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Give it half a shake, show them and let them handle it.

Explain that the gems react to the heat of your fingers or your bad breath, or even your saliva if you lick your fingers first as you do a Push-through-the-fist change to show all six colors back on one side. To end, I drag the multicolored rod over the spectator s hand to change the side that touched the hand to their color, leaving the rod in the spectator s hand.

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Hot rod mafic stick

I have a plastic gem stick with four stones on each side. On side one, three gems are the same colour with the end one being of a different stone.

On side two, the different (matching) stone is at position three. The effect is that the different stone is manipulated so that it appears to be moving along the line from one end to the other and back again.

Can anyone tell me the commercial name of this prop - and is it still available?

Thanks in advance for any information supplied.

Sounds like hotrod

Founder of CODBAMMC

My Chickasaw name is "Throws Money at Cups."

On 2010-08-14 04:35, Happy Hank wrote:
Sounds like hotrod

I also have Hot Rod and, as Bill says, it has six stones on each side - six different colours which magically change to being all alike. But thanks for the response.

Anyone else have an idea?

There were a number of "Jumping Gem" type products.
Is the odd colored gem red?

Yes, on the prop I am asking about the odd one is red and the other three are yellow/gold. All of the stones are embedded into a white plastic rod, three and three quarter inches long. The stones are centrally placed with just over an inch at either end!

There is another trick which I think is actually called 'The Jumping Gems', but that one is made up of two black rods with 'diamond' stones at the ends. The stones jump back and forth between the rods.

My reason for asking is that I have a presentation for this trick that works alongside the 'Hot Rod', earlier mentioned and I am thinking of including it in 'Magictales Two'. I need to know what the trick is called and if it is generally available before recommending its purchase!

It certainly sounds like one of the traveling gem variants. With the configuration that you mention it sounds like it would be easy to start the gem on one end, then move it along to the other end. There are various stop light versions of this as well.

As I read these entries, I am beginning to recall something like this that I saw in one of the shops. It wasn't part of the original Ken Allen Jumping Gems series, though. I think the concept on this was, as Meshuggina has surmised, a routine in which one of the gems apparently "climbed up the ladder."

Founder of CODBAMMC

My Chickasaw name is "Throws Money at Cups."

On 2010-08-14 20:05, Meshuggina wrote:
It certainly sounds like one of the traveling gem variants. With the configuration that you mention it sounds like it would be easy to start the gem on one end, then move it along to the other end.

That's exactly what it does - what is it called and is it still on the market?

Thanks to everyone for your input.

Posted: Aug 18, 2010 5:29am
It has been suggested that it might be a 'Chu' product - perhaps that will trigger further thoughts?

Posted: Aug 18, 2010 6:10am
Found it! It was indeed a Chu's Magic product. It is called Cross Light and can be found here:

Thanks for your interest and PM's

I had it and as I recall it was called "Crosstown." It only utilized one paddle move as the green gem would start at the bottom and move one step at a time to the top. It was done by holding stick in left hand and turning it once from bottom to top, next move was the same, except it included a paddle move.
Rennie

Fantasma Magic sells a cheap version of this paddle trick in little magic sets sold at Dollar Tree stores here in the U.S.A. for a dollar.

Yes, the red psot travels up and down the paddle, a neat trick really with only a couple paddle moves.

I have created a mildly amusing story presentation that combines 'Cross Lights' (or 'Crosstown'!) with the 'Hot Rod'. The purpose of which was to avoid the dreadfully contrived method of forcing the required Hot Rod stone.

I intend to include the effect in 'Magictales Two', currently in preparation.

Before writing up the routine, I needed to know the name of the four stone prop (Cross Lights) and that it was still available, and I very much appreciate the interest shown in this thread that has eventually led me to a result.

Thank you one and all!

On 2010-08-19 18:52, Leslie Melville wrote:
I have created a mildly amusing story presentation that combines 'Cross Lights' (or 'Crosstown'!) with the 'Hot Rod'. The purpose of which was to avoid the dreadfully contrived method of forcing the required Hot Rod stone.
Leslie

Unless someone beat me to it, I have created two different gem stick effects. One begins with 3 gems, all the same color (in the center of the stick). They change one at a time to a second color. No moving parts.

The other begins with a red gem at the end (both sides, of course). It changes to yellow, and then to green, and finally, there are three gems together (red, yellow, and green like a traffic light).

Sorry if my posting wasn't clear but if you re-read my comment you will see that I refer to - "the contrived method of forcing of the 'Hot Rod' stone".

On 2010-08-20 06:14, Leslie Melville wrote:
Rennie,

Sorry if my posting wasn't clear but if you re-read my comment you will see that I refer to - "the contrived method of forcing of the 'Hot Rod' stone".

Thank you one and all!

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