 Hey everybody, welcome back to Magic Orthodoxy. My name's David and this is a Magic Review. Hey, today we're going to look at the Gentleman Jack from the RAR Collection and Alakazam Magic. Alright, so what is this? Basically this is a Himber Wallet. It's a really well-made Himber Wallet. Originally it was released from RAR. That was a magic company that was run by Roy Roth. Alakazam purchased all the rights to their effects or their back catalog actually. And this is Alakazam's new release of a classic effect. You want to see the trailer? This is it. Have you ever wanted to be able to switch cards, billets or currency right under your spectator's noses? The Gentleman Jack allows you to do just that and it's built into an innocent looking, hip pocket style Himber Wallet. Not only can the Gentleman invisibly switch, but this awesome little tool makes for a great adder number pad and the perfect hideout for your cribs. Okay guys, so I'm going to try something with you if that's okay, but you still got to always break carefully. I'll start by showing you a card that's in my wallet and I'm just going to leave this on the table. It's going to use 52 cards and your hands. So I'd like you to deal the cards one at a time face down on the table. But they can come from anywhere. They haven't got to come from the top, they literally can come from anywhere. Whenever you want to use stock, is that okay? Is that good? Alright, the rest of the cards can go away and they're not needed anymore. It's these cards. So pick the pack up for me and you're going to create a card that even you didn't know you were going to pick. So we need to deal two piles of cards all the way through, that's it. And one of the piles is going to give us the value and the other is going to give us the suit. Okay, so if you turn over the top two cards for me, we've got the three of hearts and the ten of cards. So this could be the value, which would give us the ten and then that would be the suit with your ten of hearts or three of clubs. It is on you. What would you like? Three of clubs. The three of clubs. Now I'm going to give you one chance to change your mind because you might kick yourself when you see this card. No, I'm going to stick with the three of cards. You sure? Yeah, please. I showed you there was one card in my wallet. I'm going to take it out. There's nothing else in there. And crazy enough that is. Oh wow, that's a great idea. There we go. Thank you guys. I'm Peter Nardi and this is the Gentleman Jack gimmick. So it is the Himber Wallet, like I said, and if you don't know what it is, go familiarize yourself with it because the Himber Wallet is a really great classical utility that I think a lot of magicians have grown to love. Alright, so a couple questions we always ask out all of our magic tricks and the first of which is what's in the box? What's in the box? It's a really cool hardshell box. It's a really nice black matte box. It's got silver foil graphics on the top. And then on the inside, you're going to get the Gentleman Jack gimmick. You're also going to get the DVD. The DVD is 39 minutes long and you're going to get a little stack of post-it notes. Is it what I thought? Yes, it's a Himber Wallet. They don't make any secrecy about that. There's nothing to hide there. It is a Himber Wallet. It is what I thought as far as the execution of the effect, but it is a really nice product. How are the angles on this? Pretty much zero. If you're already familiar with the Himber Wallet and you know how it works, there's really no angles to catch. I think if you're quick with it, you're familiar with it and you know how to move around it, your spectator should never see a thing. Can it be inspected? With that said, no. We always kind of say around here that it's a gimmick and gimmick shouldn't be inspected. So it should not be inspected, but I think you fairly show the Wallet from both sides and then the inside. The trick isn't the Wallet. The trick should always be the trick you're doing, right? So the Wallet should always come across as a utility. It should always come across as just a window dressing. Something that's in the background. They should never want to inspect your Wallet when the end of the trick is done. What's the overall quality and production value of the video? Peter Nardi is at the beginning. He introduces all of this. David Loosley is sitting in the Alakazam Studio. He's talking to a stationary camera. You do get some secondary shots of the tabletop and everything's well-miked to well-shot video. Alakazam makes great DVDs. Alright, so what's taught on the DVD? Of course, you're going to get an overview of the Wallet. You're going to get a little bit of backstory about RAR. But throughout the video, David Loosley is going to teach you some different options that you could use the Himber Wallet for. Obviously, if you already have a routine or something that you currently use a Himber Wallet for or some sort of prediction effect where you know that you could use a Himber Wallet, especially where there's two outs. I think if you have a trick that has two outs, the Himber Wallet is a great addition. So think about that when you go to purchase. But you're basically going to learn a book page force. You're going to learn Daryl's Dream Card Force. You're going to learn another trick where there's a free card selection and then a prediction that uses a blank deck. Then they're going to offer you the idea that you could use this also with a crib. So this could be a hidden way to keep a crib in plain view so that you didn't have to memorize your crib. And this is actually how I use the Gentleman Jack. I don't use it as a Himber Wallet per se with two outs. I use it as a crib hideaway for Will to Read. Will to Read is an effect that Alakazam released and I did a review on earlier. I hide my Will to Read crib in one of the wings of the Himber Wallet and I use it as my prediction slash crib hideout. Alright, so another thing that's taught on the DVD is the aspect of the post-it notes. So they include post-it notes with your box. And David Lucidus suggests that you take the post-it notes, you tear off three or four or five, and you post-it note them, you stick them to the other side of the wall, the blank side. And if you look in my video, you can see that I have some post-it notes on the other side. I thought that was a great idea. When I went to go take those post-it notes and stick them to the wallet, I quickly discovered they don't stick. Post-it notes don't stick to leather because post-it notes are meant to stick to paper. And leather is actually an organic material. Think about how post-it notes would stick to your jeans or to your shirt, right? They just don't stick. And leather is just really too smooth. It's way too smooth of a surface for post-it notes to get any grip off of. So here's what I did. I took one post-it note, I took one, okay? And I trimmed it down smaller than an average post-it note size. And then I glue-sticked it to my wallet, okay? I glue-sticked the post-it note to my wallet. And then I took the additional post-it notes and I stuck them, post-it note sticky, I stuck them to the one I had glued on. So my one that was glued on became like a paper base, like a paper foundation. And then I was able to stick post-it notes to it that I can recycle over and over again. And I think that's a great idea. Is it well-made? It is very well-made. It's a leather wallet. It's really well-made. It looks good. It's got a great feel to it. And unlike other Himber wallets where they kind of look standout-ish, like they just don't look natural, this is a natural-looking wallet. How much setup and reset is there? Pretty much none. Like I said, it is a two-out utility. And so usually you load both sides of the wallet and then you're good to go. You never need to reset it ever again. Positives. All right, so what are the positives to the Gentleman Jack? The Gentleman Jack is the working magician's Himber wallet. No more strange-looking checkbook-style devices. This is the wallet you'll be proud to carry. 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. They don't have to be the negatives that you see. Throughout the video, David Loosley talks about putting business cards in the wallet to make it look natural, okay? And then also using it as a way to like, you know, in mentalism, sometimes we pull our business cards out and you're right in the back and then we use the wallet as a way to store the business cards. That said, this is a European-style wallet. And what some people don't realize is, and I think maybe even the guys on Alakazam don't realize this, is that American-style business cards are longer and shorter. European-style business cards are shorter this way and taller. I don't know why that is, it just is. So when the video shows David Loosley sticking his business cards in the wallet, if you're purchasing this in America, yours won't fit, okay? You'll have to cut a lot off of the sides to get this in. In fact, a standard playing card doesn't even fit, okay? So that's just giving you the idea of the scope. You could not stick a standard playing card into the pockets in the wallet, okay? So it's just the pockets. There is a front flap, there is a front flap, and the front flap will hold one of your business cards and it will hold a playing card, okay? So I mean, I think that, and I'll show you in my video, I'll show you that I have a playing card in the front of mine. You just can't put something like that in the back, okay? That's the only negative I have for the entire thing. All right, so is it worth your money? It's $69. $69, that's, you know, leather wallets now, they're $50 and above. So it's kind of hard to find a leather wallet that's below 50. There are some gimmick wallets out there in the market that are in the $40 range. This is $69, so $70, pretty much. And it is kind of high for a leather wallet. It is kind of high just for a Himber wallet. It's really a one-hit wonder. It only does one thing. This is not a multi-use wallet. It really only does what a Himber wallet does. It has two outs. There's nothing extra or fancy about it other than the 39-minute video that they give you with it. But a lot of us magicians, we could figure out some of these tricks ourselves or we've used Himber wallets in the past. So you'll have to decide if you think $69 is worth the leather wallet. Like I said, though, it's great. It's well made. It looks fantastic. It looks fantastic. It looks great. Really well made. You might totally dig on this and might totally love it, but just kind of shop around and make sure this is the right price tag and the right gimmick for you. All right, so who would like this? I think people who are looking for a really made Himber wallet. There's a lot of garbage Himber wallets out there. I used to have one that was the checkbook style. It was made out of vinyl and it was brown and it had like a weird texture on it to make it look like leather. It was awful. And I got rid of it so fast. And I think you can still buy that one. It's still out there in the market today. And then there's the Z wallet that's out there too. But the Z wallet doesn't even look like a real Himber. It looks like a Z, you know, and I don't know if it would even fool anyone. So as far as Himber wallets go, they're not a lot out there that look this good and are this size. Okay. So I think if you're look in the market, definitely should check this one out. All right. So that is my review of the gentlemen Jack from RAR and Alec Azam. As always, I want to thank Murphy's Magic Supplies for allowing me to have this so that I could do the review for you. And if you would like to purchase this for yourself, you can find it from your favorite, Murphy's Magic dealer. Thanks. Bye.