Day 3 - 10. 6. 2015

[Ondřej Pšenička]

Tim Star was the star of the day.

First he told us about himself that he lived for 30 years in USA, that he made candle holders for Lance Burton and some stuff for Penn & Teller and then he told us about different materials and their features and characteristics, how cups & balls are made, how he worked for Harries and how he has all Conradi books. Then about different tools and techniques and finishes and paints and then he showed us some of his creations. The top were: his prediction chest, that is usually sent to someone in advance and the prediction is loaded by the key to it; ring polisher, which is truly funny and amazing and a chop cup that may or may not be a chop cup with a delay of six seconds.

After this really cool and amazing presentation came lunch and then we met in workshop.

The first thing we made was a high quality match lighter. Works every time - 100 percent. No backup necessary. Before making it, we would just solder copper paper clips together. That was much harder for me than making the actual clip for the match.

The second project was even more exciting - ends for a magic wand. Piece of a brass tube, small brass plate, tin and some tools. It took Tim about 90 seconds to make one. It was a little bit longer in our hands. That was quite awesome.

I asked him what to use to cut plastic. Dremel. Tim uses dremel for everything. His prediction chest is done solely using dremel.

Then he showed us a glue that he found being the most effective. It’s called Lactile and number 431 is the universal one.

One very useful tip was that the best way to cut glass is under water.

Then came some discussion and slowly most of the people left. The school changed their opening hours until 11pm and till 8pm on the weekends so I decided to stay and work on my project. It will work. Tic tacs are hard to glue together. I stayed until 10pm and then went to get more tictacs.

This was a truly awesome day.