they've already inspected it. You've put it away. They've said hey do one more thing and then you pull out your spiral gimmick and you say all right let's just do one more thing with this pen. Bam. Okay so let's do overall quality and production value of the video. It's pretty rough. The entire video is probably a camera or a phone mounted onto a table tripod and you're just seeing the tabletop and then the performer's hands and you're hearing his voice. I don't think I ever saw anything different in the entire video like the camera never moved and you never see the performer's face okay so it's just the hands and overdubbed voice of the entire over the entire thing. What's taught on the video through the 27 minutes you're going to learn a trick with a business card. You're going to learn a trick with a lighter you're going to learn a trick with flash paper and of course a trick with a luber lens. Jimmy Strange does say that this was inspired by the Paul Harris effect and so I think if you're already doing that and if you have a luber lens you're definitely going to want to pick this up. Is it well made? It is well made. I can't imagine trying to melt or make or form a sharpie marker like this on my own without breaking it ruining the writing creating possible scorch marks burn blackness right so it's it's great I think it's a wonderful product. Does it require any practice? Does it require any setup? No there's no setup to this. There's no reset to this. There's no practicing to this. It is what it is. Positives all right sort of the positives to spiraled. Jimmy Strange has finally made the twisting pen effect relevant for the working magician. If you use a sharpie marker in your act this is the trick you want to purchase. Negatives all right so what are the negatives you know like we say around here there's negatives to everything. These are just the negatives that I see that don't have to be the negatives that you see. Not so much a negative not really so much as a negative as just so much an observation. Obviously we understand that Jimmy Strange is borrowing heavily from Paul Harris's luber lens effect and you know this is just his version of it and he's trying to give you some alternate handlings but I think in reality the best way to do this effect is with Paul Harris's effect and so if you're purchasing this trick definitely make sure that you have a luber lens in your shopping cart as well. Is it worth your money? You know what it's only 16 bucks. 16 bucks is not a lot of money and when you think about it a sharpie marker probably already costs what a dollar and so the rest of it is going to be you're going to get the quality video to give you some ideas and then of course you're getting just the precision that can make this pen look like this and it's crazy so I think if you do magic with a sharpie marker you're definitely going to want to add this to your routine. Who would like this? Like I said people that use sharpie markers I mean how many magicians already use a sharpie marker and to add this into your routine it's going to be smooth and seamless. All right so that is spiraled from Jimmy Strange. I want to thank Murphy's Magic for allowing me to have this trick so that I could do an unbiased review for you and if you would like to purchase this trick for yourself you can find it from your very favorite Murphy's Magic dealer. Thanks, bye.