Karate Key by Craig Petty and Seth Race

The karate coin has been fooling people for decades. Trouble is, who carries coins anymore? Keys, though. Everybody has keys.

That's the whole idea here. You show a solid brass key. Hand it out if you want. Then you press a fingertip against the face of it and your finger sinks into the metal. It's slow and strange and people do not know where to look. Pull your finger back out and the key is whole again, ready to go straight back into their hand.

There's a version where the key ends up on your spectator's finger. That's the one they'll be telling people about later.

This is Craig Petty's newest piece in the Key Master line, and it plays fine on its own or as the closer to key work you're already doing. The tutorial starts with the sleights from scratch and then walks through several routines, so it doesn't much matter whether you've been doing this six months or thirty years. Worth mentioning: the hole is bigger than most karate props, which is good news if you've ever fought with a karate coin and lost.

You get:

• Cut brass key gimmick
• Matching examinable cut key
• Full online tutorial by Craig Petty