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Making your own extractor isnt nearly as hard as you might think. Its just rather time consuming and takes some patience. If you like the effect I highly recommend you to do the right thing and buy it. However they are hand made and due to that, hard to get without waiting long time in lines, and rather expensive. In case you happen to broke yours, you would have to buy new one for 100euros and thats a lot of money. So to make your own Extractor, you will need. - 1 NEW DECK OF CARDS WITH CARDCASE - SOME SUPER STICKY TAPE (Duct tape, Air condition tape or similar) - SOME FLEXIBLE GLUE (Not necessary needed but I found it helped) - PIECE OF WOOD AND TOOLS TO HANDLE IT (Can be also avoided but best quality is achieved with this) - SCISSORS - EXACTO KNIFE
Cut the card along the line and round the corner. You can now use this card as a template to draw where to cut all the rest of the cards. However, if you have access to paper cutter, you can just take the measurement and use that to cut the whole deck. This would make making the gimmick like 80% faster, but I didnt have access to one so I made mine completely by hand. I just drew the lines to all cards and cut em all with scissors. It took maybe around hour or so. I just watched television while I was doing this.
You will end up with pretty much whole deck cut into 2/3rds or so and have an extra rounded corner on the cards now. We will now do some work with the card case before continuing with the front end.
Next part is to make the wooden end to the box. There really isnt any specific instructions on how to do this. Just make sure that the upper end is right under the slit and then cut it around 35-45 degree angle. The wood doesnt really have to be even the width of the box
and it will still work fine. Once the wood is cut, you can use superglue to glue it in its place by just dropping it inside of the box. Its important to glue the slit to the wood so the card will end up popping outside of the box and not just inside, but above the wood.
Now I promised there is optional way how to avoid the use of the wood all together. However I will go thru it later because it would affect the way how you make the front end gimmick.
First I recommend you put the pieces you have in numerical order. This is so that if you drop em you can get em back into same order. I learned this the hard way. Once you done that you must cut em again, one by one so that each card is little shorter than the card above it. The measurements for these cuts depend how you cut your wood and in what angle. In a way you construct a very similar gimmick to Daryls Ultimate
ambition, but the other part is being wood, and the cards arent stuck together with needle and thread or glue but they are all free. Once you have cut the cards, and have em in order, take about 48 of em, square the end that is going to be visible against hard surface, and tape em together, by running some vary sticky tape around em. Dont tape em too hard, but try to get the edges of the cards firmly into the tape. Here is the option of using some flexible clue on the edges of the cards. I used basic rubber cement and it seems to work just fine. On my later model I was little bored of waiting the clue to dry, and cos it had wider box, I just used superglue on the edges. Now the stepping of the front end packet isnt done in the orginal. However I found out that this will greatly enchant the working of the gimmick, along with tape and clue, cos it will prevent any other card from sliding inside of the case along with marked card. Once the gimmick is made, just slide it inside the box, and possibly you can even clue it in place on sides, or top or bottom if you want. I didnt, in case mine ever brokes and more than one card ends up inside of the box along with marked card. This way its easy to get it out again. The final box should look something like this.
This will certainly work, I have tried it, but the lasting of the gimmick is dependable totally on how the tape and/or glue holds the front end gimmick together once the cards are pushed thru it. There might be a solution to keep the front end together, that I havent thought off. If that is the case, then this would be the far most simplest and fastest way to make the gimmick and it does work. I made one.