Here's the work on the Modified Rub-A-Dub. There is a coin in right classic palm from the beginning. The deck is in the left hand and the selected card has been brought to SECOND from the top. Details in section three.
Push over the TOP card. Pretend to take it under the flat right hand, and even let a corner of the card extend past your right hand but as the right hand pretends to pin it to the table, the left thumb pulls the card flush on top of the deck. The right rubs and lifts to reveal the COIN.
The details of the Modified Spellbound are that the right hand has the card palmed and also still holds the deck from above. The left hand holds the coin in French Drop Position.
The right hand sets the deck down but retains the card in palm and moves in front of the coin in left French Drop Position and then the coin is let fall to left fingerpalm and the card is deposited at a French Drop Position (except that it is a card and not a coin), and the right hand moves away to reveal the change.
The right hand takes the card and turns it face towards the audience and the left first finger flicks the card for emphasis. It helps if you use "low" fingerpalm (more towards the pinkie) for doing the "flick" action while not exposing the concealed coin.
The next sequence to do is the cutting of the deck so as to load the coin into the deck. It is so easy I'll teach it as I go in Section Three.
Let’s move on and see how to get the most out of the situation we are now in with the cards AND the coin.
The next sleight I always associate with Paul Gertner, and it is a beautiful yet easy thing… Normally, you pick up a coin and classic palm it as you pretend to rub your fingertips with thumb held pressed against the balls of the fingers as if the coin is still there but it is by now already in classic palm.
After the rub, the hand is lifted briskly and the hand opened out palm down with fingers and thumb spread, acting as if the coin vanished. It has a lot going for it. In our version it is exactly the same except the tips of fingers and thumb rub the back of the top card of a face-down deck in left dealing position instead of the table or mat.
The next sleight to modify is the Findley Tent Vanish. The first variation is that the left pinkie holds a break under the second card from the top as the top card is "tented." This allows for an easy turnover of two cards in the full routine. The other modification, but of course, is that the right hand will be palming a coin.
The next order of business is to put the coin away in a pocket - easy - and to cause it to
reappear from the box. The box is on the table crescent cutout side down, with the concealed coin underneath. The flap is not IN the box, but under it. The weight of the box on the flap keeps it closed. It looks during the early routine as if the lid (flap) is closed, yet it is not inserted in the box, but outside and under it.
All you have to do is lift the box as in the drawing and the flap falls free. The coin slides by gravity down and out of the cellophane and HITS THE FLAP which is a big part of the illusion. Then the flap moves down from the weight of the coin and continues its path to the table. The illusion is perfect!
That last bit got the viewers thinking about the box, which is fine. It sets up a theme. Now the left hand again puts the coin away in a left pocket. Do this after closing the box for real and setting it down again with the crescent side down, and after having false cut the deck and top palmed the selection. Take the deck in right Biddle Grip from above with the right hand, which helps the hand look normal by having something to do.
THE IMPORTANT THING HERE IS THAT AFTER FINALLY PUTTING THE COIN AWAY, REALLY FINGERPALM IT WITH THE LEFT AND COME BACK OUT OF THE POCKET AS IF YOU LEFT IT THERE.
Pick up the box with the left hand being careful with your angles and the coin will be under the box.
Relax your hand and shake the box and the coin will rattle against the bottom of the box. This seems to indicate that the coin has returned. "It's BACK." "But it CHANGES!"
Again grip the coin in left fingerpalm under the box, and we are ready for the Matt Schulien move. Set the deck down and keep the selection palmed. Come over the box and load the card against the box and control of the card is taken by the left thumb and fingertips.
Now comes a wrist turn, and we're, home free. Open the flap with right fingers. Insert the right thumb and first finger INTO the box and the second finger goes UNDER THE open flap to contact the selection.
Pull the card in a straight line, seemingly out of the box and PAUSE. Those are your keys to this illusion. Pull straight out and pause.